Short Fiction · Character

Young Blake

A solitary writer and painter newly settled in Providence, whose field-glasses fix on a grim, vacant church atop Federal Hill and will not let go.

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Also known as Blake

First appearance: the haunter of the dark

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Blake lives alone in a north attic studio, producing tales like The Burrower Beneath and canvases of unhuman monsters while watching the spectral Italian quarter across the smoke. His imagination, already tuned to the alien and fabulous, fastens on a dark Gothic church that no birds will approach and no lights ever warm. His mounting obsession with that unreachable world beyond the curling smoke draws him toward the story's threshold.

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Young Blake is a fellow artist or writer who collaborates with the narrator in uncovering… How this plays out →
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friendship · positive
Young Blake is a fellow artist or writer who collaborates with the narrator in uncovering… How this plays out →
Unknown Narrator
friendship · positive
Young Blake is a fellow artist or writer who collaborates with the narrator in uncovering… How this plays out →

Unknown Narrator
Young Blake is a fellow artist or writer who collaborates with the narrator in uncovering supernatural mysteries, often sharing a creative and investigative partnership.
Unknown Narrator
Young Blake is a fellow artist or writer who collaborates with the narrator in uncovering supernatural mysteries, often sharing a creative and investigative partnership.
Unknown Narrator
Young Blake is a fellow artist or writer who collaborates with the narrator in uncovering supernatural mysteries, often sharing a creative and investigative partnership.

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