The Shadow Out of Providence (not a game)
Tim Hutchings says: Hey folks, about a million years ago (2015, I guess) I was involved with a book written by my pal Ezra Claverie. It's a collection of "Lovecraftical" writings that do some -really- neat reworking of the less obvious formal stuff that Lovecraft does in his stories. This book does a lot of blurring of boundaries between fact and fiction, it squishes together existing and imagined media, all sorts of stuff. It also turns an eyeball on HPL himself and the ugliness that lurks within the author. Here is a PDF of the entire book. The book prefigures my own game interests around metatextuality and deceptive self-portraiture. I was a little shocked when I revisited the book and saw the parallel between that book from way back then and what I make now. And there's a chapter in there on me, from back when I was an artist. Sort of. Ezra wrote something in that lengthy-magazine-portrait style in which he imagines a Miskatonic Valley that was flooded for hydro power, a Lovecraf