HUGE Library of Lovecraft Centennial Uploaded

A titanic digital archive of over 800 photos from the 1990 H.P. Lovecraft centennial celebration has been uploaded to Flickr by photographer Wil Hart. The photography documents Hart's entire trip to Providence to celebrate one hundred years of Lovecraft, and features images of conferences, commemorations, and heaps of historic sights frequented by HPL in his beloved Providence. During his stay, the chronicler hit damned near every Lovecraftian site in Rhode Island. He captured incredible treasures of literary significance, including a large public exhibition of Lovecraft's manuscripts, as well as important places like the no longer existent Baptist Church that inspired the infamous Church of Starry Wisdom (not to mention the pic of the rather retro looking S.T. Joshi above) in Lovecraft's fiction.

This Flickr archive is an inimitable file of frozen glimpses from a milestone in Lovecraftian literary history. It's incredible to see this many photos of the event in stellar condition. Needless to say, a big thank you to Mr. Hart for preserving a bit of Lovecraftian history many would've assumed gone without much recognition, rather than captured in such striking detail.

-Grim Blogger