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    Guising Night: The Dreamer of Providence, #2
    Guising Night: The Dreamer of Providence, #2
    Guising Night: The Dreamer of Providence, #2
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    Guising Night: The Dreamer of Providence, #2

    By R.C. Mulhare

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    Halloween 1906 looks like a lonesome October night for a sixteen year old Howard Lovecraft. But when his spirited classmate Veronica Banigan invites him to her family's home for a "Guising Night", the evening takes a turn for the weird, so much that anything can happen and dark things may seek to enter the mortal realm...

    The fiction of H.P. Lovecraft has inspired generations of horror writers and readers, but what dreams and eldritch realities might have inspired this dreamer of Providence? This next volume in a series lights a candle in those shadows that haunted one of horror literature's greatest sages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOff the Beaten Path Press
    Release dateJun 3, 2018
    ISBN9781386573166
    Guising Night: The Dreamer of Providence, #2

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      Guising Night - R.C. Mulhare

      Author's Note:

      THE DREAMER OF PROVIDENCE Book Two: Guising Night

      by R. C. Mulhare

      I'VE BEEN BACK AND forth when it comes to Halloween. Admittedly, I went through a weird period in my teen years when Halloween became uncool, and a small part of me even looked down on it. Things changed as I got older, and I learned to embrace it, thanks in no small part to reading up on the Irish Catholic influences, among other factors, that shaped the Druidic festival known as Samhain, creating the holiday we know today, while yet retaining many earmarks of the pre-Christian holiday. It intrigues me how the Irish managed to keep one foot in the pagan world and the other in the Christian world, like this very holiday which moves seamlessly between dark and light, sacred and profane, like someone able to move with ease between the physical world and, say, the Dreamlands.

      It came as no surprise to me, in the course of my Lovecraftian studies, that one of Lovecraft's favorite holidays was Halloween (his other two favorites were Christmas and Walpurgisnacht, or St. Walpurgis's Night, a German holiday something like Halloween, except it falls on April 30th). This delighted me as Halloween has become my favorite holiday. It's almost a bigger deal to me than Christmas, since because I work in retail, in some ways, Christmas has become a scary time of the year for me, and not in a good way. My family is locally known as a the Pumpkin People, and one local character who bumped into my folks while they were grocery shopping, addressed them as Mr. and Mrs. October, because of the annual jack o'lantern jamboree we set out on our front lawn through October and a smidge into November.

      A lot of the history of Halloween as we know it in the United States offers many surprises: in ye olden times, Halloween was as much a time for young people to peek into the future in order to catch a glimpse of the face of their true love as much as it was a time for people to ward off the strange creatures that might try to cross over into the mortal world. Thus, the thought crossed my mind that Halloween might be a good season for a romantic tale (bear in mind, the American horror movies of the 1930s were marketed as date movies, since the scary parts might cause one person to jump and grab the other for protection. There still might be something to this, as evidenced by the friends-date I went on with a group of friends, to see The Ring, where I ended up as the middle of a panicked grab sandwich.). This presented the mental image of a high school-aged Lovecraft and his study partner and crush, Veronica Banigan (not her real first name, as far as we know, though he was friendly with the boys of the Banigan family; who knows but being in their company put him into the same space and presence as their sister?), on Halloween night, sitting on a stoop and handing out treats to the goblins passing by, under the light of a full moon (an almanac dive revealed that a full moon would have, in fact, shone down on Providence, Rhode Island on Halloween 1906, the year that I envisioned for this story). And given the kind of costumes one sees in old photos of Halloween in days gone by and how supremely weird

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