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| Extended Programming | |
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| Ars Necronomica: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder (Providence Arcade, 65 Weybosset Street) | |
| 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | NecronomiCon Welcome Pre-Party (Narragansett Brewery, 271 Tockwotton Street) |
| Extended Programming | |
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| Ars Necronomica: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder (Providence Arcade, 65 Weybosset Street) | |
| 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Walking Tour of H. P. Lovecraft’s Providence (Donovan Loucks) |
| 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Welcoming Ceremony (First Baptist Church, 75 North Main Street) |
| 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Ars Necronomica: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder, Opening Reception (Providence Arcade, 65 Weybosset Street) |
| Podsothoth LIVE (Black Box Theater, 95 Empire Street) | |
| NecronomiCon Party Under the Stars (The Red Door, 49 Peck Street) | |
| Black Lodge Party – a secret and undisclosed location... | |
| Extended Programming | |
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| 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Walking Tour of H. P. Lovecraft’s Providence (Donovan Loucks) |
| 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. | Ars Necronomica: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder (Providence Arcade, 65 Weybosset Street) |
| 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (Black Box Theater, 95 Empire Street; Wiswell) |
| 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | “A Warning to the Curious” (Black Box Theater, 95 Empire Street; Parry) |
| 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | Guest Reception (Graduate, Outdoor Terrace; video by Bryan Thao Worra) |
| 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. | HPLHS’ Dark Adventure Radio Theatre’s “The Shunned House” (Graduate, Capital Ballroom) |
| 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | The Outer Dark Reception Party (Graduate, Outdoor Terrace; Ashe, Durgin, Guo, Magnan, Morris, von Hessen) |
| Eldritch Ball (Graduate, Biltmore Ballroom) | |
| Lovecraftian/Weird Bar Trivia! (Trinity Brewhouse, 186 Fountain Street) | |
| Core Programming | ||||||||
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| Location | 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. |
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
12:30 noon to 2:00 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. |
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Omni, Bristol/Kent | Armitage Session 1 | Armitage Session 2 | Lunch | Invited Academic Speakers | Armitage Session 3 | |||
| Omni, Providence Ballroom | Editing for the Small Press (L.E. Daniels, Dwyer, Lawson, Schoonover, Steele, Thompson) |
Indy Gaming: Design (Adair, Anderson, Moeller, Sanderson, Scully, A. Smith) |
Weird Fiction in Translation (Davisson, Koshkadze, Mesa, Möller, A. VanderMeer, Williams) |
Lunch | Weird in Recorded Media (Branney, Garland, Joiner, L. Jones, Wiswell) |
Impossible Architecture (O’Brien, Scully, S.R. Thomas, Thompson, J. VanderMeer) |
The Weird West (Boop, J. Davis, Geist, Hite, Ruch) |
Weird on a Small Color Screen (Anctil, Carmen, Claypool, Cox, Kaufmann) |
| Omni, South County | Unusual Horror Promotion (Tromp) |
Underground Music & the Occult (Goldberg) |
The Outer Dark LIVE (Allen, Ashe, Golaski, Morris, S.R. Thomas) |
Weird Art (Anderson, Cameron, Eckhardt, Rainey-Smith) |
Materialism and Supernatural (Bittrich, Langan, Martel, Moreland, Olivieri) |
Biology of Elder Things (Lubnow, Maschuck) |
Shigeru Mizuki (Davisson) |
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| Graduate, Capital Ballroom | Lovecraft’s New York Period (Cannon, Foster, Goodwin, Lonegan, Stewart) |
Joe Pulver (Anctil, Black, Cisco, Rawlik, Jeffrey Thomas) |
70s/80s Small Press (Di Filippo, Lonegan, Rainey, Schweitzer, Tromp) |
Lunch | Hodgson and Lovecraft (Carson, Dirda, Page, A. VanderMeer, Woodman) |
Weird Fiction of Joel Lane (Cheney, Golaski, Jarvis, Steele, Strantzas) |
Mythos and Heavy Metal (Allen, Carson, Gerlach, Glasser, Lawson, Loring) |
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| Graduate, Biltmore Ballroom | Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Carmen, Cisco, Coffman, Cox, Leland, Moreland) |
Reader as Collaborator (Ashe, Bulkin, Olivieri, Thompson, Tremblay, J. VanderMeer, Winter) |
Gender and Weird Fiction (Garland, Loring, Martel, Saulson, Vaughan, Wizdom, Wooldridge) |
Lunch | Michael Moorcock (Bittrich, Bolivar, Di Filippo, O’Brien, Ruch, Tromp) |
Designing CoC Scenarios (Branney, Fricker, Hite, Mason, McInnes) |
Guests of Honor (Bagley, Bulkin, B. Martin, Mason, O’Brien, S.R. Thomas, J. VanderMeer) |
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| Graduate, Narragansett Bayview | Author Readings (Carson, Laben, Stanton, Jonathan Thomas) |
Author Readings (S. Jones, Nickle, Reiter, Schoonover) |
Lunch | Author Readings (Bartlett, Bulkin, Carmen, Lane) |
Author Readings (Cisco, Crew, Cushing, Dalpe) |
Author Readings (Campbell, Strantzas, S. Walker, Wooldridge) |
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| Extended Programming | |
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| 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Walking Tour of H. P. Lovecraft’s Providence (Jason Eckhardt) |
| Ars Necronomica: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder (Providence Arcade, 65 Weybosset Street) | |
| 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Walking Tour of H. P. Lovecraft’s Providence (Rory Raven) |
| “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (Black Box Theater, 95 Empire Street; Bozzone, Branney) | |
| CONCERT: House of Harm, Nox Novacula, Harpy, & Silver Dagger (Fete Music Hall, 103 Dike Stret) | |
| 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | HPLHS’s Dark Adventure Radio Theater’s “The Temple of Jupiter Ammon” (Graduate, Capital Ballroom) |
| 7:42 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. | WaterFire Providence |
| 9:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. | “The Horla” (Graduate, Capital Ballroom; Parry) |
| Core Programming | ||||||||
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| Location | 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. |
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
12:30 noon to 2:00 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. |
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Omni, Bristol/Kent | Armitage Session 4 | Armitage Session 5 | Lunch | Invited Academic Speakers | Armitage Session 6 | Armitage Session 7 | ||
| Omni, Providence Ballroom | Weird Fiction of Jean Ray (Cheney, Durand, Grey, Langan, Williams) |
The Canadian Weird (S. Jones, Lee, Morris, Nickle, Strantzas) |
Leonora Carrington (Dalpe, Golaski, A. Martin, Mesa, J. VanderMeer) |
Lunch | Frank Belknap Long (Cannon, Goodwin, Hussey, Schweitzer) |
The Decadent Weird (Black, Haringa, Hite, Moreland, von Hessen) |
Punk Fiction (Baillie, Gerlach, Hobbs, Lane, McInnes, Tremblay) |
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| Omni, South County | Grimoires on Celluloid (Tromp) |
Stop Motion Animation (Boop, Callahan, Goodfellow, Grey, S. Walker) |
Lovecraft eZine LIVE (M. Davis; video) |
Franz Kafka (Baillie, Bulkin, Cisco, Olivieri, Ruch) |
Propping Up the Mythos (Matzke) |
W. H. Pugmire (Broadbent, Cushing, Rainey, Rawlik, Jeffrey Thomas) |
MIHS: “I Put a Spell on You” (Bebergal) |
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| Graduate, Capital Ballroom | Fictional Mythologies (Fricker, Mason, Ryan) |
Herman Melville’s Influence (Breen, Cannon, Cox, Miller, Ruch, Schaller) |
Arthur Machen (Cisco, Jarvis, Reiter, Steinhart, Worth, Zimmerman) |
Lunch | Indy Gaming: Business (Lisa Horn, Kramer, Rios, Jared Smith, Sotak) |
R. E. Howard Comics (Davisson, DeRosa, Quiroz, Jordan Smith, Tucker) |
Top 10 Stories by HPL (Allen, Bartlett, Carpenter, Durand, Goodfellow, Hite) |
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| Graduate, Biltmore Ballroom | Plants in Weird Horror (Day, Kaufmann, LaMalfa, Lubnow, Schaller, Jordan Smith) |
Freaky Black Art (Ashe, Lane, Mulero, Saulson, S.R. Thomas) |
Literary Techniques (Allen, Cushing, Ludwigsen, B. Martin, Nickle, Vaughan, Woodridge) |
Lunch | Transgressive Horror (Ashe, Cheney, Cushing, Dwyer, B. Martin, Saulson, von Hessen) |
Seething Nuclear Chaos (Di Filippo, Goodfellow, Guimont, Martel, Woodman, Worra) |
Editing the Weird (Langan, Mason, O’Brien, S.R. Thomas, A. VanderMeer, Winter) |
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| Graduate, Narragansett Bayview | Author Readings (L.E. Daniels, Kaufmann, Ruppert, Wiswell) |
Author Readings (Antonopolis, Foster, LaMalfa, Langan) |
Lunch | Author Readings (Mulero, Scully, J. VanderMeer, Williams) |
Author Readings (Claypool, Golaski, Martel, Tremblay) |
Author Readings (Bolivar, B. Martin, O’Brien, Saulson, M. Smith, Worra; video) |
We Are Providence Party | |
| Extended Programming | |
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| Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast (Graduate, Biltmore Ballroom; Goodfellow, S. Jones) | |
| Foraging Horrors: A NecronomiCon Mushroom Walk (Blackstone Park; Claypool) | |
| Ars Necronomica: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder (Providence Arcade, 65 Weybosset Street) | |
| 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Walking Tour of H. P. Lovecraft’s Providence (Rory Raven) |
| 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | “The Doom That Came to Sarnath” (Black Box Theater, 95 Empire Street; Wiswell) |
| 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. | NecronomiCon-Providence Wrap-Up (Graduate, Biltmore Ballroom) |
| 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. | Arthur Machen’s “N” (Black Box Theater, 95 Empire Street; Parry) |
| The Dunwich Horror PICTURE SHOW! (The Red Door, 49 Peck Street) | |
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| Location | 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
12:30 noon to 2:00 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
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| Omni, Bristol/Kent | Armitage Session 8 | Armitage Session 9 | Lunch | Armitage Session 10 | |||
| Omni, Providence Ballroom | The Birds (Carpenter, Day, Laben, Tyra, J. VanderMeer) |
Margaret St. Clair (Bukowski, Geist, Langan, A. Martin, A. VanderMeer) |
Lunch | Hollow Earth: Subterranean Fiction (Cushing, Foster, Grey, Guimont, Schweitzer, Williams) |
Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique (Bukowski, Glasser, Guimont, Harms, Murray) |
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| Omni, South County | Super(hero) Weird (G. Daniels, Hite, Nunnally, Quiroz) |
Emily Dickinson’s Witch Poems (Carmen, Cox, O’Brien, Stonecraft, Wooldridge) |
Eldritch Stories LIVE (Fricker, Mason) |
Lovecraft and Video Games (Lynch) |
The Shunned House 100th Anniversary (Branney, Jenzen-Jones, Leman, Loucks) |
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| Graduate, Capital Ballroom | R. E. Howard & H. P. Lovecraft (Black, Coffman, Dirda, Hussey, Williams) |
New Wave Arkhamites (Carpenter, Di Filippo, Rawlik, Tromp, Woodman) |
Lunch | Angela Carter (Dalpe, G. Daniels, Haringa, Lane, S.R. Thomas, J. VanderMeer) |
Nyarly’s Angels (Allen, Cameron, Cox, Leslie Horn, Laben, Stonecraft) |
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| Graduate, Biltmore Ballroom | Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy (Callahan, Dalpe, Foster, Grey, Matzke, McInnes, Quiroz) |
Lunch | Genre Mixing in CoC Settings (Fricker, Geist, Mason, Rios, Ryan, Stonecraft) |
Indy Gaming: Community (Bliss, Hicks, Howell, Raley, Rios, Stratton, Vaughan) |
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| Graduate, Narragansett Bayview | Author Readings (Ludwigsen, Möller, Schweitzer, Jeffrey Thomas) |
Author Readings (Cheney, Di Filippo, Kerestman, Olivieri) |
Lunch | Author Readings (Eckhardt, Jarvis, Kuhl, Rawlik) |
Author Readings (Black, Day, Nunnally) |
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