Keziah Mason
Salem Witch & Walker of Angled Space
A seventeenth-century witch who escaped the gallows by walking through walls, whose curved lines and Black Book survived in secret, and whose spirit tormented Walter Gilman from beyond ordinary death.
Overview
Keziah Mason is proof that the Salem trials documented only a fraction of what walked New England. Accused in 1692, she told Judge Hawthorne that she could walk through walls using lines and angles not taught in churches - and she demonstrated enough truth to terrify the court before vanishing from her cell.
Her legacy is not a grave but a geometry: curves that open where no door exists, a familiar named Brown Jenkin, and a Black Book passed hand to hand until it reached a student in the Witch House.
Description
Survivors describe Mason in dreams as alternately ancient hag and leering young woman, always accompanied by the sound of small hooves and human laughter. Brown Jenkin - part rat, part miniature man - runs her errands between worlds.
Her knowledge aligns with Yog-Sothoth, the Lurker at the Threshold, though whether she served or merely exploited that power remains disputed among Miskatonic occultists.
Historical Record
Trial transcripts and Gilman's account form the core evidence. The Witch House itself is catalogued under Arkham locations; architectural surveys confirm abnormal corner angles on upper floors.
No remains have been recovered. Assume active spiritual presence during Walpurgis and solstice windows.
Archive Notes
Cross-reference Walter Gilman and forbidden knowledge concept files. Personnel researching non-Euclidean architecture must not lodge at the Witch House without Protocol Sigma clearance.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record CHR-023. Access subject to institutional review.
Related Records
Cross-References
STY-108
activeThe Dreams in the Witch House
Arkham Lodging - 1932–1933
Gilman rents a gambrel-roofed room where Keziah Mason and Brown Jenkin breach space and angle - non-Euclidean mathematics made doorway for Yog-Sothoth's touch.
LOC-002
activeArkham
City on the Miskatonic
An aging Massachusetts town of gambrel roofs and winding streets, home to the university and countless quiet horrors, the kind that do not shriek in the night but wait in attics for generations to pass.
OG-002
activeYog-Sothoth
The Key and the Gate
A congeries of iridescent spheres existing coterminously with all space and time, the threshold through which other powers enter, and the knower of all that was and is and shall be.
CHR-022
unknownWalter Gilman
Student of Non-Euclidean Mathematics
A Miskatonic University student whose room in Arkham's Witch House intersected Keziah Mason's fourth-dimensional routes, drawing him into dreams, child sacrifice, and the Brown Jenkin horror.