Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "To Mars and Providence" is a short story by Don Webb, published in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. It is a conflation of The War of the Worlds, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the biography of H. P. Lovecraft.The story begins on August 12, 1898, twenty-nine days after the death of eight-year-old Howard Philip Lovecraft''s father. Howard observes a Martian cylinder crash into Federal Hill, an event that he had been predicting in his dreams for three years. Being a "gentleman of pure Yankee stock the true chalk-white Nordic type" Howard decides to investigate the landing, and witnesses the opening of the cylinder and emergence of the Martian occupants. When the Martians fire upon onlookers with their heat rays, he faints.