W

W

Of Innsmouth. AWD Island 194.

W., Deliverance

Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.

Wadham, Leonard

London and Dunstable, England. AWD Lurker 138.

Wadi Hassur

Oasis in Egypt. RB Faceless 44.

Waite

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.

Waite, Abigail

Of Innsmouth. Mother of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 192.

Waite, Amos

See: Amos.

Waite, Asaph

Of Innsmouth. Grandfather of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 189, (190-191), 192, (193), 194-195.

Waite, Asenath

Maiden name of Asenath Derby. HPL Doorstep (online text) 280.

Waite, Dr

HPL Case (online text) 109, 193, 196.

Waite, Ephraim

HPL Doorstep (online text) 282, 284, 286, secret name 287, incarnated as Asenath 288 & 294, poisoned 289.

Waite, Horvath

Of Innsmouth. AWD Island 194, 201, 212.

Synonym for: Blayne, Horvath.

Waite, John

Of Innsmouth. Father of Horvath Blayne. AWD Island 192.

Waite, Luella

Sacrificed. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 335.

Waite's hospital

Near Providence. HPL Case (online text) (107), 109, 178, 192-193, 231.

Waite St

Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 327.

Wakimis

A sachem of the Pasquantog indians. RB Satan 6.

Wakeful

Sloop owned by Curwen. HPL Case (online text) 162.

Walakea

South Seas chief. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 330, 332, 335.

Walden Pond

Massachusetts. AWD Watchers 384, 385.

Waldron, Old

Mikatonic University college doctor. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 272.

Wales

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; Machen, Arthur.

Walker, Keith

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]

Wallace, Admiral

HPL Case (online text) 133.

Wallace, Bigfoot

Of Texas. REH Lost 69.

Wallace, Dr

Of Asbury M.E. Church, Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 321.

Wallington

England. AWD Those 114, 117.

Includes: Richards, Father

Wallis-Budge

Author on Egypt. RB Sebek 124.

Walls of Truth

In the tomb of Nephren-Ka. RB Fane 138, 141, 143, 145-146.

Walpurgis

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?

Walpurgis Night

AWD Peabody 188.

Walters, Charles

Of Surrey. Father of Nicholas Walters; stepbrother? of Aberath Whateley. AWD Watchers 382, 401, 405.

Walters, Nicholas

Of Surrey. AWD Watchers 382-385, (386), Oxford educated 387, 388-389, (390-391), 392-394, (395), 396-398, 400-405.

Waltham

Town enroute Boston to Concord. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.

Walton Street

London. CJ Acquarium 309.

Walworth Road

London. Home of George Rogers. HPL Museum (online text) 227.

Wampanaug indians

[HPL Sorceries (online text)]

AWD Lurker 15, 34-35, 74, 146.

wamps

Of the dreamland. Web-footed ghoulish beings that are spawned in dead cities, and frequent the graveyards of dreamland. [HPL Kadath (online text) 338]

wanderers

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.

Wanderer's Club

Incl. Kirowan, John; O'Donnel, John. REH Ring (online text) 56.

Wantastiquet

A moutain in New Hampshire, enroute Greenfield to Brattleboro. HPL Whisperer (online text) 245.

Wanton, Joseph

Of Newport. HPL Case (online text) 135.

Wapping

AWD Keeper 140.

Warburton's path of 1873

Australia. HPL Time (online text) 405.

Ward, Charles Dexter

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.

Ward, Mrs

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).

Ward, Theodore Howland

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.

Ward party

HPL Case (online text) 128.

Warder of Knowledge

RFS Warder 155, 157-158, (165).

Warren

A place, New England, possibly Rhode Island. HPL Case (online text) 135.

Warren, Colonel

Of Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.

Warren, Harley

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.

Warren's book

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)]

Warren's farm

Near Aunt Lucey and Uncle Fred's farm. RB Notebook (online text) 238.

Warwick, Jason

AWD Spawn 18-29, (30), 31-34.

Warwickshire

England. AWD Spawn 26, 32.

Washington

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;

Washington Bridge

Providence. AWD Brotherhood 328.

Washington Street

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.

Waste Land, The

By T.S. Eliot. Marinus Willett repeated lines from The Waste Land to calm himself after glimpsing a thing of "ye liveliest Awfulness" in a pit underneath the former site of Joseph Curwen's house. [HPL Case (online text)]

Watchers on the Other Side, The

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]

Water-Being

AWD Sky 68.

Synonym for: Cthulhu.

Water Beings

AWD Hastur 11, incl. Cthulhu 12, 21.

Incl: Cthulhu.

Waterbury, Lew

Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 99, 101.

Waterloo Bridge

London. HPL Museum (online text) 227, 237.

Waterloo Station

London. AWD Keeper 147.

Waterman Street

Providence. HPL Call (online text) 130; Case (online text) 165.

Water Street, Innsmouth

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 324, Water Street bridge 324, 328, 340.

Water Street, Kingsport

HPL Mist (online text) 278; Terrible (online text) 272-273.

Watkins

Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 20.

Watkins, Goody

HPL Fungi (online text) XII.

Wausau

A city; Wisconsin? AWD Beyond2 169; Dweller 128, 131.

Waverly, Simon

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]

Wayang shadow-play

Indonesia. AWD Island 186.

Wayland-Hall, Nevil

Alias of Thomas Slauenwite. HPL Winged (online text) 251, 252, 253.

Wayne, Jasper

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.

Weatherbee, (Capt.) Charles

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.

Webb, William Channing, Prof

HPL Call (online text) 128, 135, 142.

Wecter, Jason

Of King's Lane, Cambridge. AWD Wood 72-76, (77), 78-87.

Weddell Sea

Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 10, 70.

Weeden, Ezra

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126-137, 139-140, 142, 147, 176, descendants 177, 200, 213, Weeden lot 228.

Weeden, Hazard

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 177.

Wegener

Scientist. HPL Mountains (online text) 66, 69.

Weigal, Henry

Coroner who examined Clark Ulman. FBL Hills (online text) 261.

Weildan, Prof.

New Orleans. RB Sebek 120, 123-124, 126-127; Mummy 284-298.

Weird Tales

"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]

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]

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]

Weiskopf, Emil

Possibly of Arkham. JVS Dead 29, 32-33, 36.

Wellington

New Zealand. HPL Aeons (online text) Eridanus enroute from Wellington when risen island-fragment of ancient Mu is sighted 265.

Wells

A reporter, with the Tribune. FBL Hills (online text) 265.

Wells, Maine

The people of Roodsford planned to take children from the village of Wells for sacrifice [RB Satan 17].

Wells, Dr

A trustee of Cabot Museum, Boston; present at final dissection of T'yog mummy. HPL Aeons (online text) 287.

Wells, Henry

Of Partridgeville. FBL Eaters (online text) 92, (93), 94, (95-96), 98, (99), 100-104, 109-113.

Wells, H. G.

AWD Curwen 32.

Wendell, Doc

HC Death (online text) 363, 371.

Wendigo

See: Wendigo.

Wentworth, Allison

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.

Wentworth, Genie

Of Dunwich area; daughter of Nahum Wentworth. AWD Wentworth 174-176.

Wentworth, Nahum

Of Dunwich area; father of Genie Wentworth. AWD Wentworth 171-173, 176.

Were-Snake narrator

An archaeologist who spent the night at a temple of Ishtar and killed a snake-woman manifestation of that goddess [FBL WereSnake (online text)].

werewolves

RB Kiss (online text) 48; Mummy 284; Sebek 125.

Wessex country

Imaginary region in Thomas Hardy's novels. AWD Attic 311.

Home of Athelstane the Saxon. REH Gods (online text) 195, 218-219.

West, Benjamin

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 128, 135.

West, Herbert

HPL Herbert (online text) 133-163.

West End

Boston. HPL Aeons (online text) Swami Chandraputra gave a squalid West End address 270; Gates (online text) 452-453.

Western Ocean

HK Bells (online text) 86-87.

Synonym for: Pacific Ocean.

West Germany

Incl: Hoffman.

West Indies

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.

Westripp, Deliverance

Of Arkham. AWD Lurker 23, 67.

West River

Windham County, Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209, en route Brattleboro to Townshend 246, 264.

West Virginia

FL Terror2 295.

Weybosset Point

In or near Providence. HPL Case (online text) 136, 140.

Weybosset Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165.

Wgah-nagl

HPL Call (online text) 136.

Wharton place

Arkham area? House near Aylesbury Pike. AWD Gable (online text) 199, (200), 201.

Whateley, Aberath

Of Dunwich. Son of Cyrus Whateley. AWD Watchers, stepbrother to Charles Walters? 383, 384, 387, 392, 393, 398.

Whateley, Abner (1)

Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers, married to Elizabeth Bishop 403.

Whateley, Abner (2)

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.

Whateley, Amos

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.

Whateley, Clem

Of Dunwich area. AWD Wentworth 176.

Whateley, Curtis

HPL Dunwich (online text) 160, 193, 196.

Whateley, Cyrus

Of Dunwich area; father of Aberath Whateley and Charles Walters. AWD Watchers 383, 387, 388, 400, 401, 404.

Whateley family

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?.

Whateley, Jeremiah

Of Dunwich; son-in-law of Luther Whateley; husband of Libby Whateley; father of Abner Whateley. AWD Shuttered 264.

Whateley, John

HPL Fungi (online text) XXVI.

Whateley, Julia

Of Dunwich. Daughter of Luther Whateley; aunt of Abner Whateley. AWD Shuttered 285.

Whateley, Lavinia (Lavinny)

Of Dunwich. HPL Dunwich (online text) 159-161, 164, 167-168, 197.

AWD Shuttered 266-267; Watchers, married? to Ralsa Marsh 403.

Whateley, Lem

Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 94, 97.

Whateley, Libby

Of Dunwich. Daughter of Luther Whateley; married to Jeremiah Whateley; mother of Abner Whateley. AWD Shuttered 264, 276.

Whateley, Luther

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.

Whateley, Mrs

(Wife of Old Whateley.) HPL Dunwich (online text) 160.

Whateley, Old

HPL Dunwich (online text) 159-167, 172, 177, 197.

AWD Whippoorwills 58.

Aka: Whateley, Wizard.

Whateley, Ralsa

Of Dunwich. Son of Ralsa Marsh and Sarah Whateley. AWD Shuttered (287), 288.

Aka: R.

Whateley, Sarah (Sarey)

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.

Whateley, Squire Sawyer

HPL Dunwich (online text) 165.

Whateley, Tobias

Of Dunwich. AWD Middle 352, 355, 360, 364-365, 369; Shuttered 264, 267, 275, 286; Watchers 388, 391-394, 399, 404.

Whateley, Wilbur

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.

Whateley, Wizard

Synonym for Whateley, Old. Of Dunwich. AWD Witches 300.

Whateley, Zebulon

Of Dunwich. Brother of Luther Whateley. HPL Dunwich (online text) 180-181, 189-190, 197.

AWD Shuttered 265-268, 273, 275, 278-279.

Whateley, Zechariah

HPL Dunwich (online text) 160.

What Lies Beyond?

An esoteric book that James Conrad found in a house in Old Dutchtown. [REH House]

Wheeler, Arthur

Sculptor. HPL Man (online text) 202-206, 208-214.

Wheeler, Benjy

Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 41.

Wheeler, Henry

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.

Wheelock, Rance

HPL Mound (online text) 103.

Whipple, Capt. Abraham

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 135-136, 140-142, 146-147, 221.

whippoorwills

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.

Whirling Vortices

Location in another dimension. HK Hydra (online text) 140.

Whisperer in Darkness, the

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.

Whispers

A periodical that published The Attic Window. HPL Unnameable (online text) 202.

Whitechapel

London. AWD Keeper 140.

White, Edward Lucas

RB Demon 62.

White Acolyte

Clark Ulman, who fulfilled the prophecy of taking Chaugnar Faugn to the world. FBL Hills (online text) 248.

White, Alastair

Forger who created a fake catalog of rare occult books for sale [AWD Six].

Whitefield adherents

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.

White Form of the Waters

AWD Curwen 10.

Synonym for: Viracocha.

White Magic

Includes invocations to the Seven Stewards of Heaven [RB Hell (online text) 60].

White Ship

HPL White (online text) 37-42.

White Star pier

Charlestown; in or near Boston? HPL Case (online text) 163.

White Sybil

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)]

White's Point

California. RB Kiss (online text) 41.

Whitsun Drive

Glendale. Frederick T. Beckman was stabbed to death in his home on 1482 Whitsun Drive. [RB Strange]

white worm

RAL Graag (online text) 14.

Synonym for: Other, the.

Whitman, Sarah Helen

Of Providence; romanced by Poe. AWD Brotherhood 331.

Whitman, Walt

AWD Shuttered 272.

Whitney, Dr. Gordon

Of Beloin University. RFS Warder 153-160, (161-162), 163-166.

Wichita country

Oklahoma. HPL Mound (online text) 99; Yig (online text) 83-84, 87.

Wichita indians

Oklahoma, Kansas. HPL Mound (online text) 103-104, 116, 130, 138; Yig (online text) 86, 88.

Incl: Grey Eagle.

Wichita Mountains

HPL Yig (online text) 87.

Wichita River

Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 84.

Widener Library

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.

Wijtgaart

HPL Man (online text) 207.

Wilbraham

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.

Wilbraham Gazette

AWD Peabody 193-194.

Wilcox, Henry Armstrong

HPL Call (online text) 127-128.

Wilde, Oscar

HPL Case (online text) 147.

Wiles

AWD Gorge 105.

Wilken

Family, Innsmouth. AWD Sky 76, 88.

Wilken, Amos and John

Of Innsmouth. AWD Sky 73.

Wilken, Jed

Of Innsmouth. AWD Sky 73.

Wilkerson, Ada

Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 279, 281-282.

Wilkes

Not Misk U. HPL Mountains (online text) 70.

Willett, Dr. Marinus Bicknell

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.

Williams (1)

HPL Descendant (online text) 359, (360).

Williams (2)

Teacher, District School Number Seven, Arkham area; originally from Brattleboro. AWD Witches (narrator) 297-298, 300-303, 306.

Williams, James C

HPL Mound (online text) 159.

Williams, Jim

Who discovered Chinney killed by Chaugnar Faugn. FBL Hills (online text) 267.

Williams-Lane

Salem. HPL Case (online text) 152.

Williams, Nate

HPL Man (online text) 208.

Williams, Reverend

Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.

Williams Street

Providence. HPL Call (online text) 126; Case (online text) 115.

Williamson

Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 34.

Williamson

Narrator, Shadow Over Innsmouth. AWD Sky 84.

Williamson, Douglas

Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363-364, 367.

Williamson family

Family, of Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363-364.

Williamson, James

Ancestor of Innsmouth narrator. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 362.

Williamson, Lawrence

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 364.

Williamson, Walter

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 364.

Williams Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115.

Willie, Howard

Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 279, 281-282.

Willis, John

HPL Mound (online text) 97.

Wilmarth, Albert N

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.

Wilson, Dr

Of Arkham. HPL Time (online text) 375.

Wilton, Judge

Of Arkham. AWD Hastur 5, 25, 29, 30-31.

Wilson, Mount

Name of both a mountain and the observatory located there. DW Fire2 (online text) 76, 82, 87.

Winchendon

Town enroute from Townshend, Vermont to Arkham, Massachusetts. HPL Whisperer (online text) 228.

Winchester

Virginia. FL Terror2 295.

Windeego

Synonym for Wendigo. AWD Lurker 51.

Windham County

Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209, 216.

Wind-Walker

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.

winged worms

FL Terror2 277-278, 289, 291, 301, 304, 310, 312.

Wing, Mrs.

Of Maine. Fixes jelly sandwiches for Clyde Cantrell and Will Richards, and gives them directions to Skowhegan. RAL Settlers (online text) 18-20.

Wing, Thad

Of Maine. Neighbor of Major Settler. Helps to investigate Settler's Wall. RAL Settlers (online text) 22-26, (27), 28-36.

Winged Ones

According to Randolph Carter, the Winged Ones came to Earth to teach the Elder Lore to man [HPL Gates (online text)]. The Winged Ones might be a synonym for the Outer Ones or else possibly a synonym for the Black Winged Ones associated with Cthulhu.

Winnebago indians

AWD Dweller 124.

Winooski River

Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209.

Winsor, Samuel

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126.

Winston, Mr

RFS Mists (narrator) 25, 26, 28.

Wintergreen, Mr.

RB Hell (online text) 44-47, 49-50, 71.

Winters-Hall, Rev. Arthur Brooke

A deeply learned Sussex clergyman with occultist leanings. He identified the symbols on the Eltdown Shards with supposedly pre-human hieroglyphs handled down in certain mystical circles. He self-published a purported translation of the shards around 1912. [HPL Challenge (online text)]

Winthorp, Persis

Of Monk's Hollow. A witch sired by a batrachoid creature. HK Frog (online text) 107-109, 116, 118, 123.

Wisconsin

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;

Wisconsin River

Sac Prarie, Wisconsin. AWD Lurker 137.

wisdom of the Zobnarian fathers

Studied in ancient Olathoë by the Polaris narrator. [HPL Polaris (online text)]

Wiseman, Richard

Royalist exile in Paris, 1653. AWD Survivor (online text) 153, 160.

Wise Men of Vhoorl

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 Margaret Murray. "A 1921 anthropological book by Margaret Murray, published at the height of the success of Frazer's Golden Bough. Certain university circles subsequently celebrated Margaret Murray as the expert on western witchcraft, though her theories were widely discredited... Murray's theory, also known as the witch-cult hypothesis, suggests that the accusations made towards 'witches' in Europe were in fact based on a real, though clandestine, pagan religion that worshiped a horned god." [The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, Wikipedia, retrieved 07/04/2024] The online text is available at Project Gutenburg. Unfortunately, the work includes long passages in untranslated foreign languages. A more readable exposition of her theory is The God of the Witches (1933).

George Gammell Angell's notes on the Cthulhu cult included references to The Witch-Cult in Western Europe [HPL Call (online text)].

WitchHouse

Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 103.

Witches and Other Night Fears

HPL Dunwich (online text) quoted on 155.

Witches' Cradle

A contrivance for executing witches? HK Frog (online text) 106.

Witches' Hollow (1)

Arkham area, west of District School Number Seven. AWD Witches 295, 298, 300, 302-303, 305-307.

Witches' Hollow (2)

Old Dethshill Cemetery. JVS Dead 30, 35; Graveyard 236-237.

Witches' Sabbat, --Sabbath

HPL Medusa (online text) 193, Witches' Sabbaths 196; Mound (online text) comparison 147; Rats (online text) 31.

Witch House

Arkham. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 263-298.

Witch is Hung, The

By Simon Maglore. A poem that Maglore wrote when he has a college student, and that won the Edsworth Memorial Prize. RB Mannikin 75.

witch-mark

HK Salem (online text) 250.

Witch Room

Abigail Prinn's house, Salem. HK Salem (online text) 251, 254-257, 260-266.

Witch-Sabbath

HPL Yig (online text) 89.

Witch Stone

Monk's Hollow. HK Frog (online text) 106-107, 109, 111-112, 118.

Wittner, Lord

AWD GodBox 121-122.

Wizard's House

Near Monk's Hollow. HK Hunt (online text) 162-163, 167.

Wolejko, Anastasia

Of Arkham. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 288, 290.

Wolejko, Ladislas

HPL WitchHouse (online text) 294.

Woleverhampton

England. AWD Lurker 136.

Incl: Rowley ragstones.

Wolf

A dog. HPL Yig (online text) 84, (85), 86, 89-90, 92-95.

Wolf Lake

RFS Mists 25-26.

Wolf People

REH Children (online text) 156, 162: An Aryan tribe that invaded Britain after the Sword People.

Wolverhampton

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. This has been reprinted under the title On Witchcraft.

Richard Upton Pickman said that Mather knew things that he didn't dare put in his peurile Wonders of the Invisible World. [HPL Pickman (online text)]

Woodford, Dr

RFS Warder 157.

wood nymphs

AWD Keeper 150.

See also: nymphs.

Wood of N'gai

Wisconsin. See: N'gai.

Woodville, James

HPL Time (online text) 395.

Worcester

Massachusetts. AWD Watchers 385.

Word of power

HK Invaders (online text) 77.

Words of Fear

HPL Diary (online text) 317.

World's Fair

AWD Depths (online text) 225.

Worlds in Collision

"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]

Worlds Within Worlds

James Conrad discovered a copy of this esoteric book in an abandoned house in Old Dutchtown, NY. [REH House]

worm-like beings

See: Spawn of Yekub.

worm, the

RAL Graag (online text) 14, 15.

Synonym for: Other, the.

Worm of Midnight, 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.

Wormius, Olaus

See: Wormius, Olaus.

Wren, Christopher

Architect, Partridgeville, ca. 1717. FBL Hounds (online text) 84.

Wrentham

Enroute Boston to Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152.

Wright, Mary

Gideon Godfrey was present at her trial. RB Satan 7.

Wright, Farnsworth

JVS Snouted 27.

writings of Pnom

See: Pnom, writings of.

Wycherly, Doctor

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.

Wyoming

Incl: University of Wyoming.

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