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Shadow Over Providence is a psychological horror miniseries chronicling the life of H.P. Lovecraft, a man tormented by his genius and trapped between two worlds—the haunting New England of his present, and the alien realms of his mind. Set in the early 20th century, this character-driven miniseries captures Lovecraft's tumultuous life as he struggles with poverty, prejudice, and mental illness while crafting stories that would go on to define cosmic horror. Each episode follows a unique thread of Lovecraft’s life, punctuated by dramatized scenes that blur the line between reality and his haunting visions. These visions—gargantuan creatures, twisting labyrinths, and malevolent cosmic entities—become extensions of Lovecraft’s psyche as if his mind is both creating and consumed by his otherworldly horrors. From his reclusive upbringing in Providence, shaped by his mother’s mental instability and father’s institutionalization, to his doomed marriage and his fraught friendships with writers and publishers, each relationship reveals Lovecraft’s paradoxical nature: a man repulsed by the world yet desperate to leave his mark upon it. As Lovecraft’s work gains cult-like status, he wrestles with the implications of his own beliefs and their troubling manifestations in his stories. We see him torn between the growing acclaim for his tales of dread and the realization that his xenophobic fears are the true monsters he must confront.
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August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK). Derleth was also a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. Notably, he created the fictional detective Solar Pons, a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

 

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