I have recently read “Tempting Providence”, by Jonathan Thomas. It’s a story based on H. P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Haunter of the Dark” in which Justin, a professional photographer, returns to Providence, the town in which he did his studies to display some of his works and also explore the now modernized town of Providence.
During his stay there he has a few strange encounters with what he thinks is the ghost of H. P. Lovecraft himself. In reality, his longing for the old Providence of Lovecraft’s time, which was still somewhat present during Justin’s studies there, and his admiration for the deceased author are being exploited by an inter dimensional “anglerfish”, which is trying to bait him through its portal by showing him hallucinations of the things/persons he longs for. He eventually figures this out by drawing parallels between the creature from “The Haunter of the Dark” and his own strange experience, hence the correlation between the two stories. I won’t spoil the ending in case you want to read the full story yourself.
The grief of the protagonist for the loss of that which made Providence unique made me remember the grief that Onni is probably still experiencing for the loss of Tuuri and how he probably wishes for her to be back.
I then remembered how the alien from the story is an inter dimensional creature which probably has access to multiple universes, one of them possibly being that of SSSS.
So, considering these two things, let’s just hope that if Onni has a strange encounter with “Tuuri” in the forest, he doesn’t immediately run up to her to give her a big hug
Also, the creature isn’t fully described in the story except for the “three-lobed burning eye”, so I took the liberty of designing it based on the web-like hive mind from “Beyond the Aquila Rift”, an episode from the Netflix animated series “Love, Death and Robots.”
