Providence #11 [Pantheon Cover - Jacen Burrows]

(November 2016)

XI: The Unnamable (Table of Contents: 1)

Providence / comic story / 32 pages (report information)

Script

Alan Moore

Pencils

Jacen Burrows

Inks

Jacen Burrows

Colors

Juan Manuel Rodriguez

Letters

Kurt Hathaway

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Robert Black; Charles; Freddy Dix; Detective Thomas Malone; H.P. Lovecraft; Dr. Hector North; James Montague; Robert Suydam; Cornelia Gerritsen; Lilith; Mrs. Herrero; Randall Carver; Willard Wheatley; Hank Wantage; Father Walter Race; Gloria; Carl Perlman; Agent Barstow; Aldo Sax; Merril Brears (unnamed); Clark Ashton Smith; Edwin Baird; Sonia Haft Greene; August Derleth; Howard Wandrei; Donald Wandrei; Robert E. Howard; Robert Hayward Barlow; Frank Belknap Long; L. Sprague de Camp (only referred to as Lyon); William S. Burroughs; J. Edgar Hoover (unnamed); Clyde Tolson (unnamed); Jorge Luis Borges (unnamed); Herman Slater (unnamed)

Synopsis

Robert Black, done with his investigations into the occult, returns to New York as a mentally and spiritually broken man. H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, inspired by Black's experiences, becomes widely known, and its influence begins to cause occult events.

Reprints

• in Providence (Avatar Press, 2016 series) #3 (August 2017)
• in Providence (Panini España, 2016 series) #3 - Lo innombrable ([Noviembre 2017])
• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

Keywords

Necronomicon

Indexer Notes

This issue contains many historical figures and contemporaries of H.P. Lovecraft. None of the following are referred to by their full names and some are unnamed.

Edwin Baird was the first editor of Weird Tales magazine. Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, and August Derleth were contemporary writers with Lovecraft. Sonia Haft Greene was Lovecraft's wife. Robert Hayward Barlow was Lovecraft's literary executor.

Among the later figures, J. Edgar Hoover was the long-time director of the FBI. Clyde Tolson was the second-ranking official in the FBI. Author L. Sprague de Camp wrote biographies of Lovecraft and Howard. Jorge Luis Borges and William S. Burroughs are esteemed writers who referenced Lovecraft in a few works. Herman Slater was the owner of a magic shop.

Some historical figures are named but make no appearance. "Machen" is author Arthur Machen. "Bloch" is author Robert Bloch. "Wollheim" is Donald A. Wollheim, a Lovecraft correspondent. "Allen" is author Allen Ginsberg.

The last pages of this story include characters and scenes from Alan Moore's previous Lovecraft series, The Courtyard and Neonomicon: Gloria, Carl Perlman, Aldo Sax, Merril Brears, and Agent Barstow.