Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight

"Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight" is a short Cthulhu Mythos poem by the late American author and friend of Lovecraft, August Derleth. It was first published in the Autumn 1948 edition of defunct magazine The Arkham Sampler.
==Synopsis==
The piece is written as a conversation between two men, H.P.L. and E.A.P., as they discuss the city of Providence, Rhode Island.
==Behind the Mythos==
The poem would seem to have inspired at least the germ of a story in Derleth, one which may have gone on to be developed in his "posthumous collaboration" "The Dark Brotherhood".
The character H.P.L. mentions the entities Dagon, Yog-Sothoth, and Cthulhu when discussing the evils which have befallen the world.
==Publication History==
*The Arkham Sampler Autumn 1948 (1948)
*Something About Cats and Other Pieces (1949)
*The Man Who Called Himself Poe (1969)
*In Lovecraft's Shadow: The Cthulhu Mythos Stories of August Derleth (1998)
Category:August Derleth works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works