Providence Girls

Fleeing the hilly Massachusetts town that decided to sacrifice her, middle-aged Lavinia Whateley nearly dies in the woods before she's found and nursed back to health by Asenath Waite, a stoic, mysterious woman living alone on the coastal outskirts of Providence. Told entirely through the letters they write each other, the story moves between the two women falling slowly, cautiously in love, and a later point where Lavinia sits alone in her cottage, still writing to an Azzie who is now only present in her absence.

The reason for that absence is bound up in the scars on the side of Azzie's neck, and the eldritch transformation they're the first sign of. Morgan Dante's sapphic reimagining pulls Lavinia Whateley and Asenath Waite, minor and ill-fated women from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Thing on the Doorstep," out of the margins and gives their story a tenderness the mythos never did.