D

dacoits

AWD Gorge 98.

Dacotah Sioux

AWD Dweller 124.

Daemon-God

HPL Aeons (online text) 274.

Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.

Daemonialitas

By Ludovico Sinistrari. A 17th Century treatise about the classes of demons known as incubi and succubi, who seek to have sexual relations with human beings. Sinistrari held that such beings are partly material (though porous), and have souls that are capable of salvation. He described various measures, such as fumigations and perfumes, for repelling such demons. Concerning the existing of such beings, he wrote ". . . I premise that neither the existence nor the nature of the natural things in this world has been sufficiently investigated to allow of denying a fact, merely because it has never been previously spoken of or written about. In the course of time have not new lands been discovered which the Ancients knew not of? New animals, herbs, plants, fruits and seeds, never seen elsewhere? And if that mysterious Austral land came at last to be explored, as has been to this day vainly tried by so many travellers, what unforeseen disclosures would be the result!" Online editions of this work are available at Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.

A copy of Daemonilitas was found in the possessions of the late Asaph Peabody. A quotation read "Promittunt Diabolo statis temporibus sacrificia, et oblationes; singulis quindecim diebus, vel singulo mense saltem, necem alicujus infantis, aut mortale veneficium, et singulis hebdomadis alia mala in damnum humani generis, ut grandines, tempestates, incendia, mortem animalium..." [AWD Peabody 192] The Project Gutenberg edition translates this passage as "...they promise the Devil sacrifices and offerings at stated times: once a fortnight or at least each month, the murder of some child, or an homicidal act of sorcery, and other weekly misdeeds to the prejudice of mankind, such as hailstorms, tempests, fires, cattle plagues, etc."

Daemonic Presences

By Heber. Gideon Godfrey had read the queer verse sequence of Heber’s Daemonic Presences with its sly hints and subtle allusions to the Fable of the Tree and the Fruit. [RB Satan 8.]

Daemonolatreia

By Remigius. "Daemonolatreiae libri tres is a 1595 work by Nicholas Rémy. It was edited by Montague Summers and translated as Demonolatry in 1929. Along with the Malleus Maleficarum, it is generally considered one of the most important early works on demons and witches. The book was drawn from the capital trials of roughly 900 persons who were tried and put to death in a fifteen-year span in the Duchy of Lorraine for the crime of witchcraft." [Daemonolatreiae libri tres, Wikipedia, 11/12/2020]

The Festival narrator found a copy of this "shocking" book at the home of his people in Kingsport. [HPL Festival (online text) 211]

In his delirium after reading Wilbur Whateley's diary, Dr. Henry Armitage called for the Daemonolatreia in the hope of finding a spell to check the imminent peril. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 185]

Alijah Atwood found a copy of Daemonolatria among Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere's books. [AWD Survivor (online text) 160]

Daemonolorum

Little information is available about this work, but from its Latin title, it seems likely to have been a work about demons. Wiktionary defines lorum variously as "thong (leather strap); reins of a bridle; whip, lash, scourge; girdle; slender vinebranch." Hence, Daemonolorum might mean something like "Lash of the Demons," which would somewhat parallel the title of the famous Malleus Maleficarum, "Hammer of the Witches." If so, the work seems likely to be directed at Inquisitors or other churchmen who try to oppose demons. However, the Online Latin Dictionary adds more possible meanings for lorum, including "dog leash" or "reins." If the title means "Reins of the Demons," then it might connote something like "how to control demons, to make them do your bidding."

Malcolm Kent said "Somewhere in the old Daemonolorum it is written that there was a sect of Egypt which believed literally in their gods; believed that Anubis, Bast, and Set could assume human form." [RB Brood 95]

Edgar Gordon had a copy of the Daemonolorum; the narrator of "The Dark Demon" thought that the work was not conducive to a healthy state of mind. [RB Demon 65]

Dagon

See: Dagon.

Dagon, Children of

A race of mostly aquatic beings. They are gelatinous with irregular tentacles, with heads that are "fish-like in contour, with parrot-like beaks and great staring eyes covered with a filmy glaze." They have lived underwater since the earth was covered by ocean. Once their underwater kingdom stretched from pole to pole, but was greatly diminished when the continents arose. They hate humanity and regard us usurpers. Their goal is to sink all the continents so that humanity will be wiped out. They worship Dagon and want no other gods to be worshipped. They hoped to sink Atlantis but were opposed by the wizard Zend. [HK Spawn2 (online text)]

Compare with: Dagon, spawn of; Deep Ones.

Dagon Hall

Innsmouth. AWD Island 193; Clay 378.

Synonym for: Order of Dagon Hall.

Dagon Manor

REH Manor: Accursed home of Tavarel. Described as a "sullen dark bulk," with a dreary and lonely setting in the moors. The nation is not named, but seems likely to be Ireland or Britain. John Conrad and a friend (possibly John Kirowan or John O'Donnel) went to visit Tavarel at Dagon Manor and were greeted by the sinister Ketric.

Dagon's Cave

REH People (online text) 145-146.

Aka: Cavern of the Children of the Night.

Dagon, seal of

A curious fish-like seal used to gain admittance to the ceremonies at the Order of Dagon Hall. [AWD Sky]

Dagon, Spawn of

The being possessing Orin Sanderson said that matings had been arranged between humans and the spawn of Dagon. [RB Strange]

Compare with: Dagon, children of; Deep Ones.

Dagoth Hills

REH Dwellers 112, 114, 122, 127.

Dahna

Desert in Arabia. HPL History (online text) 52.

AWD Keeper 148.

Synonym for: Roba El Khaliyeh.

Daikos

A city(?) of Lomar. HPL Polaris (online text) 22.

Dalcassians

REH Gods (online text) 187.

Incl: O'Brien, Turlogh Dubh.

Dalhousie, John

Of Manitoba. AWD Ithaqua 105, 116; Wind (online text) (narrator) division chief of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. Flew to Navissa Camp to investigate the discovery of Robert Norris's body. Concluded that Norris's written statement about being pursued by Ithaqua was literally true.

Dalton, Dr

RFS Warder 157.

Dalton, (Gov.) James

HPL Test (online text) 16-18, 20, 26-33, 44-45, 47, 49-60.

Dalton, Georgina

See: Clarendon, Georgina.

Damascus

Alhazred dwelt in Damascus in his last years (HPL History (online text) 51).

AWD Lurker 123.

RB Fane 133.

Damned Coven

RB Brood 92.

Damned Thing, The

By Ambrose Bierce. HK Invaders (online text) 64.

Dampier St

Pilbarra, W. Australia. HPL Time (online text) 404.

Damqut

Arabia/Middle East. AWD Keeper 152-155, 169, 171.

d'Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo

(1545–1609) An Italian geographer and theologian. Aside from his work on geography, he also authored a theological work titled De Natura Daemonum. [Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania, Wikipedia, 1/3/2021]

Author, De Natura Daemonum. [AWD Attic 320; Peabody 193]

Danforth

Miskatonic University graduate student. HPL Mountains (online text) 8, 29, 32-37, 40, 42, 48-50, 52, 54, 59, 61, 64, 70, 77, 79-80, 83, 85, 87, 95-98, 100-101, 103-106.

FL Terror2 295, 300, 309-310.

Daniels

Miskatonic University Antartic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 11.

Danube

REH Black (online text) 60, 72.

Danvers

Massachusetts. HPL Case (online text) 149; Innsmouth (online text) (asylum?) 309; Danvers asylum Pickman (online text) 15.

Formerly called: Salem-Village.

Darien

City in Connecticut. Clyde Cantrell hiked there to buy science fiction magazines. RAL Settlers (online text) 20.

Darien, peak in

HPL Mound (online text) 122.

Dark, Jonathon

Of Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 107-108, 110.

Dark Demon

RB Demon 68.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Dark Empire

REH Children (online text) 153: Said to be a revival of an older, darker empire dating back into the Stone Age. Possibly a synonym for the Bran cult.

Dark God (1)

HPL Aeons (online text) 273-274.

Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.

Dark God (2)

RB Faceless 40.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Darke Lord

REH Dig (online text) 84: A synonym for Malik Tous.

Dark Man (1)

Of the Haute Vienne Coven. HPL Case (online text) 131.

Dark Man (2)

A stone image of the Pictish king Bran Mak Morn, carved in his likeness by a wizard while the great king yet lived. When Bran died in the last great battle, his spirit entered into it. The statue was of some dark stone, five feet high, and astonishingly lifelife. The king was depicted without crown, clad only in a loincloth. Only a friend may safely touch the statue. Once the image was stolen by a lesser priest named Grok, but his party was pursued by Vikings and slain on the Isle of Swords. Turlogh O'Brien found the statue and took it to Helni, sensing that it would bring him luck on his mission to save Moira O'Brien. Turlogh found the statue surprisingly light, but later two tall Vikings could barely carry it, and injured themselves in the process. After the Dark Man apparently aided O'Brien in combat against Thorfel the Fair, the statue was retrieved by Brogar and his band of Picts. They planned to return it to the Isle of the Altar, near the Scottish mainland [REH Dark (online text)].

Today it is located in a great, nameless cavern, to which each member of the Bran cult makes a pilgrimage once in his or her lifetime [Children]. Possibly this cavern is on the Isle of the Altar, unless the Dark Man was moved after the time of Brogar.

Dark Mountain

South of Townsend Village, Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 217, 225, Henry Akeley's home is halfway up 249, 257, 264.

Darkness

An offspring of Azathoth, and an ancestor of Shub-Niggurath [HPL Family (online text)].

Dark One

RB Demon 66, description 67, 68-70; Faceless 45.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Dark Ones

CAS Return (online text) 43.

Dark People

Fading mystic Irish race, akin to faeries. REH Twilight 69, 84.

Synonym for: De Danaans

Dark Shining One

HK Jest (online text) 61.

Synonym for: Droom-avista.

Dark Silent One

HK Bells (online text) 86.

Synonym for: Zushakon.

dark star

See: black star near Aldebaran.

Dark Star

DW Fire2 (online text) 77.

Darling Harbour

HPL Call (online text) 145.

Darwich University

RAL Abyss (online text) 285.

Incl: Colby; Chalmers; Dureen; Granville; Norden, Graf; Held, Dr..

Davenport, Eli

HPL Whisperer (online text) 210, 216-217.

David (Dave)

AWD Sandwin narrator, named 89-90, 94, 96-97, 107-108.

Davis, Audrey

HPL Yig (online text) 84-95.

Davis, Walker

HPL Yig (online text) 84-93, 95.

Day of the Sky-Flames

The day that T'yog started up Mount Yaddith-Gho to free humanity from Ghatanothoa. HPL Aeons (online text) 275.

Dean, Graham

Nephew of Michael Leigh. RB Kiss (online text) throughout; great-great-grandnephew of Morella Godolfo 39.

Dean's Corners

A town in north central Massachusetts, on the Aylesbury Pike. If you take the wrong fork on the Aylesbury Pike just beyond Dean's Corners, the road takes you to Dunwich. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 155]

From Arkham, the Aylesbury Pike proceeds west and northwest to Dean's Corners and then to the lonely Dunwich country. [AWD Lurker 3, 94]

If you follow the Aylesbury Pike from the Boston area to the west, you reach a hamlet called Dean’s Corners. Just past it is a junction, and a left turn takes you to Dunwich. [AWD Watchers 385]

Dearborn Street

See: South Dearborn Street.

death

CAS Coming (online text) souls 79, ghosts 80, 82.

Death-Walker

Synonym for Ithaqua. Used for Ithaqua by his worshippers at Stillwater. Mentioned by Allison Wentworth in his delerium. [Wind (online text)]

de Bessy, Frenicle

FBL Hounds (online text) 74.

De Bry

HPL Picture (online text) 119.

de Casseres, Benjamin

A writer whose poem "The Closed Room" was read by John O'Dare [REH Door]. See Benjamin De Casseres (Wikipedia, retrieved August 16, 2022). For the poem, see the edition of The Shadow-Eater at Project Gutenberg.

de Chameaux, Marquis

HPL Medusa (online text) 171.

De Danaans

Fading mystic Irish race, akin to faeries. REH Twilight 68.

Aka: Dark people.

Dedham

Massachusetts or Rhode Island. HPL Case (online text) 152.

Dee, (Dr.) John

Author of magical works including an English translation of the Necronomicon, and original works including the Monas Hieroglyphica.

HPL Dunwich (online text) 169, 171; Translated the Necronomicon into English, but the translation was never printed, and now only fragments of the original manuscript remain (History (online text) 53).

FBL Dee 129; Hounds (online text) 74; Eaters (online text) 88; WereSnake (online text) a Middle Eastern guide regarded John Dee as a great seer who surpassed the ancient East in wisdom.

deed before time

FBL Hounds (online text) 81-82.

Deep Ones

An amphibious race that lives generally hidden beneath the earth's oceans. In appearance, they are said to be both frog-like and fish-like. Their form is vaguely anthropoid, but with long webbed paws and gills in their necks. Their skin is shiny and slippery, but with scaly ridges on their backs. The are largely greyish-green in color, but with white bellies. When on land, they hop irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. [HPL Innsmouth (online text) 331, 361]

The Deep Ones have cities on the sea-bottom [330]. Some of their stone ruins can be found on two islands east of Otaheiti (Tahiti). On the larger island, the ruins resemble those on Ponape, but also include carved faces like the big statues on Easter Island. The smaller, volcanic island has ruins with different carvings: much-worn images of awful monters. When the latter island arose suddenly to the surface, the local human population visited it and found some of the Deep Ones still alive within the stone buildings. This meeting seems to have been at least 200 years ago. The meeting lead to mutual trade between the humans and the Deep Ones, with the Deep Ones providing gold ornaments and abundant fish in return for the sacrifices of young humans on May-Eve and Halloween. [329-330, 332]

Later, the Deep Ones began holding joint ceremonies with the humans, and then began interbreeding with them. This inbreeding is possible because humans are related to the Deep Ones, since all life originally came from the sea. The offspring of such matches look human at first, but progressively become more and more like the Deep Ones, and finally leave the land to join the Deep Ones underwater. Such beings never die from old age or disease, but can be killed by violence. [331]

Sometime after the war of 1812, Capt. Obed Marsh of Innsmouth, Mass. learned of the Deep Ones from the islanders and began trading with them in the South Seas. Then around 1838, those islanders were slaughtered between Marsh's voyages, perhaps by neighboring islanders, and the stone carvings of the Deep Ones were largely destroyed. After that, Marsh persuaded the people of Innsmouth to begin commerce directly with the Deep Ones off Devil Reef, near Innsmouth. See: Innsmouth.

The Deep Ones, and their human allies, apparently venerate the beings Father Dagon and Mother Hydra [334, 337], and Cthulhu [337, 367]. However, the Deep Ones seemingly cannot be the same as the Cthulhu spawn, since the latter appeared octopoid rather than frog/fishlike, and were a land-dwelling species.

The Deep Ones are vulnerable to certain signs that were once used by the lost "Old Ones" [331, 333, 367]. See: magic signs.

The narrator of Dagon may have witnessed a Deep One on a newly-risen island [HPL Dagon (online text) 18 ]. However, this being was of giant size, and apparently akin to other similar beings shown in carvings to be the size of whales. Such beings may represent a larger genus of the Deep Ones. Alternatively, the being in Dagon may be Father Dagon himself, who might be larger than his Deep Ones followers.

The crewmen on the Okishuri Maru had the Innsmouth look. In tunnels beneath the Probilski Foundation, Kay Keith heard pursuers who may have been Deep Ones. The Coast Guard found the body of a Deep One offshore near the Probilski Foundation. Human-Deep One hybrids drowned Mark Dixon and then took him to see Reverend Nye. [RB Strange]

AWD Beyond2 "spawn of Cthulhu" discussed in HPL story The Shadow Over Innsmouth (160), (171); Island 180, 185, 196, (199), 211; Curwen appearance (12), 22, 31, in Thames (35), (38), 44, (45); Gable (online text) 207-208; Gorge the Deep Ones hybrids have a shuffling walking gait, (110-111), 112, (117, 119), 120, 122, 127, 131, weird descr. 133; Clay 378, night of equinox hastens transition? (380); Keeper 141-142, 144, 151-152, 172; Lurker 84, 92, 121, 133; Seal (online text) 158, 161-162, influence of blood on hybrid humans can be resisted 167, 176, 177-178; Sky (56), frog-like (61), (64), 68-69, 70, 86-87, only fire will destroy them 89, description 90, 91; Space 241; Shuttered 270-271, shrink or expand depending on food supply 277, 288; Survivor (online text) 159, 161-162; Valley (online text) 135, (136), 137, 142, 145, 147-148; Whippoorwills 47; Witches 301.

FL Terror2 296.

FBL Awakening 112.

JVS Dead (31, 35); Snouted (26).

Incl: Andrada, Father; Smith, Japhet.

Compare with: Spawn of Dagon.

Deeprock Gorge

A remote valley in Massachusetts with dangerously tainted water. Howard Lindsay, owner of a paint factory in Innsmouth, had been approached by a a certain "dark-complexioned" visitor from a Middle Eastern country. (From the description, this visitor could have been an avatar of Nyarlathtep, the "strange dark one to whom the fellahs bowed" [HPL Fungi (online text) XXI]). Lindsay started producing something new in his factory, and sent his employees to dump barrels of waste products in Redrock. But they misunderstood and did their dumping at Deeprock Gorge. Later, Rev. Ralph Beckford brought some of his parishioners to Deeprock Gorge to pray, and they encountered local people who had become monstrously mishapened and hostile. [HC Coming]

Defilers, The

By Howard. A story that resulted in 110 letters of indignation from local readers when it was published in the Partridgeville Gazette. [FBL Eaters (online text) 89]

De Furtivus Literarum Notis

By Giambattista Porta. A book on cryptology, first published 1563. See Porta's De furtivis literarum notis (1563). A scan of the first edition in Latin as available at the Internet Archive.

Dr. Henry Armitage consulted the work when attempting to decipher Wilbur Whateley's diary. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183]

There was a copy in the library of Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere. [AWD Survivor (online text) 160]

De Grey River

Australia. HPL Time (online text) 406-407.

deities

See: Gods.

De Lapide Philosophico

Literally "The Philosopher's Stone." The phrase occurs in the titles of a number of alchemical works by various authors.

John Merritt recalled seeing a copy of De Lapide Philosophico by Trithemius at Joseph Curwen's farmhouse. [HPL Case (online text) 121] However, Merritt's memory may have been at fault, since I can find no evidence that Trithemius ever wrote a work of that title. Merritt may have seen the De Lapide Philosophico by Johannes Isaac Hollandus, or De Lapide PhilosophicoTriga Chemicum by Nicolas Barnaud, among others.

James Conrad found a copy of De Lapide Philosophico in a deserted farmhouse in Old Dutchtown, New York. The author's name is not mentioned. [REH House 126]

de la Poer

Family. HPL Rats (online text) 29, 44.

de la Poer, Gilbert

HPL Rats (online text) 30.

de la Poer, Godfrey

HPL Rats (online text) 30.

de la Poer, Mary

HPL Rats (online text) 30.

de la Poer, Walter

HPL Rats (online text) 26, 32, 43.

Delapore family

For the early family history, see Exham Priory. After murdering his family and fleeing Exham Priory ca. 1610-1625, Walter de la Poer emigrated to Virginia. There he established a proud and honourable, if somewhat reserved and unsocial line of plantation owners, with a home named Carfax on the banks of the James. The Delapores were reticent about the history of their family prior to their arrival in Virginia. The only tradition handed down was recorded in the sealed envelope left by every squire to his eldest son for posthumous opening. The last plantation squire and the envelope both perished during the burning of Carfax by Federal troops during the Civil War. That squire's son died in 1904, but without any message to leave his son Delapore, or the latter's son Alfred. Delapore knew nothing of the early history of his family, beyond the fact that his first American forbear had come to the colonies under a strange cloud. [HPL Rats (online text) 26-28]

Delapore

HPL Rats (online text) (narrator): An American descendant of Walter de la Poer. Spent his early youth in Virgina, in the family home Carfax on the banks of the James River. He was seven years old when Federal soldiers burned his home; this was probably during 1864. When the war ended, the family moved north, whence Delapore's mother had come; and Delapore grew to manhood, middle age, and ultimate wealth as a manufacturer in Bolton, Massachussetts. He was a widower with one child, Alfred. Inspired by letters from his son during WWI, Delapore bought the remains of the the de la Poer family home, Exham Priory in 1918. When Alfred returned from war a maimed invalid, Delapore placed his business under the direction of partners and devoted himself to his son's care for two years until the latter's death. In 1921 Delapore resolved to devote himself to restoring Exham Priory. He adopted the ancestral spelling of his family name as de la Poer. He moved in to the Priory on July 16, 1923, taking with him his eldest cat “Nigger-Man” and several others. An apparent haunting by rats led to the subsequent discovery of cult remains and cannibalism at the Priory, and culminated in Delapore's deranged murder of his neighbor Capt. Norrys. Thereafter Delapore was confined to a barred room at Hanwell.

Delapore, Alfred

HPL Rats (online text) 28.

Delapore, Randolph

Of Carfax. HPL Rats (online text) 31.

del Cortez, Don Roderigo

REH Gods (online text) 232; Hun 151-153.

Delilah

A cook. HPL Medusa (online text) 174.

Deluge

AWD Island 184; Keeper 170.

Delvin, Doctor

Of New Orleans. RB Sebek 120, 122, 126.

De Marigny, Etienne-Laurent

Famous New Orleans mystic. HPL Aeons (online text) wrote a learned article in Occult Review, asserting identity of scroll hieroglyphs with some in Nameless Cults 270-271; Gates (online text) 424-426, 434, 446, 452-458.

RB Sebek 120, brown eyes 122, 123, 126.

FL Terror2 (296).

De Marigny's Clock

See: clock, coffin-shaped.

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulus

By Michael Ranft. While discussing the corpses of disinterred vampires, Montague Summers says the following of this book: "It was not infrequently seen that the dead person in his grave had devoured all about him, grinding them with his teeth, and (as it was supposed) uttering a low raucous noise like the grunting of a pig who roots among garbage. In his work, De Masticatione Mortuorum in tumulis, Leipzig, 1728, Michael Ranft treats at some length of this matter. He says that it is very certain that some corpses have devoured their cerements and even gnaw their own flesh. It has been suggested that this is the original reason why the jaws of the dead were tightly bound with linen bands. Ranft instances the case of a Bohemian woman who when disinterred in 1355 had devoured the greater part of her shroud. In another instance during the sixteenth century both a man and a woman seemed to have torn out their intestines and were actually ravening upon their entrails. In Moravia a corpse was exhumed which had devoured the grave-clothes of a woman buried not far from his tomb." (See Montague Summers, The Vampire: His Kith and Kin.)

Simon Maglore had a copy of this book. The Mannikin narrator gives the date of the book as 1734, rather than 1728 as Summers does. [RB Mannikin 75]

de Maupassant, Guy

Author, The Horla. HK Invaders (online text) 64.

de Mendoza, Don Antonio

Of New Spain, viceroy. HPL Mound (online text) 119.

Demers, Madame

HPL Museum (online text) 215, 230.

de Metz, Gauthier

"French priest and poet. He is primarily known for writing the encyclopedic poem L'Image du Monde. Evidence from the earliest editions of this work suggests his actual name was Gossouin rather than Gautier." [Gautier de Metz, Wikipedia, 1/16/2021]

Mentioned as the author of Image du Monde. [HPL Nameless (online text) 103]

Demhe

RWC Repairer (online text) cloudy depths of 37.

Demon Messenger

RB Demon 66; Faceless 39; Opener 159.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

De Natura Daemonum

By Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania, aka Anania. Published Venice, 1570. "In it, d'Anania posits the existence of demons, malevolent beings behind the works of astrologers and necromancers and who are responsible for any diseases which can be cured by the intercession of saints. De natura daemonum saw many editions, including that produced by Aldus Manutius. In 1654 Gian Lorenzo's nephew, Marcello Anania, prepared an edition titled De substantiis separatis, which contained the previously unpublished De natura Angelorum." (Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania, Wikipedia, 1/3/2021)

Adam Duncan found a copy in the library of his late grand-uncle Uriah Garrison. [AWD Attic 320]

Asaph Peabody had a copy in his library. [AWD Peabody 193]

Dena

Ancestor of Graham Dean. RB Kiss (online text) 40.

Dence, Captain

Elephant-trainer at the Stellar Brothers Circus who committed suicide. [RB Elephant (online text) 46, 51]

Deneb

A star of Cygnus. HPL Colour (online text) 79.

de Neuvalet, Corydon

Artist. AWD Wood 82.

Denmark, Danes

REH Gods (online text) 200, 218-219.

Denton

Of San Xavier area. HK Bells (online text) 81, 83-92.

de Plancy, Jacques Albin Simon Collin

(1793–1881) was a French occultist, demonologist and writer; he published several works on occultism and demonology. [Jacques Collin de Plancy, Wikipedia, 1/13/2021]

Author, Dictionnaire Infernal. [HK Hunt (online text) 167]

De Rais, Gilles

HPL Museum (online text) 215.

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155, "Gilles de Retz" 161.

Derby, Asenath

HPL Doorstep (online text) 276, 280-281*, her Packard 284, incarnation of Ephraim 288, 294.

Derby, Edward Pickman

HPL Doorstep (online text) 276-etc., childhood 277, Azathoth,etc. 277, death of mother 279.

FL Terror2 267, 284, local poet (289), 310.

Derby mansion

Home of Mr. Derby & family. (Story & page refs lost; must be in HPL Doorstep (online text).)

Derby, Mr

Father of Edward Pickman Derby. HPL Doorstep (online text) 282, 285.

Derby, Nehemiah, Colonel

Obiit. 1719. HPL Kadath (online text) 340.

Derby Street

Salem. HK Salem (online text) 250-251, 253.

Derceto

CAS Holiness (online text) horns of 119.

Der Drachenhaus Press

REH Black (online text) 57.

De Re Rustica

By M. Porcius Cato. FBL Hills (online text) 291.

de Retz, Gilles

RB Hell (online text) 45.

d'Erlette, Comte

An eccentric French nobleman who wrote the ghastly work, Cultes des Ghoules [AWD Island 180].

His personal name may have been Paul Henri, though the only evidence is in the spurious catalog created by the forger Alastair White [AWD Six 125].

See also: Cultes des Ghoules.

d'Erlette, Comte Paul Guillaume

A possibly fictional successor to the title of Comte d'Erlette. The forger Alastair White created a spurious catalog, which purported to list books for sale from the library of Paul Guillaume, Comte d'Erlette. [AWD Six 124]

de Rochas

Occult writer. AWD Attic 320.

de Russy

Family. HPL Medusa (online text) 169, 172.

de Russy, Antoine

HPL Medusa (online text) (throughout) (166-167), 168, 195-200.

de Russy, Denis

HPL Medusa (online text) 169-183, 185-186, (187), 188-193, 196, (199), 200.

de Russy, Marceline

(Nee Bedard) See: Bedard, Marceline.

dervishes

RB Fane 133; Sebek 124; Shambler (online text) Libyan 180.

de Sade, Marquis

HPL Museum (online text) 215.

RB Hell (online text) 45.

de Sahagun, Fra. Bernadino

AWD Island 181.

des Emaux, Sieur

From Touraine. A disguise of Jehan Mauvaissoir. CAS Holiness (online text) 125-129, 140.

des Esseintes

Artist. HPL Medusa (online text) 175.

de Sitter

Physicist. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 264.

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.

des Mousseau, Gougenot

Ill-famed occult author. HK Hydra (online text) 127.

Desrochers

French-Canadian lodger in WitchHouse. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 283-284, 288, 293, 295.

Dethshill Cemetery

See: Old Dethshill Cemetery.

De Vermis Mysteriis

By Ludvig Prinn. Also known as Mysteries of the Worm. Includes the chapter known as Saracenic Rituals.

History

De Vermis Mysteriis was written by the Flemish sorcerer Ludvig Prinn while he was imprisoned, awaiting trial for witchcraft. It is not known how the manuscript was ever smuggled out of the prison. A year after Prinn's death, the book was printed in Cologne. This original version was in Latin. The book was immediately suppressed, but a few copies survived, which were transcribed and circulated further. The book has remained rare and generally known only to initiates, who discourage its wider distribution. [RB Shambler (online text) 180-181, 186].

The Latin copy that Robert Blake acquired was a great black volume with iron facings, and the title inscribed in hand-engraved lettering. [RB Shambler (online text) 180]

In the forger Alastair White's spurious catalog of esoteric books for sale, he offered a copy of the De Vermis Mysteriis, supposedly published in Prague in 1807 [AWD Six 125].

Contents

The book includes cold, deliberate instructions for traffic with alien evil. The procedures include such things as compounding belladonna with aconite and drawing circles of phosphorescent fire on the floor when the stars are right; melting tallow candles and mixing them with corpse-fat; and performing animal sacrifices. [RB Bargain (online text) 73]

Ludvig Prinn implies his knowledge of the fable of Nyarlathotep in Mysteries of the Worm [RB Faceless 41]. De Vermis Mysteriis describes Nyarlathotep as the "all-seeing eye" [AWD Lurker 125].

The book asserts that the ancient Egyptians once colonized Cornwall [RB Brood 92].

The book includes a recipe for a love philtre that includes yohimbine and cantharadine, among other ingredients [RB Philtre (online text) 293].

The book includes the formula for a certain drug, which enables the user to recall memories of past lives. The book gives a list of precautions to be taken before using the drug, including the Pnakotic pentagon and the cabalistic signs of protection. The book warns that omitting these protections can make one a prey to the dwellers in the Hidden World [HK Invaders (online text) 69, 71, 74].

De Vermis Mysteriis speaks of the being Iod as the Shining Pursuer, who hunts souls through the Secret Worlds: that is, other dimensions of space. But the book does not include any incantation for summoning this being. [HK Hunt (online text) 169]

Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere's papers included diagrams of operations designed to give a man the attributes of a reptile; some of these diagrams were attributed to De Vermis Mysteriis [AWD Survivor (online text) 163].

Saracenic Rituals

The chapter called Saracenic Rituals deals with Prinn's soujourn in Egypt in the days of the Crusaders. Prinn wrote of what he learned from Alexandrian seers; of his journeys into deserts and his looting of tombs in hidden valleys of the Nile. The chapter reveals the lore of the efreet and the djinn, the secrets of the assassin sects, myths of Arabian ghouls, and the hidden practices of the dervishes. [RB Sebek 123-124] The chapter includes a chant relating to the efreet and djinn [RB Hell (online text) 53].

The chapter tells that the Egyptian priesthood worshipped gigantic beings who were half-beast and half-man. The priests obtained great power from these beings, but had to offer them incense and human sacrifices. The chapter speaks in particular detail of the worship of Sebek, the crocodile-headed god. [RB Sebek 125]

The chapter tells that the pharaoh Nephren-Ka called up Nyarlathotep with the sacrifice of a hundred willing victims. Nephren-Ka received the gift of prophecy, and inscribed the secrets of the future on the walls of his own tomb before dying. [RB Fane 135-136]

The chapter tells of the destruction of Elephantine and Bubastis, and of how the priests of Bast were blaspheming against the reigning religions, and performing atrocious sacrifices. The priests and their acolytes fled before the army arrived to seize them. [RB Brood 95]

The chapter tells that a never-mentioned abomination caused the symbol and story of Nyarlathotep to be forgotten [RB Sebek 125].

On seeing the symbols surrounding a doorway in an Egyptian tomb, Sir Ronald Barton was reminded of a portion of the Saracenic Rituals where Prinn wrote of the 'symbols on the gate' [RB Opener 164].

Library Copies

The British museum has a copy of the Latin edition, which was borrowed and returned by Malcolm Kent [RB Brood 92].

The Huntington Library has a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis, which is secretly kept in a vault. Through bribery, Mike Hayword was able to get photostatic copies of selected pages. [HK Invaders (online text) 69]

Other Copies and Readers

Alonzo Typer found a first edition of De Vermis Mysteriis in the attic of the van der Heyl house [HPL Diary (online text) 313].

James Allington had a copy of Mysteries of the Worm [RB Suicide (online text) 19].

Robert Blake found a copy in a bookstore on South Dearborn Street in an unnamed city [RB Shambler (online text) 180]. This might have been the South Dearborn Street in Chicago, which has some rare book dealers. Blake himself was from Milwaukee [HPL Haunter (online text) 93]. Later, Robert Blake found a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis in the abandoned church of the Starry Wisdom sect. [HPL Haunter (online text) 100]

Launcelot Canning had a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis in his mansion [RB Poe (online text)].

Prof. Alexander Chaupin spoke to his therapist of the veiled and subtle truths so furtively revealed in tomes such as Mysteries of the Worm [RB Grinning 54].

Dr. Ambrose Dexter had a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis [RB Steeple (online text) 224].

The horror author Edgar Gordon had dreams that coincided curiously with descriptions in books such as the Mysteries of the Worm [RB Demon 64].

Fritz Gulther had a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis bound in iron and labeled German Inorganic Chemistry The copy had thick black letters and a detestable odor [RB Bargain (online text) 73].

Simon Maglore had a copy of Mysteries of the Worm [RB Mannikin 75].

Strange was initiated by his father into the mysteries and arcana to be found among tomes such as Mysteries of the Worm [RB Tomb (online text) 13].

Henricus Vanning had a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis with crumbling covers protected by glass [RB Sebek 123].

Isaac Voorden intended to consult the chapter on divination in Mysteries of the Worm, to see if it discussed the Star of Sechmet [RB Sorcerer (online text) 161].

The Gable Window narrator found a copy in the house of his late cousin, Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206].

Ambrose Dewart found a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis in Billington House [AWD Lurker 16].

Prof. Upton Gardner had photostatic copies of pages from De Vermis Mysteriis [AWD Dweller 126].

Haddon found a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis among the books of Amos Tuttle [AWD Hastur 2].

Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop [AWD Whippoorwills 43].

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee consulted De Vermis Mysteriis while possessed by a mind of the Great Race, and wrote notes in the margins [HPL Time (online text) 374]. Similarly, Amos Piper consulted a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis while possessed by a member of the Great Race [AWD Space 234]

Winfield Phillips read from a copy or photostat of the De Vermis Mysteriis in the possession of Dr. Seneca Lapham [AWD Lurker 134].

John Conrad found a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis inside the house in the oaks near Old Dutchtown, N.Y. [REH House (online text) 125].

Frank Baldwyn and Rambeau searched in vain for a copy [DWR Music (online text) 294].

De Vigenere

Author, Traite des Chiffres. HPL Dunwich (online text) 183.

De Vignate, Ambrosius

Also known as Ambrogio Vignato, Ambrosius Vignatus. "Originally from Lodi. - Jurist, taught at the University of Turin and Bologna. - Active in 1468." [Ambrogio Vignati, BnF, ret. 2/20/21; trans. by Google Translate]

"Ambrosius de Vignate was a well-respected magistrate and legal scholar, a doctor of both canon and civil law, who lectured at Padua, Bologna, and Turin between 1452 and 1468. On several occasions he participated in the trials of accused witches: he tells us that he had heard men and women alike confess – both freely and under torture – that they belonged to the sect of witches ('secta mascorum seu maleficorum') and that they, and others whom they implicated, had done all sorts of strange and awful things. The presiding inquisitors at these trials accepted this testimony as substantially true, and began prosecutions on this basis. Ambrosius, however, had grave doubts as to whether such bizarre crimes were plausible or even possible. . . . Ambrosius, for one, refused to accept the reality of the composite model of witchcraft and insisted upon treating each element individually. While men and women might indeed be guilty of working maleficium, their transformation into animals, he believed, was impossible. Therefore, when magistrates were faced with the confessions of accused witches, he required that they distinguish carefully between testimony which was possible and probable and that which was not." [The 'Malleus Maleficarum' and the construction of witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief, by Hans Broedel, at Google Books]

Author of Quaestio de Lamiis. [AWD Attic 320.]

Devil, the

Synonym for Satan. RB Satan 8, 16.

devil-fly

Of Africa.

HPL Winged (online text) habits 245, death fly with scientific name Glossina palpalis (246), soul of a dead victim passes into it 250-251, human intellect 258.

Aka: Glossina palpalis.

Devil-God

HPL Aeons (online text) 275-277.

Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.

Devil Reef

Off Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 304, 306, 309, 317, 321, 329, 334, 352-353.

AWD Island 191-193, 212; Curwen 15, 30, 43; Fisherman 290-292; Gable (online text) 208; Clay 373, 377, 380-381; Lamp (online text) 254; Hastur 6, 15, 21; Sandwin 108; Seal (online text) 160, 163-164, 175-176; Space 242-243; Shuttered 271, 273, 277; Sky 60, 64, 69, 79-80, 82-83, 85, 91; Survivor (online text) 162; Valley (online text) 135, 137; Wood 83, Devil's Reef 87.

Devil's Hop Yard

HPL Dunwich (online text) 158, 178.

Devil's Kin

HPL Man (online text) 213-214.

Devil's Ladder

A steep, boulder-strewn road leading into Deeprock Gorge, Massachusetts. [HC Coming]

Devon

Britain. HPL Mound (online text) 115.

AWD Watchers 386.

DeVoto, (Dr.) Asenath

Boston psychiatrist. AWD Curwen 16, 33, 36-37, 39.

Devourer, The

War-god of the Quichua. AWD Curwen 10, 13, 30.

Possibly synonymous with: Cthulhu.

Dewart, Ambrose

AWD Lurker 5, description 5-6, 7-10, 13-14, 16-21, 24-48, 50-72, (73), 74, (75), 76, (77), 78-80, 85-87, 88-91, 93-96, 99, (103-104), 105, (106), 107-110, 117, 119, 126-132, 141-147.

Dewart, Mrs

AWD Lurker 4, (7), (41).

De Witt, Ian

HPL Winged (online text) Police constable of Central Station, Bloemfontein 242, 262, 263.

Dexter, Dr. Ambrose

Author of address, "Practical Applications in Military Technology."

HPL Haunter (online text) 93, 114.

RB Steeple (online text) 217-230.

Dexter, Elisha, Mr. & Mrs

Of Providence; parents of Rose Dexter. AWD Brotherhood 351.

Dexter, Gregory

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 117.

Dexter, Knight

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 162.

Dexter, Prof.

A zoologist at Miskatonic University. (Page and story ref lost.)

Dexter, Rose

Of Providence; daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Elisha Dexter. AWD Brotherhood 328, 330-333, 337-338, 347-351.

Dho formula

HPL Dunwich (online text) 184.

AWD Space 359.

See also: Dho-Hna formula; Dhol Chants.

Dho-Hna formula

HPL Dunwich (online text) 184.

AWD Middle 359.

See also: Dho formula; Dhol Chants.

Dhol Chants

A text attributed to malign and non-human Leng. Museum proprietor George Rogers claimed to have read the Dhol chants. [HPL Museum (online text) 217]

Wilbur Akeley had a copy of the Dhol Chants in his library. [AWD Gable (online text) 206]

[AWD Lurker 134]

[AWD Space 234]

See also: Dho formula; Dho-Hna formula.

dholes

Of planet Yaddith.

AWD Curwen 22; Lurker 133; Seal (online text) 161; Sky 68; Valley (online text) 135.

Compare with: bholes (in corrected Arkham edition of Lovecraft); Dhols; doels; dols.

Dhols

AWD Lurker 84; Whippoorwills 47.

Compare with: bholes; dholes; doels; dols.

Dhoric shrine

K'naa. HPL Aeons (online text) Ghatanothoa's priests stood while King Thabon knelt at the Dhoric shrine 273.

Dial

Synonym for: Boston Dial.

Diana, High Priestess of

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155, 161.

D'Iberville

HPL Call (online text) 137.

Dick

A St. Bernard, beloved of Georgina Clarendon. HPL Test (online text) 25, 29-30, 43-46.

Dickens, Charles

Of Britain; author. AWD Watchers 389.

Dictionnaire Infernal

(English: Infernal Dictionary) By Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy. A work that gave an account of various types of demons, arranged in hierarchies. First issued in 1818, and revised by the author for several later editions through 1863. [Dictionnaire Infernal, Wikipedia, 1/13/2021] The 1863 edition, which is popular due to the many quaint illustrations of demons, is available online (in French) at the Internet Archive.

Andreas Benson had read the Dictionnaire Infernal. [HK Hunt (online text) 167]

Dimension Prowler

HK Hunt (online text) 169.

Synonym for: Iod.

dimensional shambler

HPL Museum (online text) (231-233), 234.

Dionysos

HPL Electric (online text) 70.

Diptera of Central and Southern Africa

By Henry Sargent Moore.

HPL Winged (online text) 245, 251, 256, (257, 258), 261.

Directorium Inquisitorum

RB Poe (online text). A volume in the library of Launcelot Canning, described as "a rare and curious book in quarto Gothic that was the manual of a forgotten church." A book of that title was used by the Spanish Inquisition as a manual of procedure. [Directorium Inquistorum,Wikipedia]

Dirkas

Family of adepts who translated the Song of Yste. RAL Abyss (online text) 285.

Dis

Fabled, Cyclopean deserted city of ebon stone. HK Hydra (online text) 138; Jest (online text) the City of Iron 63.

Synonym for: Bel-Yarnak.

Discours des Sorciers

The French witch-hunter's Bible, published in Lyons in 1608. It was written by Henry Boguet, Supreme Judge of the St. Claude district of Burgundy. Boguet subjected many accused witches to torture by gruesome means such as red-hot pincers, and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. Among other quaint notions, Boguet believed that sorcerers are incapable of shedding more than three tears from the right eye. [Henry Boguet, the Witch-Finder of Burgundy at www.shanmonster.com]

The Peabody Heritage narrator found a copy of Discours des Sorciers in the house of his great-grandfather, Asaph Peabody [AWD Peabody 193].

District Board of Education

Arkham area. AWD Witches 299.

Incl: editor of Arkham Gazette.

District School Number Seven

Arkham area. AWD Witches 294, 307.

Incl: Williams, Mr.; Potter, Andrew; Dunlock, Wilbur.

Dixon, Mark

Son of Cthulhu and a human, Kay Keith, who died in childbirth. Dixon was raised by Judson Moybridge, who found him through a foster-parent program. They lived on Los Feliz Boulevard in Los Angeles. Moybridge gave the child his own mother's maiden name of Dixon. Dixon worked as a junior researcher for the Los Angeles Times. He witnessed an attempt to assassinate the Los Angeles major by a possible member of the terrorist Black Brotherhood. After a major earthquake, Dixon escaped with his girlfriend Laurel Colman through Parkland Cemetery, only to find that she had been killed by ghouls. Dixon later found Moybridge murdered and discovered that he had been working for the Black Brotherhood. Dixon was attacked by Deep Ones who drowned him in the swimming pool at Moybridge's house, but he survived the drowning. His captors then took him to the Santa Cruz mountains, where the Black Man (Reverend Nye/Nyarlathotep) showed him the Shining Trapezohedron. The light from the stone caused him to transform into Great Cthulhu, and he went forth to rule the world. [RB Strange]

Djhenquomh

Future national mother of the Bhlemphroims. CAS Door (online text) 33, 35, 37.

Djhibbis

An apterous and Stylitean bird people of Cykranosh. CAS Door (online text) 36.

djin

Prototype of all the djinn, and ruler of the salamanders [RB Hell (online text) 61]

djinn

RB Hell (online text) 53, 61; Sebek 124; Shambler (online text) 180.

See also: djin.

djongua-beans

A food eaten in Commoriom. [CAS Testament (online text)]

Dluuhg

HH Guardian 295. See Abhorred Continent of Dluuhg.

Dobson

Of Monk's Hollow. Caretaker of the house with the Witch Stone. HK Frog (online text) 107-111, 116.

Dock Street

A street in Innsmouth that parallels the Manuxet River on the north side. Although not referenced in HPL Innsmouth (online text), Dock Street appears on HPL's sketch map of Innsmouth.

Doel chants

RB Mannikin 79.

Doels

Pseudo-Akeley revealed the true nature of the Doels to Albert Wilmarth [HPL Whisperer (online text) 256].

FL Terror2 281.

FBL Hounds (online text) 85, 87.

Compare with: bholes; dholes; Dhols; dols.

Doels, maker of

Creator-god; "it". FBL Hounds (online text) 87.

Dog-Star

RB Opener 160.

dogs

The narrator of The Rats in the Walls mentions the trite figure of "the inevitable dog in the ghost story, which always growls before his master sees the sheeted figure" [HPL Rats (online text) 33]. However, there are abundant examples that dogs also hate and fear alien races and transdimensional elder entities.

All the dogs of the countryside around Dunwich barked persistently, throughout the night before Wilbur Whateley's birth on Candlemas, 1913 [Dunwich (online text) 159, 160]. Dogs hated Whateley, who had to carry a pistol to protect himself against them [162, 164]. Later, dogs came to hate and fear the whole Whateley place [165], presumably because of the growing size of Wilbur's hidden half-brother. The Miskatonic University watchdog showed an immediate tendency to attach Wilbur [169, 171], and later succeeded in attacking and killing him [173-175]. Yet following Wilbur's death, the dog fled, apparently fearing the liberated soul of Whateley, which also panicked the waiting whippoorwills [175]. The night that Wilbur's half-brother broke loose, the dogs near Dunwich barked frantically all night [177]. The next day, three dogs that accompanied the search party barked furiously but became cowed and reluctant when near Cold Spring Glen, where the horror had passed [179]. Similarly, dogs awakened various farm families when the horror drew near, but then cowered in fright during the actual attacks [179, 181, 190]. During the ritual performed by the Arkham professors to banish the horror, the frantic barking of dogs was again heard [195, 196].

Outside Henry Akeley's house, dogs barked at the Outer Ones and apparently kept them at bay during the night [Whisperer (online text) 229]. It seems bizarre that the Outer Ones lacked the technology to overcome ordinary domestic dogs, but perhaps they weren't really planning to approach any more closely anyway.

Dogs show an intinctive hostility to the crinoid Old Ones of Antarctica [Mountains (online text) 21, 22, 32, 36-37], their acrid scent [24, 26], and their soapstone stars [20].

In the land of dream, among the fertile plains rolling down to the River Skai, all the dogs barked affrightedly at the inconspicuous Zoogs that were following Randolph Carter [Kadath (online text) 311].

After the eldritch meteorite buried itself in the ground beside Nahum Gardner's place, the Gardner dogs came to seem cowed and quivering every morning, nearly without the spirit to bark [Colour (online text) 61]. Later, the dogs vanished one night, and were presumed to have ran away [67]. The remains of one dog were later found in the well at Gardner's place [73]. Hunters cannot depend on their dogs too near the greyish dust left by the blight from the meteorite [80].

The sorcerer Asenath Waite could make any dog howl by certain motions of her right hand [Doorstep (online text)281].

Sometimes the absence of dogs is suspicious. Thus, the town of Innsmouth was marked by a complete absence of cats and dogs [Innsmouth (online text) 326]. When the creatures of Innsmouth set out in pursuit of the Innsmouth (online text) narrator, they used no dogs for tracking [359]. Similarly, no dogs were allowed in Rogers' Museum [Museum (online text) 218]. Perhaps they would have reacted badly to the preserved specimens of alien creatures.

In contrast with the above examples, there was a fearsome, gigantic winged hound that pursued and killed St. John; See The Hound.

Do-Hna

Valley in K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 134.

Dolen, Jim

Chief clown at the Stellar Brothers circus [RB Elephant (online text) 47, 50-51].

Dolgovdi

A place in Russia. AWD Lurker 136.

Dols

AM White2 (online text) 125.

Compare with: bholes; dholes; Dhols; doels.

Dombrowski, Mr. and Mrs

Landlords of the WitchHouse. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 276, 279, 283-285, 293, 295-296.

Donnelly family

Of Texas. REH Lost 64.

Donnelly, Bill

Of Texas. REH Lost 65.

Donnelly, Doctor

REH Ring (online text) 52, 56-60.

Donnelly, Ignatius

HPL Descendant (online text) 361.

Donovan

HPL Call (online text) 152.

Dooni

Magician of Thulask. CAS Coming (online text) 71-72, 74-75, 77-78, 80.

Door of the World

A great black portal through which John O'Dare was sucked into another world. It might also be the means by which Lord Donal O'Dare visited the world of Balrahar. If so, the Door may be accessible through fairy ring on a hill in County Kerry, though apparently it can also open at other locations. [REH Door]

door to Cthulhu

AWD Gorge 132.

Door to Yhe

AWD Island 190.

Doorways to Outside

AWD Curwen Doorway to Cthulhu 18, 37.

Aka: Avenues to Outside.

Dore, Gustave

The artist. HPL Museum (online text) 228; Pickman (online text) 13.

Dorgan, Laird

Of Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 120-136, 138-141, 145-151.

Dorieb

Monarch of Cathuria. HPL White (online text) 40.

Dormouth, William

An eccentric and taciturn neighbor of John Conrad and John Kirowan, who was killed violently and whose last words were a reference to the Jade God statue. [REH Jade]

Dornly

Author, Magyar Folklore. [REH Black (online text) 58]

Dostmann, Otto

Author, Remnants of Lost Empires. REH Black (online text) 57-58.

Doten family

Of Dunwich? AWD Lurker 98, 140.

Doten, Goodwife

Widow of John Doten of Duxbury. HPL Sorceries (online text).

AWD Lurker 17-18, 140.

Doten, John

Of Duxbury. HPL Sorceries (online text).

AWD Lurker 17.

Dothur

Oil of, in Mnar. HPL Doom (online text) 46.

Doubloon Street

Providence. (Page 122; story ref lost: perhaps HPL Case (online text)?)

Douglas, Elizabeth

Later Elizabeth Gordon. REH Ring (online text) 54.

Douglas, Detective Sergeant

Of Partridgeville. FBL Hounds (online text) 86.

Douglas, Capt. J. B.

HPL Mountains (online text) 6, 14-16, 20, 23, 27.

Douglass' Histrionick Academy

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 188.

Dover

England. AWD Spawn 26.

Doyle, Alvin

Cousin of Will Benson. HK Hunt (online text) 162-168, 170-178.

Doyle, Mayor

Of Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 103.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

HPL Unnameable (online text) 201.

draconibus

RB Hell (online text) 26, 29-30.

dragons

RB DarkIsle Dragon's tongue venom 111, Dragon 112-113.

Dragon House

Outside Hankow. REH Bear 35-37.

Dragon's Head

(Ascending node.) HPL Case (online text) 204, 216-217.

Dragon's Tail

(Descending node.) HPL Case (online text) 204, 216, 234.

Drake, Dena

RB Terror 219, 221-223, 230, (231), 232-237, 239-240, 243, 245-249, 251.

Dravidians

AWD Curwen 12.

HK Hunt (online text) wrote with a peculiar horror of Iod 169.

Drayton Hall

England. AWD Spawn 33.

Drayton, Lady

AWD Spawn 33.

Dread, Lake of

AWD Lair 116, 120-121, 124, 126, 132-133.

dreamlands

When Randolph Carter's steps led him down to the Cavern of Flame, and thence down to the Gate of Deeper Slumber and into the enchanted wood, he entered a world that was fabulous in more than one sense. The places and inhabitants are exotic enough, but even stranger and more elusive are the qualities of the world itself—its origin and nature, and the many means of entrance and exit.

What follows is a catalog of these oddities, in no particular order.

First of all, it is clear that Randoph Carter enters this world by falling asleep. But the transition from waking to dream state is marked by a description of physical movement, rather than of a changing state of mind, and he continues to be self-aware and coherent in the trip to the land of dream. Furthermore, when he arrives there he finds a familiar place, which he has visited evidently many times before, and of which he retains much useful knowledge. While there, he follows a series of adventures with a beginning, middle, and end, and never loses sight of his central goal.

This is all far removed from the ordinary experience of dreaming, as a normally only half-remembered state that proceeds illogically through a series of events that seem to make sense, but in fact make no sense at all when you think about it later. The conscious passage from the waking experience to the dream state is also missing from our ordinary experience.

What is dream-like about this world? There are two main aspects to the story that are dreamlike. The first is the great extravagance of the places and characters Randolph Carter meets. All the cities have exotic names, like Dylath-Leen and Ulthar. And beings such as night-ghaunts, shantaks, and almost-humans form no part of our waking world.

Then also there is the lack of realistic or exact detail in the narrative. All the conversations are paraphrased instead of quoted exactly, except for the long monologue by Nyarlathotep at the end. Carter arranges for voyages, but the need to pay for his passage is generally ignored. The ships never tack upwind or do anything particular with their sails: they simply go where the plot leads them.

Another point to note is that this dream land is a shared reality, not private to Carter himself; as Nyarlathotep calls it, it is "the world of all men's visions" (399). Further, Carter meets people he had known in waking life, such as Kuranes, "a man he had known by another name in life" (309).

The land of dream is spoken of as having a physical location within our waking universe, for of Kadath, Nasht, and Kaman-Thah tell him that "no man had ever suspected in what part of space it may lie; whether it be in the dreamlands around our world, or in those surrounding some unguessed companion of Fomalhaut or Aldebaran" (308). The "unguessed companions" would presumably be planets inhabited by conscious beings like ourselves; in other stories, Lovecraft mentions the existence of many civilisations and races on other planets. Presumably, these races also dream, and in their dreams visit their attendant dreamlands.

Though the dreamlands are a shared reality, they appear to be different from waking reality in that they are created by our minds, by the shared feelings and fancies of beings with a similar outlook on life.

The creative role of the dreamer is illustrated by Kuranes, who deliberately created a small tract of English countryside east of Celephaïs, by dreaming about it (354). In fact, "it was he who created Ooth-Nargai in his dreams, on which account he was now to be appointed its chief god for evermore" (Celephaïs (online text), 88). These creations took place within the shared dreamland that Randolph Carter also visits.

Carter himself created a separate dreamland, the marvelous city for which he quests throughout the story. But this world was never wholly private, for the Great Ones left Kadath to go play in Carter's city. More oddly, they were able to prevent him from entering it himself.

Yet on closer examination it seems that "dreamland" might be a misnomer, because the entries to this world are many and strange, and do not necessarily involve falling asleep. When the ghouls of the waking world throw away bones, they fall into the Vale of Pnath in the Great Abyss beneath the dreamland. Ghouls in general seem to move easily between the "waking" and "dream" worlds via subterranean tunnels (336-338).

Beyond the Tanarian Hills of dreamland lie "forbidden ways into the waking world and other regions of dream" (352). It is also said that the enchanted wood "at two places touches the lands of men...it is well that [the zoogs] cannot travel far outside the world of dream" (308-309). Also, Basil Elton, "a light-house keeper in ancient Kingsport" (317) traveled to dreamland from his lighthouse in a white ship (White (online text) 36-42). The Vaults of Zin can be reached from the ghouls' burrows under dreamland (339) and the pit in Leng by the throne of the high priest is said to also lead down to these vaults (373); yet in the waking world the Vaults of Zin also exist, beneath the underground realm of K'n-yan in Oklahoma (Mound (online text)). For that matter, Professor Dyer suggests that the land of the Antarctic Old Ones "must indeed be the fabled nightmare Plateau of Leng which the mad author of the Necronomicon was reluctant to discuss" (Mountains (online text) 70). Thus, Leng exists both in the waking world and dream--albeit in very different forms. Regarding the "reality" of the dreamland, it is worth noting that Kuranes continued to live in the dream land, though he "could not go back to...the waking world because his body was dead" (354).

Time is subject to strange distortions in the land of dream. The black kitten on p. 314 is a grown cat on p. 346. And Kuranes was told that "there is not time in Ooth-Nargai, but only perpetual youth" (Celephaïs (online text), 86).

The earth and the moon appear in the land of dream; "earth" itself is the only overall name for the land that Carter travels. But it is evidently not spherical, for by sailing between the Basalt Pillars of the West and over the cataract, the almost-humans are able to sail to the moon.

One last point to note is that the dreamer can fall asleep and dream within the dreamland. Atal and Carter both fall asleep (314), and Carter dreams "terrible dreams within dreams in the small hours" (359).

Note other connections: Kadatheron, Thraa, Pnath, Illarnek.

Time relativity: Iranon (online text) 115; Romnod ages while Iranon does not; but set in Mnar?

NEW NOTES: The characteristics of dream should not be presented as so well defined or universal. Much is probably characteristic simply of Carter's own temperament. Note also, the ending (escape from a doom by waking up) is a typical ending for nightmares; except that Carter's doing it consciously and deliberately is reminiscent of a lucid dream experience (especially as most such experiences cause the dreamer to awake).

Connections to ours: Cavern of Flame -> Gates of Deeper Slumber -> Enchanted Wood; Ghouls -> Vale of Pnath; beyond Tanarians -> waking world and other regions of dream; Vaults of Zin; Basil Elton lighthouse -> Southern Sea.

Time- see p. 346 kitten grown to adult cat; but 350 very old cat-live a long time?

Kuranes remained in dreamland after death; created a tract of countryside with his dream 354.

Connections: Sarnath in both (HPL Iranon (online text) 114); also Olathoe in Lomar.

Relativity of time- HPL Iranon (online text) 115; Romnod ages while Iranon does not.

See also "The Real World and the Dream World in Lovecraft," in The Horror of it All, ed. Robert M. Price, Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990.

Incl: Akariel; Aran_Mt.; Baharna; Basalt Pillars of the West; Cathuria; Cavern of Flame; Celephaïs; Cerenerian Sea; Dorieb; Dylath-Leen; Enchanted Wood; Gate of Deeper Slumber; Gate of the Caravans; Great Abyss; Hatheg; Hatheg-Kla, Mt.; Hlanith; Ilek-Vad; Ilarnek; Inganok; Ired-Naa; Kadath; Kadatheron; Kingsport; Kiran; Kled; Koth; Lathi; Lelag-Leng; Plateau of Leng; Lerion, Mt.; nameless monastery; nameless rock; Naraxa, River; Narg, River; Ngranek, Mt.; Nhhngr; Nir; North Point; Ogrothan; Olathoe; Oriab; Ooth-Nargai; Oukranos; Palace of the Seventy Delights; Parg; Pharos; Pnath, Vale of; Rinar; Sarkomand; Selarn; Serannian; Six Kingdoms; Skai, river; Sona-Nyl; Southern Sea; St. John's Eve; Street of Pillars; Tanarian Hills; Temple of the Cats; Thalarion; Thok; Thorabonia; Thraa; Thran; Thurai, Mt.; Ulthar; Urg; Xura; Yath, lake of; Zar; Zin, Vaults of; White Ship; Tharp, Year of;

Almost-humans; Atal; Athib; Azathoth; Barzai the Wise; Bholes; Buopoths; Carven mountains; cats; colored gases; cotter and wife; Elton, Basil; Ghasts; Ghouls; Gingko trees; Gnophkehs; Gnorri; gods of earth; Great Ones; Gugs; high priest not to be described; Hsan; Kaman-Thah; Kranon; Kuranes; Kynaratholis, King; Lathi; Lygath trees; Magah birds; Menes; Moon-things; Moon-trees; Narath; Nasht; Nath-Horthath; Night-gaunts; Nith; Nodens; Nyarlathotep; Other Gods; Pickman, Richard Upton; Pnakotic Manuscripts; Purple spiders; Sansu; Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan; St. John's Eve; Shang; Shantak-birds; S'ngac; Snireth-Ko; Thagweed; Thal; Thon; Thul; toad-things; Urhags; Veiled King; Vooniths; Wamps; Yogash the black; Zath; Zenig of Aphorat; Zoogs.

Dream Landscape

HPL Call (online text) 132.

Dream Myths

Chapter of Magyar Folklore by Dornly. REH Black (online text) 58.

dreams

HPL Mound (online text) of Old Ones 133.

RB Demon 62-64, 66-67, 69.

Drinen in the East

HPL Iranon (online text) 116.

Drogman, Abdul Reis el

See: Reis el Drogman, Abdul.

Droom-avista

HK Jest (online text) 61-63.

Aka: Dweller Beyond; Dark Shining One; Jester.

Drowne, Dr

Of Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 103.

Druids

HPL Rats (online text) 27, 29.

RB Brood 91; DarkIsle 93, 96-99; Notebook (online text) 235-236, 238, 248; Sorcerer (online text) 155.

AWD GodBox 120-121; Lurker 73, 78, 116, 122; Wood pre-Druidic music 76.

REH Little: The spirit of a Druid priest saved Joan Costigan from the Little People.

CAS Holiness (online text) 131-132, 134, 136-138, worship Taranit 131, 137.

Aka: Children of Mabon; Clan of Mabon.

Druven, John

Of Arkham. AWD Lurker 19-26, 67-68, 70-71, 119, 126-127, 141.

dryads

HPL Whisperer (online text) 214.

Duchess

In Alice in Wonderland. AWD Curwen 12, 46.

Dumas

AWD Seal (online text) 171.

Duncan, Adam

Of Brattleboro? and Arkham. Great-nephew of Uriah Garrison, nephew of Aunt Sophia, fiance of Rhoda Prentiss. AWD Attic (narrator) 309-310, 312, 315, 318-319, 321-322, 325-327.

Dunedin

New Zealand. HPL Call (online text) 145, 147, 154.

Dunlock family

Arkham area. AWD Witches 294, 302.

Dunlock, Wilbur

Of District School Number Seven, Arkham area. AWD Witches 295, 297, 299, 303.

Dunning, Rev. Abraham

Of Dunwich. AWD Middle Baptist minister 365.

Dunsany, Lord

HPL Case (online text) 148; Mountains (online text) 11; Nameless (online text) 103.

Dunstable

England. AWD Lurker 138.

Incl: Wadham, Leonard.

Dunwich

Massachusetts. See: Dunwich.

Dunwich Horror, the

HPL Dunwich (online text) description 194.

FL Terror2 300, 309-310.

Durban

Natal, Africa.

HPL Winged (online text) Thomas Slauenwhite researched there 244, Slauenwite planned to escape through Durban 254.

Dureen

Of Darwich University. RAL Abyss (online text) 284-290.

Durfee-Arnold letters

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126.

Durkin, Ed

Of Monk's Hollow. HK Hunt (online text) 162.

Durtal

Artist. HPL Medusa (online text) 175.

Dusseldorf

Location of first publication of Von Junzt's Nameless Cults, in 1839. HPL Aeons (online text) 269, 271, 277.

REH Black (online text) 56; Hoofed 156; Roof (online text) 3.

Duxbury

Massachusetts. A coastal city near Plymouth. HPL Sorceries (online text).

AWD Lurker 17-18.

Dweller Beyond

HK Jest (online text) 61.

Synonym for: Droom-avista.

Dweller beyond Phlegethon

HK Hunt (online text) 168.

Synonym for: Iod.

Dweller in Darkness (1)

AWD Dweller 127, 138, description 142, 149, 151-152.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Dweller in Darkness (2)

HK Salem (online text) 261.

Synonym for: Nyogtha.

Dwellers in the Depths

By Gaston Le Fe. CJ Acquarium 305.

dwellers in the Hidden World

HK Invaders (online text) 71.

Synonym for: Invaders.

Dwellers Under the Tombs

REH Dwellers (122, 124-128, description 129, description 130, 131).

Dwight, Walter C

Of College Hill, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 154-155.

Dyer, (Prof.) William

Of Miskatonic University; geology; leader of Antarctic expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) (narrator) name mentioned 20, 22, age 28; Time (online text) 406-407, 409-410.

Dylath-Leen

A city. Kadath (online text) 313, 315-316, 320, 324-325, 327, 334, 345, 360-361, 365, 369-370, 375-376, 380, 385.

Dyson

Of Columbia University. HPL Winged (online text) notified Slauenwite that Moore received the flies 252, later stopped writing to Slauenwite after Moore told him of his suspicions 253, awakened by a devil-fly when Moore died 255 & 258.

Dzang, Char

Rajah of Jadhore. RB Elephant (online text) (40), 41, (42-43), 44-48, 51-54.

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