Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Overview

The Jermyns were scholars, soldiers, and eccentrics who walked with a strange gait and kept wax figures in locked rooms. Sir Wade returned from the Congo with a wife who was never seen by London society and a son who was not photographed. Generations later Arthur Jermyn, investigating the line, opened a crate from Africa and learned what the family bred with.

The archive retains the file under historical racism protocols: the horror mechanism is miscegenation panic dressed as science fiction. Readers must confront author bias while documenting how such texts influenced pulp tropes.

Narrative Record

Arthur traced deeds, portraits, and fires that always claimed the papers just before revelation. The final box held a mummified ancestor and a living thing that should not have survived. Understanding broke him; he immolated himself and the museum wing.

No supernatural agency is required. Shame and fear suffice. Yet witnesses in the Congo described white apes worshipping something older than apes.

Witnesses & Aftermath

Museum fire attributed to gas leak. Colonial records for Sir Wade's post are missing. Modern genetics would reclassify the 'tainting' as fiction; the damage of the fiction persists in reception history.

Teach with critical framing; do not deploy as ethnography.

Archive Notes

Restricted to mature researchers. Cross-link to author ethics dispatch. Field relevance: genealogical obsession plus sealed crates equals psychological hazard regardless of species outcome.