Amy (Other Amy)'s Reviews > Providence Act 1

They's a hindrance, thuh both of 'um. On'y reason they's heeyuh is cuz it's haow the story's gotta be. In the 'deemer story, s'gotta be thuh crazy granpappy, un' thuh whaht-faced wummum, un' thuh bad-lookin' bwoy. Thet's whah ah ain't wamin' tuh yu. Yur aht uv a diff'run' story awlduhgethuh.

In the end, I have to agree with Willard Wheatley . (view spoiler)[That is, Wilbur Whateley from The Dunwich Horror. I can't decide if the slight tweaking of names and places from Lovecraft's arsenal throughout this book is pleasantly persuasive or really, really annoying. I'm leaning toward the latter. (hide spoiler)] Robert Black goes traipsing through the conglomerate world of Lovecraft's stories, pursuing a story that is arguably interesting in its own right, making observations of Lovecraft's world that would arguably be interesting in their own right, but Mr. Black unfortunately opens his mouth diary commonplace book, and it spoils the interesting parts entirely. (I was going to subject you to excerpts of the excerpts of pamphlets that Black also crams into his diary which spoil the interesting parts even more, but I've decided I don't have the energy.) That said, there's enough promise here that I'm going to try the next collection in the series and see if it gets any better.