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Jonathan Thomas follows up the critical and popular success of his
collection from 2008, Midnight Call and Other Stories, with this
new and substantial volume of weird tales long and short. The title
story is a marvelous evocation of Providence yesterday and today,
with much for the ghost of H. P. Lovecraft to dislike in the way
his city has evolved. Providence is the setting for several other
tales-tales that introduce us to such anomalies as a Lord of the
Animals who seems to have an inexplicable sympathy with our
four-footed friends, and a man whose quest for an extremely rare
psychedelic album leads to something much stranger . . . In these
twelve stories, Thomas fulfills the promise of his earlier work and
shows that he has become one of the leading figures in contemporary
supernatural horror. "Myth and archetype, as well as the influence
of masters of the Gothic tale, seep in from the groundwater in
Jonathan Thomas's world, but the landscape is wholly his own. The
stories amuse, challenge, and unsettle." - From Sherry Austin's
Foreword "I found 'Tempting Providence'] by Jonathan Thomas
unexpectedly charming (if it's permitted to describe a horror tale
as charming), not least in its evocation of old Providence . . . It
certainly brought back memories of my own wanderings around the
city in the '60s, the same 'wistful daydreams' his hero engages in,
the sense that, if only HPL hadn't died so young, he might still be
renting rooms in one of the neighborhood houses and enjoying a
sundae or an evening stroll." - T. E. D. Klein
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