Providence by Alan Moore

The original three-volume hardback edition comprising the full of Alan Moore's megalithic horror masterwork Providence saw an exceedingly restricted printing, with just 6,666 copies — subtlety is not Moore's strong point – printed and put on the market in 2016. Providence, one of Moore's only 12-issue self-contained graphic novels (the other, most notably, Watchmen), tells the story of a young, gay journalist on a quest across New England to uncover the secrets of a shady American doomsday cult, encountering elements from Lovecraft's fiction as well as the man himself along the way.

Providence is a masterclass in sophisticated metafictional and intertextual comics writing, dissecting the work of H.P. Lovecraft and the social context in which it was written to provide keen critical insight into the ways fiction shapes reality. It is presented twofold in a combination of standard comics narrative and extensive prose sections reproducing pages from the protagonist's journal. In August 2021, an all-in-one trade paperback edition of the full 12-issue run will be released, significantly increasing the frequency with which it appears on the shelves of comic shops and bookstores throughout the world.

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