We Are Providence Edited By Christa Carmen and L. E. Daniels

Tales of Horror From The Ocean State

Come. Take our hands. The twilight is dimming, but the moon is bright enough to see by, and it’s the perfect night to go for a walk. We’ll Stroll through a cemetery in Exter to where police officers are dispatched every Halloween and where a one-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire girl is said to still roam. We’ll wander the wharves in Jamestown, but mind your footing; the sea is home to all manner of creatures just waiting to break the surface after a thousand-year sleep. And keep an eye on the Romanesque Revival windows of the mansions along Newport’s Cliff Walk; you might catch a glimpse of a silhouette with no early reason for being there. In Providence, we’ll stalk the shadowy streets along with the ghosts of transcendentalist poets and jilted lovers, but don’t be surprised to discover that the monsters of Lovecraft’s fiction are not, in fact, the product of his imagination. The capital city has secrets and those secrets have tentacles. And teeth.

Welcome to Rhode Island, home of the weird, the hometown horror, the haunted, the hunted. Home of the Gothic and of horror with history. We promise there’s something here for everyone, whether visiting or already one with the region’s countless legends. Rode Island is the smallest state but the biggest house of horrors…

And the door is open.

Stories included in We Are Providence:

• Introduction: The Roots of Horror in Rhode Island by Faye Ringel
• The Scariest Story by Joshua Rex
• Blood in the Sand by John Lynch
• Testing a Horrible Superstition by Christa Carmen
• Who Lives in the Shunned House? by Mary Robles
• A Providence Thing by Jason Parent
• The Hidden Heart by Victoria Dalpe
• Spectacle Cove by L. E. Daniels
• Long Live the River by Mary Robles
• Alex’s Tree by Michael Squid
• Soul Parasite by Paul Magnan
• Close Behind by Barry Dejasu
• A Possession by H. Y. Hsu
• Ghosts of Waterfire by Mary Robles
• Mary’s Mama’s Heart by Faye Ringel
• Ghost Catch by K. H. Vaughan
• Rhyme of Tides by Mary Robles
• Poe’s Black Feathers by Mary Robles
• Unsuccessful Coping Mechanism for Grieving Lost Lovers by Curtis M. Lawson
• Wanted Dead or Alive 2025 by Steven E. Belanger
• The Salt Man of South Kingstown by Aron Beauregard

EDITIONS

Trade Paperback

• Color Cover
• In Stock

CONTRIBUTORS

Authors: See story list above on this page
Editors: Christa Carmen and L. E. Daniels
Cover: Mr. Michael Squid