Providence Girls
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A Sapphic Seaside Cosmic Horror Romance based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror," "The Thing on the Doorstep," and The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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“Literary, grotesque, and unendingly romantic, PROVIDENCE GIRLS is a tour de force of horror romance. With writing filled with as much grief and longing as it is with love, Morgan Dante demands your full attention in this love letter to messy, non-linear healing.”
– Tyler Battaglia, author of PRAY FOR HIM “It’s a story that will leave you with salted tears like the seas that populate the world of PROVIDENCE GIRLS, and one that will stick with you long after it's finished.” – Ian Haramaki, author of MERCY |
Art by M.E. Morgan, Interior Design by rafael nicolás
Best Historical Fiction (2023 Queer Indie Awards)
Rainbow Crate's October 2024 "Transformation" Indie Pick
Queers Who Bite Book Box November 2023 Indie Choice
Audiobook coming from Tantor Media! Narrated by April Doty and Ellie Gossage. February 11th, 2025.
Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods.
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Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved.
Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep. |
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Comps
The Shape of Water (romance with (someone turning into) a fish monster) The Fly (1986) (body horror) The Handmaiden (sapphic longing) A Dowry of Blood (epistolary/diary/letter format) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (seaside sapphic longing) Our Wives Under the Sea (sea-related sapphic body horror with themes about grief) |
Content Warnings
Past sexual abuse between a father and daughter Past rape Past traumatic pregnancy Body horror Emetophobia Body dysmorphia Ableism toward people with albinism Mentions of suicide ideation |