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The main reading room of the Athenaeum.
Providence, Rhode Island

Providence Athenaeum

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."
The Burnt Hill Stone Circle
Heath, Massachusetts

Burnt Hill Stone Circle

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.
Permanently Closed
Danvers, Massachusetts

Danvers State Hospital

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
cemeteries

Lovecraft in Brooklyn: A Reading by Candlelight in Green-Wood Cemetery

Allison Meier July 23, 2014
Salem Witch House.
h. p. lovecraft

Living Lovecraft: 10 Real World Locations Behind the Horror

Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Eric Grundhauser June 18, 2013
Grave marker of H.P. Lovecraft
Providence, Rhode Island

H.P. Lovecraft’s Grave

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.
H.P. Lovecraft's last residence
Providence, Rhode Island

H.P. Lovecraft House

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."
suicide

31 Days of Halloween

Veronique Greenwood October 31, 2011
subterranean

Lovecraftian Horrors 

Dylan Thuras October 2, 2011
cemeteries

Grim New England: Part 3 Rhode Island and Connecticut

J.W. Ocker September 23, 2010
Providence, Rhode Island

John Hay Library

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.
Nan Modal
Micronesia

Nan Madol Ruins

The ruins of a South Pacific island city are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.