A
Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) at witch trial, was named by Amity Howe as one marked by the Devil 150 & 194.
REH Gods (online text) 202-203, 208, 211: A goddess-name given to Brunhild of the Orkneys after she was shipwrecked on the Isle of the Gods. See Brunhild.
A hellish region.
RB Hell (online text) synonym for Satan 37; Satan 18.
CAS Holiness (online text) 122.
South America. AWD Curwen 10.
Of District School Number Seven, Arkham Area. AWD Witches 294.
One of Arkham's original settlers. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
A British man residing in Tahiti. A retired major of the Fifth Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He had a common-law wife named Takita. At some point he became part of the Black Brotherhood. When Albert Keith flew to Tahiti, Abbott befriended him and helped him hire the Okishuri Maru to visit the site of R'lyeh and destroy it. On arrival at R'lyeh, Abbot revealed that he was really there to open the door. Abbot was present when the crew fed Keith to Cthulhu. [RB Strange]
Providence. HPL Case (online text) near which the temporarily-revived body of Daniel Greene was found 137.
On planet Vhoorl. HH Guardian 295: Separated by three oceans from the city of Bhuulm. Includes Inner Mountains, lowlands populated by creatures thought to be long extinct, and a hidden city where a priestlike sect welcomes and tends to any travelers who arrive there. Tlaviir went to that city after the death of Kathulhn.
Father and mother of all cosmic uncleanness. CAS Seven (online text) 62, description 63*, 64-66.
Of Old Dutchtown, New York. REH House (online text) 120.
Synonym for Outer Ones. AWD Curwen 22; Keeper 141; Lurker 133.
A legendary Himalayan race spoken of by Nepalese hill-tribes, the Abominable Snow-Men are really the same as the Outer Ones from Yuggoth [HPL Whisperer (online text) 214]. See: Outer Ones.
AWD Gable (online text) 207, 209; Seal (online text) 159, 161-162; Survivor (online text) 162; Valley (online text) 135.
RFS Warder 164.
HPL Case (online text) alphabet possibly used in the Smith diary found by Charles Dexter Ward 139.
A young guide. FBL Hills (online text) 293.
HPL Electric one of several names, apparently of Mexican Indian gods, exclaimed by Arthur Feldon 68.
astronomical symbol of. AWD Seal (online text) 151.
Of Hyperborea. CAS Tale (online text) 3.
AWD Sky 62.
Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 106.
HPL Whisperer (online text) lean and sandy-haired, but with a droning voice, thus apparently a Mi-Go in disguise, steals the black stone from the B&M train at a stop in Keene, N.H. 230, sends fake telegram to Wilmarth, signed as by Henry "Akley" (232).
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) one of fine old residential streets west of Federal 320, narrator visits neighborhood 325, narrator uses during escape 354 & 356.
Tribe of Southern Arabia. AWD Lamp (online text) 249.
Incl: Shaddad bin Ad; Shedad.
Arabia or Middle East. AWD Keeper 143, 148, 152, 171-172.
HPL Case (online text) Charles Dexter Ward visits a village there to research old ceremonial practices 163; Man (online text) strange, ultra-realistic stone statues found after sculptor Arthur Wheeler moves there 201-202.
Incl: Morris, Daniel; Poole, Sam; Rex; Wheeler, Arthur; Allen's Cave; Mountain Top; Lake Placid; Thunder Hill.
Islands. AWD Island 186; Gorge 104-106, 110.
HPL Mountains (online text) Miskatonic Expedition views from sea 7.
HPL Case (online text) mentioned in one of Chas. Dexter Ward's invocations on the day he revives his ancestor Joseph Curwen 170, used in Joseph Curwen's chant to invoke his one ancient ally when confronted by Dr. Willet 233.
HPL Gates (online text) 426.
RFB Iram (online text) 115-118, (119).
Synonym for: Shedad.
Of Arabia. Father of Shaddad and Shadid. RFB Iram (online text) 115, 117, 118.
RB Philtre (online text) 292-296.
Living shadows, who lure victims into their dimension. Spoken of in the Song of Yste. RAL Abyss (online text) 289-291.
Synonym for Satan. RB Satan 8, 11.
Of Stamford-Norwalk area, Connecticut. RAL Settlers (online text) published by Clyde Cantrell and Will Richards.
Not to be confused with: Arkham Advertiser.
AWD Island 186; Gorge 103-104.
Incl: Adams; Blake; Greenbie, Alistair H.; Harker; Jacobson; Lambert, Jed; Peterson; Randall, Captain; Richardson; Siddons; Simonds; Wiles.
HPL Medusa (online text) flat-nosed aegipans appear in Frank Marsh's unfinished painting, dancing in a pattern Egypt's priests knew to be accursed 193.
See Egypt.
RFS Warder 164.
Affair that shambleth about in the night
HPL Gates (online text) per Alhazred, a shape of darkness transcending our world, but lesser than 'UMR AT-TAWIL 431.
HH Guardian 299: The tiny man from the bookstore said that the Book talks of the Affair that shambleth in the stars.
REH Fire (online text) 29-30, 34, 36, 39, 41-46, 54-56.
Incl: Ali, Yar.
HPL Nameless (online text) while descending a passage in the Nameless City, narrator is reminded of Afrasiab and the demons that floated with him down the Oxus 103.
HPL Aeons (online text) cult of Ghatanothoa penetrated the forgotten Semite empires of Africa 276; Call (online text) African outposts report ominous mutterings in Spring 1925, during the period when R'lyeh was risen 132; Cats (online text) the Cat is heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa 55; Diary (online text) 304; Medusa (online text) 171, 174, 190, 194; Museum (online text) 217; Test (online text) 19, 27, 54.
AWD Gorge 99, North Africa 108; Wind (online text) among the places apparently visited by Allison Wentworth and James Macdonald during the year they were held captive by Ithaqua.
RB Brood 92.
Project Arkham suspected that the disappearance of the leaders of three African republics was caused by the Black Brotherhood. [RB Strange]
REH Untitled 37.
Incl: Galla; Congo; devil-fly; Egypt; Hoggar; Impi; Sahara; South Africa; Tuaregs.
DW Lady (online text) 107.
HPL Case (online text) 121.
HPL Electric (online text) 63.
Sea-fronting valley in Hyperborean times. CAS Coming (online text) 74.
AWD Wood cult-art of 75-76, 82.
AWD Wood 75-76.
The personification of evil in the Zoroastrian religion [Wikipedia, Ahriman, 10/24/2020].
RB Hell (online text) 37.
After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Ahriman. [RB Strange]
REH Dig (online text) 79, 84: Prof. John Kirowan claimed that Muhammedans view Ahriman as a synonym for Malik Tous, and the essence of the evil of all the universes. In a ritual left by John Grimlann to be performed after his death, Ahriman was identified with Malik Tous and Satan.
River in Mnar. HPL Doom (online text) 44, 45, 48; Iranon (online text) 114.
AWD Sky 68.
A city. HPL Iranon (online text) 111-112, 114-117.
AWD Hastur 11, incl. Hastur? 12; Wind (online text) incl. Ithaqua.
See also: elementals.
AWD Island 181.
The gate to Thalarion. HPL White (online text) 38.
AWD Gable (online text): The narrator, a cousin of Wilbur Akeley. Though referred to only as Fred in the story, he is likely an Akeley because his and Wilbur's fathers were cousins of of Henry Akeley.
Son of Henry Akeley. HPL Whisperer (online text) 218, 225, 232, 236-237, 264*.
FL Terror2 (289, 296), 297, 299, 301-302, 310.
Cousin of Wilbur Akeley. HPL Whisperer (online text) 208, biography 215, address 216, son in San Diego 218, wife 219, description of house 222, Ford car 225, 232, home halfway up Dark Mountain 249, brain-to-go 267.
AWD Gable (online text) 206, 208; Gorge 108.
FL Terror2 289, 294, son 289, son 296, 310.
Arkham area? Cousin of Henry Akeley; cousin of Gable Window narrator. AWD Gable (online text) 199-210, 205-207, 210-211, 213.
Miskatonic University Library. AWD Gable (online text) 211.
Of Innsmouth. AWD Clay 377-380.
A manuscript left by a dead girl was full of secrets, but she considered "the way to make the Aklo letters" a secret that she "must not write down." [AM White2 (online text) 125]
Wilbur Whateley's diary stated "Today learned the Aklo for the Sabaoth, which did not like, it being answerable from the hill and not from the air." [HPL Dunwich (online text) 184]
In the church of the Starry Wisom Sect on Sentinel Hill, Providence, Robert Blake found a a small leather-bound record-book written in traditional symbols from astronomy, astrology, alchemy, and other dubious arts. Blake later determined that the text was an encrypted version of the dark Aklo language used by certain cults of evil antiquity, and known to him in a halting way through previous researches. Apparently the book referred to a Haunter of the Dark that could be awakened by gazing into the Shining Trapezohedron. [HPL Haunter (online text) 106]
While staying in the ruins of the van der Heyl house in Chorazin, New York, Alonzo Typer wrote in his diary of a malevolent presence in the house. He wrote that "It towers like a colossus, bearing out what is said in the Aklo writings." In the the attic, Typer found a strange book that contained variants of the Aklo formulae which he had never known to exist. One of these was the third Aklo ritual, which Typer believed would make such beings solid and visible. [HPL Diary (online text) 307, 309]
Winfield Phillips read of an obscure, prehuman language called Aklo in books loaned to him by Dr. Seneca Lapham [AWD Lurker 134].
Prof. Laban Shewsbury discoursed upon the languages of obscure evil cults: pre-human languages such as Aklo. [AWD Curwen 19.]
Rock in the lake of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 48, 49.
Of Al-Hijaz; Arab scribe of the caliph Mu'awiyah. RFB Iram (online text) 115, 118.
HPL Test (online text) 23.
Possibly related to Alamut, a mountainous region of northwest Iran [Alamut, Wikipedia 10/24/2020], or Mount Sinjar [Sinjar Mountains, Wikipedia 10/24/2020].
In Robert W. Chambers' novel The Slayer of Souls (1920), Mount Alamout is identified as the home of the Old Man of the Mountain, a Yezidee sorceror whose followers worship Erlik, the Prince of Darkness.
REH Dig (online text) 79: Prof. John Kirowan said that the Yezidees are of Mount Alamout the Accursed.
Lost city on Plateau of Sung. AWD Lair 119-121, 123-126, 130-135.
RWC Mask (online text) 60.
HPL Museum (online text) 217, 3 million year old ruins 221 & 229.
AWD Beyond2 164; Island 179; Gorge 98, 108.
Original Arabic text of the Necronomicon. Named after a sound, made by nocturnal insects, that resembled the howling of daemons. The Arabic original was thought to be lost by Olaus Wormius' time, ca. 1228 [HPL History (online text) 52-53].
See: Necronomicon.
Prof. Laban Shrewsbury and Nayland Colum questioned the spirit of Abdul Alhazred and retrieved his personal copy of the Al-Azif from his tomb in the Nameless City. [AWD Keeper 149, 164-166]
At Billington house, Stephen Bates found a manuscript volume called Al Azif-Ye Booke of Ye Arab, which had hand-copied passages from the Greek and Latin translations. The original Al-Azif was written in about the year A.D. 730 at Damascus by an Arab poet named Abdul Alhazred. [AWD Lurker 81, *quotation 81-82, 82-83, 83-84, 84, 123]
Joe Slater was jailed in Albany and examined by Dr. Barnard [HPL Sleep (online text) 28].
HPL Diary (online text) 304; Electric (online text) 68-70; Man (online text) 209.
12th century monk. HK Hydra (online text) 131.
Star in Pleiades. AWD Curwen 46.
A star in the Hyades. HPL Festival (online text) 208, 212; Kadath (online text), dream-lands about ___ 308;
AB Inhabitant (online text) 535.
RWC Mask (online text) 60; Repairer (online text) 17, 36.
AWD Curwen 21, 46; Dweller 133; Gorge 126; Keeper 150; Lurker 106, dark star nearby 133; Hastur where Hastur was banished 12, 27; Sky 59; Valley (online text) 135.
Old Dutchtown. REH House (online text) 120.
RWC Repairer (online text) 37.
AWD Hastur 12.
Narrator of The Mask. He unexpectedly found a copy of The King in Yellow at the home of his friends Boris and Genevieve. [RWC Mask (online text)]
A steam yacht, known in Dunedin as an island trader with an evil reputation. Manned by a queer and evil-looking crew of Kanakas and half-castes who held frequent night meetings and trips into the woods. Armed with a heavy battery of brass cannon. In the spring of 1925, intercepted the schooner Auckland at S. 49( 51', W. 128( 34', near the risen island of R'lyeh, and did battle to prevent them approaching the island. Boarded by Auckland crew, who were forced to kill all the ruthless but clumsy Alert crew members. The Alert crew proceeded forward and discovered risen R'lyeh, where several of them died. The two remaining crew members attempted to sail the Alert away; one (Johannsen) survived long enough to be rescued at S. 34( 21', W. 152( 17' by the Vigilant, which towed Alert to Darling Harbor. HPL Call (online text) 145-146, 149.
See also: Vigilant.
HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum of Archaeology includes Indian mummies from Aleutian Islands 266.
Newport. HPL Case (online text) 127, 163.
Egypt. HPL Pyramids (online text) 219.
RB Fane 135; Sebek 124; Shambler (online text) 180.
HPL Test (online text) 37.
Algol, the Daemon-Star. According to Joe Slater, Algol is the blinking beacon of a malevolent being called the oppressor [HPL Sleep (online text) 34].
Eye of Algol [AWD Dweller 138].
Spain. RB Kiss (online text) 49.
Alhazred, Abdul
See: Abdul Alhazred.
Arabia. RFB Iram (online text) 114.
Incl: Sufyan, Abu; Mu'awiyah; al-Ahbar, Ka'ab.
An Afghan. REH Fire (online text) 29-47, 53-57.
AWD Curwen 12, 46.
Of Innsmouth? Related to Whateleys or Marshes?
AWD Shuttered 270.
Muslim name for the supreme deity. RFB Iram (online text) 117-118.
Of Providence. AWD Brotherhood 331-333, 335-338, 341-342, 345-350.
Family, of District School Number Seven, near Arkham. AWD Witches 294.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 179, 181-182, 184, 187, 190, 193-196, 198, 200, 204, 213, 220-226, 230-231.
Of Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 322, 326-340, 359-360, 365.
AWD Island 191-194; Shuttered 277; Sky 82.
HPL Man (online text) 209.
Synonym for Halloween. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 284; Yig (online text) 92.
RB Creeper (online text) 103; Satan 17.
Type of saurian. AWD Survivor (online text) 152.
Billing of Jed Price. AWD Survivor (online text) 162.
Sorcerer. RB Suicide (online text) 19, (20), 21-23.
Synonym for Yog-Sothoth. HPL Gates (online text) 439.
AWD Curwen 21; Gorge 126; Keeper greater than other Ancient Ones 141; Lurker 133, 135; Seal (online text) 160.
HPL Gates (online text) 436.
HPL Mound (online text) 144.
Synonym for: Shub-Niggurath.
Of Texas. REH Lost 64.
Possibly same as James Allison of Valley of the Worm, Marchers of Valhalla? Character in REH Untitled 36-37, (38).
Of Texas. REH Lost 65.
Synonym for Almonsin-Metraton. HPL Case (online text) 170, 216.
Deity? Cult? HPL Case (online text) 152, 194.
Aka: Almonsin.
Of Leng. HPL Kadath (online text) (315-321), 322-323, 371, 376-379, (380), 382, 385-387, 391.
A dweller in Lomar. HPL Polaris (online text) 21-22.
Arab historian quoted on the subject of Irem. RFB Iram (online text) 118-119.
HPL Mound (online text) 106.
in Prague. HPL Case (online text) 194.
RFS Casket 12.
Los Angeles. Felipe Santiago's antique store was located on South Alvardo Street. [RB Strange]
Family. Ancestral country home was near Arkham. There were also seafaring Alwyns in Innsmouth. One of Innsmouth Alwyns, an uncle of Josiah Alwyn, built a home in Wisconsin in the 1850's. [AWD Beyond2]
AWD Beyond2 154-159, 161-170, 172-176.
Of Wisconsin. AWD Beyond2 153, (154), 155, (156-165, 167-174); Dweller 134.
One of the seafaring Alwyns of Innsmouth. A homely, froglike man, presumably the result of inbreeding with the Deep Ones. When he began being afflicted with the Innsmouth look, he moved to Wisconsin and left the cult of Cthulhu behind. He built a house in the wilderness and established contact with another of the elder beings, Lloigor or Ithaqua. The house was later inherited by Josiah Alwyn.
[AWD Beyond2 157-162, 164-165, 167, 170, last name mentioned 171, 172, 174-175.]
AWD Beyond2 (narrator), grandson of Josiah Alwyn 153, assistant librarian at Miskatonic U 154, Tony 155, great-nephew of Leander 157, 163. Note: His last name might not be Alwyn, even though one grandfather was an Alwyn.
Arabia. Desert area. RFB Iram (online text) 113.
Incl: Himyar; Irem; Saba, district of; San'a.
North Burial Ground, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 169.
HPL Museum (online text) Amazon Valley 217.
RB Terror 225.
New Hebrides. AWD Gorge 100-101.
Of Sandwin House. AWD Sandwin 92-93, 97-98, 109.
Of Vyones, Averoigne. CAS Holiness (online text) 119-135, 137-143.
Egyptian God. HPL Pyramids 221.
HPL Gates (online text) 434.
American Archaeological Society
HPL Call (online text) will later publish much of the papers of the late George Gammell Angell 126, Angell attends 1908 meeting in St. Louis and hears tale of Inspector Legrasse 133.
American Psychological Society
HPL Time (online text) 403-404.
HPL Case (online text) alphabet 139.
RFS Warder language 156.
At Karnak, Egypt. AWD Island 182.
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of ram-headed Amon. [RB Strange]
Pet, relative, or friend of Horvath Blayne; last name possibly Waite. AWD Island 192.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
Explorer. HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 28, 42.
HPL Electric (online text) 68.
See d'Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo.
England. HPL Rats (online text) 27-29, 40: A town whose inhabitants feared nearby Exham Priory and hated the de la Poer family. The exact location is unclear, but when Delapore was removed from Exham Priory to an asylum, he was placed in Hanwell, just west of London. Also, Lovecraft stated in a letter that the location was in the South of England [Letter to Frank Belknap Long, 8 Nov, 1923; in Selected Letters I: 1911-1924].
Synonym for: Great Old Ones (3).
AWD Passing referred to in Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus; Sandwin 101.
Friends of Umr-a-tawil. HPL Gates (online text) 433, 435-437, 439-441.
An evil group of gods; synonym for Great Old Ones (3). For further information, see Elder Gods and Great Old Ones: God Terminology in Derleth's Mythos Stories.
AWD Beyond2 165; Island = Great Old Ones 179, 180, 182, 186, 188, 195, 197-198, 211-212; Curwen 21; Gable (online text) 207, 210, 213; Gorge 111, = Great Old Ones 121; Keeper 141, 144, 147, 149, 151, 157, 162, 165, 169; Lamp (online text) 254; Lurker 133; OutThere Mad evil genii who inhabited outer space before the world was born. Were defeated by Elder Gods and banished to various parts of the cosmos. Were mentioned in occult lore studied by Geoffrey Malvern and his friends; Seal (online text) 160, 162-163; Space war with Great Race 237, 238-242; Valley (online text) 127, 134-135; Whippoorwills 51, 70; Wind (online text) once ruled at Leng; Witches 301-303.
Aka: Older Gods.
A benevolent group of gods; synonym for Elder Gods (1). For further information, see Elder Gods and Great Old Ones: God Terminology in Derleth's Mythos Stories.
AWD Depths (online text) 235, 237, 240; Hastur = Elder Gods 11; Lair = Elder Gods 134, description 134-135; Sandwin 105, seals put upon them by the retreating Ancient Ones 106; Sky 68;
Combined name for good and evil gods, including both the Elder Gods (1) and the Great Old Ones (3).
AWD Sandwin 105.
HK Bells (online text) 86.
HK Eater (online text) who filter strangely between universes 12.
HPL Mountains (online text) 41.
AWD Curwen 10, 15; Keeper 140.
AWD Gorge 115, 122-126, 128-133.
Historical person. HPL Pickman (online text) 18.
Of Lima. AWD Gorge 97, 115, 122, Vibberto 122-123, 124-125, 128-130, 134.
AWD Hastur 17.
Of Bal-Sagoth. REH Gods (online text) 197.
Of Chicago; painter. HPL Call (online text) 138; Pickman (online text) 13.
HPL Call (online text) Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Brown University; eminent expert on ancient inscriptions; died, a childless widower, at age 92 in the winter of 1926-1927; died mysteriously after being jostled by a nautical-looking negro while walking uphill to his home from the Newport boat 126; left notes concerning Cthulhu cult in locked box later opened by his grand-nephew, who was both heir and executor 126-127; listened to the story of Henry Anthony Wilcox and his sculpture of Cthulhu 128-131; collected accounts of the dreams of aesthetes from Feb 28--Apr 2 1925, 131; and press cuttings about cases of panic, mania and eccentricity in the same period 132; attends American Archaeological Society meeting in St. Louis, 1908, and hears Inspector Legrasse's tale of Cthulhu worship in Louisiana 133; excited by Wilcox's tale because it dovetails with that of Legrasse 142; possibly killed by Cthulhu cult members with a poison needle 144; narrator adds Johannsen narrative to Angell's tin box 154.
FL Terror2 288, 301, 310.
Partridgeville. FBL Hounds (online text) 84.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 177.
AWD Brotherhood 328-329, 335-336, 340, 342, 344, 348; Lamp (online text) 248, 256.
Cambodia.
Angkor Wat was built using remnants of knowledge from the pre-Flood era when humanity worshipped the Great Old Ones. [RB Strange]
AWD Island 178, 181-182; Space 235, 246.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 153-158, 162-163.
FBL Hounds (online text) 80-83, triangle 85; Space 92.
See also: geometry.
Welsh island. RB DarkIsle 93-95, 98.
Aka: Mona; Ynys Dywyll.
Sailor, of the Emma, swept up by the flabby claws of Cthulhu on the risen island of R'lyeh. HPL Call (online text) 152.
A "prince" of the netherworld. AWD Wentworth 175.
Crux ansata of Egypt. HPL Haunter (online text) 100.
JVS Snouted 25, 28.
Of Nahua Indians. AWD Island 181.
Annals of the Jinns
A series of eleven short stories or vignettes by Robert H. Barlow. Clark Ashton Smith told Barlow, "As for the people of your Annals . . . I am inclined that they must have lived on Antanôk, the lost, disrupted planet of which the asteroids are remnants." [CAS Pnom] Most of the episodes of "Annals of the Jinns" are available in issues of The Fantasy Fan from 1933-1935 on Project Gutenberg.
Antanôk
A planet between Mars and Jupiter that was blown up, becoming the source of the asteroid belt. The people of the "Annals of the Jinns" may have lived there. There was some intercourse between Antanôk and Earth at one time, and some authorities have suggested that colonists from Antanôk were the ancestors of the human race. [CAS Pnom]
More details about Antanôk are available in Clark Ashton Smith's The Master of Destruction (Synopsis and Fragment) at Eldritchdark.com.
HPL Haunter (online text) 106; Mound (online text) (131); Mountains (online text) throughout, climate 5, mountain ranges 71-72; Time (online text) 395, 400, 406, 417;
Lovecraft's city may be in Antarctica, under the plateau he called Leng. [RB Strange]
AWD Lurker 115-116; Seal (online text) 172; Space 235, 238; Wind (online text) in his delirium, Allison Wentworth raved of "strange hybrid men living under the snow and ice of Antarctica."
Incl: Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition; Mountains of Madness; Old Ones.
See also: inner city at the magnetic poles
Star cluster. AWD Lurker 137.
DW Fire2 (online text) 80, 81, 78.
Antarctica? HPL Fungi (online text) XV.
Of Texas. REH Lost 64-65, 68, 88.
AWD Gorge 130.
RB Satan 17.
A Greek messenger. FBL Hills (online text) 289.
Egyptian god. RB Brood 95; Fane 134; Mummy 284; Opener 156-157, 160-161, 163, 165, 167-170; Sebek 115, 125.
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of jackal-headed Anubis. [RB Strange]
Aka: Opener of the Way.
An African tribe. HPL Picture (online text) 119, 122, 124.
Aphrodisia: A Study of Erotic Stimuli Through the Ages
An unpublished scholarly work by Charles, an associate professor of medeival history who spent a year researching it after he lost his position at a university. Charles took the manuscript to Mark Thornwald for his advice. Thornwald was much taken by a love spell in the book, quoted from Ludvig Prinn's Grimoire, and decided to give it a try. [RB Philtre (online text) 293]
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Apis. [RB Strange]
According to Revelation 9:11, "A king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans." [Douay-Rheims Bible, quoted in Abaddon, Wikipedia 10/24/2020]
REH Dig (online text) 84: In a ritual left by John Grimlann to be performed after his death, Apolleon was identified with Malik Tous and Satan.
HPL Electric (online text) 70.
FL Terror2 295.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
HPL Call (online text) pathless deserts include center of Cthulhu/Great Old Ones cult, according to Castro 141; Descendant (online text) 362; History (online text) 52; Museum (online text) 217; Nameless (online text) 98-110; Silver (online text) 413; Time (online text) 373.
AWD Dweller 122; Gorge deserts 122; Keeper 140, 148-150, 170; Lamp (online text) 249, 251; Space 233, 245-247.
RB Faceless 37; An Arab guide hinted that the Necronomicon is still available in the Arab countries [Fane 131-133, 136, 138-139]; Mummy 287; Sebek 124.
Project Arkham suspected the Black Brotherhood of causing the plane crash that killed five United Nations delegates from Arab oil countries. [RB Strange]
REH Black (online text) 72; Fire (online text) 32, 38-41, 43, 45, 47. 50, 52-55, 58.
FBL WereSnake (online text) there are altars to Ishtar in Arabia.
CAS Return (online text) Arabian spices 38.
Incl: Kilabah, Abdullah bin Abi; Sufyan, Abu; Ad the greater; Alhazred; al-Ahbar, Ka'ab; Khallikan, Ebn; Mohammed; Mu'awiyah; Mukalla; Ad, Shaddad bin; Shaddad the Less; Shadid; Shedad.
Incl: Ad tribe; Aden; Al-Hijaz; Al-Sha'abi; Al-Yaman; City of Pillars; Crimson Desert; Dahna; Damascus; Damqut; El Nigro; Empty Space; Irem; Hadramant; Hazramaut; Himyar; Hymarites; Irem; Jadis tribe; Lamp of Alhazred; Mareb; Muscat; Nameless City; Oman; Roba el Ehaliyeh; Roba el Khaliyeh; Saba; Salalah; San'a; Sanaa; Suez; Tasm tribe; Thamood tribe; Tigris-Euphrates valley?; Timna; Yemen.
HPL Mountains (online text) 47.
where lies Irem. HPL Gates (online text) 426.
HPL Test (online text) 19.
HPL Statement (online text) 300.
HC Death (online text) 367-368.
HK Frog (online text) 108; Salem (online text) 253.
RAL Settlers (online text) Latin Necronomicon a translation from the Arabic 32.
RFS Warder 156.
CAS Return (online text) 33-34, 36, 38.
HPL Time (online text) 395.
Synonym for Irem; alternate spelling used in some translations of the Koran.
in Ooth-Nargai. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 85-86; Kadath (online text) 352, 357-358.
One of the Seven Stewards of Heaven invoked in White Magic [RB Hell (online text) 60].
Period lasting from 4.5 billion to 2 billion years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 12, 16, 19-20, 22, 25, 29, 30, 32-33, 37, 39, 41, 59, 66, 103.
Aka: Archaeozoic era.
HPL Mountains (online text) 19.
Synonym for: Archaean period.
HPL Gates (online text) 448.
HPL Gates (online text) 441, 443-444.
CAS Seven (online text) 60, (61), 62-65.
AWD Space 233; Valley (online text) 135.
HPL Museum (online text) 229.
AWD Beyond2 154; Island 201; Sandwin Arctic wastes 106.
Around which Kythamil revolves. HPL Gates (online text) 444.
AWD Dweller 137-138; Lurker 137; Sandwin 108-109.
Fantastic painter of possibly Cthulhu-influenced "Dream Landscape," a blasphemous contribution to the Paris spring salon of 1926. HPL Call (online text) 132.
Of Polynesia. HPL Aeons (online text) teachings of Ghatanothoa cult became merged into the esoteric lore of the Polynesian Areoi 276.
Incl: Fuentes.
A star. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 275, 278.
HPL Electric (online text) 70.
Fabled. HK Kralitz (online text) 4.
A place, in Scotland. Incl. Gordon, Sir Richard; Gordon, Lady Elizabeth.
Of Innsmouth; a Whateley? AWD Shuttered 271-273, 276-278.
HPL Mound (online text) 115.
Aristius
A character in the book Towers in the Sky, by Justin Geoffrey. Aristius had "thrown open Doors not meant for human hands, and had felt dark windows blow cold on his fear-mad face from Outer Gulfs." [REH Door]
HPL Mound (online text) 96.
HPL Yig (online text) 84, 87.
Kansas. HPL Mound (online text) 116.
Arkham (1)
City in Massachusetts. View the full article on Arkham.
A brig (a two-masted, square-rigged sailing vessel), one of two ships used on the Miskatonic Antarctic Expedition of 1930-31. The commander was Capt. J. B. Douglas. When the expedition set up a provisional camp on Ross Island, headquarters remained aboard the Arkham. The ship had a large wireless outfit, capable of communicating with the explorer's smaller wireless outfits anywhere in Antarctica, and also with the Arkham Advertiser's powerful wireless station on Kingsport Head, Mass. If the expedition lasted past the Antarctic summer, the explorers planned to winter on the Arkham. The ship remained in McMurdo Sound and relayed reports to the outside world on wave-lengths up to fifty metres. [HPL Mountains (online text)]
See: Arkham Advertiser.
Includes the centuries-old, ivy-covered Tuttle family vault. The vault was violated, one wall smashed, and the coffin of Amos Tuttle taken. [AWD Hastur]
In March 1883, the editor of the Arkham Gazette wrote a humorous article about the strangely coloured saxifrage at Nahum Gardner's farm. [HPL Colour (online text)]
The Arkham newpapers carried the story of Laban Shrewsbury's disappearance in 1915 and his unexpected reappearance in 1935. Probably they also carried the story of Andrew Phelan's disappearance and presumed suicide on September 3, 1938, since the story was carried further afield, in the Boston Herald. [AWD Curwen]
The Miskatonic University Library has volumes of the Arkham Gazette from a century ago. In the time of Alijah Billington, the Arkham Advertiser and the Arkham Gazette carried stories and letters about noises heard at night in Billington's Wood; the investigations by Rev. Ward Phillips, Deliverance Westripp, and John Druven; the latter's disappearance and the eventual finding of his mangled remains; the departure of Alijah and Laban Billington for England; and the disappearance of the Indian, Quamis. [AWD Lurker]
Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere's papers included a file of the Arkham Gazette. [AWD Survivor (online text)]
In 1920, the editor of the Arkham Gazette was an elderly man of almost 70. He was a member of the local District Board of Education and helped the new teacher, Mr. Williams, to find a room. He told Williams about Wizard Potter and the Potter family, and suggested that Williams consult the Necronomicon at the Miskatonic University Library. [AWD Witches 299, editor 299-301]
The curator of the Arkham Historical Society, E. Lapham Peabody, assisted the Shadow Over Innsmouth narrator in his genealogical researches. [HPL Innsmouth]
A small publishing company, founded in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft in hardcover. The firm also went on to publish many distinguished authors of fantasy and horror fiction. [Arkham House, Wikipedia]
Upton Gardner requested a copy of the Arkham House volume The Outsider and Others by H. P. Lovecraft. [AWD Dweller]
The Arkham Sanitarium was the site of Edward Pickman Derby's confinement, and of his apparent murder by his friend Daniel Upton, circa the late 1920s to early 1930s. [HPL Doorstep (online text)]
The presence of a sanitarium in Arkham makes it seem a little odd that the reanimated Allan Halsey was taken from Arkham to the asylum in Sefton ca. 1904. This suggests the possibility that the Arkham Sanitarium had not yet been built at that date.
Of Hancock County, Georgia. Mrs. Armer was a dabbler in the occult who had a book on witchcraft, a book on the occult, and a book by Abdul Alhazred (but not the Necronomicon). Mrs. Armer was murdered by her husband, probably with poison. After her husband remarried, Mrs. Armer's ghost returned and killed her husband, and later almost killed his wife. [HC Intruders]
Of Miskatonic University Library. HPL Dunwich (online text) 169-170, 176, 182 etc., age 186, description 193.
AWD Watchers 402.
FL Terror2 286-287, 293, 300, 309.
Of New York. AWD Lurker 137.
Son of Lord Leveredge. AWD Those 112-117.
HPL Case (online text) 133.
Better known as Ars Generalis Ultima or Ars Magna. A work by Raymond Lully, published in 1305. It provided a system of arguments to aid in converting Moslems to Christianity. ["Ramon Llull," Wikipedia]
Joseph Curwen had a copy of Raymond Lully's Ars Magna et Ultima in Zetsner's edition. [HPL Case (online text) 121] "Zetsner's edition" was a one-volume Latin edition of several of Lully's works, published by Lazarus Zetzner in Strasbourg, 1598. The Zetsner edition includes related works by Giordano Bruno and Cornelius Agrippa, authors whose speculative or occult tendencies may have been of interest to Curwen. The John Hay Library at Brown University has a copy, which is cataloged under the abbreviated title Raymundii Lullii Opera ea quae ad adinuentam ab ipso artem vniuersalem ... pertinent : vt et in eandem quorundam interpretus scripti commentarij: quae omnia ... edita sunt : accessit index ... locupletissimus. (Thanks to John Merritt for sending me details about the Zetzner edition.)
Ambrose Dewart found a copy in Billington House [AWD Lurker 16].
Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop [AWD Whippoorwills 43].
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 12.
"A writer to whom a number of alchemical texts are ascribed. Although the roots of the texts are unclear and the identity of their author obscure, at least some of them are Arabic in origin. He is named as the author of several books, the Ars sintrillia, Clavis sapientiae or Clavis maioris sapientiae, and Liber secretus." [Artephius, Wikipedia]
Author, Key of Wisdom. [HPL Case (online text) 121]
Aka: Artephous.
AWD Lurker 16.
Synonym for: Artephius.
Short for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
DW Fire2 (online text) 78-89.
AWD Curwen 12.
REH Fire (online text) 40.
REH Children (online text) 156, (157-159), 161-164: A youth of the Sword People in ancient Britain, not yet old enough to bear the sword of a warrior. While on a hunting expedition with five others, he fell asleep during his watch. He was wounded and his comrades were all killed and mutilated by the Children of the Night. He called on the god of the Sword People, Il-marinen. He pursued the Children for vengeance and killed many before dying himself. Apparently he was an earlier incarnation of John O'Donnel.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 151.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 153-154, 175.
Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 321.
New Jersey. FBL Hills (online text).
Legatus of Cohors V. FBL Hills (online text) 290.
Mother of Marjory Ash. REH Hoofed 157.
Later Evelyn Gordon. REH Ring (online text) 56.
Daughter of Mrs. Ash. REH Hoofed 145, 148, 156-160, (161-163), 164-165, 168-169.
Of Miskatonic University; ancient history. HPL Time (online text) 406.
See: Asshurbanipal.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 334.
HPL Test (online text) 19, 54.
AWD Island 178-180; Curwen 12; Gable (online text) 200, 207; Gorge Southwest Asia 108; Hastur 2, 21; Ithaqua 111; Lurker 116; Sandwin 106; Seal (online text) 149, 159, 162; Valley (online text) 135.
REH Dig (online text) 79: According to Prof. John Kirowan, the Eight Brazen Towers of the Yezidees rise in the mysterious wastes of deep Asia.
FBL WereSnake (online text) the worship of Ishtar extended over the whole of Asia.
Incl: Cambodia; China; French Indo-China; India; Mongolia; Tcho-Tcho people; Thibet.
HPL Aeons (online text) secret cults of Asiatics pose threat to Richard Johnson and others of Cabot Museum of Archaeology 265, swarthy Asiatics visit Cabot Museum 279.
A demon. CAS Holiness (online text) 122.
A demon. RB Demon Nyarlathotep's form resembled Asmodeus 67, 69, 70; Faceless Nyarlathotep is emissary of Asmodeus and darker gods 41; Hell (online text) 37; Gideon Godfrey claimed to be Asmodeus, Prince of Hell Satan 15.
Lawyer, cousin of Randolph Carter. HPL Gates (online text) 424-425, 427, 429, 446, 452-456, 458; Silver (online text) 418.
RB Sebek 124.
Assyrian king. REH Fire (online text) 32, 49-50.
AWD Island library of, in Nineveh 181.
Synonym for: Sardanapalus.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 179, 187; Electric (online text) 74; Mountains (online text) 5; hinted about the investigation of the death of Henry Sargent Moore Winged (online text) 253.
REH Fire (online text) 38-40, 43, 57.
FBL WereSnake (online text) Ishtar was the great mother goddess of the Assyrians.
RFS Warder 165.
JVS Dead cuneiform 30.
Shub-Niggurath is described as " a kind of sophisticated Astarte." [HPL Mound (online text)]
FBL WereSnake (online text) Astarte is another name for Ishtar.
asteroid belt
See: Antanôk.
Home of Panfilo de Zamacona y Nunez. HPL Mound (online text) 113, 130.
HK Hydra (online text) 128, 135-136.
See also: souls, immortal.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 153, 158-159, 161.
AWD Lurker (60); Sandwin Lloigor's movements limited by need for full moon and Arcturus above the horizon 108; Whippoorwills (46).
See: celestial objects
Of Ulthar, in dreamlands. HPL Cats (online text) innkeeper's son who sees the cats circling the cotters' cottage 57-58; Other (online text) young priest, disciple of Barzai, who told him where the black cats go on St. John's Eve128, accompanies Barzai in the doomed ascent of Hatheg-Kla 129-131, after Barzai's seizure by the other gods, refuses ever to pray for his soul 132; Kadath (online text) (310), 311-314, 353.
Athammaus
The chief headsman of Commoriom. He was descendant of a long line of headsmen stemming from the mythic generations of the primal kings down to his father, Manghai Thal. As headsman, he wore the blood-bright purple of his office, and wielded the great copper sword of justice on the block of eighon-wood. He also owned a short falchion and a great billhook. He was much honored by the King Loquamethros and by the populace of Commoriom. He struck off the head of Knygathin Zhaum three times, but failed to keep Zhaum from coming back to life in successively more monstrous forms. Due to this failure, Athammaus and all the other inhabitants of Commoriom were forced to flee the city. Later, Athammaus was headsman of Uzuldaroum and lived to an advanced age. [CAS Testament (online text)]
REH Dark (online text) 78-80, 84-86; Gods (online text) 187~234: A sometime enemy and sometime companion of Turlogh O'Brien. Gray-eyed, blond, and of huge stature, a good half head taller
than Turlogh who stood well above six feet. Originally of Wessex. He had a yearning for the sea even when he was a shock-headed child in Wessex. While still a youth he killed a young eorl (noble) and fled the vengeance of his people. He found refuge in the Orkneys, and the ways of the Vikings were more to his liking than the ways of his own blood. But he came back to fight against Canute, and when England submitted to his rule, he was given command of Canute's house-carles, thus incurring the envy of Danes and Saxons alike. When a Saxon thane and a Danish jarl assailed him with fiery words at a feast, he slew them both. So England was again barred to him and he resumed the Viking path. Turlogh thought him a strange man,
this renegade Saxon who hunted with the wolf-pack of the
North—a savage warrior in battle, but with fibers of kindliness in his
makeup which set him apart from the men with whom he consorted. On their first meeting, Athelstane unsuccessfully defended Thorfel's skalli from an attack Turlogh and by Brogar's Picts. Athelstate was felled by Turlogh's axe, leaving a thin white scar on his temple. But, after the priest Jerome interceded, Turlogh spared Athelstane's life. Later, they fought again during a storm when the ship of Lodbrug the Viking, with Athelstane aboard, attacked a French vessel where Turlogh was the only warrior in the crew. This time Athelstane spared Turlogh, merely knocking him out with the flat of his sword. Later they washed up on the shores of the Isle of the Gods and helped Brunhild regain the queenship. After her death, the two joined up with Don Roderigo del Cortez of Castile on the Gray Friar, on a mission to harry the Moorish
Corsairs.
; Hun 151-153; Twilight 66, 89.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 169.
AWD Brotherhood 328, 330, 337, 346.
A sea captain in Celephaïs. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 86.
HPL Iranon (online text) 113.
Town en route Gardner to Greenfield. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.
HPL Gates (online text) 435.
Spider-god beneath Voormithadreth. AWD Lurker 135.
CAS Seven (online text) 55-56, spends eternity bridging the chasm 56, 57-58, 66.
New Jersey. HPL Case (online text) 178, 185, 230.
AWD Island 191, 212; Curwen 31; Gorge 108; Lurker 122; Valley (online text) 132, 138; Seal (online text) 150, 164; Sky 80; Wood source of wood carving 74, R'lyeh underneath it 77, 87.
HPL Aeons (online text) rumors of Ghatanothoa cult in ill-fated Atlantis 276; Descendant (online text) great land in the west that had sunk (361), Ignatius Donnelly's account of 361; Haunter (online text) 106; Medusa (online text) cities in Hoggar region of Sahara 171, 173, Atlantean magic 181, 187, 193; Mist (online text) 282*; Mound (online text) 137, 152; Mountains (online text) 47; Test (online text) 19, 42, 46-47, 54; Time (online text) middle kingdom 395; Whisperer (online text) Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton 254.
RB DarkIsle 93; Faceless fell sometime after Nyarlathotep worship was stamped out in Egypt 41.
Atlantis was destroyed by the period of great earth upheavals called the Flood. [RB Strange]
CAS Testament (online text): Tribute was sent to Commoriom from the shores of the Atlantean sea.
AWD GodBox 121; Island 184; Keeper 170; Lurker 122, 124; Gorge 108.
REH Hyborian (online text) probably different from the Atlantis of Smith's stories; Untitled 37; Shadow (online text); Dark (online text) 87.
REH Skull (online text): Atlantis was located between Africa and South America. In ancient times, the ape-like ancestors of today's white race defied the Atlanteans. Before the land sank, Kathulos the Atlantean mage, along with ancient kings and grim wizards, drank a potion to enable them to sleep underwater for long eons. After his return in modern times, Kathulos planned to revive the living dead of Atlantis and establish a new world empire.
HK Invaders (online text) 70, 73; Spawn2 (online text) throughout, including 67, 79-81, 83.
FBL Hounds (online text) 79.
RFS Warder 164.
Short for The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, by W. Scott-Elliot. A work on lost continents written by a Theosophist follower of Helene Blavatsky. It was originally two separate works, published in 1896 and 1904, and reprinted in a combined edition starting in 1925. [From a 1968 printing by the Theosophical Publishing House]. The online texts are available at the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
The book was cited in Professor Angell's notes on the Cthulhu cult. Perhaps Angell found the theme of sunken continents to be reminiscent of sunken R'lyeh [HPL Call (online text) 128].
Hellenic deity. AWD Lurker 122.
A popular science book, originally titled L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, by the French astronomer Camille Flammarion, published in 1888.
A tiny man man assured Doctor Wycherly that he would never find a copy of a book like Flammarion's Atmosphere in a bookstore [HH Guardian 288]. However, it does not appear to be quite that rare; copies are currently listed for sale at websites such as abebooks.com.
RB Steeple (online text) 227-229.
AWD Island (need to look up page references).
By H. P. Lovecraft. AWD Curwen 14.
New York. HPL Diary (online text) 303, 306.
A story published in Jan, 1922 Whispers. HPL Unnameable (online text) 202.
REH Bear 36; Black (online text) 57.
See Atys.
En route Boston to Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152.
Of Miskatonic University Physics (and meteorology). HPL Mountains (online text) 4, 11, 14-15, 26.
FL Terror2 269, co-inventor of magneto-optic geoscanner 293, 298, his father 300.
Of Providence (temporarily); antiquarian. AWD Survivor (online text) (narrator) 148, (149), 150, (151-154), 155.
HPL Fungi (online text) XI.
HPL Electric (online text) 70; Rats (online text) 37, 45.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 21.
New Zealand. HPL Call (online text) Aukland correspondent of the Sydney Bulletin reported the Emma and its crew to have an excellent reputation 146, Emma cleared Auckland on February 20, 1925 149.
AWD Gorge 103, 107.
Maine. HPL Doorstep (online text) 287.
Bishop of Hippo. AWD OutThere While visiting Hydestall Cathedral, used a star-stone inscribed with a Latin prayer to re-imprison Something from Out There after it was set free by the mad monk Clithanus. Exiled Clithanus to Rome; Passing bishop over Clithanus, who sent the spawn of Cthulhu back to the sea.
HPL Gates (online text) 443; Time (online text) 368, 395, 403-404, submerged in the past 405, 406-407.
An earthquake near R'lyeh was felt in Australia. The unexplored region of Australia that Lovecraft describes may offer up its secrets. [RB Strange]
AWD Island 195; Curwen 13; Gorge 99.
FL Terror2 296.
Incl:
Boyle, Dr. E. M.; Blackfellows; Buddai; Mackenzie, Robert B. F.; Tupper;
Dampier St.; De Grey River; Great Sandy Desert; Joanna Spring; Pilbarra; Warburton's Path of 1873.
Incl: Vienna.
France. HPL Medusa (online text) 181.
RFS Casket demon 11; Warder fiendish being with revolting habits 159.
AWD Curwen 45.
Aka: Doorways to Outside.
Of Boston Churchyard. HPL Herbert (online text) 160.
France. HPL Aeons (online text) incl. Chateau Faussesflammes 269.
CAS Holiness (online text) 119-121, 123, 126, 131-133, 142.
Averoigne was located immediately to the northeast of Ulthar [CAS Pnom].
Incl:
CAS Holiness (online text) 119, 137-138.
Synonym for: Clement.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
Town en route Concord to Fitchburg. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.
A town on the Aylesbury Pike in north central Massachusetts. It cannot be very far from Dunwich, since Aylesbury is the closest town where Wilbur Whately could find a doctor. [HPL Dunwich (online text)]
The local newspaper is the Aylesbury Transcript.
Aylesbury has a town farm (a kind of poorhouse). Three men from the Aylesbury town farm went for John Whateley when he started howling at night, but came back scared after they found him talking to two crouching things with great black wings. [HPL Fungi (online text) XXVI]
Zaman's Hill is nearby. People from Aylesbury came to stare after the town at the foot of Zaman's Hill disappeared. [HPL Fungi (online text) VII]
Obed Marsh (2) was proprietor of a a country store on the outskirts of the village. [AWD Valley (online text)]
Seth Bishop's house was in a valley near the village. The Aylesbury locals hated and feared Seth Bishop, and shunned Jefferson Bates after he moved into Seth Bishop's house. Some of them came to search the house when sheep started disappearing. [AWD Valley (online text)]
In Aylesbury they call the area around Dunwich "Whateley country." [AWD Watchers]
The men from the sheriff’s office at Aylesbury were either unable or unwilling to make any progress in explaining the disappearance of Abel Harrop. [AWD Whippoorwills]
Abner Whateley was able to hire laborers in Aylesbury to tear down the old mill at Luther Whateley's house near Dunwich. [AWD Shuttered]
Incl: Dr. Houghton; Obed Marsh; Sheriff;
Aylesbury Pike, Aylesbury Transcript.
A toll road in Massachusetts, named after the town of Aylesbury.
There is an Aylesbury Street on the outskirts of Arkham that branches off of River St. and proceeds west. [See Lovecraft's Map of Arkham.] This is presumably the beginning of the Aylesbury Pike. In north central Massachusetts, just beyond Dean's Corners, the Aylesbury Pike has a junction with a smaller road that runs to Dunwich and then rejoins the Aylesbury Pike further on. [HPL Dunwich (online text)]
In Derleth's stories, it is stated explicitly that the Aylesbury Pike "opens from River Street in Arkham, and proceeds in leisurely fashion west and northwest of the ancient, gambrel-roofed town toward the strange, lonely Dunwich country beyond Dean’s Corners." [AWD Lurker] Arkham was growing outward along the Aylesbury Pike. [AWD Attic]
Attractions on the Pike not far from Arkham include:
- Billington's Wood. North of Arkham, the Pike runs through a region of rolling, forested hills known as Billington's Wood. Billington House is concealed in the woods, and a road runs from it to Aylesbury Pike. The Aylesbury Pike already existed at the time of Alijah Billington. [AWD Lurker]
- The Tuttle House. [AWD Hastur]
- Wilbur Akeley's house, in a pocket of hills off the Aylesbury Pike, which was inherited by Fred. [AWD Gable (online text)] This seems likely to have been in the Arkham area, since he was a cousin of Henry Wentworth Akeley and a visitor to the Miskatonic University Library.
Stephen Boyle told a visitor in Boston that he could pick up the Aylesbury Pike near Concord, or due west of Boston if bearing towards Worcester. [AWD Watchers] His directions are surprising because Arkham is somewhere in Essex County, northeast of Boston. A route directly from Arkham to north central Massachusetts would not pass as far south as Boston or Concord. Possibly the Aylesbury Pike follows a rather eccentric course, starting out west-northwest from Arkham, then veering to the southwest and passing to the west of Boston before changing direction again to the northwest toward Dunwich country. Alternately, Boyle may have been referring to some other road that passes west of Boston and near Concord, proceding north or northwest until it connects with the actual Aylesbury Pike.
Stephen Boyle also specified that when you reach the junction just past Dean’s Corners, it is a left turn that puts you on the side road through Dunwich. [AWD Watchers] Brier-bordered stone walls line much of the side road from the Aylesbury Pike to Dunwich. [AWD Middle]
Abel Harrop's house was "in a remote valley seven miles off the Aylesbury Pike out of Arkham." Note that this means seven miles from the Aylesbury Pike, not seven miles from Arkham. The house is apparently closer to Aylesbury than Arkham, since Aylesbury is where Harrop did his grocery shopping. [AWD Whippoorwills]
It is not explicitly stated whether Aylesbury is east or west of Dean's Corners. We do know that Aylesbury is close to Dunwich. At a guess, Aylesbury is located still further west on the Aylesbury Pike, and is likely the point where the Pike terminates.
The "Aylesbury Road" seems to be either a synonym for the Aylesbury Pike, or perhaps a name for a section of road that continues west from Aylesbury Street in Arkham and later becomes the Aylesbury Pike.
The Tuttle house was on the Aylesbury road, near the Innsmouth Turnpike. After Paul Tuttle took possession, passengers along the Aylesbury Road heard strange sounds emanating from the Tuttle house late at night. [AWD Hastur 1, 3-8, 22-24, 31, 33] David had heard about the Tuttle affair on the Aylesbury road. [AWD Sandwin 105]
Incl: Tuttle house.
Arkham. Uriah Garrison's house was on Aylesbury Street. The property on which it stood had considerable value due to the expansion of Arkham along the Aylesbury Pike. [AWD Attic 308, 324, 327]
Laban Shrewsbury's house was on Aylesbury Street. [AWD Curwen 36]
A newspaper in Aylesbury. The Aylesbury Transcript ran a humorous paragraph about the monster said to be hiding at Cold Spring Glen near Dunwich. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 179]
The Aylesbury Transcript ran facetious stories about strange occurrences at Dunwich in the summer of 1928, culminating in September. [AWD Watchers 402]
Luther Whateley's effects included stacks of the Aylesbury Transcript. The paper ran three vague articles which corroborated entries in Luther Whateley’s ledger, including one about cows and sheep slain by an unidentified wild animal near Dunwich, one about the disappearance of Ada Wilkerson, and another about the violent death of Howard Willie. [AWD Shuttered 270, 280, 282]
Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere had a file of the Aylesbury Transcript. [AWD Survivor (online text) 160]
AWD Seal (online text) 162.
See: Azathoth.
A book of nightmare-lyrics by Edward Pickman Derby, which made a real sensation when issued in his eighteenth year [HPL Doorstep (online text) 277].
Georg Reuter Fischer was inspired to write poetry after finding a copy of Azathoth and Other Horrors at a secondhand store in Arkham. After Fischer's death in 1937, police discovered a copy of Azathoth and Other Horrors in a copper and silver casket along with some writings by Fischer. [FL Terror2 267, 284]
A demon? HPL Dunwich (online text) 158.
AWD Watchers, 401.
CAS Holiness (online text) 119.
Probably a misspelling or alternate spelling for Azathoth. Albert Keith dreamed of a ritual where the name Azazoth was chanted. Reverend Nye spoke of Azazoth. Cthulhu is the priest of Azazoth and Yog-Sothoth. [RB Strange]
Bishop of Ximes, Averoigne. CAS Holiness (online text) 119-123, 126, 129, 133, 136-137, 139, 141-143.
AWD Island 181.
A "prince" of the nether world. [AWD Wentworth 175]
See: Al-Azif.
RB Demon (printed as Azathoth in previous editions) 64.
Synonym for Satan [RB Hell (online text) 37].
HPL Electric (online text) 68.
Of Mexico. HPL Electric (online text) 72, 74, 77-78; Mound (online text) language 131, 137; Yig (online text) 83.
AWD Keeper 140; Seal (online text) 151, 163; Space 244.
RB Notebook (online text) 236; Sorcerer (online text) 155.
AWD Gorge 108, 115.
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