Human Characters

Albert N. Wilmarth

Folklorist of Vermont

Instructor of English folklore at Miskatonic who investigated the Vermont floods of 1927–28, corresponded with Henry Akeley, and survived an impersonation that proved the Mi-Go had agents who could wear a man's face and typing.

Alicia Y Armitage

Alicia Y Armitage — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1919-Q51/4461.

Aphra Marsh

Aphra Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1935-S65/3450.

Asenath Waite

Vessel of the Innsmouth Look

Daughter of Ephraim Waite of Innsmouth and wife of Edward Pickman Derby - occultist whose body became the battleground for an ancient personality that exchanged minds across graves and left her husband screaming in a sanitarium.

Barnabas Marsh

Barnabas Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1929-G17/4988.

Barzai the Wise

Barzai the Wise — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1931-I85/8412.

Captain Obed Marsh

Patriarch of Innsmouth & the Deep One Compact

The Innsmouth sea-captain who brought the Esoteric Order of Dagon to Massachusetts after a fateful voyage to Polynesia in 1838, trading human prosperity for a hybrid future beneath the waves.

Charles Dexter Ward

Heir of Curwen

A young Providence antiquarian whose genealogical research restored Joseph Curwen to the world - until his family and physicians confined him and learned that the patient behind the locked door was no longer their son.

Cynthia Ward

Cynthia Ward — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1926-R34/5141.

Danforth

Antarctic Expedition Survivor

The only expedition member besides Dyer to enter the Elder Thing city and return - and the only one who flew beyond the peaks and saw what shattered his mind, leaving him with a laugh that will not stay buried.

Downward to Darkness

Downward to Darkness — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1923-Y29/1659.

Dr. Henry Armitage

Chief Librarian, Miskatonic University

Chief librarian of Miskatonic University who brought the Necronomicon into the field against Wilbur Whateley and lived to bind what should never have been unbound - a man who proved that courage and philology can be the same discipline.

Edward Hutchinson

Edward Hutchinson — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1936-V50/3196.

Edward M. Erdelac

Edward M. Erdelac — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1933-I76/3608.

Edward Morris

Edward Morris — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1923-M56/4467.

Edward Norrys

Edward Norrys — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1920-X44/5744.

Edward P. Berglund

Edward P. Berglund — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1919-S58/9935.

Edward Pickman Derby

Edward Pickman Derby — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1921-O65/8855.

Edward Pretorius

Edward Pretorius — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1922-N32/3988.

Edward Stasheff

Edward Stasheff — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1919-Q62/9013.

Eibon

Eibon — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1930-Z62/1717.

Eric Marsh

Eric Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1932-Z91/3564.

Erich Zann

Violinist of the Rue d'Auseil

A mute German violinist whose music held something at bay beyond his garret window - until the night the student heard the viol and the street beyond ceased to exist on any map.

Finn Edwards

Finn Edwards — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1935-G39/3330.

Francis Wayland Thurston

Assembler of the Cthulhu File

A Boston gentleman who inherited his grand-uncle's papers and wove three threads - sculptor's dreams, swamp cult, and Pacific disaster - into the narrative that proved the mythos was planetary in scope.

Francis Wayland Thurston

Francis Wayland Thurston — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1932-X56/6121.

Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1936-P75/8822.

Gustaf Johansen

Captain of the Emma

Norwegian sailor who rammed Cthulhu when R'lyeh rose in 1925, drove the god back into the deep, and died soon after - leaving a manuscript that the world was not ready to publish.

Harley Warren

Companion of Randolph Carter

Randolph Carter's friend who descended into a crypt beneath Big Cypress Swamp with forbidden texts and did not return - only his voice, then another voice, came back up the stairs.

Harrison Marsh

Harrison Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1931-W74/8721.

Hazel Heald

Hazel Heald — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1922-D52/4360.

Henry Anthony Wilcox

Sculptor of the Cthulhu Dream

A Rhode Island sculptor who in February 1925 dreamed of R'lyeh and modelled Cthulhu in clay before he knew the name - a sensitive whose art preceded the world's brief awakening.

Henry Wentworth Akeley

Scholar of Vermont

A retired scholar who documented the Mi-Go in the Vermont hills, fought them with cameras and bullets, and was replaced by a machine in a chair that typed letters almost well enough to deceive Albert Wilmarth.

Herbert West

Reanimator

A medical student and later practitioner whose reagent could restore motion to the dead - without restoring the soul, and with results that drove him from university to war field to an attic in Boston where the accumulated dead finally answered back.

James Churchward

James Churchward — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1935-S87/7237.

James Ward Kirk

James Ward Kirk — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1922-R33/7042.

Jeb Marsh

Jeb Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1932-V17/2946.

Joseph Curwen

Necromancer of Providence

An eighteenth-century shipping magnate and necromancer who discovered the secret of vital saltes, survived his own apparent death, and was destroyed only when the men of Providence learned what lay beneath his farm on the Pawtuxet.

Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1934-H69/5908.

Karl Terry

Karl Terry — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1936-T44/4967.

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.

L'affaire Charles Dexter Ward

L'affaire Charles Dexter Ward — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1923-C68/8310.

Lavinia Whateley

Mother of the Dunwich Horror

A deformed and half-mad Dunwich woman who bore twins on Candlemas 1913 - one visible, one not - and vanished from a railway cattle-car with something that walked beside her on the hill.

Madeline Marsh's Midlife Crisis

Madeline Marsh's Midlife Crisis — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1927-O94/8075.

Marsh family

Marsh family — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1933-O12/9420.

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1927-G83/7163.

Nicole Marsh

Nicole Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1929-U61/5458.

Old Whateley

Patriarch of Dunwich

Lavinia's father, Wilbur's grandfather — the Dunwich sorcerer who opened the way for Yog-Sothoth and died knowing what would hatch on All-Hallows.

Panfilo de Zamacona

Panfilo de Zamacona — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1929-I48/9574.

Philip Marsh

Philip Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1925-Y43/3471.

Professor Bradley

Professor Bradley — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1924-Z74/2179.

Professor Chambers

Professor Chambers — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1926-L46/8427.

Professor Mayfield

Professor Mayfield — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1932-R99/5798.

Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

Professor Peabody's Last Lecture — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1925-K76/9891.

Prom Night, or Whateley Family

Prom Night, or Whateley Family Happiness

Prom Night, or Whateley Family Happiness — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1935-U11/8430.

Randolph Carter

Dreamer of Unknown Kadath

A Boston writer who walked the roads of sleep farther than any waking scholar, sought Unknown Kadath on the world's rim, and learned that the gods of Earth are small beside the powers that dance at the court of Azathoth.

Richard Upton Pickman

Painter of Boston's Underworld

A Boston painter whose ghoul portraits were not imagination but documentary - until his studio in the North End revealed a passage to tunnels where the subjects sat for their own portraits.

Richard Upton Pickman

Richard Upton Pickman — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1925-O14/2209.

Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1922-F24/3414.

Robert Harrison Blake

The Haunter of the Dark

A young writer who moved to Providence, studied the Church of Starry Wisdom's abandoned steeple, gazed upon the Shining Trapezohedron, and was found dead in his chair with a expression that no living face should wear.

Robert Harrison Blake

Robert Harrison Blake — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1930-X17/5871.

Robert Olmstead

Survivor of Innsmouth

A young man who traced his family to Innsmouth, learned the pact with the deep ones, escaped the town during the government raid, and carries in his veins the slow change that no raid can entirely erase.

Scott Dorward

Scott Dorward — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1932-V47/3336.

Scott T. Goudsward

Scott T. Goudsward — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1936-D14/7024.

Silas Marsh

Silas Marsh — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1923-S69/4924.

The Armitage Files

The Armitage Files — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1933-I54/4855.

The Warder of Knowledge

The Warder of Knowledge — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1927-K29/1642.

The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward

The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1930-H47/6188.

To Edward John Moreton Drax

To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany

To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1925-A31/3150.

Walter 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.

Ward Phillips

Ward Phillips — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1927-K90/6911.

Wilbur Whateley

The Dunwich Horror

Son of Lavinia Whateley and something that was not human, who grew with unnatural speed, sought the complete Necronomicon, and died on the library floor of Miskatonic University when a guard dog proved less merciful than Armitage's incantation.

Wilbur Whateley Waiting

Wilbur Whateley Waiting — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1924-V44/9113.

Wilbur Whateley's journal

Wilbur Whateley's journal — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1936-Z65/5936.

William Dyer

Leader of the Antarctic Expedition

Professor of geology at Miskatonic who led the 1930–31 Antarctic Expedition, witnessed Elder Thing ruins and shoggoths in the mountains, and suppressed his report so that no plane would fly south again.

Zadok Allen

Witness of Innsmouth

A ninety-six-year-old Innsmouth drunk who told Robert Olmstead the whole truth over bootleg rum - and was taken that same night by something that left only a sour smell and a stain.

Zealia Bishop

Zealia Bishop — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1927-U84/1252.

Zebulon Whateley

Zebulon Whateley — a human witness or antagonist; link to incidents in related dossiers. Register ME-1920-X93/1370.