The Facts Concerning Arthur Jermyn

Overview

Sir Wade Jermyn's Congo explorations brought back more than ivory: a white ape goddess, intermarriage, and children who moved wrong. Generations of English respectability hid hyena postures and hair that would not stay combed.

Arthur Jermyn, scholar and gentleman, opened a expedition crate containing the mummy of the princess his ancestor loved - and learned his face was not the worst revelation. He met fire; the line ended.

Narrative Record

Family papers documented Wade's rituals, captive apes worshipping Shub-Niggurath in jungle clearings, births that died or were hidden. The mummy proved hybridization: human enough to marry, ape enough to shame.

Arthur's suicide by immolation destroyed the crate and papers; neighbours smelled pork and something else. No Jermyn remains in England; the archive holds copies seized before the blaze.

Witnesses & Aftermath

Publishers rejected the story as libel; Lovecraft's title 'Facts' was irony. Colonial offices denied Sir Wade's files; a missionary's diary corroborates ape cults in the same basin.

Modern genetics would call the line chimeric; the archive calls it warning.

Archive Notes

Genealogical research into prominent families with sudden reclusiveness triggers Jermyn protocols. Do not ship unexamined African crates to universities. Shub-Niggurath's fertility takes forms that mock Darwin. Burn is not cowardice when the alternative is breeding.