The Weird West Village: From Poe to Lovecraft

Mary Shelley was born on August 30th. J. Sheridan Le Fanu on August 28th. And on August 20th, 1890, Howard Phillips Lovecraft was brought into this world.

To celebrate the weird, fantastic, horrific, and bizarre works of H.P. Lovecraft, Boroughs of the Dead presents a special Thursday night “birthday edition” of The Weird West Village: From Poe to Lovecraft.

• Stroll the labyrinthine streets of the West Village and discover where Lovecraft found inspiration for some of his iconic New York stories of the early 1920s
• Reveal the places and people that influenced Edgar Allan Poe nearly a century before, and uncover the indelible connections between the two writers.
• Hear tales of mesmerism, wizardry, and premature burial
• “Meet” ghosts and phantoms and sentient thought-forms… enthusiastic body-snatchers
• Weave a thread of connection between the fabric of the city and the tales of terror set down by those who lived in it

With an equal mix of literature, biography and true-life weird tales, this tour will unearth the forgotten histories and urban lore steeped into the walls, streets, the “archaic lanes and houses and unexpected bits of square and court” of this most geographically uncanny part of the city, as we trace the steps of two of weird fiction’s totemic masters.

Click here to buy tickets ($20).