Providence #8 [Pantheon Cover - Jacen Burrows]

(March 2016)

[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.

VIII: The Key (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

sincerely hope my cloud-crawler manuscript didn't keep you awake in your hotel room all night, Mr. Black.

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense

Characters

Robert Black; Randall Carver; Wallace Tillinghast; General Albert Pike; Van Buren; Dr. Hector North; James Montague; Professor Baker; Lord Dunsany; H.P. Lovecraft; Alice Hamlet; Ed Lee; Willard Wheatley; Elspeth Wade; Mrs. Macey [Hekeziah Massey]; Mister Jenkins

Synopsis

Occultist Randall Carver takes Robert Black on an excursion into the dream-world.
Later, they attend a reading by writer Lord Dunsany and meet author H.P. Lovecraft.

Reprints

• in Providence (Avatar Press, 2016 series) #2
• in Providence (Panini España, 2016 series) #2 - El abismo del tiempo ([Octubre 2016])
• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

Indexer Notes

Randall Carver is based on H.P. Lovecraft's character Randolph Carter. This character, and the situations in this story, are primarily taken from Lovecraft's stories "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" and "The Silver Key".

[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

September 24th Well, Wednesday already.

Characters

Robert Black; Randall Carver; Lord Dunsany; H.P. Lovecraft

Synopsis

Robert Black continues writing in his Commonplace Book. He describes the events in this issue's comics story, and his prior conversations with Carver about fantastic literature.

Reprints

• in Providence (Avatar Press, 2016 series) #2
• in Providence (Panini España, 2016 series) #2 - El abismo del tiempo ([Octubre 2016])
• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Providence / 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)

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

Script

H. P. Lovecraft

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

Indexer Notes

The back cover is an excerpt of a letter from Lovecraft to Reinhardt Kleiner, written 1919.