B
A person. HPL Case (online text) 215.
Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.
"A title and honorific meaning 'owner' or 'lord' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. Scholars previously associated the theonym with solar cults and with a variety of unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions have shown that the name Ba'al was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations. The Hebrew Bible includes use of the term in reference to various Levantine deities, often with application towards Hadad, who was decried as a false god. That use was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the form Beelzebub in demonology." [Baal, Wikipedia]
After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Baal. [RB Strange]
In Kara-Shehr, the temple of Baal had a statue of the bestial and horrific god. Many a screaming, writhing, naked victim had been sacrificed on the altar. [REH Fire (online text)]
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)]
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)].
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, mentioned in the Seventh Book of Moses. [AWD Wentworth]
Spain. HPL Case (online text) 133.
Missouri. HPL Medusa (online text) 199.
Author of Annals of the Jinns.
Marius Phillips said that Barlow had died after coming too close to the truth [AWD Seal (online text)].
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.
Bast
See full article on Bast.
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.
Joseph Curwen's library included a scientific work by Becher. [HPL Case (online text)]
The reference may be to Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), "a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer, best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism." His most notable work was Physica Subterranea. [Johann Joachim Becher, Wikipedia, ret. 07/05/2024]
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.
At Dunwich Village in 1747, the Rev. Abijah Hoadley preached that the cursed voices of Beelzebub and other demons had been heard from underground. [HPL Dunwich (online text); AWD Watchers]
Zadok Allen mentioned Beelzebub when speaking of the idols worshipped by the Esoteric Order of Dagon. [HPL Innsmouth (online text)]
Phillips Keith identified Beelzebub as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. [RB Hell (online text)]
Letters to Septimus Bishop hailed him in the name of various entities, including Beelzebub. [AWD Middle]
The Peabody Heritage narrator dreamed of the Black Man and heard someone mention Beelzebub. [AWD Peabody]
The Ancient Ones (2) resemble mythical demons such as Beelzebub. [AWD Seal (online text)]
According to John Grimlan, there is but one Black Master though men call him by various names such as Sathanas and Beelzebub. [REH Dig (online text)]
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]
The tiny man from the bookstore said that the Book talks of Beh'-Moth the Devourer. [HH Guardian]
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.
Includes: Brussels, Flemish region.
At Dunwich Village in 1747, the Rev. Abijah Hoadley preached that the cursed voices of Belial and other demons had been heard from underground. [HPL Dunwich (online text); AWD Watchers]
The Hound narrator thought the Hound was coming for him from night-black ruins of buried temples of Belial. [HPL Hound (online text)]
Zadok Allen mentioned Belial among the idols worshipped by the Esoteric Order of Dagon. [HPL Innsmouth (online text)]
Letters to Septimus Bishop hailed him in the name of Belial and other entities. [AWD Middle]
The Peabody Heritage narrator dreamed of the Black Man and heard someone mention Belial. [AWD Peabody]
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.
"An ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. He may have been the original inspiration for the phoenix legends that developed in Greek mythology." [Bennu, Wikipedia]
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Bennu, phoenix-symbol of resurrection. [RB Strange]
RFS Mists psychology teacher 28.
"Berenice II Euergetis (267 or 266 – 221 BCE) was queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and co-regent queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 to 222 BCE as the wife of Ptolemy III . . . As queen of Egypt, Berenice participated actively in government, was incorporated into the Ptolemaic state cult alongside her husband and worshipped as a goddess in her own right. She is best known for sacrificing her hair as a votive offering, which led to the constellation Coma Berenices being named after her." [Berenice II of Egypt, Wikipedia]
Frank Marsh said there were veiled facts behind the Ptolemaic myth of Berenice, who offered up her hair to save her husband-brother, and had it set in the sky as the constellation Coma Berenices. [HPL Medusa (online text)] Presumably Marsh interpreted this myth as a reference to Marceline Bedard.
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 Olympian spirits of Renaissance and post-Renaissance magic. Bethor commanded twenty-nine thousand legions of spirits. He rules 42 provinces. His planet is Jupiter. [Bethor, Wikipedia]
Bethor is one of the Seven Stewards of Heaven invoked in White Magic [RB Hell (online text)].
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.
bholes
See: bholes.
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)].
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]
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]
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.
Billington House
See: Billington House.
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?
A murderer who lived in a house in a valley where the nearest village was Aylesbury, though also in the general vicinity of Arkham and Dunwich. In school, he never went past the fourth grade. In his later teens, he spoke of disturbing dreams, noises, and visions. After two or three years, he started reading voraciously, and later on went to the Miskatonic University library to consult more books. He copied large portions of the works he consulted into a handwritten book called Seth Bishop: His Book. He dug a tunnel under his house that connected to caverns with altars, bones of sacrifices, and waters surging in from the Atlantic. He brought animals for sacrifice to underground meetings with the Deep Ones and probably also saw Cthulhu. There he heard of destruction occurring in Innsmouth in September, 1928. At some point, he killed his neighbor Amos Bowden, tearing him apart for no known reason. Evidently Bishop died after that, but is unclear whether he was legally tried and executed, or whether he died in some other way. Later, Bishop's spirit seems to have possessed the painter Jefferson Bates, who was renting Bishop's old house, and inspired Bates to commit sacrifices and murders as well. [AWD Valley (online text)]
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. 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. [HC Isle (online text)]
Cat belonging to Albert Wilmarth [FL Terror2 295, 297].
Of Australia. HPL Time (online text) 404.
HPL Man (online text) 207.
Phillips Keith identified "Black Goat of the Sabbath" as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. [RB Hell (online text)]
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)]
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)].
Prof. Alexander Chaupin spoke to his therapist of the veiled and subtle truths so furtively revealed in tomes such as Black Rites [RB Grinning].
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, the Black Stone is actually the spire of a cyclopean black castle, which is now buried and hidden by the masking slopes of the local mountains; for the cave wherein the Turks trapped the Master was not truly a cavern, but a chamber in this hidden castle; 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.
Blake, Robert Harrison
See full article at Robert Harrison Blake.
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.
Of Milwaukee. Author, Fane of the Black Pharaoh. [RB Steeple (online text)]
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.
Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) "was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame." His works included Elementa Chemiae (1732), recognized as the first text on chemistry. [Herman Boerhaave, Wikipedia, ret. 07/05/2024]
Joseph Curwen's library included a scientific work by Boerhaave [HPL Case (online text)]
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.
A great water-lizard, worshipped by the beings of Ib, who danced horribly before its sea-green stone idol when the moon was gibbous. When the men of Mnar destroyed Ib, they spared nothing except the statue of Bokrug. But on the night after it was set up in the temple in Sarnath, weird lights were seen over the lake. In the morning the people found the idol gone, and the high-priest Taran-Ish lying dead, as from some fear unspeakable. Before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite the sign of DOOM. Over the following centuries, the priests of Mnar performed a very secret and ancient rite in detestation of Bokrug, the water-lizard, in a high tower near the altar which bore Taran-Ish's DOOM-scrawl. On the thousandth anniversary of the destruction of Ib, the city of Sarnath was destroyed by the Ib creatures, or perhaps by their ghosts. Where the city had been, there remained only a swamp and the statue of Bokrug. That idol, enshrined in the high temple at Ilarnek, was subsequently worshipped beneath the gibbous moon throughout the land of Mnar. [HPL Doom (online text)]
Of Wrentham. HPL Case (online text) 152.
Bolton
See: Bolton.
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.
A book that originates before this universe from the minds of the creators of everything. The tiny man said the Book tells of things that Alhazred never dreamed of in his wildest nightmares. 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]
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. 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. Sometime later, Gilman wondered if he had signed the black man's book after all. [HPL WitchHouse (online text)]
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]
Book of Dzyan
See: Book of Dzyan.
Book of Eibon
See: Book of Eibon.
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)]
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)]
Compare with: Iod the Shining Hunter.
A book that, from its title, is presumably associated with the temple complex of Karnak in Egypt.
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)]
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)].
Possibly a nickname for Burke's Peerage [Wikipedia, 11/2/2020].
Ketrick's lineage is set down in the "Book of Peers." [REH Children (online text)]
"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]
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]. 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].
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 if Alhazred's blasphemous hints and extracts from the Book of Thoth might have been inspired by envy. [HPL Gates (online text)]
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.
Latinized name of Pierre Borel (c. 1620 – 1671), a French chemist, alchemist, physician, and botanist. [Pierre Borel, Wikipedia, ret. 06/19/2024]
Joseph Curwen had a badly worn copy of a work by Borellus, in which he had written many cryptical notes. Curwen had heavily underlined the passage about raising the dead from their "essential Saltes." The full quote is included at the start of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. In a letter to Curwen, Jebediah Orne confessed "I have not ye Chymicall art to followe Borellus." In a letter to Simon/Jebediah Orne, Curwen said "I am foll'g oute what Borellus saith." 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." Dr. Willett and Theodore Ward concluded there was truth in Borellus' claim that the dead could be raised from their Essential Saltes. Dr. Willet found a tattered old copy of Borellus in black-letter in the laboratory of Joseph Curwen. [HPL Case (online text)]
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). ["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.
Joseph Curwen's library included a scientific work by Boyle. [HPL Case (online text)]
The reference is likely to Robert Boyle (1627–1691), "an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. He was a devout and pious Anglican and is noted for his writings in theology." [Robert Boyle, Wikipedia, ret. 07/05/2024]
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; Chalmers, Halpin; 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.
The capital of Belgium. Ludvig Prinn lived in the forest near Brussels in his later years. [RB Shambler (online text)]
Name of an Egyptian city and the goddess worshipped there.
See: Bast.
Hungary. HPL Case (online text) 223.
REH Ring (online text) 61.
Buddai
See full article at Buddai.
Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 72.
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).
A story by Robert Blake. [HPL Haunter (online text)]
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.
"Wadjet, known to the Greek world as Uto or Buto among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo, was originally the ancient Egyptian local goddess of the city of Dep or Buto in Lower Egypt, which was an important site in prehistoric Egypt. Wadjet's worship originally started in the Predynastic period, but evolved over time from a local goddess to a patron goddess. Wadjet was closely associated in ancient Egyptian religion with the Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus symbols, each powerful protective deities." [Wadjet, Wikipedia]
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of the man-serpent Buto. [RB Strange]
At Dunwich Village in 1747, the Rev. Abijah Hoadley said that the cursed voices of Buzrael and other demons had been heard from underground. [HPL Dunwich (online text); AWD Watchers]
Lovecraft apparently got the name Buzrael from a satire called "The Funeral of Benedict Arnold" (Anon, 7th Oct 1780), "in which the devil is deemed to have written a letter to congratulate his daemon emissary Buzrael (this being the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold) for subverting America. This letter was deemed to have been plucked from Arnold’s dying hand before the flames took it, and duly published as a public duty in the Pennsylvania Packet." [Dave Haden, Buzrael, ret. 07/18/2024]
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.
De Vermis Mysteriis mentions serpent-bearded Byatis. [RB Shambler (online text)]
HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 10, 28.
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