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Of Innsmouth. AWD Island 194.
Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.
London and Dunstable, England. AWD Lurker 138.
Oasis in Egypt. RB Faceless 44.
Family, Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 323, 332; Doorstep (online text) 280.
AWD Island 211; Clay 375-376, 378; Sky 62, 64-65, 81, 83; Survivor (online text) 161.
Of Innsmouth. Mother of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 192.
See: Amos.
Of Innsmouth. Grandfather of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 189, (190-191), 192, (193), 194-195.
Maiden name of Asenath Derby. HPL Doorstep (online text) 280.
HPL Case (online text) 109, 193, 196.
HPL Doorstep (online text) 282, 284, 286, secret name 287, incarnated as Asenath 288 & 294, poisoned 289.
Of Innsmouth. AWD Island 194, 201, 212.
Synonym for: Blayne, Horvath.
Of Innsmouth. Father of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 192.
Sacrificed. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 335.
Near Providence. HPL Case (online text) (107), 109, 178, 192-193, 231.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 327.
A sachem of the Pasquantog indians. RB Satan 6.
Sloop owned by Curwen. HPL Case (online text) 162.
South Seas chief. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 330, 332, 335.
Massachusetts. AWD Watchers 384, 385.
Mikatonic University college doctor. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 272.
HPL Diary (online text) 306; Whisperer (online text) 214.
RB Demon 64.
REH Children (online text): John Conrad had a flint mallet head from the Welsh hills that apparently was created by the Children of the Night.
Incl: Llunwy of Wales.
Of Innsmouth. Boyfriend of Jennifer Skipworth, who went with her and a group led by Rev. Ralph Beckford to pray in Deeprock Gorge. [HC Coming]
HPL Case (online text) 133.
Of Texas. REH Lost 69.
Of Asbury M.E. Church, Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 321.
England. AWD Those 114, 117.
Includes: Richards, Father
Author on Egypt. RB Sebek 124.
In the tomb of Nephren-Ka. RB Fane 138, 141, 143, 145-146.
HPL Diary (online text) sabbat 306, Walpurgis-Eve 320; Haunter (online text) 96; WitchHouse (online text) 271, 288, 290-291, 293.
Walpurgis Eve [RB Hell (online text) 44].
FL Terror2 309.
Aka: May-Eve?
AWD Peabody 188.
Of Surrey. Father of Nicholas Walters; stepbrother? of Aberath Whateley. AWD Watchers 382, 401, 405.
Of Surrey. AWD Watchers 382-385, (386), Oxford educated 387, 388-389, (390-391), 392-394, (395), 396-398, 400-405.
Town enroute Boston to Concord. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.
London. CJ Acquarium 309.
London. Home of George Rogers. HPL Museum (online text) 227.
[HPL Sorceries (online text)]
AWD Lurker 15, 34-35, 74, 146.
Of the dreamland. Web-footed ghoulish beings that are spawned in dead cities, and frequent the graveyards of dreamland. [HPL Kadath (online text) 338]
In the dreamlands, a group of dark skinned, strange people who traveled in through Ulthar a caravan of wagons. Their wagons were painted with creatures who appeared human, but with the heads of cats, hawks, rams, and lions. The leader of the caravan wore a headdress with a disk between two horns. When their child Menes prayed to their gods for vengeance over the loss of a kitten, figures of hybrid creatures crowned with horn-flanked discs appeared in the clouds. After the cat-murdering cotter and his wife were slain by the town's cats, singular beetles were found crawling near their skeletons. [HPL Cats (online text)]
The wanderers' dark skin and nomadic lifetyle are reminiscent of the Romani people (formerly known as gypsies) in the waking world. Their animal-headed deities, though not named, seem reminiscent of the Egyptian gods. The crowns with disks flanked by horns are reminiscent of Egyptian deities such as Hathor and Isis. The beetles might also be scarabs, which were sacred to the Egyptians. (Note the the Romani people were long thought to have originated in Egypt, though they are now known to have originated in India.)
Incl: Menes.
Incl. Kirowan, John; O'Donnel, John. REH Ring (online text) 56.
A moutain in New Hampshire, enroute Greenfield to Brattleboro. HPL Whisperer (online text) 245.
Of Newport. HPL Case (online text) 135.
AWD Keeper 140.
Australia. HPL Time (online text) 405.
HPL Case (online text) 107-234, 124, 127, 130, 138-139, 145, 147-148, 150-160, 162-192, 194-204, 208-211, 213-217, 220-226, 228-229, 231-232, (233), 234.
Mother of Charles Dexter Ward. HPL Case (online text) 155, 157-159, 163-164, 167-168, 170-173, 175, 178, 185, 189, (193), 216, (230).
Father of Charles Dexter Ward. HPL Case (online text) 109, 120, 126, 155-156, 158, 163-164, 167, 171-175, 178, 182, 184-186, (187, 189), 190-192, 194-201, 210, physical description 218, 219-224, 226-227, 229-230.
HPL Case (online text) 128.
RFS Warder 155, 157-158, (165).
A place, New England, possibly Rhode Island. HPL Case (online text) 135.
Of Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
Friend of Randolph Carter. HPL Gates (online text) 422, 426, 434; Silver (online text) (412-414); Statement (online text) 299.
FL Terror2 282, 298, 307.
A book possessed by Harley Warren, which inspired his fatal expedition beneath a cemetery near Big Cypress Swamp. The book came to Warren from India a month before the expedition. The fiend-inspired volume was written in characters that Randolph Carter did not recognize; and it appears that Carter would have recognized Arabic characters. Thus, we can infer that the book was not in Arabic or more familiar European languages, and so was not the Necronomicon. Warren carried the book in his pocket when he ventured underground, never to be seen again. [Statement (online text)]
Near Aunt Lucey and Uncle Fred's farm. RB Notebook (online text) 238.
AWD Spawn 18-29, (30), 31-34.
England. AWD Spawn 26, 32.
D.C.
HPL Case (online text) 180.
[RB Strange]
AWD Island 191.
RB Poe (online text) Launcelot Canning first met the narrator at a bibliophilic meeting in Washington.
Incl: Pinckard Salon Furniture; Project Arkham;
Providence. AWD Brotherhood 328.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 320, 323, 325-326, bridge 326, 347, 349-352, 354, 356; Doorstep (online text) 280.
AWD Clay 376, 379; Sky 62, Marsh home 78, 88-89.
By T.S. Eliot. HPL Case (online text) 209.
By Nayland Colum. An outré novel which achieved a mild success. The novel drew upon ancient legends as much as possible, and attacted the interest of both Cthulhu cultists and Laban Shrewbury. [AWD Keeper 137, 139-140]
AWD Sky 68.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
AWD Hastur 11, incl. Cthulhu 12, 21.
Incl: Cthulhu.
Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 99, 101.
London. HPL Museum (online text) 227, 237.
London. AWD Keeper 147.
Providence. HPL Call (online text) 130; Case (online text) 165.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 324, Water Street bridge 324, 328, 340.
HPL Mist (online text) 278; Terrible (online text) 272-273.
Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 20.
HPL Fungi (online text) XII.
A city; Wisconsin? AWD Beyond2 169; Dweller 128, 131.
Of Los Angeles, resided on a side street off Melrose Avenue. A friend of Albert Keith. Waverly was tall, with a beard and tinted glasses. He was familiar with H. P. Lovecraft's writing and suspected that it was based in fact. Waverly helped discover the dead body of Felipe Santiago, then later disappeared in Boston while searching for the effects of Richard Upton. Later, an imposter conversed with Keith while wearing the face and hands of Waverly. [RB Strange]
Indonesia. AWD Island 186.
Alias of Thomas Slauenwite. HPL Winged (online text) 251, 252, 253.
Of Lynwold. AWD OutThere A retired farmer who lived near the priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea. Witnessed the killing of his employee Herbert Green by Something from Out There.
HPL Aeons (online text) Captain of freighter Eridanus, discovered risen island remnant of ancient Mu 265; notion that the mummy crypt once lay under a vast building 277.
HPL Call (online text) 128, 135, 142.
Of King's Lane, Cambridge. AWD Wood 72-76, (77), 78-87.
Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 10, 70.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126-137, 139-140, 142, 147, 176, descendants 177, 200, 213, Weeden lot 228.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 177.
Scientist. HPL Mountains (online text) 66, 69.
Coroner who examined Clark Ulman. FBL Hills (online text) 261.
New Orleans. RB Sebek 120, 123-124, 126-127; Mummy 284-298.
"Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom would go on to be popular writers, but within a year the magazine was in financial trouble. Henneberger sold his interest in the publisher, Rural Publishing Corporation, to Lansinger and refinanced Weird Tales, with Farnsworth Wright as the new editor. The first issue under Wright's control was dated November 1924. The magazine was more successful under Wright, and despite occasional financial setbacks it prospered over the next fifteen years. Under Wright's control the magazine lived up to its subtitle, "The Unique Magazine", and published a wide range of unusual fiction. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos stories first appeared in Weird Tales, starting with "The Call of Cthulhu" in 1928. These were well-received, and a group of writers associated with Lovecraft wrote other stories set in the same milieu. Robert E. Howard was a regular contributor, and published several of his Conan the Barbarian stories in the magazine, and Seabury Quinn's series of stories about Jules de Grandin, a detective who specialized in cases involving the supernatural, was very popular with the readers. Other well-liked authors included Nictzin Dyalhis, E. Hoffmann Price, Robert Bloch, and H. Warner Munn. . . . The magazine is regarded by historians of fantasy and science fiction as a legend in the field, with Robert Weinberg, author of a history of the magazine, considering it 'the most important and influential of all fantasy magazines'." [Weird Tales, Wikipedia]
The lodge at Rick's Lake where Upton Gardner had been staying had three copies of Weird Tales containing stories by H. P. Lovecraft, which evidently had formed part of Gardner's researches. [AWD Dweller 148]
In a copy of the R'lyeh Text, alongside a passage invoking Cthulhu, Amos Tuttle left a marginal note referring to the Weird Tales issue of February 1928, where Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" first appeared. [AWD Hastur (13), 14]
Albert Wilmarth told Georg Reuter Fischer of the Lovecraft stories that had been published in Weird Tales, which Wilmarth considered a lurid journal with objectionable cover art. [FL Terror2 294]
Possibly of Arkham. JVS Dead 29, 32-33, 36.
New Zealand. HPL Aeons (online text) Eridanus enroute from Wellington when risen island-fragment of ancient Mu is sighted 265.
A reporter, with the Tribune. FBL Hills (online text) 265.
The people of Roodsford planned to take children from the village of Wells for sacrifice [RB Satan 17].
A trustee of Cabot Museum, Boston; present at final dissection of T'yog mummy. HPL Aeons (online text) 287.
Of Partridgeville. FBL Eaters (online text) 92, (93), 94, (95-96), 98, (99), 100-104, 109-113.
AWD Curwen 32.
HC Death (online text) 363, 371.
AHB Wendigo (online text): A sort of great animal that lives up northwards, quick as lightning in its tracks, bigger than anything else in the Bush, and not very good to look at. It has a extraordinary odor, pungent and acrid like the odor of lions. Several Indians saw the Wendigo along the shores of Fifty Island Water. When an Indian goes crazy, it’s always said that he’s seen the Wendigo. It has large, round footprints that become further and further apart (up to 18 feet apart) and develop glowing red edges when it runs quickly, and then disappear altogether when it runs across the treetops or perhaps ascends into the sky. The Wendigo is said to burn its feet—owing to the friction caused by its tremendous velocity—till they drop off, and new ones form exactly like its own. Its diet is moss. It summons its victim by calling his name in a windy, crying voice. He then feels compelled to run through the forest beside the Wendigo, going faster and faster until his eyes bleed and his feet burn, until finally taking to the air. Later the Wendigo drops its victim from a great height. The victim Joseph Défago survived the fall, but seemed greatly changed, as if inwardly he had become something black and diabolical, and his feet were huge and distorted. After being taken by the Wendigo a second time, and found again later, he had become meek, broken, and shrunken, with bloodstains under his eyes and feet that were normal, but terribly frozen. He had a compulsion to eat moss. He died within a few weeks.
AWD Beyond2 159, 160, 164, 169: In north country Indian legends, a monstrous, supernatural being, horrible to look upon, the haunter of the great forest silences. Josiah Alwyn and Tony Alwyn thought the Wendigo had some connection with the air elementals. Josiah said that Ithaqua was worshipped as the Wendigo by certain Indians in upper Manitoba.
Curwen 30: Laban Shrewsbury saw parallels between Ithaqua and the Wendigo.
Dweller 122: The forest surrounding the abandoned lodge at Rick’s Lake, Wisconsin, was associated with the Wendigo.
Keeper 141: Laban Shrewsbury said that Ithaqua was akin to the Wendigo.
Lurker 116: Winfield Phillips, on seeing an Antarctic bas-relief of Cthulhu, speculated that it was intended to be an image of the Wendigo; however, Seneca Lapham dismissed the comparison.
Seal (online text) 161: Marius Phillips read in old books that the Wendigo was a cousin of Ithaqua.
Witches 301: Mr. Williams read in an archaic English translation of the Necronomicon that Wendigo and Ithaqua were involved in a plan to dominate earth.
Of Nelson, Manitoba. AWD Beyond2 residents of Nelson (172); Wind (online text) helped in Irene Masitte's attempted escape from being sacrificed to Ithaqua at Stillwater. Was swept into the sky and kept for a year by Ithaqua before being placed on the ground near Robert Norris. Raved about Ithaqua in his delerium and died shortly thereafter, possibly because of exposure to warmth after long acclimation to cold.
Of Dunwich area; daughter of Nahum Wentworth. AWD Wentworth 174-176.
Of Dunwich area; father of Genie Wentworth. AWD Wentworth 171-173, 176.
An archaeologist who spent the night at a temple of Ishtar and killed a snake-woman manifestation of that goddess [FBL WereSnake (online text)].
RB Kiss (online text) 48; Mummy 284; Sebek 125.
Imaginary region in Thomas Hardy's novels. AWD Attic 311.
Home of Athelstane the Saxon. REH Gods (online text) 195, 218-219.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 128, 135.
HPL Herbert (online text) 133-163.
Boston. HPL Aeons (online text) Swami Chandraputra gave a squalid West End address 270; Gates (online text) 452-453.
HK Bells (online text) 86-87.
Synonym for: Pacific Ocean.
Incl: Hoffman.
HPL Call (online text) West Indians 139; Case (online text) 123, 152, 162; Medusa (online text) 171.
RB Terror 219, 223.
AWD Lurker 117.
See also: Caribbean.
Of Arkham. AWD Lurker 23, 67.
Windham County, Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209, en route Brattleboro to Townshend 246, 264.
FL Terror2 295.
In or near Providence. HPL Case (online text) 136, 140.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165.
HPL Call (online text) 136.
Arkham area? House near Aylesbury Pike. AWD Gable (online text) 199, (200), 201.
Of Dunwich. Son of Cyrus Whateley. AWD Watchers, stepbrother to Charles Walters? 383, 384, 387, 392, 393, 398.
Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers, married to Elizabeth Bishop 403.
Of Cairo, Dunwich, London, and the Sorbonne. Grandson of Luther Whateley; son of Jeremiah Whateley and Libby Whateley; nephew of Julia Whateley. AWD Shuttered 257-258, 260, 265-276, 278-288.
Whateley, Alizah
Possible full name of Cousin Alizah, who was a cousin of the Whateleys.
Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 37-38, 45, 47, 53, 58, 60-63, 68.
Whateley, Ariah
Possible full name of Cousin Ariah, who was a cousin of the Whateleys.
Of Dunwich area. AWD Wentworth 176.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 160, 193, 196.
Of Dunwich area; father of Aberath Whateley and Charles Walters. AWD Watchers 383, 387, 388, 400, 401, 404.
Of Dunwich, Innsmouth, and Arkham area. HPL Dunwich (online text) 157.
AWD Lurker 98-99, 140; Watchers 384, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403; Witches 294.
Incl: Alizah, Cousin?; Ariah, Cousin?.
Of Dunwich; son-in-law of Luther Whateley; husband of Libby Whateley; father of Abner Whateley. AWD Shuttered 264.
HPL Fungi (online text) XXVI.
Of Dunwich. Daughter of Luther Whateley; aunt of Abner Whateley. AWD Shuttered 285.
Of Dunwich. HPL Dunwich (online text) 159-161, 164, 167-168, 197.
AWD Shuttered 266-267; Watchers, married? to Ralsa Marsh 403.
Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 94, 97.
Of Dunwich. Daughter of Luther Whateley; married to Jeremiah Whateley; mother of Abner Whateley. AWD Shuttered 264, 276.
Of Dunwich. Grandfather of Abner Whateley; brother of Zebulon Whateley; father of Julia Whateley and Libby Whateley; father-in-law of Jeremiah Whateley. AWD Shuttered 257-263, 265-268, 270-273, 275-281, 283, 285-286, 288.
(Wife of Old Whateley.) HPL Dunwich (online text) 160.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 159-167, 172, 177, 197.
AWD Whippoorwills 58.
Aka: Whateley, Wizard.
Of Dunwich. Son of Ralsa Marsh and Sarah Whateley. AWD Shuttered (287), 288.
Aka: R.
Of Dunwich. Mother of Ralsa Whateley by Ralsa Marsh. AWD Shuttered 257-258, 262, 264-267, 273, 276-277, 279, 282-283, 285, 288.
Whateley, Seth, Emma, Willie, Mamie, and Ella
AWD Whippoorwills 38, Emma, Willie, and Mamie 40, Seth younger brother of Amos 51, Seth, Emma and kids 52, Seth 53, Emma 57, Seth 57-58, Emma (58), Mamie 59, Emma 69.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 165.
Of Dunwich. AWD Middle 352, 355, 360, 364-365, 369; Shuttered 264, 267, 275, 286; Watchers 388, 391-394, 399, 404.
Of Dunwich. HPL Dunwich (online text) 159, etc.--176, description 174, gold 177, 184, 186, 198.
AWD Middle, letter from, written 1/17/28 359, 360, 365, 368; Shuttered 258-266; Watchers 390?, 402; Whippoorwills 58, 62.
FL Terror2 300, 310.
Synonym for Whateley, Old. Of Dunwich. AWD Witches 300.
Of Dunwich. Brother of Luther Whateley. HPL Dunwich (online text) 180-181, 189-190, 197.
AWD Shuttered 265-268, 273, 275, 278-279.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 160.
An esoteric book that James Conrad found in a house in Old Dutchtown. [REH House 126]
Sculptor. HPL Man (online text) 202-206, 208-214.
Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 41.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 194-195.
Wheeler, Rufus and family (Angeline, Perry, Nathaniel, Hester, Josephine, and Amelia)
Hester, Josephine, and Amelia are three spinster Hutchins sisters. AWD Whippoorwills 38, Mis' Wheeler 57-58, Angeline 69.
HPL Mound (online text) 103.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 135-136, 140-142, 146-147, 221.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 158, 167-168, 174-175, 180-181, 188, 194-196: The folk of the Dunwich area believe that whippoorwills "are psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer’s struggling breath. If they can catch the fleeing soul when it leaves the body, they instantly flutter away chittering in daemoniac laughter; but if they fail, they subside gradually into a disappointed silence." When Old Whateley noticed a growing number of whippoorwills under his window at night, whistling in tune with this breathing, he knew his time had almost come. He said that if they were to get his soul, they would keep singing and laughing until the break of day; but if they were to fail, they would quiet down. During his last hours, the whippoorwills kept time with his breaths, but subsided into silence after he died. After Lavinia Whateley died, the whippoorwills continued calling until dawn, apparently indicating that they had captured her soul. The whippoorwills began calling again as Wilbur Whateley lay dying, but they ceased at his death, and then all fled suddenly, as if frightened by the soul that they had tried to capture. The whippoorwills called again when Wilbur Whateley's brother burst forth from the Whateley house, and again shortly before the Fryes were killed. The whippoorwills called even in the middle of the day from the hollow where Wilbur's brother lurked. There was a piping of unnumbered whippoorwills in the hours leading up to the death of the creature. While the men from Arkham were reciting the spell against the creature, the whippoorwills were piping wildly, in an irregular rhythm unlike that of the ritual. The bodies of dead whippoorwills littered field and forest after the creature's death, apparently having perished from encountering the creature's soul.
AWD Gable (online text) 209: Wilbur Akeley's diary recorded his looking through the gable window and viewing a scene, possibly from the Wilbraham area, and hearing whippoorwills.
Sandwin 109: The whippoorwills were calling when David arrived at Sandwin House, apparently anticipating the death of Asa Sandwin. David recalled the superstition that "at the approach of death, the whippoorwills, in the service of evil, called for the soul of the dying."
Wentworth 176-178: The whippoorwills began calling shortly before the late Nahum Wentworth arrived to wreak vengeance on Amos Stark. The latter thought they were calling for the soul of Clem Whateley, who was dying. After Stark's death, the whippoorwills continued crying.
Whippoorwills 39, (40), 41-42, 48-50, 52, 55-57, 59-60, 62, 64-65,
67, 70-71: A loud chorus of whippoorwills called starting a half hour after sunset when Dan Harrop moved into his missing cousin Abel Harrop's house in Harrop's Pocket. Dan expected the birds to stop after an hour and resume just before dawn, but instead they continued all night. The neighbors concluded that the whippoorwills were waiting to catch a soul, and someone was going to die soon. The birds were abnormally large, 12 to 14 inches long instead of the usual 10 inches. When Dan heard voices chanting to Yog-Sothoth, the whippoorwills seemed to respond. Even in daytime, the hills were alive with whippoorwills, and they were ten times as numerous on the slope facing into Harrop’s Pocket. The whippoorwills called for the souls of Benjy Wheeler and Sister Hough and Annie Begbie. Dan attacked the massed whippoorwills with a cudgel and succeeded in killing many. The whippoorwills ceased calling when Amos Whateley set Harrop's house on fire. When Dan dreamed of an alien planet with servants of the Ancient Ones, the voices of the whippoorwills continued in his dream. When Hester Hutchins heard the whippoorwills calling again, she said it meant "they’s to be more souls a-comin’ to them whippoorwills afore the moon changes onct more." This was three days after the start of a full moon, so perhaps she meant that deaths would occur before the moon started to wane. The whippoorwills were all around, crying and screaming, when Dan was found crouching beside the body of poor Amelia Hutchins, tearing at her throat. Dan claimed that he had killed no one, but the murders were actually done by the whippoorwills. Throughout these events, it is possible the whippoorwills were acting as allies of Them from Outside (invisible beings possibly related to Yog-Sothoth) or perhaps were hoping to eat leftover souls from Dan's murders. They evidently did not seek Dan's death, since they indirectly alerted him when the house was set afire.
FL Terror2 309-310: A telegram from Danforth stated that after Lovecraft died, the whippoorwills did not sing. Albert Wilmarth said that the whippoorwills didn't get Wilbur Whateley or his big brother, either.
Location in another dimension. HK Hydra (online text) 140.
HPL Whisperer (online text) 253: An Outer One impersonating Henry Akeley.
DW Lady (online text) 105.
HH Guardian 299: The tiny man from the bookstore said that the Book talks of the Whisperer in Darkness.
A periodical that published The Attic Window. HPL Unnameable (online text) 202.
London. AWD Keeper 140.
RB Demon 62.
Clark Ulman, who fulfilled the prophecy of taking Chaugnar Faugn to the world. FBL Hills (online text) 248.
Forger who created a fake catalog of rare occult books for sale [AWD Six].
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.
AWD Curwen 10.
Synonym for: Viracocha.
Includes invocations to the Seven Stewards of Heaven [RB Hell (online text) 60].
HPL White (online text) 37-42.
Charlestown; in or near Boston? HPL Case (online text) 163.
Of Polarion.
After Commoriom was abandoned, people believed that its desertion had been due to a prophecy by the White Sybil of Polarion, who foretold an undescribed and abominable doom for all mortal beings who should dare to tarry within its environs. [CAS Tale (online text)] However, this legend was inaccurate, since Commoriom was actually abandoned due to the depredations of Knygathin Zhaum. [CAS Testament (online text)]
California. RB Kiss (online text) 41.
Glendale. Frederick T. Beckman was stabbed to death in his home on 1482 Whitsun Drive. [RB Strange]
RAL Graag (online text) 14.
Synonym for: Other, the.
Of Providence; romanced by Poe. AWD Brotherhood 331.
AWD Shuttered 272.
Of Beloin University. RFS Warder 153-160, (161-162), 163-166.
Oklahoma. HPL Mound (online text) 99; Yig (online text) 83-84, 87.
Oklahoma, Kansas. HPL Mound (online text) 103-104, 116, 130, 138; Yig (online text) 86, 88.
Incl: Grey Eagle.
HPL Yig (online text) 87.
Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 84.
Harvard University. HPL Aeons (online text) Stuart Reynolds hastened to Widener Library for glimpse of Necronomicon 270; Case (online text) 159; Dunwich (online text) 169, 172; Includes a 17th century edition of the Necronomicon (History (online text) 53).
AWD Attic 321; Gable (online text) 202; Keeper 149; Lurker 81, 89, 125; Six 124; Sky 57-58; Wood 83.
HPL Man (online text) 207.
Massachusetts. AWD Gable (online text) 209; Peabody 179-180, 182, 187, 193-195.
Incl: Balor; Hopkins, Ahab; Peabody, Asaph; Peabody, Jebediah; Taylor, George; Wilbraham Gazette.
AWD Peabody 193-194.
HPL Call (online text) 127-128.
HPL Case (online text) 147.
AWD Gorge 105.
Family, Innsmouth. AWD Sky 76, 88.
Of Innsmouth. AWD Sky 73.
Of Innsmouth. AWD Sky 73.
Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 279, 281-282.
Not Misk U. HPL Mountains (online text) 70.
HPL Case (online text) 108-109, 111-112, 116-117, 156, 160-162, 166-168, 174-176, 178, 180-214, 216-229, 231-232, (small & bearded 229, 232), 233-234.
HPL Descendant (online text) 359, (360).
Teacher, District School Number Seven, Arkham area; originally from Brattleboro. AWD Witches (narrator) 297-298, 300-303, 306.
HPL Mound (online text) 159.
Who discovered Chinney killed by Chaugnar Faugn. FBl Hills (online text) 267.
Salem. HPL Case (online text) 152.
HPL Man (online text) 208.
Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
Providence. HPL Call (online text) 126; Case (online text) 115.
Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 34.
Narrator, Shadow Over Innsmouth. AWD Sky 84.
Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363-364, 367.
Family, of Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363-364.
Ancestor of Innsmouth narrator. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 362.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 364.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 364.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115.
Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 279, 281-282.
HPL Mound (online text) 97.
HPL Mountains (online text) 22, 25, 30, 61; Whisperer (online text) (narrator) 208 etc., profession 209, address 216.
AWD Seal (online text) 163.
FL Terror2 268-270, (287-289), 290, 292-306, 308-311.
Of Arkham. HPL Time (online text) 375.
Of Arkham. AWD Hastur 5, 25, 29, 30-31.
Name of both a mountain and the observatory located there. DW Fire2 (online text) 76, 82, 87.
Town enroute from Townshend, Vermont to Arkham, Massachusetts. HPL Whisperer (online text) 228.
Virginia. FL Terror2 295.
Synonym for Wendigo. AWD Lurker 51.
Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209, 216.
AWD Beyond2 165, = Ithaqua 169, 172; Ithaqua 112; Keeper Ithaqua 170; Seal (online text) 160-161; Wind (online text) named used for Ithaqua by his worshippers at Stillwater. Mentioned by Allison Wentworth in his delerium.
Synonym for: Ithaqua, Wendigo.
FL Terror2 277-278, 289, 291, 301, 304, 310, 312.
Of Maine. Fixes jelly sandwiches for Clyde Cantrell and Will Richards, and gives them directions to Skowhegan. RAL Settlers (online text) 18-20.
Of Maine. Neighbor of Major Settler. Helps to investigate Settler's Wall. RAL Settlers (online text) 22-26, (27), 28-36.
According to Randolph Carter, the Winged Ones came to Earth to teach the Elder Lore to man [HPL Gates (online text) 432]. The Winged Ones might be a synonym for the Outer Ones or else possibly a synonym for the Black Winged Ones associated with Cthulhu.
AWD Dweller 124.
Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126.
RFS Mists (narrator) 25, 26, 28.
RB Hell (online text) 44-47, 49-50, 71.
Winters-Hall, Rev. Arthur Brooke
HPL Challenge (online text) 7, 9.
Of Monk's Hollow. A witch sired by a batrachoid creature. HK Frog (online text) 107-109, 116, 118, 123.
HPL Haunter (online text) 115.
AWD Beyond2 153-154, 156, 167-171; Dweller 116, 119, 124-126, 131, 134; Valley (online text) 135.
Incl: Alwyn, Frolin; Alwyn, Josiah; Alwyn, Leander; Alwyn, Tony; Castleton, Joseph X.; Cowan, Sherrif; Dacotah Sioux; Dorgan, Laird; Gardner, Prof. Upton; Hiller, Big Bob; Hough (and wife); Jack (4); Partier, Prof.; Peter, Old; Piregard, Fr.; Rick's Lake; Winnebago indians
Brule River; Chequamegon bay; Chequamegon pike; Chequamegon; Harmon; Madison; Milwaukee; N'gai, Wood of; Pashepaho; Rick's Lake; State Historical Society; Superior, Lake; University of Wisconsin; Wausau;
Sac Prarie, Wisconsin. AWD Lurker 137.
wisdom of the Zobnarian fathers
Studied in ancient Olathoë by the Polaris narrator. [HPL Polaris (online text)]
Royalist exile in Paris, 1653. AWD Survivor (online text) 153, 160.
HH Guardian 291: Kathulhn professed an insatiable wonderment of those profound mysteries of time and space which the Wise Men of Vhoorl said were not for mere man to know or to seek out.
Witch-Cult in Western Europe, The
By Miss Murray. HPL Call (online text) 128.
Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 103.
HPL Dunwich (online text) quoted on 155.
A contrivance for executing witches? HK Frog (online text) 106.
Arkham area, west of District School Number Seven. AWD Witches 295, 298, 300, 302-303, 305-307.
Old Dethshill Cemetery. JVS Dead 30, 35; Graveyard 236-237.
HPL Medusa (online text) 193, Witches' Sabbaths 196; Mound (online text) comparison 147; Rats (online text) 31.
Arkham. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 263-298.
By Simon Maglore. A poem that Maglore wrote when he has a college student, and that won the Edsworth Memorial Prize. RB Mannikin 75.
HK Salem (online text) 250.
Abigail Prinn's house, Salem. HK Salem (online text) 251, 254-257, 260-266.
HPL Yig (online text) 89.
Monk's Hollow. HK Frog (online text) 106-107, 109, 111-112, 118.
AWD GodBox 121-122.
Near Monk's Hollow. HK Hunt (online text) 162-163, 167.
Of Arkham. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 288, 290.
HPL WitchHouse (online text) 294.
England. AWD Lurker 136.
Incl: Rowley ragstones.
A dog. HPL Yig (online text) 84, (85), 86, 89-90, 92-95.
RFS Mists 25-26.
REH Children (online text) 156, 162: An Aryan tribe that invaded Britain after the Sword People.
England. AWD Lurker 136.
Wonders of the Invisible World
A book by Puritan preacher Cotton Mather, which defends the belief in witchcraft and Mather's role in the Salem witch trials. [HPL Pickman (online text) 16.] This has been reprinted under the title On Witchcraft.
RFS Warder 157.
AWD Keeper 150.
See also: nymphs.
Wisconsin. See: N'gai.
HPL Time (online text) 395.
Massachusetts. AWD Watchers 385.
HK Invaders (online text) 77.
HPL Diary (online text) 317.
AWD Depths (online text) 225.
"A book by Immanuel Velikovsky published in 1950. The book postulates that around the 15th century BC, the planet Venus was ejected from Jupiter as a comet or comet-like object and passed near Earth (an actual collision is not mentioned). The object allegedly changed Earth's orbit and axis, causing innumerable catastrophes that are mentioned in early mythologies and religions from around the world. The book has been heavily criticized as a work of pseudoscience and catastrophism, and many of its claims are completely rejected by the established scientific community . . ." [Worlds in Collision, Wikipedia]
Horvath Blayne referred to this book indirectly when he mentioned a theory concerning erratic conduct on the part of the planet Venus. Laban Shrewsbury dismissed the idea as entertaining but pure nonsense, and stated that the concept of Venus as a one-time comet can be disproved scientifically. [AWD Island (182)]
James Conrad discovered a copy of this esoteric book in an abandoned house in Old Dutchtown, NY. [REH House 125]
See: Spawn of Yekub.
RAL Graag (online text) 14, 15.
Synonym for: Other, the.
RB Poe (online text). A story written by Edgar Allan Poe after his death and reanimation by Launcelot Canning. The story was never published and presumably was destroyed in the fire that burned Canning's mansion.
Possibly the name of two people, or of one person whose dates were confused by H. P. Lovecraft.
Per Wikipedia, "Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, Physics and Medicine" [Ole Worm, Wikipedia, 11/30/2020]. This Olaus Wormius also translated the funeral song "Regner Lodbrog's Epicedium" from Danish runes into Latin. Later, Hugh Blair (1718–1800) republished Wormius' Latin version, and his own translation of verses 2-7 into English prose, in the book A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal (1763). Eventually, H. P. Lovecraft read Blair's book and translated the same set of verses into English poetry as "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium." [S. T. Joshi, Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft. New York: Hippocampus Press. First electronic edition, 2015.] (The online text of Lovecraft's rendering is here.)
Lovecraft mistakenly thought that Wormius lived much earlier than he did. Joshi cites a letter by Lovecraft to Maurice W. Moe, dated 17 December 1914: "In the Middle Ages Olaus Wormius made the rather incoherent Latin version [of 'Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium'] which Blair uses." The Middle Ages are variously considered to have ended in 1350, 1450, or 1500, but these dates are all before Wormius' actual birth in 1588. Joshi argues that Lovecraft simply assumed that Wormius was from the same era as Saxo Grammaticus, whom Blair mentions as having flourished in the 13th Century.
Consistent with this belief, Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon" states that Olaus Wormius translated the Necronomicon from Greek into Latin in 1228 A.D., and that the Latin version was banned by Pope Gregory IX a few years later, in 1232 [History (online text)]. This date is consistent with the actual pontificate of Gregory IX (1227–1241).
To partially reconcile Lovecraft's accounts with history, you could assume any of the following:
- The Necronomicon was translated into Latin in 1228 A.D. by an earlier "Olaus Wormius." The later "Olaus Wormius" (1588/1654) translated "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium." Lovecraft confused the two Wormiuses.
- The Necronomicon was translated into Latin in 1228 A.D. by another 13th Century figure. At some point, someone got the translator's name wrong, perhaps because copies of the book had become unobtainable.
- The Necronomicon was translated into Latin by the known Olaus Wormius during his lifespan (1588-1654), perhaps in 1628, an even 400 years after the date given in "The History of the Necronomicon." In this case, the Latin version of the book could not have been banned by Pope Gregory IX, but could have been banned by a later pope such as Urban VIII (pontificate 1623-1644).
The narrator of "The Festival" mentions seeing, at the home of his people in Kingsport, a copy of the unmentionable Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, in Olaus Wormius’ forbidden Latin translation. He doesn't mention the date of the translation. [Festival (online text)]
Wilbur Whately visited the Miskatonic University Library to consult a copy of the hideous Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred in Olaus Wormius’ Latin version, as printed in Spain in the seventeenth century [HPL Dunwich (online text) 169]. This is consistent with "The History of the Necronomicon," which states that the Latin text was reprinted in Spain in the 1600s. Since this version was a reprint, the original Latin translation could have appeared any time before that: earlier in the 1600s, or even as early as 1228.
Andrew Phelan copied and translated page 177 from the copy of Wormius's edition at Miskatonic University library; the page was about the five-pointed stars from Mnar [AWD Curwen].
Papers left behind on Upton Gardner’s desk included copies of pages from the Necronomicon, in the translation by Olaus Wormius, provided by the Miskatonic University library [AWD Dweller].
Laban Shrewsbury had read Wormius' translation [AWD Keeper ].
Seneca Lapham borrowed the Miskatonic Library's copy of Wormius's translation, which was normally kept under lock and key [AWD Lurker].
The forger Alastair White claimed to have a copy of Wormius' translation for sale, but in Solar Pon's estimation, it was only a hoax [AWD Six].
John Carnby suspected that there are certain omissions and erroneous renderings in the Latin version of Olaus Wormius. Upon consulting the Arabic original, he found two passages later omitted by Wormius: a description regarding the will of a dead sorcerer and a formula for the exorcism of the dead. [CAS Return (online text)]
A reviewer of W. T. Faraday's 1935 English translation of the Necronomicon stated that Olaus Wormius was a black magician who was burned at the stake several hundred years ago. [DAW Review (online text)] These statements are not consistent with the official biography of Wormius [Ole Worm, Wikipedia, 11/30/2020].
Architect, Partridgeville, ca. 1717. FBL Hounds (online text) 84.
Enroute Boston to Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152.
Gideon Godfrey was present at her trial. RB Satan 7.
JVS Snouted 27.
See: Pnom, writings of.
HH Guardian (narrator) (286-287), 288, (289-304): A collector who searched second hand bookstores for rare books of the occult. He had a copy of the 1909 edition of Nameless Cults and he wanted to read the Necronomicon. He encountered a tiny man who tried to trick him into reading the Book, and thus becoming its new guardian. But he stopped reading after the Preface and evaded the trap. Later, he decided that he no longer wanted to read the Necronomicon.
Incl: University of Wyoming.
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