Providence #6 [Ancient Tome Premium Cover]
(October 2015)

Avatar Press, 2015 Series
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Title page and credits. Background reproduces the northern half of an old map of Providence, Rhode island.

VI: Out of Time (Table of Contents: 2)

Providence / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Moore (credited)
Pencils
Jacen Burrows (credited)
Inks
Jacen Burrows (credited)
Colors
Juan Manuel Rodriguez (credited as Juan Rodríguez)
Letters
Kurt Hathaway (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
... while he's asleep?
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Robert Black; Dr. Hector North; James Montague; Elspeth Wade; Father Walter Race; Dr. Hank Wantage; Dr. Nat Paisley; Garland Wheatley (cameo); Leticia Wheatley (cameo); Edgar Wade (cameo)
Synopsis
After studying a book of the occult, writer Robert Black feels displaced from time and his body itself.
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Indexer Notes

The characters and situations in this story are primarily based on H. P. Lovecraft's stories "Herbert West - Reanimator" and "The Thing on the Doorstep". The title is taken from Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Out of Time", whose character Nathaniel Peaslee is referenced as Dr. Nat Paisley.

[Commonplace Book] (Table of Contents: 3)

Providence / text story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Moore (credited)
Letters
Kurt Hathaway (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
August 19th I wish I had somebody I could tell about all this
Characters
Robert Black; Dr. Hector North; James Montague; Elspeth Wade; Father Walter Race; Dr. Hank Wantage; Dr. Nat Paisley
Synopsis
Robert Black continues writing in his Commonplace Book, first giving his narration and impressions of the events seen in the beginning of this issue's comic story. This is followed by several pages of his excerpts from the text of the forbidden book "Hali's Booke of the Wisdom of the Stars".
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

The inside back cover reproduces the southern half of an old map of Providence, Rhode island.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
H. P. Lovecraft
Letters
typeset
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Indexer Notes

The back cover is an excerpt of a letter from Lovecraft to F. Lee Baldwin, written 1934.

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Table of Contents
  1. 1. [no title indexed]
  2. 2. VI: Out of Time
    Providence
  3. 3. [Commonplace Book]
    Providence
  4. 4. [no title indexed]
  5. 5. [no title indexed]
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