B
A person. HPL Case (online text) 215.
Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.
Assyrian god.
After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Baal. [RB Strange]
REH Fire (online text) 38, 40.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 334.
Babel was destroyed by the period of great earth upheavals called the Flood. [RB Strange]
Statues of baboons were found in curious juxtaposition to statues of the Pharaoh in a well in a transverse gallery of the Second Pyramid. HPL Pyramids (online text) 223.
Of Innsmouth. Servant of Asenath Derby. HPL Doorstep (online text) 296, 300.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 354-355.
HPL History (online text) visited by Alhazred 52; Medusa (online text) 173.
AWD Island 181.
HK Invaders (online text) 70.
FBL WereSnake (online text) Ishtar was the great mother goddess of the Babylonians.
RFS Warder 165.
Incl: Venus tablets; Asshurbanipal?
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 334.
REH Fire (online text) 38-40.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 15.
Kingsport. HPL Festival (online text) 210.
"Roger Bacon (...Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 – c. 1292), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method." [Roger Bacon, Wikipedia]
Author, Thesaurus Chemicus. [HPL Case (online text) 121]
HPL Case (online text) 161.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
Arabia? AWD Wind (online text) mentioned by Allision Wentworth in his delerium.
REH Black (online text) 59-60, 68, 72-73.
A port city of Oriab. HPL Kadath (online text) 315-316, 325, 327-331, 345.
Of Yokahama. AWD Island 203.
REH Ring (online text) 57.
Providence law firm. AWD Survivor (online text) 151, 154.
Of Charleston. AWD Survivor (online text) 161.
HPL Mound (online text) 122.
FBL Hills (online text) 287.
Of Spokane? DWR Music (online text) 292-296, (297), 298-299.
(Islands?) AWD Island 184.
Of Wilbraham; familiar of Asaph Peabody. AWD Peabody 195-198.
Balrahar
Apparently the place of origin of Xathra of Balrahar. It might be a reference to a whole world or a small part of one. Lord Donal O'Dare visited that world by way of a fairy circle in County Kerry. Other inhabitants of that world included Zaga, Begog, and the Kassonites. Xathra expressed fear of beings there called the Cloven Hoof, Kuddh, and Begog, but called on Zlaxdhtath protection. It appears that time passes more slowly in Balrahar, for Xathra said that only a moon had passed since since his ring was stolen, whereas hundreds of years had passed on Earth since the theft. But the length of time is uncertain, since we can't be sure how long a "moon" is on Balrahar, or how long-lived Xathra might be. [REH Door]
REH Gods (online text) 197~234: Age-old capital city of the Isle of the Gods. It had white walls and sapphire towers. The walls seemed of marble with fretted battlements and slim watch-towers. The city gates seemed to be of chased silver.
Aka: Isle of the Gods.
Maryland. Hk Hydra (online text) 126-127, 129, 133-134, 136.
FL Terror2 295.
Incl: Scott, Kenneth; Baltimore Central post office; Canning, Arthur; Canning, Christopher; Fayette Street; Green Street; Poe, Edgar Allan; Presbyterian Cemetery;
Baltimore, Maryland. HK Hydra (online text) 134.
Author, The Saurian Age [AWD Survivor (online text) 160].
In province of Shan-si, Burma. AWD Lair 117, 135.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 354, 356.
HPL Test (online text) near Goat Hill 20.
HPL Polaris (online text) 22.
Located at French Hill. Presided over by Rev. Ward Phillips. Probably the same as the "Second Church" where Phillips was pastor; probably the full name was "Second Baptist Church." [AWD Lurker]
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 350.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126.
RB Terror 221, 223, 230-231, 246.
A "prince" of the netherworld. AWD Wentworth 178.
Spain. HPL Case (online text) 133.
Missouri. HPL Medusa (online text) 199.
AWD Seal (online text) 163.
Of Prague. HPL Case (online text) 194.
Doctor who examined Joe Slater [HPL Sleep (online text) 28].
Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150.
Providence street where H. P. Lovecraft lived at number 10 from 1926 to 1933.
HPL Case (online text) 229.
AWD Survivor (online text) 150.
Lovecraft wrote a letter to Richard Upton in 1926, addressed from Barnes Street. [RB Strange]
Of Arkham. AWD Attic 320.
Son of Sir Ronald Barton. RB Opener (156), 157, (158), 159-170.
Father of Peter Barton. RB Opener (156), 157-163, (164), 165-169.
Kansas. HPL Mound (online text) 116.
Of Ulthar, in dreamlands. HPL Kadath (online text) (310), 312, 399; Other (online text) knows much of gods, learned in the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan,familiar with Pnakotic Manusripts; advised the law against cat-killing in Ulthar; father a landgrave in an ancient castle; Atal is his disciple 128; climbs Hatheg-Kla to see the gods' faces 129-130, seized by the Other Gods 131; never found again 132.
HPL Kadath (online text) 318-319; White (online text) 39-41.
Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
London. CJ Acquarium 309.
AWD Spawn (narrator) 18-22, (23-24), 25-28, (29-30), 31-33.
Egyptian cat-goddess. RB Brood 94, ghoul-goddess 95, 99; Grinning 54; Mummy 284; Opener 156, 163; Suicide (online text) 19.
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Bast crouching, baring feral fangs. [RB Strange]
Aka: Bubastis; Chewer of Corpses; Pasht.
Indonesia. AWD Island 185/186.
New York. HPL Diary (online text) 303.
AWD Valley (online text) (narrator) 116-148, named 116 & 121 & 129-130.
CJ Acquarium 302, 303, 306.
Of Boston. AWD Lurker 6, 41, 45-47, 52, 55-56, (57-61), 62, (63), 64, (65), 66, (67-70), 71, (72), 73, (74-75), 76, (77), 78-79, (80-100), 111-115, 117-123, 125-131, 140, 142-145, 147.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 347, 351, 354, 356.
British representative to Emperor Francis in Vienna. AWD Lurker 138.
Of M'gonga.
HPL Winged (online text) House boy of Dr. Slauenwite 249; became sick, died 250-251; 253, 258.
Michigan. AWD Lurker 138.
Incl: Church, Sherman.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 17.
See: frogs.
HPL Herbert (online text) 155; Hound (online text) 172; Medusa (online text) 170, 175, 192.
Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 38, 57-58, 67.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 162.
HPL Mound (online text) 115.
In the south of France. HPL Gates (online text) 424.
AWD Survivor (online text) 153, 167.
Incl: Charriere, Dr. Jean-Francois.
A medium. AB Inhabitant (online text) facts about Carcosa were imparted to him by the spirit of Hoseib Alar Robardin 535; Moonlit (online text) Bayrolles channeled the statement of the late Julia Hetman 423.
Boston. HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum in heart of Boston's exclusive Beacon Hill district 266; Kadath (online text) 356; Pickman (online text) 20.
HC Death (online text) 362.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 16, 24.
AWD Watchers Home of the legal firm of Boyle, Monahan, Prescott, & Bigelow, 382.
HPL Case (online text) (217-223), (230), (233).
HPL Mountains (online text) 9.
A young woman who visited an unnamed Middle Eastern location with the Were-Snake narrator and was almost killed by Ishtar. [FBL WereSnake (online text)]
HPL Medusa (online text) 172.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 179.
Scientific author. HPL Case (online text) 121.
Reverend at a church in Innsmouth. He led a group of parishioners to pray at Deeprock Gorge. Evidently Beckford's church was a conventional Christian one, and his prayers were inspired by the Book of Revelations. [HC Coming]
A book dealer who specialized in first editions and rare items. Beckman funded Simon Waverly's trip to Boston to look for items related to Richard Upton. He was found stabbed to death at his home at 1482 Whitsun Drive, Glendale. [RB Strange]
Photographer who accompanied Kay Keith to a meeting at the Starry Wisdom Temple. Bedard regarded Reverend Nye as a fake who was using mass hypnosis. [RB Strange]
HPL Medusa (online text) 171-184, (186-188), 189-193, (194), 196-197, (199), 200.
HPL Pyramids (online text) 221, discredited whisperings of 223, 224-225, 227-228..
RB Mummy 287.
REH Fire (online text) 31, 33, 39, 41, 43, 45-51, 55.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 158; Innsmouth (online text) 334.
Synonym for Satan [RB Hell (online text) 37].
AWD Middle 359; Peabody 195; Seal (online text) 162; Watchers, 401.
REH Dig (online text) 84: A synonym for Malik Tous.
Composer, Fifth Symphony. AWD Sandwin 98.
HPL Cats (online text) singular beetles found near skeletons of cotter & wife, in Ulthar (result of Egyptian-like magic practiced by Menes) 58.
HPL Time (online text) 395-396, 419.
Pocket next to Harrop's Pocket, Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 38, Annie 41, Curtis 57.
Begog
In the world of Balrahar, a fiend resembling a giant bat with yellow, soulless eyes, long fang-like teeth, and horns. Xathra was pursued by Begog because Xathra's ancestors had meddled in dark matters. [REH Door]
HH Guardian 299: The tiny man from the bookstore said that the Book talks of Beh'-Moth the Devourer.
Los Angeles. Following an earthquake, Albert Keith took refuge in the Bel-Air Hotel [RB Strange]
REH Fire (online text) 32, 36, 48.
Synonym for: Kara-Shehr.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 158; Hound (online text) 178; Innsmouth (online text) 334.
AWD Middle 359; Peabody 195; Watchers 401.
HC Isle (online text) 147, 161.
HPL Whisperer (online text) 224, 228-229, 235, 238.
France. HPL Silver (online text) 419.
Of San Xavier. HK Bells (online text) 80-93.
HPL Rats (online text) 33.
RFS Warder 154, 156.
Incl: Carr, Dr.; Eltdown Shards; Turkoff, Prof.; Whitney, Dr. Gordon.
A city. HK Eater (online text) 12-13, 15; Invaders (online text) 73, 77; Jest (online text) 60-62.
Incl: Black Minaret; Sindara, the; gods of good and evil; gorlaks; little gods; ocuru-lamps; Thorazor; Vorvadoss.
Aka: Dis.
Compare with: Grey Gulf of Yarnak.
HPL Gates (online text) 425.
Missouri. HPL Medusa (online text) 186.
Recently deceased relative of Will Benson. HK Hunt (online text) 162, 164.
Of area near Monk's Hollow. Next-of-kin of Andreas Benson, cousin of Alvin Doyle. HK Hunt (online text) 162-173, 178.
Of Yokahama. AWD Island 203-204.
Pilot friend who flies Will Richards to parachute beyond Settlers Wall. RAL Settlers (online text) 32-34.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 114.
AWD Brotherhood 329-330, 336, 339, 345, 348, 351; Survivor (online text) 148-149, 156, 164.
RB Steeple (online text) 211-212, 217-218, 222, 230.
Providence. HPL Beyond (online text) where Crawford Tillinghast lived in ancient, lonely house 91; Case (online text) 115.
RFS Mists psychology teacher 28.
Egyptian deity. The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Bennu, phoenix-symbol of resurrection. [RB Strange]
In Ptolemaic myth. HPL Medusa (online text) 171-172.
California. HPL Test (online text) 23.
REH Black (online text) 57; Dig (online text) 76: Von Boehnk had known John Grimlan in Berlin fifty years before.
Includes: John Grimlan; Von Boehnk.
Of San Xavier. HK Bells (online text) 92.
A star. AWD Island 182; Curwen 21; Dweller 133; Gorge 126; Lair 124-125; Lurker 135; Hastur home of Elder Gods 27, 32; Sandwin 112; Sky 68; Valley (online text) 134.
HK Eater (online text) 12.
AWD Island 181.
HPL Whisperer (online text) 223.
HC Death (online text) 364; Isle (online text) 156.
JVS Dead 34: Boys heard the name Bethmoora chanted while in a tunnel leading from Elmer Harrod's house.
Of Miskatonic University anthropology department. AWD Shuttered 281.
One of the Seven Stewards of Heaven invoked in White Magic [RB Hell (online text) 60].
Gates (online text) 439.
A town in K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 140.
Race on Cykranosh. CAS Door (online text) (31), 32-34, 36-38, 40.
Creatures of earth's dreamland, and also of an ancient planet called Yaddith.
In the dreamland, the bholes crawl and creep nastily in in terrible valleys guarded by the fabled Peaks of Thok [HPL Kadath (online text) 335, 336]. Randolph Carter encountered one of them there in the Vale of Pnath [336].
Their size is enormous, at least fifteen or twenty feet in height, and of unknown length [336-337]. In the dreamland, no one has ever seen one, or even guessed what it might look like. Bholes are known only from the rustling they make amongst mountains of bones and the slimy touch they have when they wriggle past one. They cannot be seen because they creep only in the dark. [Kadath (online text) 336].
The night-gaunts planned to feed the conquered moon-beasts to bholes and other creatures of the Great Abyss. [380].
In the distant past, on the planet Yaddith, the duties of the wizard Zkauba included weaving spells to keep the frightful bholes in their burrows. There were hideous struggles with the bleached, viscous bholes in the primal tunnels that honeycombed the planet. Zkauba observed a bhole that reared up several hundred feet. Eventually, Yaddith became a dead world dominated by triumpant bholes. [HPL Gates (online text) 447-450]
Note: The term bholes is rendered as dholes in uncorrected editions of Lovecraft's stories.
Compare with: dholes.
A city on Vhoorl. HH Guardian 294-296: After Kathulhn started writing of his adventures outside space and time, a long livid streamer descended from space and rendered all the people of Bhuulm stark blind and gibberingly insane.
A letter from Joseph Curwen to Simon Orne, ca. 1750, cited the book of Job, 14:14 [HPL Case (online text) 153].
Dagon is mentioned in three books of the Bible.
As evidence of the struggle between the Elder Gods and the Great Old Ones, Prof. Laban Shrewsbury cited portions of Joshua 10:11-12: "As they fled from before Israel . . . the Lord cast down great stones upon them in Azekah, and they died. . . . And he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon; and thou, Moon, in the Valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed. . . ." Shrewsbury also saw the Bible’s Deluge and other similar legendary catastrophes as evidence of the titanic struggle which resulted in the banishment of Cthulhu to a lost continent. Horvath Blayne saw the Bible’s story of the Deluge as evidence for the existence of Atlantis and Mu. [AWD Island 181, 184]
The Puritan preacher Gideon Godfrey carried a Bible in his left saddle-pack. Gideon had assiduously studied all Bible references to witches, the servants of Satan. Gideon frequently branished his Bible and a cocked pistol while traveling on his mission to the Satanic village of Roodsford. When Gideon interrupted the sacrifice in Roodsford, he used his Bible as a weighty object to strike the worshippers with, in some cases crushing their skulls with it. [RB Satan 7-11, 19]
Incl: Book of Job; Old Testament.
See also: Flood.
FBL Hounds (online text) 85.
Paris. HPL Case (online text) 164; Dunwich (online text) 169; includes a 17th century Latin copy of the Necronomicon (History (online text) 53).
AWD Gable (online text) 206; Gorge 98; Keeper 149; Lurker 81, 125; Six 124; Space 234.
New England town enroute Portland to Arkham. HPL Doorstep (online text) 290.
---'s wharf, in Philadelphia? HPL Case (online text) 139.
New Orleans. HPL Call (online text) 128.
Author, The Damned Thing. AWD Dweller 127; Lurker 138; Hastur 12.
HK Invaders (online text) 64.
DAW Review (online text) Bierce is said to have consulted the Necronomicon when writing some of his earlier and more fantastic works.
HPL Statement (online text) 299-300.
AWD Island 210.
"Old Billington" of Billington's Wood. Husband of Lavinia Billington. Father of Laban Billington. AWD Lurker 4-9, 11, (12), 13-14, 18-24, 26, 29, 32-37, 39, 40-41, 46-47, 60, 62-63, 66-71, 76-81, 85, 96, 98, 100-102, 111, 117-120, 125-132, 139, 140-142.
Family home of the Billingtons. Located northwest of Arkham, in Billington's Wood. The house is connected to the Aylesbury Pike by a small private road. Somewhere to the east of the house is the Miskatonic River, while somewhere to the west of the house is a a stone tower with a circle of stones, in a small (usually dry) tributary of the Miskatonic. In between the house and the tower is a marsh with frogs and whippoorwills that signal when the servants of the Great Old Ones are present. [AWD Lurker]
In 1921, family descendant Ambrose Dewart decided to move into the old house and restore it. Stephen Bates visited him there later. Dr. Seneca Lapham inferred that an influence was being exercised on the inhabitants of Billington House. With the help of Winfield Phillips, Dr. Lapham was able to kill Richard Billington (who had possessed the body of Ambrose Dewart) and Quamis before they could finish summoning Yog-Sothoth into our world via a ritual at the stone tower. [AWD Lurker ]
The location of Billington House is a bit difficult to visualize. The opening paragraphs of AWD Lurker seem to give the impression that Billington House is a short distance off the Aylesbury Pike as you proceed northwest from Arkham in the direction of Dunwich. From this, you might expect Dunwich to be somewhere to the northwest of Billington House. However, Laban Billington, when he lived at Billington House, heard cries "east by northeast, which is the direction of Dunwich, or the wild country around Dunwich." He also heard inhuman screams "from far off in the direction of Dunwich or Innsmouth"; if these are roughly in the same direction, this confirms that Dunwich is northeast of Billington House. [AWD Lurker] Possibly the Aylesbury Pike follows a winding, eccentric path; or possibly Billington House is some distance west of the Pike, in which case the private road connecting the house to the Pike must be a few miles long.
Dunwich and Billington House might be closer together as the crow flies than they are by road. At the intersection of the road from Billington House and the Aylesbury Pike, Ambrose Dewart saw a faint orange glow on the horizon rising in the direction of Dunwich, and he thought he heard sounds that might have been voices raised in fright. He thought that perhaps one of the ramshackle old buildings in the Dunwich country had caught fire. This suggests that Dunwich was fairly nearby. However, Dewart had to drive a least an hour to get from Billington House to Dunwich; and that time span of "perhaps an hour" may be in reference only to the latter part of the trip, when he was in the Dunwich area, a region of deep ravines and gorges. [AWD Lurker]
Billington House seems to be close to Arkham, which is odd since it is also close to Dunwich. Thus, "Squire Billington . . . made application to be heard by the Court of the County in its session at Arkham . . ." This suggests that Billington was living in the same county as Arkham, Essex County. Similarly, when Ambrose Dewart looked through old newspapers for information about Alijah Billington, he consulted only the Arkham Advertiser and Arkham Gazette, as if these were the most local newspapers. And John Druven reported talking a walking journey west and northwest of Arkham, and getting caught by darkness in the region of Billington's Wood, not far from Billington House; thus, we are either within a day's walk of Arkham, or Druven undertook a walking trip of multiple days. Also, when Stephen Bates was staying with Ambrose Dewart at Billington House and it was almost luncheon time, Bates suggested taking an impromptu trip into Arkham for lunch, as if Arkham was close enough for an impulse trip without unduly delaying their meal. [AWD Lurker]
Of Billington's Wood. Son of Alijah. AWD Lurker 4, 9-10, (11), 12-13, 20, 24, 26, 41, 66, 68, 71, 92, 126, 132.
Of Billington's Wood. Wife of Alijah Billington. AWD Lurker 13.
Of Billington's Wood. HPL Sorceries (online text).
AWD Lurker 14-18, 26, 48, 63, 67, 69-71, 74, 77-80, 85, 101-102, 131, 139-147.
Aka: Master, the.
A hilly and densely wooded area north of Arkham, but extending both to the east and west. The Miskatonic River flows seaward (that is, roughly northeast), from Arkham almost at one boundary of the wooded tract. Also from Arkham, the Aylesbury Pike passes west and northwest through Billington's Wood before reaching the Dunwich area. The wood includes Billington House. Sometime when William Bradford was governor (1621-1657), there were seven slayings in the woods near Richard Billington's stones. [AWD Lurker]
Incl: Billington, Alijah; Billington House; Billington, Laban; Billington, Lavinia; Billington, Richard; Dewart, Ambrose; Misquamacus; Quamis;
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165.
Caddo County, Oklahoma. HPL Mound (online text) 98-99, 102-104, 106, 108, 110, 155-157, 161-162; Yig (online text) 84.
England. AWD Lurker 136.
Incl: Rowley ragstones.
Family, of Dunwich and Aylesbury areas. HPL Dunwich (online text) 157, Bishop house 158.
AWD Lurker 6, 32-33, 47, 99-100; Shuttered 278, 284; Valley (online text) 118, 121, 123-124, 130, 134; Watchers 403.
Someone who disappeared from Dunwich in 1928. AWD Watchers 402.
Of England and Dunwich. Son of William Bishop, grandson of Septimus Bishop. AWD Middle (narrator) 352, 365, 370.
Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers, married to Edward Marsh 403;
Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers, married to Abner Whateley 403;
Of St. Augustine. AWD Survivor (online text) 161.
Of New Dunwich. AWD Lurker 48-52, (53), 71, 99-100, 126-127, 131-132, 140.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 160.
Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 274.
Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 33-35, (36), 37-38, 71, 96-98, 117, 140.
Of England? Father of William Bishop, brother(?) of Septimus Bishop. AWD Middle 367.
Of Dunwich area. Great-uncle of Ambrose Bishop, brother(?) of Peter Bishop. AWD Middle 352-356, 358-360, 362, 366-370.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 177-178, 181, 187, 190-192.
Aka: Seth?
Author, Seth Bishop: His Book. AWD Valley (online text) 118-119, 121, 124-125, 127, 133-135, 138, 141, 142-143, 145, 148, refs to house and property 120 & 126 & 129-130 & 132 & 138 & 141 & 145 & 147.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 161.
Of England(?) or Dunwich(?) Son of Peter Bishop, father of Ambrose Bishop. AWD Middle 368.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 189.
RB Terror 226-227.
Aka: Thatch, Ned; Teach, Edward.
A nickname for the original Dusseldorf edition of Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Von Junzt. See: Nameless Cults.
See: book of Azathoth.
A terrorist group devoted to the coming of Cthulhu. The Black Brotherhood took the place of various cults that preached Cthulhu's coming. The Brotherhood committed a wave of assassinations and attempted assassinations, and made predictions of calamities to come, including a great earthquake. Police officer Philip Kaufman and a security officer were both certain that the man who attempted to assassinate the Los Angeles mayor was a member of the Black Brotherhood. Judson Moybridge claimed that the Black Brotherhood was a hoax, but said that political fanatics were using the myth of the Black Brotherhood to rationalize their own violence. However, the Black Brotherhood was real. Nyarlathotep devised it to distract humanity from the true nature of what was to come. [RB Strange]
REH Fire (online text) 32.
Synonym for: Kara-Shehr.
Of Von Heller. HC Isle (online text) 149: Peter Mace had a copy of Black Cults, which Father Jason referred to as a forbidden book, condemned by truth and science alike. The book might have figured into Mace's attempt to bring Maureen Kennedy back from the dead.
Cat belonging to Albert Wilmarth [FL Terror2 295, 297].
Of Australia. HPL Time (online text) 404.
HPL Man (online text) 207.
Synoym for Satan. RB Hell (online text) 37.
Black Goat of the Woods, Black Goat with a Thousand Young, Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young
Synonyms for Shub-Niggurath. HPL Whisperer (online text) 226-227.
Albert Keith dreamed of group that chanted to the Black Goat of the Woods. [RB Strange]
AWD Curwen 31; Dweller 123, 132, 137; Gable (online text) 207; Lamp (online text) 255; Lurker 133; Hastur 22.
JVS Dead 34: Boys in the late Elmer Harrod's house heard the name Black Goat of the Woods chanted from underground..
Synonym for: Gol-goroth. [REH Gods (online text) 205]
An unpublished novel by Carson, which he wrote after his experience in the Witch Room. A publisher told him "It’s remarkable in its way, but it’s morbid and horrible. Nobody would read it." [HK Salem (online text) 265]
Of R'lyeh. AWD Island 183-185, lat. 186, 187-188, (203), lat. (204), 205-206, 210-212.
Arkham? RB Creeper (online text) 107.
HC Isle (online text) 157.
Synonym for Hooded Monk. REH Bear 36-37.
A kind of flower that grows beneath the waning moon. The flower was available within a fortnight's round trip from the ancient middle-eastern kingdom of Genghir the Dreamer. The blossom is said to grow in hidden swamps, but is also said to grow beneath the Nile River. A slave who was sent to fetch the flower returned with his features veiled, as if the quest had left him disfigured. Curious evil books warn of a subtle, pearly-hued potion that can be distilled from the Black Lotus, with a flavor sweeter than honeycomb of Kashmir or the kisses of the chosen brides of Paradise. This potion gives visions, successively, of what is to come, of what might have been, and of reality. Genghir the Dreamer partook of the potion, with tragic results. [RB Lotus]
RB Hell (online text) 60.
HPL Case (online text) 138, 150; Man (online text) 207; WitchHouse (online text) 264, 272, 281, = Nyarlathotep? 286.
RB Faceless 41, 46.
Reverend Nye was Nyarlathotep embodied as a black man, the Black Man of the witch-covens and the legends. He was truly jet black, including his palms, lips, and tongue. [RB Strange]
AWD Peabody 189, 195.
Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.
HPL Diary (online text) groups 304; Medusa (online text) fake 170, 196.
RB Brood 92; Hell (online text) 44-45.
HC Death (online text) 364; Isle (online text) 156.
AWD Peabody 195-196.
CAS Return (online text) 43.
REH Dig (online text) 84: A synonym for Malik Tous.
RB Faceless 39, 42; Mannikin Black Messenger 79.
Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.
Of Bel Yarnak. HK Jest (online text) will play its part in the doom of Bel Yarnak 60, 61, 63.
Synonym for Hooded Monk. REH Bear 36.
RB Mannikin 86.
Synonym for: Nyarlathotep?
RB Fane 134-137, 141.
Synonym for: Nephren-Ka.
HPL Case (online text) 131; Descendant (online text) an ancestor of Lord Northam was a bold companion and lieutenant of the Black Prince 361.
A work by the mad mystic Luveh-Keraph, priest of cryptic Bast.
James Allington had a copy of Black Rites [RB Suicide (online text) 19].
Prof. Alexander Chaupin spoke to his therapist of the veiled and subtle truths so furtively revealed in tomes such as Black Rites [RB Grinning 54].
AM Novel (online text) 10-11, 17, 25, 36, 39, translation explains how "man can be reduced to the slime from which he came, and be forced to put on the flesh of the reptile and the snake" 40, 41.
Aka: Ixaxar; Ishakshar; Sixtystone.
HK Eater (online text) of unknown origin 12.
black-snouted winged creatures
A race that became a dominant life-form on earth after the Great Race fled to the future to escape their enemies [HPL Time (online text) 397], which was around 50 million years ago [385].
RB Terror 224-227.
Include: Horner, Isaih; Jakes, Capt. Barnaby.
Hastur was banished to a black star near Aldebaran. [AWD Valley (online text)]
RWC Court (online text) 81; Repairer (online text) 5, 37.
Of Hungary. REH Black (online text) 57-58, 60-65, 73; House (online text) 129; Roof (online text) 7.
New England. HPL Whisperer (online text) 218, 220-222, 229, 256, 264.
Of Dagon's Cave, Britain. REH People (online text) 154, 162.
RB Opener 159, 166.
HPL Call (online text) 137-138, 140.
Compare with: Winged Ones.
HPL Call (online text) quoted 125.
AWD Survivor (online text) 148; Wind (online text) Allison Wentworth said that "Backwood has written of these things," and Dr. Jamison pointed out to Robert Norris several Blackwood stories about air elementals similar to Ithaqua.
HK Invaders (online text) 64.
Knife-thrower with the Stellar Brothers Circus [RB Elephant (online text) 47, 52].
HPL Time (online text) 395.
Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 104.
Of Milwaukee. HPL Haunter (online text) 92-etc., address 115.
RB Shambler (online text) (narrator) writer of weird fiction 177; Steeple (online text) 212-219, 225-229.
FL Terror2 293, 300, 310-311.
Reincarnation of Tamera. REH People (online text) 145, 165-167.
Russian composer. AWD Wood 82.
West of Arkham. HPL Colour (online text) 54-56, 80.
HPL Museum (online text) 228.
Of Boston. Adoptive father of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 193-194.
Of Boston. Grandson of Asaph Waite; son of John and Abigail Waite; adopted son of Arvold W. Blayne and Martha Blayne. AWD Island (narrator) 178, 180-184, 187, 189, 193, born Horvath Waite 194, 196, 201, 202.
Of Boston. Adoptive mother of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 192-194.
AWD GodBox 121.
RB Fane 134-136, statues (139), 140.
Synonym for: Nyarlathotep?
Compare with: Place of the Blind Apes
AWD Dweller 127, 132, 138, 142.
Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.
Texas. REH Lost 68.
Author, Fane of the Black Pharaoh. [RB Steeple (online text) (213)]
South Africa. HPL Winged (online text) 242, 260.
Incl. Bogaert, Johannes; De Witt, Ian; High Street; Orange Hotel; Slauenwite, Thomas; Van Keulen, Cornelius.
HPL Museum (online text) 222, 234.
In Sarnath, at the thousandth year feast of the destruction of Ib, one of the delicacies was heels of camels from the Bnazic desert. [HPL Doom (online text)]
Iranon visited lands beyond the Bnazic desert while searching for his native land. [Iranon (online text)]
Haverhill. HPL Time (online text) 370.
Science author. HPL Case (online text) 121.
Of Bloemfontein; a constable. HPL Winged (online text) 262-263, 242.
AWD Wood 75, 79.
(1550–1619) "A well known jurist and judge of Saint-Claude (1596–1616) in the County of Burgundy. His renown is to a large degree based on his fame as a demonologist for his Discours exécrable des Sorciers (1602) which was reprinted twelve times in twenty years." [Henry Boguet, Wikipedia, 1/13/2021]
AWD Brotherhood 329.
The water lizard. God of Ib. HPL Doom (online text) 43-44, 46-47, 49.
Of Wrentham. HPL Case (online text) 152.
Bolton was a factory town near Arkham. [HPL Herbert (online text)]
Bolton was chiefly noteable for the Bolton Worsted Mills. Aside from that, we know that Bolton had a surprisingly good police force for so small a town. Boxing was outlawed in Bolton, but furtive bouts were common among the mill-workers, and occasionally between low-grade professionals. [HPL Herbert (online text)]
The manager of a circus at Bolton was questioned after a mysterious killing in Arkham that appeared savage enough to have been committed by a beast. (It was actually one of Herbert West's escaped reanimation speciments.) [HPL Herbert (online text)]
Later, West established a medical practice in Bolton. He moved into a cottage near the end of Pond Street, close to the potter's field, and procured several specimens there for his reanimation experiments, including the boxer Buck Robinson and a visitor, Robert Leavitt of St. Louis. [HPL Herbert (online text)]
The wealthy businessman Delapore had a home in Bolton before he moved to Exham Priory in England. [HPL Rats (online text) 32]
A timid windmill salesman from Bolton, driving in the country west of Arkham, was the first to see and report the luminosity around Nahum Gardner's farm. [HPL Colour (online text) 64]
Lovecraft's Bolton shares a name with the town called Bolton in Worcester County, central Massachusetts [Bolton, Massachusetts, Wikipedia]. There are various reasons for doubting that Lovecraft intended his Bolton to be the same as the Bolton in Worcestor County. Lovecraft's Bolton is a major manufacturing area, but according to Robert D. Marten, the Bolton in Worcester County was "a tiny rural hamlet [which] numbered but a few hundred agriculturally bent souls in the 1920s. Its closest approach to manufacture might be the comb works, which employed as many as thirty people prior to its closure during the Civil War." And "The actual Bolton is among the smallest and quietest of the state's many towns. It would surprise me not at all to learn the Lovecraft never noticed that Massachusetts already had a 'Bolton' when he concocted his own." Marten also explains that Bolton is a common New Englad place name, appearing in four of six New England states, in tribute to Robert Arkwright, who was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England; the inventor of a milling process that became much adopted in New England.[1] However, S. T. Joshi mentions that "HPL mentioned passing through Bolton in October 1934, so he may have known of it earlier."[2] For what it's worth, the Lovecraft stories that mention Bolton were written prior to 1934.
1. Robert D. Marten, "Arkham Country: In Rescue of the Lost Searchers," in Dissecting Cthulhu, edited by S. T. Joshi; Lakeland, Florida, Miskatonic River Press, 2011; pp. 174-176.
2. S. T. Joshi and David E.Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, New York: Hippocampus Press, 2001; pg. 23.
Incl: Delapore; Nigger-Man; Kid O'Brien; Buck Robinson; West, Herbert;
Bolton Worsted Mills; Pond Street; Potter's field;
In Bolton. The Bolton Worsted Mills were the largest in the Miskatonic Valley, and their polyglot employees were never popular as patients with the most of the local physicians. The mill-hands were of somewhat turbulent inclinations; and besides their many natural needs, their frequent clashes and stabbing affrays gave Dr. Herbert West and his partner plenty to do. The mill-workers were also fond of competing in surreptitious and ill-conducted boxing bouts. [HPL Herbert (online text) 144, 150]
HPL Test (online text) 19.
The tiny man said the Book tells of things that Alhazred never dreamed of in his wildest nightmares. The book is not even of this Earth, but originates before this universe from the minds of the creators of everything. The book is the size of a large ledger, and very thick, the covers edged all around with metal. The pages are covered with strange, angular symbols, long and narrow and strictly perpendicular. When you run your eyes over them, the characters move and suddenly you understand them. The book exudes an invisible aura of evil. The Preface, written by Tlaviir of the planet Vhoorl, states that the Book was written by his friend Kathulhn, years after Kathulhn had an experience of being transported out of space and time and communing with the Evil Ones (2). The book includes secrets of Kthulhu, Tsathoqquah, N’hyarlothatep, Hastur, the Mi-Go, Yok-Zothoth, Chaugnar Faugn, Beh’-Moth the Devourer, the Whisperer in Darkness, the Affair that shambleth in the stars, the hunters from Beyond, and the Hounds of Tindalos. A series of beings have served as the guardian of the Book, beginning with Tlaviir, and including the tiny man. It seems implied that each guardian can free himself of the book only by finding another person who is willing to read it, who then becomes the new guardian. The tiny man was eager to get Doctor Wycherly to read the book before the stroke of midnight, as if this was a deadline of some sort. Doctor Wycherly threw the Book into a fire, but it didn't burn. However, it had disappeared in the morning, along with the tiny man. [HH Guardian (288-289), long quote (290*)-297, 298-304]
A book in which devotees sign their names in blood, to establish allegiance to the Black Man (Nyarlathotep) and Azathoth. Sometimes described as the Black Book.
Walter Gilman dreamed that Keziah Mason was urging him to go to the throne of Azathoth at the center of Ultimate Chaos, where he must sign his name in blood and take a new secret name [HPL WitchHouse (online text) 272-273]. Later, Gilman dreamed that the Black Man pointed to the book, while Mason thrust a quill into Gilman's hand and Brown Jenkin bit him in the wrist to produce blood [281]. Sometime later, Gilman wondered if he had signed the black man's book after all [290].
Asaph Peabody dreamed that the black cat Balor led him to sign the Black Book. Later, Peabody's descendant dreamed that Asaph Peabody was instructing him to sign the Black Book, while the black cat Balor clawed his wrist to produce the blood to write with. [AWD Peabody (196), 197-198.]
According to Theosophical writer H. P. Blavatsky (HPB), the Book of Dzyan is an ancient manuscript whose teachings formed the inspiration for her book The Secret Doctrine. The online text of this work is available at www.sacred-texts.com. The page numbers cited below are from a facsimile of the original edition of 1888.
HPB describes it as "An Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process." [Vol.I: pg.1] The work is not in the possession of any European libraries, and is not known to our philologists [xxii].
According to HPB, the word Dzyan or Dzan is pronounced "Djan" and is related to the terms Dan, Janna, Dhyan, and ch'an, meaning "to reform one's self by meditation and knowledge." [xx]
HPB seems to imply that she drew the stanzas or slokas of Dzyan from an "old book," of which there is only one copy in existence. It was written in a sacred sacerdotal tongue called Senzar. The text was dictated by Divine Beings to the sons of Light, in Central Asia, at the very beginning of the human race. [xlii-xliii]
Volume 1 of HPB's book quotes and discusses seven stanzas of the Book of Dzyan that deal with Cosmic evolution. These outline how One Supreme Energy gives rise to the universe of worlds, and the descent of life down to the appearance of Man. They also speak of intelligent Beings called the Dhyan Chohans, who adjust and control evolution. [21-22, 27-34]
Volume II includes an additional 49 slokas of Dzyan [Vol. II: pp. 15-21] dealing with the origin of humanity. According to HPB, these reveal the "simultaneous evolution of seven human groups on seven different portions of our globe" [1]. Among these races, one evolved in Hyperborea (now Greenland), another in the now-sunken continent of Lemuria, and another in the similarly-destined Atlantis [7-12].
Alonzo Typer read about the Book of Dzyan in the manuscript book of Claes van der Heyl. According to this source, the first six chapters of the Book of Dzyan antedate the earth, and were old when the lords of Venus came through space in their ships to civilise our planet. Note that this would make the work much older than was postulated by HPB. [HPL Diary (online text) 313]
Robert Blake found a copy of the Book of Dzyan in the deserted church of the Starry Wisdom Sect [HPL Haunter (online text) 100].
The Gable Window narrator found a copy in the house of his late cousin, Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206].
Winfield Phillips borrowed a copy from Prof. Seneca Lapham. [AWD Lurker 134].
A primordial manual of sorcery, written by the Hyperborean wizard Eibon.
History
The Book of Eibon is said to have come down through a series of translations from an original written in the lost language of Hyperborea. The successive versions include a Greek translation, and a later medieval French translation from the Greek. [CAS Ubbo (online text) 49]
In medieval Averoigne, Azédarac the Bishop of Ximes owned a copy written in the original Hyperborean script. It had dragon's-blood illuminations and drawings, and was bound in aboriginal, sub-human skin. Azédarac arrived in Averoigne and acquired the book sometime prior to 475 AD. The runic writings in Azédarac's copy were beyond the lore of all other wizards. Azédarac was still alive in Averoigne centuries later, by which point he had the book rebound in sheep-leather to look like a Christian missal. In 1175 AD, the book was stolen from Azédarac by the Christian Brother Ambrose. Through Azédarac's evil spell, Ambrose and the book were transported back in time to 475 AD, where he gave the book to Moriamis, the enchantress. [CAS Holiness (online text) 120, 121, 132, 135, 136] At that point, there seem to have been two instances of Azédarac's copy on earth; one owned by the Azédarac of 475 AD, and the other sent back to the past by the Azédarac of 1175 AD, and kept by Moriamis.
Contents
The contents include:
- Dark and baleful myths, liturgies, rituals, and incantations. [CAS Ubbo (online text) 49]
- Dire and incredible tales of fabled elder gods [RFS Warder 159.]
- The oldest incantations, and the secret, man-forgotten lore of Iog-Sotot (Yog-Sothoth) and Sodagui (Tsathoggua). [CAS Holiness (online text) 120]
- Information about Ubbo-Sathla, whom it describes as the source and the final destiny of all earthly life. [CAS Ubbo (online text) 48]
- A brief, casual reference to a cloudy crystal that was owned by the Hyperborean wizard Zon Mezzamalech. The wizard used the crystal to see visions of earth's past, even to the very beginning. But presently the wizard vanished and the crystal was lost. [CAS Ubbo (online text) 50, 55]
- Some primal symbols that vaguely resemble the hieroglyphs in the scroll of T'yog from ancient Mu [HPL Aeons (online text) 268].
- A spell for turning people into stone statues. This was actually in a manuscript insert opposite page 679 of the van Kauran copy. [HPL Man (online text) 209].
- Veiled and diverse references to the myth of Nyarlathotep [RB Faceless 41].
Modern Copies and Readers
The wizard Nicholas van Kauran (d. 1587) owned a copy that passed down to his grandson, William Van Kauran. The copy later passed to Bareut Picterse Van Kauran, later to Hendrik Van Kauran, and later to Hendrick's nephew, Daniel Morris [HPL Man (online text) 207-209].
Paul Tregardis compared the French version with the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred and found many correspondences of the blackest and most appalling significance. Tregardis also found much forbidden data that was unknown to Alhazred or omitted by him. [CAS Ubbo (online text) 49]
Walter Gilman studied a copy at the Miskatonic University Library, as part of his comparison of modern mathematics and physics with concepts from occult folklore [HPL WitchHouse (online text) 263].
Edward Pickman Derby studied the copy at Miskatonic University Library, though he did not tell his parents [HPL Doorstep (online text) 279].
Henricus Vanning had a copy of the Book of Eibon with crumbling covers protected by glass [RB Sebek 123].
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee studied the book while he was possessed by a mind of the Great Race, and left marginal notes in a library copy of the book [HPL Time (online text) 374].
The horror author Edgar Gordon had dreams that coincided curiously with descriptions in books such as the Book of Eibon [RB Demon 64].
Rogers' Museum included figures of creatures described in the Book of Eibon [HPL Museum (online text) 216].
A mystic dreamer in New England spoke timidly to Robert Blake of The Book of Eibon [RB Shambler (online text) 179].
Strange was initiated by his father into the mysteries and arcana to be found among tomes such as the Book of Eibon [RB Tomb (online text) 13].
Tony Alwyn, a librarian at Miskatonic University, knew something of the weird knowledge hidden in the Book of Eibon [AWD Beyond2 164]. David, another librarian at Miskatonic, also knew something of the strange knowledge contained in the book [AWD Sandwin 105].
Prof. Upton Gardner asked Laird Dorgan to request a copy or photostat of the Book of Eibon from Miskatonic University [AWD Dweller 122].
The Gable Window narrator found a copy in the house of his late cousin, Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206].
Marius Phillips found a copy that had been hidden by his late uncle, Sylvan Phillips [AWD Seal (online text) 160].
Claiborne Boyd found passages from the Book of Eibon among the papers of his late great-uncle Asaph Gilman [AWD Gorge 109].
Haddon found fragments of the Book of Eibon among the books of Amos Tuttle [AWD Hastur 2]. Paul Tuttle donated the copy to the Miskatonic University library [AWD Hastur 25, 29].
Gordon Whitney read, with horrified fascination, the equivocal disclosures and incredible inferences in the Book of Eibon [RFS Warder 154].
A tiny man assured Doctor Wycherly that the Book of Eibon is too rare to be found in bookstores [HH Guardian 288].
The Abyss (online text) narrator had heard of the book [RAL Abyss (online text) 284].
Baldwyn and Rambeau searched for a copy for years, but without success [DWR Music (online text) 294].
Copies With French and Latinate Titles
The Book of Eibon is also known by a Latin title that is spelled variously as Liber Eibon, Liber Ivonie, Liber Ivonis, Liber Ivoris, Libor Ivonie, and Libor Ivonis, as well as by the French title of Livre d'Eibon.
Liber Eibon: Launcelot Canning had a copy in his mansion in Maryland [RB Poe (online text)].
Liber Ivonie: When John Conrad explored the house in the oaks near Old Dutchtown, N.Y., he found a copy of the Liber Ivonie [REH House (online text) 125].
Liber Ivonis:
Robert Blake found a copy of the Liber Ivonis in the abandoned church of the Starry Wisdom sect. Blake previously had access to a different copy, for he had already read the book. [HPL Haunter (online text) 100].
Dr. Ambrose Dexter had a copy of the Liber Ivonis [RB Steeple (online text) 224].
Ambrose Dewart found a copy of the Liber Ivonis in Billington House [AWD Lurker 16].
In the forger Alastair White's spurious catalog of esoteric books for sale, he offered a copy of the Liber Ivonis, supposedly published in Rome in 1662 [AWD Six 125].
Liber Ivoris: Amos Piper consulted a copy of the Liber Ivoris while possessed by a member of the Great Race [AWD Space 234].
Libor Ivonie: Laban Shrewsbury spoke to Andrew Phelan of various esoteric texts, including the Libor Ivonie [AWD Curwen 20].
Libor Ivonis: Winfield Phillips read from a copy or photostat of the Libor Ivonis in the possession of Dr. Seneca Lapham [AWD Lurker 134].
Livre d'Eibon: Alonzo Typer found a copy of a Norman-French Livre d'Eibon in the attic of the van der Heyl house [HPL Diary (online text) 313] Typer later discovered a chant in a repellant language that he had never encountered, even in the blackest chapters of the Livre d'Eibon [317].
Claes van der Heyl left a latin message saying "That which I have awaked and borne away with me, I may not part with again. So is it written in the Book of Hidden Things." [HPL Diary (online text) 319]
The Huntington Library has a copy of the expurgated, but nevertheless forbidden Johann Negus translation of The Book of Iod. Denton viewed the book there, and copied a passage about the Dark Silent One, Zushakon. Denton, Ross, and Arthur Todd concluded that the passage is connected with the legends of the San Xavier bells. [HK Bells (online text) 86-87, 89, 92-93]
Compare with: Iod the Shining Hunter.
Will Benson had a great, iron-bound copy of the Book of Karnak in Latin, with yellowed pages. It included a spell to summon Iod, the Hunter. [HK Hunt (online text) 166-168]
In his library safe, Kenneth Scott had a great scrapbook filled with extracts from works such as the Book of Karnak [HK Hydra (online text) 127].
Possibly a nickname for Burke's Peerage [Wikipedia, 11/2/2020].
REH Children (online text) 150: Ketrick's lineage is set down in the "Book of Peers."
"The first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many other phenomena, the book is considered to be the first of the specific topic of anomalistics." [The Book of the Damned, Wikipedia, 12/8/2020]
Dr. Seneca Lapham recommended the book to Winfield Phillips. [AWD Lurker 136]
An ancient Eyptian work containing prayers to be recited by the soul of the recently deceased when confronting various perils of the underworld. [Book of the Dead, Wikipedia, 12/8/2020]
There were dark and terrible reasons for omitting the name of Nyarlathotep from the Book of the Dead [RB Faceless 40]. After the death of the Pharaoh Nephren-Ka, the Book of the Dead was amended to remove all references to him and his cult of Nyarlathotep [RB Fane 134].
A legendary work of Egyptian magic. In an old Egyptian story about The Book of Thoth, it is said to give power over heaven and earth, the abyss, the mountains, and the sea; to reveal the secrets of the sun, the moon, and the stars; and to enable one to see the gods themselves. The book was stolen from Thoth, the god of wisdom, by the prince Nefrekeptah, son of Amenhotep. Thoth's curse lead to the death of Nefrekeptah and his wife and child. The book was placed on the dead breast of Nefrekeptah in his tomb at Memphis.
Later, the prince Setna, son of Ramses the Great, stole the book from Nefrekeptah's tomb. Then Setna dreamed of Tabubua, a seductive priestess of Bast, who persuaded him to cast out his wife and sanction the murder of this children. On their wedding night, Tabubua turned into a hideous, withered corpse. Awakening from this nightmare, Setna was convinced that it was a warning of his own future fate. To prevent this doom, Setna returned the Book of Thoth to the tomb, and arranged for the bodies of Nefrekeptah's wife and child to be moved from Koptos to Nefrekeptah's side in Memphis. (See articles at www.egyptianmyths.net and touregypt.net.)
According to Abdul Alhazred in the Necronomicon, the Book of Thoth warns of the terrific price of seeking glimpses beyond the Veil and accepting 'Umr at-Tawil as a guide. However, when Randolph Carter encountered 'Umr at-Tawil, Carter sensed no malignity, and wondered if the extracts from the Book of Thoth might have been inspired by envy. [HPL Gates (online text) 430, 432]
See: "Appendix: Books."
South Pacific island, near Tahiti. Albert Keith speculated that he might find remnants of olden beliefs on Bora-Bora. [RB Strange]
HPL Mountains (online text) 76.
Borellus is quoted as stating that dead ancestors can be revived from their ashes [HPL Case (online text) 107, 122]. Joseph Curwen had a badly worn copy of Borellus, in which he had written many cryptical notes [121]. Curwen had heavily underlined the passage about raising the dead from their "essential Saltes" [122]. In a letter to Curwen, Jebediah Orne confessed "I have not ye Chymicall art to followe Borellus" [138]. In a letter to Simon/Jebediah Orne, Curwen said "I am foll'g oute what Borellus saith" [152]. Edward Hutchinson wrote to the revived Joseph Curwen that "You excel me in gett'g ye formulae so another may say them with success, but Borellus fancy'd it wou'd be so if just ye right Wordes were hadd" [197]. Dr. Willet and Theodore Ward concluded there was truth in Borellus' claim that the dead could be raised from their Essential Saltes [199]. Dr. Willet found a tattered old copy of Borellus in black-letter in the laboratory of Joseph Curwen [211].
John Dorfman has discovered that the quote ascribed to Borellus actually occurs in Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, Book II, Chapter XII, "The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt." Mather is evidently summarizing one of Borellus' teachings in his own words. Dorfman quotes Kenneth B. Murdock as stating that Borellus was a French physician and scholar named Pierre Borel (1620-98). See John Dorfman, "Essential Saltes," in Crypt of Cthulhu 66, Volume 8, Number 7, Lammas 1989.
See also: Sources of Necromancy in Charles Dexter Ward.
Of Italy. HK Invaders (online text) 70.
AWD Island 183.
Massachusetts. HPL Aeons (online text) In 1931-1932, the people of Boston were excited by the affair of the Cabot Museum mummy 264, 266, 269, 270, 284; Call (online text) 125-126; Case (online text) 110, 133, 152, Boston Stone 152, 159, 163, 170, 192; Colour (online text) 56-57; Gates (online text) 422-424, 438, 452; Herbert (online text) 153-154, 158, 160; Innsmouth (online text) 335, 362-363; Kadath (online text) 335-336, 355, 400, 406; Pickman (online text) 13, 15, 18, 20, 24; Silver (online text) 417, 419; Time (online text) 375; Unnameable (online text) 201.
RB Satan 5, 7, Boston Town 9; Tomb (online text) 13.
Richard Upton was born in Boston. He disclosed something to H. P. Lovecraft in Boston, probably information and paintings about ghouls. Many years later, Felipe Santiago bought some of Richard Upton's belongings from an old warehouse in Boston. Simon Waverly flew to Boston to try to find more of Richard Upton's effects. [RB Strange]
AWD Attic 321; Island 189; Curwen 3-4, 30, 40, 44, 46; Gable (online text) 202; Gorge 98; Lurker 7, 13, 17, 41, 45, 58, 79, 87, 89-91, 114, 130, 143; Peabody 179-181, 183, 187, 189; Hastur 6, 23; Sandwin 89; Seal (online text) 150, 153, 172; Sky 52-53, 58, 67, 71-72, 87; Space 229; Shuttered 261, 272; Valley (online text) 116; Watchers 382, 385, 386, 392, 393; Wentworth (168-170), 171, 172; Whippoorwills 34, 58, 67, 69; Wood 81.
HK Salem (online text) 254.
FL Terror2 269.
Points of interest: Art Club; Auburn, Mt.; Back Bay; Battery St.; Beacon St.; Boston Dial; Boyleston Street Subway; Charlestown; Charter St.; Constitution Wharf; Copley Square; Copp's Hill; Copp's Hill Burying Ground; Greenough Lane; Hanover St.; Henchman St.; Joy St.; Museum of Fine Arts; Newbury St.; North End; North End Warehouse and Storage Company; Park Street; Prince Street; Randle Place; South Station; Thoreau Drive; Tremont St.; West End; White Star pier;
Inhabitants: Bates, Stephen; Bosworth; Cieciorka, Jon; Corey, Nathaniel; Eliot; Godfrey, Gideon; Haddon; Hadley, Fred; Minot, Joe; Oliphant; Peabody Heritage narrator; Peters; Phelan, Andrew; Pickman, Richard Upton; Pinckney(?); Reid, Dr.; Thurber; Upton, Richard;
City of publication for Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New English Canaan;
AWD Wood 72, 75, 81-82, 86.
Aka: Dial.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 165.
HPL Mountains (online text) 6.
AWD Curwen 47.
HPL Aeons (online text) sensationalistic newspaper that sent Stuart Reynolds to cover the Cabot Museum story 269-270.
AWD Hastur refers to Transcript w.out specifying city, but narrator lives in Boston 22.
(Not Johnson's Bosworth.) HPL Pickman (online text) 13.
Of Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. Mountains (online text) 20.
Alternate spelling of Henry Boguet.
Family, Aylesbury area. AWD Valley (online text) 118-119, 138.
AWD Valley (online text) 125.
Of Providence. AWD Middle 359.
Aka: Brown, Asenath.
Of Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 103.
RB Steeple (online text) 213-214.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 118, 135, 137, 140-142, 146, 152.
Of New Dunwich. AWD Lurker 49.
Great-nephew of Asaph Gilman. AWD Island (177), 178, 206; Gorge (narrator) 97, 113-114, 119, 129, 134; Keeper 160.
A science author. HPL Case (online text) 121.
Of Springfield; cousin of Stephen Boyle. AWD Watchers 382, 383, 384.
Time (online text) 404-407, 409, 411.
Boyle, Monahan, Prescott, & Bigelow
Of Beacon Street, Boston; law firm. AWD Watchers 382, 383, 383, 385.
Incl: Boyle, Stephen.
Of the law firm of Boyle, Monahan, Prescott, & Bigelow; Of Boston; cousin of Ambrose Boyle. AWD Watchers 382, 383, 385, 388, 389, 394, 395, 403.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 20.
Massachusetts. Ten miles from Arkham there is a trail that follows the cliff-edge over Boynton Beach, and leads to a crest that overlooks Innsmouth. [HPL Fungi (online text) VIII]
A Maltese cat. REH Hoofed 145, (147), 148.
A bulldog. REH Hoofed 148-151, 157-160, 164, (165), 168-169.
Governor of Massachusetts intermittently between May 1621 and May 1657. ["William Bradford (governor)," Wikipedia, accessed March 12, 2023]
HPL Sorceries (online text).
AWD Lurker 14-16.
Synonym for: Mak Morn, Bran.
REH Dark (online text): Brogar explained that the Dark Man was the only God the Picts had left. It is the image of our greatest king, Bran Mak Morn, he who gathered the broken lines of the Pictish tribes into a single mighty nation, he who drove forth the Norseman and Briton and shattered the legions of Rome, centuries ago. A wizard made this statue while the great Morni yet lived and reigned, and when he died in the last great battle, his spirit entered into it. It is our god. “Ages ago we ruled. Before the Dane, before the Gael, before the Briton, before the Roman, we reigned in the western isles. Our stone circles rose to the sun. We worked in flint and hides and were happy. Then came the Celts and drove us into the wilderness. They held the southland. But we throve in the north and were strong. Rome broke the Britons and came against us. But there rose among us Bran Mak Morn, of the blood of Brule the Spear-slayer, the friend of King Kull of Valusia who reigned thousands of years ago before Atlantis sank. Bran became king of all Caledon. He broke the iron ranks of Rome and sent the legions cowering south behind their Wall. “Bran Mak Morn fell in battle; the nation fell apart. Civil wars rocked it. The Gaels came and reared the kingdom of Dalriadia above the ruins of the Cruithni. When the Scot Kenneth McAlpine broke the kingdom of Galloway, the last remnant of the Pictish empire faded like snow on the mountains. Like wolves we live now among the scattered islands, among the crags of the highlands and the dim hills of Galloway. We are a fading people. We pass. But the Dark Man remains—the Dark One, the great king, Bran Mak Morn, whose ghost dwells forever in the stone likeness of his living self.”
REH Children (online text): A cult that secretly worships the ancient Pictish king, Bran Mak Morn. Once in their lifetime, each cult member visits a cavern to see a the Dark Man, a statue of Bran. Von Junzt claimed that the cult survives to modern times. Prof. Kirowan was skeptical, but Clemants mentioned a college roommate who talked of the Bran cult in his sleep. The student mentioned the king who rules the Dark Empire, which was a revival of an older, darker empire dating back into the Stone Age. The Dark Empire might be another name for the Bran cult. Possibly there is a living cult leader who is regarded as the current king.
Of Hankow. REH Bear 35, 37.
Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 219, 224-225, 229, 231, 234-237, 241, 243, 245-246, 264, 269.
AWD Attic 309; Gorge 108; Witches 300.
Incl. Duncan, Adam?; Williams, Mr..
HPL Whisperer (online text) 215-216.
HPL Call (online text) 139.
Arkham psychiatrist. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
Reincarnation of Vertorix. REH People (online text) 145-146, 165-166, (167), 168.
Near Partridgeville. FBL Eaters (online text) 92.
HPL Call (online text) 146, 152.
REH Roof (online text) 4, 6.
Aka: Bridewell.
Translator of Nameless Cults. HPL Aeons (online text) 1845 Bridewell translation was suppressed 269.
REH Black (online text) 56.
Synonym for: Bridewall.
RB Mannikin 73-74, 81, 84.
Sky 54, 57, (71).
Near Zoar. HPL Fungi (online text) XII.
Incl: Watkins, Goody.
Of Texas. REH Lost 64.
Character in REH Untitled 36-38.
Of Texas. REH Lost 65-66.
HPL Rats (online text) 40-41, 43.
Manitoba area. AWD Ithaqua 107-109, 111, (112), 113-115.
England. CJ Acquarium 301, 305, 307.
HPL Mist (online text) 284.
HPL Case (online text) 220; Descendant (online text) 361.
AWD Gorge 109.
REH People (online text) 147.
RB Fane 134.
Incl: Arnsley; Leveredge, Lord; Phillips, Jason; Richards, Father;
British Museum; Bristol; Britons; Celts; Cornwall; Dagon's Cave; Devon; Dickens, Charles; Druids; England; Gaels; God of Blood; God of Life; Ireland; Little People; London; Oxford; Picts; Romans; Saxons; Somerset; Southhampton; Suffolk; Sussex; Toad's Heath Manor; Wallington;
London. HPL Case (online text) 164; Dunwich (online text) 169; Includes a 15th century Latin copy of the Necronomicon (History (online text) 53).
AWD Keeper 137, 149; Lurker 81, 125; Space 234; Spawn 18.
RAL Settlers (online text) Jim Garlan consulted a book (Necronomicon) there that people aren't supposed to see 26.
REH People (online text) 147, 149-154, 157, 162.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 320, 325. AWD Sky 62.
HPL Case (online text) 141, 165, 185, 201.
Chief of the Picts. REH Dark (online text) 86-88; Gods (online text) 187.
London. CJ Acquarium 309.
AWD Survivor (online text) 163.
In Boston? A place. HPL Case (online text) 159.
New York. HPL Winged (online text) 243, 253, 255.
FBL Hounds (online text) 85.
RAL Settlers (online text) Clyde Cantrell was there during 1938 hurricane 36.
Incl. Brooklyn Standard; Moore, Henry.
FBL Hills (online text).
New York City, or nearby. FBL Eaters (online text) 110, 113.
REH Children (online text) 150: Prof. Hendrik Brooler once remarked that Ketrick was undoubtedly an atavism, a freak reversion of type to some dim and distant ancestor of Mongolian blood.
Of Providence. Synonym for Bowen, Asenath. AWD Middle 359.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 122, warehouses 139.
Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers 392, 393.
HPL WitchHouse (online text) 266, 268-269, 271, 273-275, 284, 286, 288, 290-293, 296.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 135, 139-140.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 128, 135.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 177, 189.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 135, 141-142, 146.
HPL Case (online text) 135.
Providence. HPL Call (online text) 126; Case (online text) 112, 139; Haunter (online text) 93.
AWD Brotherhood 330.
FL Terror2 288.
FBL Gateway 5.
JVS Snouted 27.
Spy for the winged crustaceans. HPL Whisperer (online text) 218, 231-232, 236, 239, 264.
HC Isle (online text) 147-148, 161-163.
Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 116, 119.
From King Kull series. REH Shadow (online text); Dark (online text) 87.
REH Gods (online text) 195~233. Daughter of Rane Thorfin’s son, of the Orkneys, who was stolen when Tostig the Mad raided the Orkneys and burned Rane’s steading in the absence of its master. When Tostig's ship sank on the reef at the Isle of the Gods, she was was cast ashore. She was fifteen then, with skin of snowy white, hair of purest gold and gray eyes. Because she was the first white human they had ever seen, their priests divined that she was a goddess given them by the sea. So they gave her the name A-ala, Daughter of the Sea, put her in a temple with the rest of their curious gods and did reverence to her. She was expected to sit meekly in the Temple of the Sea and accept the offerings of fruit and flowers and human sacrifices. The high-priest, old Gothan, taught her many strange and fearful things. Soon she learned their language and much of the priests’ inner mysteries, much having to do with the worship of the dark god Gol-Goroth. And as she grew into womanhood the desire for power stirred in her. She plotted with a young chief, Kotar, who loved her, and overthrew the dynasty of Angar. Then she reigned supreme on the Isle of the Gods, queen and goddess, with Kotar as second in command. A virgin died on her altar at the full tide of each moon. She tried to have the statue of Gol-Goroth destroyed, but when the attempts failed, she settled for sealing off the Temple of Shadows. Later, when she found that Kotar secretly made love to another girl, she killed them both. Gothan rose against her and the warriors rebelled, slaying those who stood faithful to her. Brunhild they took captive but dared not kill, so Gothan had her stripped and left as a sacrifice to Groth-golka, the bird god. This was ten years after her arrival on the island. Brunhild was rescued by Turlogh Dubh O'Brien and Athelstane the Saxon, and briefly returned to power. Almost immediately, Gothan sent a monster to assassinate her, but she was saved by Athelstane. After Gothan was himself slain by his own monster, Brunhild thought that she had finally triumphed over Gol-Goroth as well, and ran toward its statue, screaming exultant insults like a mad-woman. But the statue's face briefly changed to that of the slain Gothan, and as if possessed by the priest's soul, the figure suddenly toppled forward and crushed her.
Aka: A-ala.
RB Shambler (online text) 180-181.
Egyptian city and goddess. RB Brood 94-95, 97; Faceless 40; Fane 133-134; Opener 158; Sebek 115, 124-125.
Aka: Bast; Pasht; Chewer of Corpses.
Hungary. HPL Case (online text) 223.
REH Ring (online text) 61.
Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 72.
Blackfellow myth. HPL Time (online text) 404.
See Will Murray's article "Buddai" in Crypt #75.
REH Bear 36-37.
AWD Island 181.
HK Hunt (online text) Rajgir, the cradle of Buddhism 169.
Incl: Visudhi-Magga.
Synonym for: Wallis-Budge.
San Pedro. RB Kiss (online text) 43.
Incl: Yamada, Dr. Makoto.
AWD Gorge 97; Keeper 149; Lurker 81.
Incl: University of Buenos Aires.
New York. HPL Diary (online text) 304.
HPL Aeons (online text) designed the original mansion that became the Cabot Museum of Archaeology 266.
Synonym for: Providence Bulletin.
REH Fire (online text) winged 38.
Animals of dreamland. HPL Kadath (online text) 349.
HPL Aeons (online text) Burmese intruder died of fright while attempting to revive T'yog mummy 283.
AWD Beyond2 176; Lair 117, 120-122, 135; Wind (online text) Allison Wentworth raved of the Tcho-Tcho people of Burma.
Incl: Alaozar; Bangka village; Fo-Lan, Dr.; Hawks Expedition; Ho-Nan province; Stars, Isle of the; Dread, Lake of; Marsh, Eric; Shan-si province; Tcho-Tcho people.
Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, G. B. (194).
Story by Robert Blake. HPL Haunter (online text) 94.
AWD Wood 81.
Los Angeles. Location of Maxwell's restaurant. [RB Strange]
Arkham. [HPL Unnameable (online text)]
For the location, see Lovecraft's Map of Arkham.
HK Salem (online text) 258.
Synonym for: Charter Street Burying Ground, Salem.
A place in Russia. AWD Lurker 136.
Egyptian god. The Probilski Foundation had a statue of the man-serpent Buto. [RB Strange]
A demon? HPL Dunwich (online text) 158.
AWD Watchers 401.
RB Grinning Secret Parable of -- 54.
Curwen (17, 19), description (33), (39), serve Hastur (44), travel in both time and space (46); Dweller bat-like followers (133); Gorge transport body to place of suspended animation (127), (131, 134); Keeper 144, secret of 160, 170-171; Sky (69), 87, 92.
Serpent-bearded god. RB Shambler (online text) ref'd in De Vermis Mysteriis 183.
HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 10, 28.
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