Robert checks in at the Hillman hotel, Salem, to locate Tobit Boggs, the man mentioned by Suydam. Robert goes on his way, determined to investigate further. He wakes up to find Suydam standing over him, and he tells him that he must have passed out due to a gas leak. He is attacked by a glowing female monster and flees, only to lose consciousness. He is then called away, and Robert sneaks into his basement where he finds a vast sea cave containing a golden totem and human remains. Suydam invites Robert to his home to sell him some of his pamphlets and tells him more about the Kitab, a copy of which is held by his suppliers in Salem. Suydam appears, cutting their conversation short, and Robert introduces himself as an occult scholar. They stake out the churchyard where Suydam often walks, and Malone makes it clear that he's attracted to Robert. Mr Posey puts him in touch with Detective Tom Malone, who shows him the church where Suydam lectures on occult philosophy. Inspired to write his novel, Robert goes on sabbatical from the Herald and heads to Flatbush in search of Suydam. Feeling inspired and intrigued by this story, Robert returns to his office where he learns that his jilted lover, Jonathan, has committed suicide in one of New York's Lethal Chambers. He also learns that Alvarez was provided with a transcript by a man called Suydam. In Alvarez's heavily air-conditioned apartment, Robert learns that the book mentions 'an early Arab alchemical text' known as Kitab Al-Hikmah Al-Najmiyya ('The Book of Starry Wisdom'), which describes methods of prolonging life. Arriving at Alvarez's tenement, the door is answered by the man's landlady and lover, Mrs. He goes to visit one Doctor Alvarez who once wrote an essay on the subject. Posey, to ' scare up' a story about an infamous book called Sous Le Monde, which is rumoured to drive its readers insane.

Gay, Jewish Herald reporter and aspiring novelist Robert Black is sent by his editor, Mr. Black takes a leave of absence from his journalism career, with the intention of writing a Great American Novel using 'the “Outsiders”, perhaps “occult Outsiders”-whom he is on the trail of across New England-as a metaphor for social outsiders'. The series is set in 1919 and centres on Robert Black, a homosexual Jewish writer, initially working in New York as a reporter for the New York Herald. The story is both a prequel and sequel to Moore's previous stories Neonomicon and The Courtyard, and continues exploring H. Providence is a twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Jacen Burrows, published by American company Avatar Press from 2015 to 2017.

Neonomicon by alan moore