TourTruth score 8.7 out of 10
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Providence Haunted Authors Walking Tour
TourTruth score 7.8 out of 10
GoodTop 23% in Providence
13 reviews · Rated on 2 providers · How we score
- Providence
- 2 hrs
- Updated November 2, 2026
Trace Lovecraft’s Providence haunts, hear eerie tales, and uncover Sarah Helen Whitman’s doomed romance with Edgar Allan Poe.
About this tour
Walk through Providence’s shadowed streets and discover the authors whose lives and stories left a lasting mark on the city. This 120-minute Providence Haunted Authors Walking Tour follows H.P. Lovecraft through the places connected to his upbringing and favorite haunts.
Along the way, your guide brings Lovecraft’s unsettling fiction to life with dramatic retellings of some of his creepiest tales. The tour also turns to Sarah Helen Whitman, a local spiritualist and poet who was briefly engaged to Edgar Allan Poe. Hear about Whitman’s life and the couple’s whirlwind, doomed romance as you explore Providence’s centuries-old sidewalks.
An enthusiastic, expert guide leads the experience, with a live tour in English. The tour requires at least four guests to run. If fewer than four are booked, you’ll be contacted the morning of your tour with the option of a full refund or rescheduling. Meet your guide on the sidewalk in front of the park, then step into Providence’s literary past. Book your Providence Haunted Authors Walking Tour to encounter the city through its dark tales and remarkable writers.
Highlights
- Follow H.P. Lovecraft through the Providence streets that shaped his life and stories
- Hear dramatic retellings of Lovecraft’s eerie fictional tales
- Explore Sarah Helen Whitman’s life and her doomed romance with Edgar Allan Poe
What's included
Included
- Enthusiastic and expert guide
Ratings on each provider
The ratings and review counts each booking site shows for this tour.
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View on ViatorViator
5.00 / 5 · 12 reviews
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View on GetYourGuideGetYourGuide
5.00 / 5 · 1 review
Important information
- At least 4 guests are required for the tour to run; if fewer are booked, you’ll be contacted the morning of with a full refund or rescheduling options
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals are allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Meet the guide on the sidewalk in front of the park
How this score is calculated
This tour scores 5.00 on Viator and 5.00 on GetYourGuide. Ratings on these sites cluster near the top of the 5-star scale, so we compare each one with all other ratings on the same site before combining them.
How the score works and rating distribution in Providence
- Each provider rating is turned into a percentile: the share of that provider's ratings it beats, weighted by review counts.
- Listings on different providers are combined in proportion to their review counts.
- Tours with few reviews are pulled toward the average until more reviews come in, so a handful of perfect reviews can't top the list.
- The result is shown from 0 to 10: this tour scores 7.8. Top 23% in Providence means it ranks in the top 23% of tours in Providence by this score.
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- Viator
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