Photo of the day: Mount Royal Hotel
From 1937, an advert for the Mount Royal Hotel. I don't need to write anything else, this is just the cover of a book of adventures right there!
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Inside the Athenaeum
One of my regrets with being in Providence last August for NecronomiCon , was not making it to see the inside of the Providence Athenaeum . We managed to see the outside of it, but I didn't make it in. On our way back up to Canada from a holiday in Cape Cod this year, however, we did manage to stop off for lunch in Providence, and I finally got to see the inside of the library. It was worth the wait. Of course the library is famous for it's connections to Lovecraft and Poe and Whitman , but I was happy to learn that it had also been frequented by Charlotte Perkins Gilman . There is also, of course, the Lovecraft bust. The list of patrons was of interest, combining local Lovecraftians like Neils Hobbs, as well as international names like Guillermo del Toro. Made me smile. The above images show off the well photographed main interior of the Library, and are pretty much as I expected it to be, however, there is a lot more to the building. Downstair...
John Silence
I don't post about every Kickstarter I back, but I think this one needs a little signal boost. " John Silence is a complete rpg plus a shared-universe story/poetry anthology about psychic people of color saving the Earth from invisible monsters." The name comes from a set of stories by Algernon Blackwod, so those are something I'll have to look up and get my hands on. Go check it out, there's plenty time left to back, and it hasn't yet made it's goal.