P

P., Susan

Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.

Pabodie, Prof. Frank H.

Of Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition, Engineering. HPL Mountains (online text) 4-6, 9-13, 15-16, 20, 22, 26, 33-34, 39-40, 50, 66, 85.

FL Terror2 269, co-inventor of the magneto-optic geoscanner 293, 298.

Pacific Coast Highway

California. The Probilski Foundation was located near Pacific Coast Highway, north of Malibu. [RB Strange]

Pacific Ocean

HPL Aeons (online text) risen island (part of ancient Mu) 265, bygone Pacific civilisation (of Mu) 267, Ghatanothoa cult flourished chiefly in Pacific regions 276, Pacific setting of Mu legends 277, T'yog mummy is Pacific specimen 279 & 281; Mound (online text) 122.

RB Kiss (online text) 44.

AWD Beyond2 islands 154, 169, 176; Island 210, 212; Curwen 18, 35, 40, 46; Dweller island 134; Sandwin 104; Seal (online text) 164; Sky 70; Space 242.

HK Bells (online text) 81, 88.

FL Terror2 306, 309.

Incl: Caroline Islands; Deep Ones; East India; Easter Island; Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Guam; Humboldt Currents; Marquesas Islands?; Marianas Islands; Micronesia; Melanesia; Nan-Matal; New Caledonia?; New Hebrides?; New Zealand; North Pacific; Polynesia; Ponape; R'lyeh; South Pacific; Tonga Islands?

Aka: Western Ocean.

Paine St

Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 326-327, 347, 349-350.

Palace of the Seventy Delights

Celphaïs. HPL Kadath (online text) 354, (355).

Paleozoic era

HPL Nameless (online text) 103; Time (online text) 385, 398.

Pallid Mask

RWC Mask (online text) 59; Repairer (online text) 5, 37; Yellow (online text) 106.

Pamphilus, St

HPL Mound (online text) 155.

Pan

HPL Dunwich (online text) Great God Pan 172.

RB Hell (online text) 37, 48.

Panama Canal

HPL Mountains (online text) 6.

HK Hydra (online text) 127.

Panton

Vermont. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 306.

Papeete

Tahitian city.

Ronald Abbott said that Papeete is quite safe for tourists. [RB Strange]

HC Isle (online text) 147-161.

Papua

AWD Island Papuans 185; Gorge 101.

Papuan legends

HPL Time (online text) 407.

Papyrus Ipuwer

Of Egypt. "The Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and now held in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands. . . . In the poem, Ipuwer . . . demands that the Lord of All (a title which can be applied both to the king and to the creator sun-god) should destroy his enemies and remember his religious duties. This is followed by a violent description of disorder: there is no longer any respect for the law and even the king's burial inside the pyramid has been desecrated. The story continues with the description of better days until it abruptly ends due to the missing final part of the papyrus." [Ipuwer Papyrus, Wikipedia]

"Fringe historians often compare the content of this papyrus with Exodus, the second book of the Bible. Similarities between Egyptian texts and the Bible are easily found, and it is reasonable to assume Egyptian influence on the Hebrews, given their at times close contacts. But to conclude from such parallelisms that the Ipuwer Papyrus describes Egypt at the time of the Exodus, requires a leap of faith not everybody is willing to make." [The Admonitions of Ipuwer, Internet Wayback Machine, captured Jan 20, 2019 from http://reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/ipuwer.htm]

Laban Shrewsbury interpreted the calamities in the Papyrus Ipuwer as evidence of the war between the Elder Gods and the Great Old Ones. [AWD Island 181]

Paracelsus

HPL Case (online text) 121.

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.

AWD Lurker 16.

Paradise Crest

An unincorporated community in California. Formerly known as Vulture's Roost. Later absorbed into Los Angeles. [FL Terror2 268, 312]

Includes: Fischer, Anton; Fischer, Georg Reuter; Reuter, Marie

Paralda

Sovereign of the sylphs [RB Hell (online text) 61].

Parchments of Pnom

See: Pnom.

Parg

Dreamwold city. HPL Kadath (online text) 316, 321, 325.

Paris

France. HPL Call (online text) 132; Case (online text) 164; Medusa (online text) 170, 173-174, 178, 187, 191.

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.

RWC Repairer (online text) 5.

AWD Gable (online text) 206; Gorge 98, 119; Clay 371-372, 375; Lurker 81, 125; Six 124; Space 234-235; Spawn 18-19; Survivor (online text) 153.

Incl: Bibliotheque Nationale; Charriere, Dr. Jean-Francois; Corey, Jeffrey; Latin Quarter; Rue St. Jacques; St. Clair Academy; Sorbonne; Wiseman, Richard.

Parker

HPL Call (online text) 152.

Parker River

Newburyport. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 315.

Parkland Cemetery

On Parkland Place, Los Angeles area. After a major earthquake, Mark Dixon and Laurel Colman tried to escape across Parkland Cemetery. The earthquake had revealed the burrows of many ghouls, and Laurel was decapitated by them. [RB Strange]

Parkland Place

Los Angeles area. Laurel Colman lived on Parkland Place, across the street from Parkland Cemetery. [RB Strange]

Park Lane

London (or Croydon?). AWD Curwen 33-34.

Parks

Servant of Randolph Carter. HPL Gates (online text) 422-423; Silver (online text) 417, 419.

Park Street

Boston? HPL Pickman (online text) 12.

Parry Mountains

Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 7.

Partier, Prof.

A person; Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 127-128, 130-132, (133), 134, 141, 146-149, 151.

Partington

Egyptologist who found the third priest of Sebek. RB Sebek 126.

Partridgeville

New England. FBL Eaters (online text) 88, 111.

Incl:

Chalmers, Halpin; Douglas, Detective Sergeant; Frank (1); Hancock, L.E.; Hortense; Howard; Morton, James; Smith, Dr.; Wells, Henry; Wren, Christopher

Angell Hill; Brewster; Central Square; First Baptist Church; Mulligan Beach; Mulligan Light; Mulligan Wood; Narrows; Partridgeville Chemical Laboratories; Partridgeville Gazette; Partridgeville Glue Works; Partridgeville Reserve (police); Smithwich and Isaacs;

Partridgeville Chemical Laboratories

FBL Hounds (online text) 86.

Partridgeville Gazette

FBL Hounds (online text) 84-85; Eaters (online text) 89.

Partridgeville Glue Works

FBL Hounds (online text) 84.

Partridgeville Reserve

Police. FBL Hounds (online text) 86.

Pashepaho

Wisconsin; a place. AWD Dweller 116, 123, 125, 134-135.

Pasht

Synonym for Bast; Bubastis. RB Brood 94.

Pasquantog Indians

RB Mannikin Near Bridgetown 79; Satan 6-10, 15, 17.

Incl: Wakimis;

Passumpsic river

Caledonia County, Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209.

Paterson

New Jersey. HPL Call (online text) 145.

Paton, Noel, Dr

Doctor of glandular therapeutics. FBL Hills (online text) 264.

Patriot's Day

Massachusetts. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 275.

Patucket falls

Pawtuxet? HPL Case (online text) 152.

Paul, Clifford

Of Springfield. AWD Watchers 400, 404.

Paulinus

A Roman commander. RB DarkIsle 98.

Paulsen

Shortly after divorce, visited Maine and unburied the Other with Roche, Hank Klarney, and Frank Klarney. Died two weeks later in a delerium. RAL Graag (online text) 12-15.

Paumato

HC Isle (online text) 147.

Paut temple scandal

RB Opener 162.

Pawcatuck

En route Connecticut to Rhode Island. HPL Case (online text) 165.

Pawnee country

Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 83.

Pawtuxet road, river, farm, village, valley

Rhode island. Joseph Curwen farm at. HPL Case (online text) 111, 118-119, 122, 124, 127-129, 132, Pawtuxet river 134, farm 136, road 137, farm 137, road 139, road 141, village 144-146, farm 148-149 & 151 & 154, valley 155, bungalow 168, farm 171, 175, 177-178, bungalow 178-180, 181, 182, 184, bungalow 185, 188-189, 191, 198, 200, 209, 224-225.

Incl: Fenner, Arthur; Fenner family; Fenner, Luke; Slocum, Charles

Lockwood Street; Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet

Paynims

A heretical Christian sect? CAS Holiness (online text) 122.

Pazoors

A type of coin used in Hyperborea. [CAS Tale (online text); Testament (online text)]

Peabody, Mr.

Attendant at Miskatonic University Library. AWD Curwen 23-24; Sky 60-61.

Peabody, Asaph

Of Wilbraham; great-grandfather of Peabody Heritage narrator. AWD Peabody 179, 182, 186, 189, 194-198.

Peabody, Benjamin

Little brother of Mary Peabody. Possibly of Arkham. Buried in Old Dethshill Cemetery. JVS Dead 29, 30, 35.

Peabody, E. Lapham

Of Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 362-363.

Peabody Heritage narrator

[AWD Peabody]

Peabody, Jebediah

Of Wilbraham; ancestor of Asaph Peabody and of Peabody Heritage narrator. AWD Peabody 182, 191, 194-195.

Peabody, Mary

Lives near Old Dethshill Cemetery. Possibly of Arkham. Older sister of Benjamin Peabody. JVS Dead 28-31, 35, 37.

Peabody Avenue

Arkham. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 278.

Peaslee, Alice (Keezar)

HPL Time (online text) 370.

Peaslee, Hannah (Wingate)

HPL Time (online text) 370.

Peaslee, Jonathon

HPL Time (online text) 370.

Peaslee, Nathaniel Wingate

HPL Time (online text) 369, etc; address 371.

Peaslee, Robert

HPL Time (online text) 370.

Peaslee, Prof. Wingate

Of Miskatonic University. HPL Time (online text) 369, 373, 376, 384, 406, 408-412.

FL Terror2 288-289, 293, 296.

Peck, Dr.

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 192, 196.

Pecos

A place in America. HPL Mound (online text) 116, Picos Pueblo villages 120.

Peiping

See: Peking.

Peking

China.

The tall man of Project Arkham suspected the Black Brotherhood of killing China's number two man in the Peking goverment. [RB Strange]

AWD Lair 123.

Peking Tower

China. REH Bear 36.

Pendrifter, The

Column in the Brattleboro Reformer. HPL Whisperer (online text) 215-216.

Penitentes

AWD Wood religious carvings of 73.

Pennacook

Indian tribe. HPL Whisperer (online text) 212-213.

Pennsylvania

HPL Case (online text) 132.

AWD Valley (online text) hex country 124.

Pennsylvania Historical Society

HPL Case (online text) 139.

pentagram

HPL Case (online text) 215.

RB Hell (online text) 26, 29-30, 32-33, 41.

HK Hunt (online text) 163-166, 168, 170-172.

Compare with: star, six-pointed.

Pentagram of Fire

HPL Case (online text) 151.

AWD Whippoorwills 46.

People of the Monolith, The

A poem written by the mad poet, Justin Geoffrey, and apparently inspired by the Black Stone in Stregoicavar, Hungary. Some lines quoted at the start of The Black Stone are probably from this poem. [REH Black (online text) 58, 65]

Justin Geoffrey wrote The People of the Monolith and died screaming in a madhouse in 1926 after a visit to a sinister, ill-regarded village in Hungary. [HPL Doorstep (online text) 277]

Perez, Juan.

Crewman on the Rover. RB Terror 229, 232-235, 237, 243-246, 248.

Perez, Sergeant

Of Los Angeles. One of the officers who protected the Los Angeles mayor from an assassination attempt by the Black Brotherhood. [RB Strange]

Periodicals

Incl: Arkham Gazette; Aylesbury Transcript; Journal of American Folklore; Providence Journal.

Perkins family

Family, Arkham area. AWD Valley (online text) 118; Witches 294.

Perkins, Bud

AWD Valley (online text) 121-122, 130-133, 138, 140, 142-143, 145-148.

Perlburg

Germany. AWD Lurker 138.

Permian period

280-230 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 16, 67, 95; Time (online text) 383.

Perrigo, Mr

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 162.

Persia

HPL Aeons (online text) Ghatanothoa cult in 276.

AWD Island 181.

REH Fire (online text) 31-32.

FBL WereSnake (online text) there are altars to Ishtar in Persia.

Persian Gulf

REH Fire (online text) 31-32.

Perth

Australia. HPL Time (online text) 404-406, 411-412.

Peru

South America. HPL Aeons (online text) Ghatanothoa cult in 276, 281; Time (online text) 395.

AWD Curwen 13, 15, 29; Gorge 97, 108, 122, 124, 127, 134; Keeper 140, 160; Lurker 116; Sky 76; Space 233, 238; Wood 77.

Incl: Incas; Lima; Machu Pichu.

Peteme

HC Isle (online text) 148, 159-160.

Synonym for: Mace, Peter.

Peter, Old

Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 118, 122, 124-125, 130, 134-136, 145.

Peters (1)

A soul in a bottle. HPL Terrible (online text) 273.

Peters (2)

Alias of Richard Upton Pickman. HPL Pickman (online text) 13, 17.

Peters, Frank

Of Los Angeles. A young black man who pretended to be a nurse, taking care of the fake Simon Waverly. He attempted to rob Albert Keith, but was killed by an earthquake. [RB Strange]

Peters, Melville F

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126.

Peterson

AWD Gorge 105.

Petra, (Dr., Sir) Lenden

AWD Curwen 32, 34-36.

Petra

A valley. HPL Mountains (online text) 48.

Petrie,

Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 106.

Phaleg

On of the Seven Stewards of Heaven invoked in White Magic [RB Hell (online text) 60].

Phaleron jugs

A style. HPL Case (online text) 212-213, 215.

Phantom of Truth

RWC Repairer (online text) 37; Yellow (online text) was laid 106.

Pharol, black

An alien entity. HK Hydra (online text) 135.

Pharos

In Celephaïs. A beacon or lighthouse? HPL Kadath (online text) 357.

Pharos, Elder

See: Elder Pharos.

Phelan, Andrew

AWD Island (177), 178, 181, 196, 202-203, 212; Curwen (narrator), 3, 5, 11, age race & birthplace 16, from Boston (30), visited Croydon Aerodrome 33, Andrew 40, Andrew 42, 44, Boston address 47; Gorge possible reference (127); Keeper 160; Sky (52), 53, (54), 55-57, vanished Sept 1938 57, 58-61, 67-81, 86-93.

Phelps

Passenger who died on the third day of an ocean voyage, on a liner that was transporting the Sacred White Elephant of Jadhore [RB Elephant (online text) 45].

Philadelphia

HPL Case (online text) 138-139, 195; Test (online text) 51.

HC Isle (online text) 152.

Philetas, Theodorus

Of Constantinople. Translated the Al-Azif   into Greek, under the title Necronomicon in 950 A.D (HPL History (online text) 52).

Philistines

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 334.

AWD Sky 66.

Phillipines

HPL Call (online text) 132.

Phillips

Family, of Innsmouth. AWD Seal (online text) 150, 153, most died in '28 154, 156, 158-159, 166, 176.

Phillips, Arthur

Of Providence. AWD Brotherhood (narrator), 328, 339, 341, 345-347, 351.

Phillips, Ada

Married name of Ada Marsh.

Phillips, (First Mate) Cyrus Alcott

AWD Seal (online text) 158, 167.

Phillips, (Rev.) Jabez Lovell

AWD Seal (online text) 158.

Phillips, Jared

Brother of Sylvan, father of Marius Phillips. AWD Seal (online text) 153.

Phillips, Jason

AWD Those 112-117.

Phillips, Marius

AWD Seal (online text) (narrator), family (149-150), childhood (152), named 155 & 157.

Phillips, Sylvan

AWD Seal (online text) 145-152, 154, 157, (158), 159-161, 166-167, (170), 171, 176.

Phillips, Ward (1)

Of Angell Street, Providence. "An elderly eccentric of Providence, Rhode Island." Grandson of Whipple Phillips. HPL Gates (online text) 424-427, 446, 452-454, 456-457.

AWD Lamp (online text) 248, parents' early death 249, knowledge of Arabic 250, 251, 254-256.

Phillips, Rev. Ward (2)

Author, Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-English Canaan. [HPL Sorceries (online text)]

AWD Lurker 16, pastor 2nd Church of Arkham 17, 18-23, 25-26, 67-68, 102, 117, 119, 126-127, 141; Whippoorwills 43.

Phillips, Winfield

AWD Lurker 111, (112-114), 115, (116-119), 120, (121-123), 124-125, (126-129), 130, (131-141), 142.

Phillips, Whipple

Of Angell Street, Providence. Grandfather of Ward Phillips. AWD Lamp (online text) 248-249, 254-256.

Phillips Exeter

A boys' school? HPL Test (online text) 56.

Philosopher's Stone

HPL Case (online text) 119.

HK Jest (online text) 62.

Aka: Elixir; Stone of the Philosphers.

Philosophical Society

Of Newburyport. HPL Case (online text) 135.

Phipps

Historical person. HPL Pickman (online text) 18.

Phlegethon

HK Hunt (online text) Iod is Dweller beyond 168.

Aka: River of Flame.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

A ritual phrase chanted by the Cthulhu cultists, both in Greenland and Louisiana, and translating to "In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." [HPL Call (online text) 136]

Phoenicia

RB Brood Phenicians built galleys 92.

Incl: Tyre.

Phoenician language

Parts of the ritual over John Grimlan's body where in a language faintly suggesting the Phoenician [REH Dig (online text)].

A ring that was owned by Xathra, then Lord Donal O'Dare, and later John O'Dare had tiny, hieroglyphic-like characters that resembled Phoenician. [REH Door]

Phrygia

HPL Rats (online text) priest 29, tongue of Phrygia 43.

Phul

On of the Seven Stewards of Heaven invoked in White Magic [RB Hell (online text) 60].

Physician's Service Bureau

Providence. RB Steeple (online text) 218.

Pickering, Anam and Martha

Of Monk's Hollow. HK Frog (online text) 114-117.

Pickman

Curator of Cabot Museum, ca. 1878. HPL Aeons (online text) traveled to Valparaiso and Pacific to search for risen Mu island 266.

Pickman, Captain

JVS Snouted 25-26, 28.

Pickman family

Of Salem. Rumored to possess a 16th century Greek copy of the Necronomicon, which vanished with the disappearance of Richard Upton Pickman (HPL History (online text) 53).

Pickman, Nathaniel Derby

HPL Mountains (online text) 6.

Pickman, Richard Upton

HPL History (online text) 2; Kadath (online text) (336), 337, *338, 339, 345, 376, 378-379, 381-390, 393; Pickman (online text) 12-25.

Character from Lovecraft's story Pickman's Model (HPL Pickman, online text), who was based on the real Boston artist Richard Upton. [RB Strange]

AWD Six 124.

See also Pickman family; Upton, Richard.

Picts

Of Britain.

RB Brood 89, 92.

REH Hyborian (online text); REH Shadow (online text); Black (online text) 61; Children (online text) =Little People? 153, 154, 156-158, 161, 163: Small, dark, garlic-eating Neolithic people of Mediterranean blood; predominantly Celtic—a mixture of Gaelic, Cymric, aboriginal and possibly Teutonic elements. They were short and had dark hair, eyes, and skin. The Picts conquered ancient Britain from the Children of the Night; they were unable to exterminate them completely, but never mated with them. Later, the Picts in turn suffered invasion by Iron Age Aryan tribes such as the Sword People. Dark (online text) (70-73, 82-85), 86-89, 93; Gods (online text) 187; Little: Costigan believed that the Little People were descended from the prehistoric Europeans known variously as Picts, Turananians, Mediterraneans, and Garlic Eaters; People (online text) 152, 154.

Aka: Flint People.

Includes: Bran Mak Morn; Brule the Spear-Slayer.

Picture in the House narrator

In November, 1896, he had been travelling for some time by bicycle amongst the people of the Miskatonic Valley in quest of genealogical data. While proceeding down an apparently abandoned road toward Arkham, he was overtaken by a severe rainstorm and sought refuge in a decrepit house nearby. There he had an unnerving encounter with the Picture in the House old man, but escaped after the house was struck by lightning. [HPL Picture (online text)]

Picture in the House old man

An old man who lived in a rundown house on a little-used road in the countryside outside Arkham until 1896. He seems to have been alive since the Revolutionary War, his life unnaturally prolonged by a cannibal diet. He was at least six feet in height, stout and powerfully built, with a ruddy complexion, bloodshot blue eyes, white hair and long beard. His clothes were a mass of tatters surmounting a pair of high, heavy boots, and his lack of cleanliness surpassed description. He had a collection of antique books, including an 18th century Bible, a copy of Pilgrim's Progress with grotesque woodcuts, and Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana. But his favorite work seems to have been the Regnum Congo, which he had acquired from Captain Ebenezer Holt. The book fell open easily to a page that he often perused, with an illustration of the cannibal butchers of the Anziques. He may have killed and eaten Parson Clark, as well as the Arkham district schoolmaster who disappeared in 1884. When the Picture in the House narrator took shelter with him in November, 1896, the old man apparently had a fresh kill upstairs, from which blood had soaked through to the downstairs ceiling and begun dripping. Perhaps the narrator would have become the old man's next meal, but the house was conveniently struck by lightning at that point. The narrator says nothing about the fate of the old man. [HPL Picture (online text)]

Pierce, Ammi

HPL Colour (online text) 53, 55, (56), 57-58, 60-61, 63-70, 72-82.

Pierce Brothers Mortuary

A chain of mortuaries. After Ben Powers died of a heart attack, he was taken to a Pierce Brothers Mortuary, perhaps the one in Westwood Village. [RB Strange]

Pierce, Dr

RB Mannikin 73.

Pierce, Mrs

Wife of Ammi. HPL Colour (online text) 57, 67-68.

Pierce, Nick

Sacrificed. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 335.

Pigafetta, Filippo

An Italian mathematician and explorer (1533–1604) [Filippo Pigafetta, Wikipedia, 11/18/2020].

HPL Picture (online text) 119: Author, Regnum Congo.

Pilbarra

W. Australia. HPL Time (online text) 403-406.

Pilgore, Henry

Of Somerset. AWD Keeper 145-146.

Pilgrim's Progress

HPL Picture (online text) 119.

Pillitsfer

Russia. A place. AWD Lurker 136.

Pinckard Salon Furniture

Washington, D.C. area. A furniture factory. The offices of Project Arkham were hidden underneath the building. [RB Strange]

Pinckney

Of Boston area? AWD Wood narrator; named 76-78, name misapplied to Jason Wecter 77, 80, 83-85.

pineal gland

HPL Mound (online text) Dormant organ of visual perception, stimulated by Crawford Tillinghast's machine 93 & 95.

Pinos Range

California. HK Bells (online text) 80-81, 86.

Piper, Abigail

Of Arkham; sister of Amos Piper. AWD Space 230-231, (233), 244, 245.

Piper, Dr. Amos

Of Arkham; brother of Abigail Piper. AWD Space 229-235, (236-238), 239-246.

Piregard, Fr.

Of Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 117, 119, 121, 138.

Pirate Hill

REH Dwellers 115, 124.

Pitcairn Island

South Pacific. In the 1970's, underwater volcanic eruptions were detected south of Picairn Island. A few months later, a typhoon hit Pitcairn. [RB Strange]

Place of Dagon

AWD Lurker 15, 70, 147.

Place of the Blind Apes

Where Nephren-Ka bindeth up the threads of truth. RB Fane 132.

Compare with: Blind Apes of Truth

Places, Weird

Some of the uncanny, unusual, bizarre places. Incl:

Abaddon; Alamout, Mt.; Alaozar; Algol; Antarctica; Atlantis; Atlantis; Bal-Sagoth; Carcosa; Cykranosh; Dread, Lake of; dreamlands; Easter Island; Egypt; Eight Brazen Towers; Hali, Lake of; Hyperborea; Ib; Irem; Isle of the Altar; K'n-yan; K'naa; Kadath; Karneter; Khem; Koth; Kythamil; Lemuria; Leng, Plateau of; Lomar; Lomar; Mnar; Moon of Yiggurath; Mountains of Madness; Mu; N'kai; N'ken; Nameless City; Nis; Place of the Blind Apes; Plateau of Leng; Plateau of Sung; Pnath, Vale of; Poseidonis; R'lyeh; Sarnath; Seven Suns; Shaggai; Shamballah; Stars, Isle of the; Valusia; Wood of N'gai; Xuthltan; Y'ha-nthlei; Yaddith; Yekub; Yhe; Yian-Ho; Yoth; Yr; Yuggoth; Zothique.

Placid, Lake

HPL Man (online text) 201.

Plainfield Pike

Rhode Island. AWD Lamp (online text) 253.

Plains Indians

HPL Mound (online text) 98.

Planck

Scientist. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 264.

planets

See celestial objects.

Plateau of Leng

See Leng, Plateau of.

Pleasant St

San Diego residence of George Goodenough Akeley. HPL Whisperer (online text) 236.

FL Terror2 297.

Pleiades

HPL Silver (online text) 417.

AWD Hastur 17; Sky 57, 93.

FL Terror2 310.

Includes: Celaeno.

Pleistocene epoch

600,000-12,000 years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 18, 29, 64, 73, 75.

Pletzka's force tube

DW Fire2 (online text) 80, 85.

Pliny

AWD Keeper 148.

Pliocene epoch

10 million to 600,000 years ago. HPL Mountains 52, 69-70.

Plotinus

An author. FBL Hounds (online text) 74.

Plowman, Piers

AWD Space 236.

Plum Island

See map on Google Maps.

Off coast between Newburyport and Innsmouth. [HPL Innsmouth (online text)]

Pluto

Planet. HPL Mountains (online text) 68; Whisperer (online text) 223, called Yuggoth 240, 264, 271.

HH Guardian 298: .

Aka: Yuggoth.

Plymouth, Massachusetts

See: New Plymouth.

Plymouth, Maine

RB Satan 8.

Pnakotic fragments

See: Pnakotic Manuscripts.

Pnakotic Manuscript(s)

A set of esoteric texts of great antiquity. Also known as the Pnakotic fragments.

Origin

The Pnakotic Manuscripts are said to be from distant and frozen Lomar [HPL Other (online text) 128; HPL Kadath (online text) 310]. In ancient Lomar, the Polaris narrator studied the Pnakotic Manuscripts for long hours each day. [HPL Polaris (online text) 22]

However, it appears that some portions of the Pnakotic Manuscripts predate Lomar. Thus,

    • Some frightful portions of the Pnakotic Manuscripts are too ancient to be read. [Other (online text) 131; Kadath (online text) 312]
       
    • A few daring mystics have hinted at a pre-Pleistocene origin for the fragmentary Pnakotic Manuscripts [HPL Mountains (online text) 29]. Prof. Dyer said that the Pnakotic Manuscripts have pre-human implications [45].
       
    • The Pnakotic Manuscripts are alleged to be pre-human [HPL Aeons (online text) 268].
       
    • Parts of the text of the frightful Pnakotic Manuscripts survive physically and directly from the time of the Great Race [HPL Time (online text) 389].

Contents

The most ancient portions of the Pnakotic Manuscripts include a curious symbol that was later found carved on Hatheg-Kla after Barzai scaled the peak and was taken by the Other Gods. [Other (online text) 131; Kadath (online text) 312]

After using the Silver Key to reach the First Gateway, Randolph Carter recognized it partly from hints in the Pnakotic fragments [HPL Gates (online text) 430].

The eighth Pnakotic fragment includes a long ritual, concerning things that existed in the north before the land of Lomar, and even before humanity. Information from that ritual lead George Rogers to the lost city where he found Rhan-Tegoth. [HPL Museum (online text) 221]

The Pnakotic Manuscripts mention Tsathogguah [HPL Whisperer (online text) 254].

The Pnakotic Manuscripts include whispers of Kadath in the Cold Waste [Mountains (online text) 71].

While the Polaris (online text) narrator fell under the spell of slumber from the Pole Star, he struggled to recall some relevant lore of the skies from the Pnakotic Manuscripts. [Polaris (online text) 23]

Dyer concluded that the crinoid Old Ones were the originals of the fiendish elder myths that were hinted about in the Pnakotic Manuscripts [Mountains (online text) 59].

The Pnakotic Manuscripts tell with fright of Sansu, who climbed Hatheg-Kla in the dreamlands and found only wordless ice and rock [Other (online text) 131].

Surviving Copies

George Rogers claimed to have read the prehistoric Pnakotic fragments [Museum (online text) 217].

Alonzo Typer read from the text of the Pnakotic Manuscripts in the library of the deserted van der Heyl house, and regretted having come there [HPL Diary (online text) 311].

Robert Blake found a copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts in the deserted church of the Starry Wisdom sect in Providence [HPL Haunter (online text) 100].

In the dreamlands, Barzai the Wize was familiar with the Pnakotic Manuscripts [Other (online text) 128]. According to a zoog, the Pnakotic Manuscripts were borne into the land of dreams when the hairy cannibal Gnophkehs conquered Lomar. The last copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts lingers in Ulthar, beyond the river Skai [Kadath (online text) 310].

Tony Alwyn, a librarian at Miskatonic University, knew something of the weird knowledge hidden in the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Beyond2 164]. A recent case involving Ithaqua was clearly related to the mythology so horribly narrated in the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Beyond2 172].

Laban Shrewsbury spoke to Andrew Phelan of various esoteric texts, including the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Curwen 20]. Shrewsbury had made notes from a borrowed copy [41]. Shrewsbury also told Nayland Colum of the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Keeper 141] Shrewsbury told Horvath Blayne that the Cthulhu Mythos sprang from old manuscripts including the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Island 180].

Prof. Upton Gardner asked Laird Dorgan to request a copy or photostat of the Pnakotic Manuscripts from Miskatonic University [AWD Dweller 122]. The papers left on Gardner's desk included pages copied from the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Dweller 126].

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

Claiborne Boyd found passages from the Pnakotic Manuscripts among the papers of his late great-uncle Asaph Gilman [AWD Gorge 109].

Winfield Phillips read from a Pnakotic Manuscript (sic) borrowed from Dr. Seneca Lapham, who in turn had probably borrowed or copied it from the Miskatonic University library [AWD Lurker 134].

Haddon found fragments of the Pnakotic Manuscripts among the books of Amos Tuttle [AWD Hastur 2]. Paul Tuttle donated the book to the Miskatonic University library [AWD Hastur 25, 29]

David, a librarian at Miskatonic University, had delved into the Pnakotic Manuscripts [AWD Sandwin 101, 105].

Marius Phillips found a copy that had been hidden by his late uncle, Sylvan Phillips [AWD Seal (online text) 160].

Amos Piper consulted a copy while possessed by a member of the Great Race [AWD Space 234].

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

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

Related Manuscripts

In Inganok, ceremonies are observed as set forth in scrolls older than the Pnakotic Manuscripts. [HPL Kadath (online text) 312].

The T'yog scroll from ancient Mu had hieroglyphs resembling some symbols found in the Pnakotic Manuscripts. [HPL Aeons (online text) 268]

Pnakotic pentagon

HK Invaders (online text) 71.

Pnath, vale of

HPL Doom (online text) 48*; Haunter (online text) Vale of Pnath 94; Kadath (online text) 336*, 340, 372; Dreamer (online text) vales of 46.

AWD Lurker 134.

FL Terror2 288, 291.

Pnom

A sorceror, chief genealogist, and noted prophet of ancient Hyperborea. His writings are variously referred to as "the writings of Pnom" and the Parchments of Pnom.

The writings of Pnom include many powerful exorcisms against the white spirits of the pole. The sorcerer Evagh perused them with sedulous care [CAS Coming (online text) 69].

The Parchments of Pnom were written in the Elder Script and included information on the geneaology of the gods. [CAS Pnom]

Pocumtucks

HPL Dunwich (online text) 159.

Poe, Edgar Allan

(1809-1849) American writer of horror, mystery, and science fiction stories. Of Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.

On the Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition, Danforth commented that the image of Mount Yaanek in Poe's poem Ulalume must have been inspired by the 1840 discovery of Mt. Terror on Ross Island, Antarctica. William Dyer was interested in Poe because of the Antarctic scene of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Danforth had queer notions about sources to which Poe may have had access when writing that story. This suspicion seemed confirmed when Danforth and Dyer heard a pursuing shoggoth uttering a phrase from Poe's story: "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" [HPL Mountains (online text) 8, 97]

Poe's coffin was stolen by Christopher Canning and hidden under Canning's mansion. Later Poe was reanimated from his essential saltes by Launcelot Canning, and kept imprisoned where he spent his time writing tales "fraught with a terror not to be endured." These included The Crypt, The Further Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, and The Worm of Midnight. The reanimated Poe hated Launcelot Canning and later escaped and attacked him during the fire that destroyed Canning's mansion. [RB Poe (online text)]

Henricus Vanning gave a party inspired by Poe's Masque of the Red Death. [RB Sebek 121]

Arthur Phillips and Rose Dexter encountered a group of Poe lookalikes in Providence. They had apparently been created by a cone-like alien creature (resembling a member of the Great Race) who took Poe for a model of an average human being. [AWD Brotherhood 330-333, 339, 341, 344-345, 349-350]

John Conrad regarded Poe as the author of one of the three master horror-tales, The Fall of the House of Usher. [REH Children (online text) 151]

Poe Street

Providence. Arthur Phillips liked to walk the shadowed environs of Poe Street at night. AWD Brotherhood 329.

Pocket, the

Synonym for: Harrop's Pocket.

Poictesme

"Poictesme (pronounced 'pwa-tem') is a fictional country or province which forms the setting of the fantasy works of James Branch Cabell, known collectively as Biography of the Life of Manuel. Poictesme is ruled by the Count Dom Manuel. It was the author's intention to situate Poictesme roughly in Southern France." —"Poictesme," Wikipedia,  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poictesme&oldid=1097210952 (accessed August 28, 2022).

Poictesme is adjacent to Ulthar, on the northeast [CAS Pnom].

Polack

Gangster visiting Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 105-109.

Poland

REH Black (online text) 59, 71.

Polarion

An isle of snow, to the far north of Hyperborea. CAS Coming (online text) Polarians--from islands nearer the pole than broad Thulask 74, 76-78; Tale (online text) 5, 9.

CAS Testament (online text): An isle of snow, where lived the White Sybil.

Incl: White Sybil.

Polaris

See: Pole Star.

Polaris narrator

A man who dreamt repeatedly of a past life when he lived in the land of Lomar, in the city Olathoë. There, he was a scholar who spent long hours each day in the study of the Pnakotic manuscripts and the wisdom of the Zobnarian Fathers. He was feeble and given to strange faintings when subjected to stress and hardships, but his eyes were the keenest in the city. He was sent to the watch-tower of Thapnen, where he was supposed to give a fire signal if the Inutos attempted to gain the citadel by the narrow pass behind the peak Noton. But gazing at the star Polaris, he was lulled to sleep. Now he believes that his modern life is a dream, and that he must wake from it to warn the people of Lomar that the terrible Inutos are approaching. In this dream of modern life, he lives south of a sinister swamp and a cemetery on a low hillock, in a house of stone and brick (possibly a mental hospital) where the people insist, without ever convincing him, that Lomar is not real. [HPL Polaris (online text)]

Pole Star

HPL Polaris (online text) 20-21, 23-24.

CAS Testament (online text): Athammaus and his fellow soldiers saw Polaris in the sky from Commoriom.

Poligraphia

By Trithemius. HPL Dunwich (online text) 183.

Polish immigrants

HPL Gates (online text) of Boston 453.

HPL Innsmouth (online text).

Salem. HK Salem (online text) 250, 258-260, 262.

Politburo

Soviet Union. Project Arkham suspected that the Black Brotherhood was responsible for the allegedly accidental death of two members of the Politburo. [RB Strange]

Pollio, Q. Trebellius

Secretary of Publius Libo. FBL Hills (online text) 291.

Pollux

Star or constellation? AWD Lurker 106.

poltergeists

HPL Diary (online text) 303.

Witches Alphabet by TrithemiusPolygraphia

By Trithemius. "Polygraphia is a cryptographic work written by Johannes Trithemius published in 1518 dedicated to the art of steganography. It is the oldest known source of the popular Witches' Alphabet, used at large by modern traditions of witchcraft." It also includes other ancient alphabets and invented alphabets, and hash tables for encrypting messages. [Polygraphia, Wikipedia 12/30/2020]

Dr. Henry Armitage consulted the Polygraphia during his efforts to decipher Wilbur Whateley's journal. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183]

Polynesia, Polynesians

South Pacific. HPL Aeons (online text) cults of Polynesians form threat to Cabot Museum officials 265, former continent (Mu) whose peaks survive as Polynesia 268, Ghatanothoa cult teachings merged into lore of Polynesian Areoi 276, swarthy Polynesian cuts glass of T'yog mummy case 279; Time (online text) 407.

AWD Island 178, 184; Curwen 12/13; Gable (online text) 206; Gorge 99; Keeper 140; Lamp (online text) (254); Seal (online text) 151, 160, 163-164, 167, 171, 176, 179; Shuttered 270, Polynesian wife of Obed Marsh 276; Space 233, 241, 244, 246; Survivor (online text) 161.

Incl: Ponape; Tangaroa.

Pompei

HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum collection includes plaster figures molded from hollows in Pompeiian ashes 266.

Pompelo (Pompelona)

Roman province in Vascones, at foot of Pyrenees. FBL Hills (online text) 287.

Ponape

Carolines Islands, South Pacific. HPL Aeons (online text) megalithic masonry is vestige of lost Pacific civilization (Mu) 267; Innsmouth (online text) 329.

AWD Island 178, 183, 186, 188, P. 194, 195-196, 202-206, 212; Gorge 98, 100, cult like Inns. 101, 108-110; Clay 378; Lurker 121-124; Seal (online text) 158, 167, 176-177; Sky 76, 79; Space 235, 242, 246; Shuttered 266, 272; Survivor (online text) 162; Valley (online text) 137; Who monograph on Ponape; Wood 73, 75.

Incl: Fish-Men.

Pondicherry

India? AWD Survivor (online text) 153.

Incl: Charriere, Dr. Jean-Francois.

Pond Street

Bolton. Herbert West had a cottage near the end of Pond Street. [HPL Herbert (online text) 144]

Pons, Solar

Of London. Private detective with an uncanny resemblance to Sherlock Holmes. Pons regarded the Necronomicon, Cultes des Ghoules, De Vermis Mysteriis, and Liber Ivonis as imaginary tomes, referred to in the works of American horror writers [AWD Six 126]. However, he also wrote the monographs An Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others [1931] and An Inquiry into the Nan-Matal Ruins of Ponape [1905] [AWD Who].

Pont Street

London. CJ Acquarium 309.

Poole, Sam

The whittler. HPL Man (online text) 203, 205.

Popul-Vuh

Of the Mayas. "Popol Vuh (also Popol Wuj or Popul Vuh or Pop Vuj) is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people, one of the Maya peoples, who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands, Mexican Chiapas, Campeche and Quintana Roo states, and areas of Belize. The Popol Vuh is a foundational sacred narrative of the Kʼicheʼ people from long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It includes the Mayan creation myth, the exploits of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, and a chronicle of the Kʼicheʼ people. The name 'Popol Vuh' translates as 'Book of the Community', 'Book of Counsel', or more literally as 'Book of the People'. It was originally preserved through oral tradition until approximately 1550, when it was recorded in writing." [Popol Vuh, Wikipedia]

Laban Shrewsbury said that the Popul Vuh had parallels to other old accounts of natural catastrophes, which he interpreted as references to the war between the Elder Gods and the Great Old Ones. [AWD Island 181] Perhaps Shrewsbury had in mind an episode of the Popul Vuh where the gods destroy the wooden people, because this early prototype people were not capable of worshipping the gods. In Allen Christensen's translation, the chapter "The Fall of the Effigies of Carved Wood" recounts how they were destroyed by a flood, then their eyes gouged out, their heads cut off, and their bones ground up; were attacked by their dogs and by their everyday tools; and were unable to find any place to hide. It is then explained that spider monkeys are their sole remaining descendants.

Porta, Giambattista

"Giambattista della Porta (1535? – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation. Giambattista della Porta spent the majority of his life on scientific endeavors. He benefited from an informal education of tutors and visits from renowned scholars. His most famous work, first published in 1558, is entitled Magiae Naturalis (Natural Magic). In this book he covered a variety of the subjects he had investigated, including occult philosophy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, meteorology, and natural philosophy. He was also referred to as 'professor of secrets'." [Giambattista della Porta, Wikipedia, 12/30/2020]

Author, De Furtivus Literarum Notis. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183; AWD Survivor (online text) 160]

Port-au-Prince

Haiti. RB Serpents 261, 262; Terror 231.

Portland

Maine. City enroute Maine to Arkham. HPL Doorstep (online text) 288, 290.

AWD Whippoorwills 34; Wood 73, 77, 79.

Portland Place

London. Home of Stephen Jones. HPL Museum (online text) 227.

Portright, Senator

Project Arkham suspected the Black Brotherhood was responsible for the supposed suicide of Senator Portright. [RB Strange]

Port Royal

HPL Case (online text) 122.

Portsmouth

New England city enroute Portland to Arkham. HPL Doorstep (online text) 291.

Portsmouth, Maine

RB Satan 5, 6, 19.

Portugal, Portuguese

HPL Innsmouth (online text).

HPL Mound (online text) 137.

RB Terror Portuguese 224.

AWD Gorge 115.

Poseidonia

HK Spawn2 (online text) 67.

Poseidonis

HPL Mist (online text) 282.

RB Kiss (online text) 50.

Post Office Square

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165.

Potter, Ann Tillinghast

HPL Case (online text) 127.

Aka: Curwen, Ann; Tillinghast, Anne.

Potter, Andrew

Arkham area. AWD Witches 294-299, 301-305, 307.

Potter family

Arkham area. AWD Witches 295, 297-300, 306-307.

Potter, Wizard

Arkham area. AWD Witches 300, 305, 307.

Potter's field, Arkham

A cemetery in Arkham. HPL Herbert (online text) 135-136, 138.

potter's field, Bolton

A cemetery in Bolton. Herbert West moved into a cottage near the potter's field, where he sometimes procured specimens for his reanimation experiments. [HPL Herbert (online text) 144, 146, 151]

Potter's General Store

HPL Colour (online text) 62.

Potter, Welcome

Charles Dexter Ward's great-great-grandfather. HPL Case (online text) 116.

Powell, Otis

Editor of a newspaper in Innsmouth. [HC Coming]

Power's Lane

Providence. HPL Case (online text) hill 125, Power's Lane 148.

Power Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115.

Powers, Ben

Of Los Angeles. An employee of the same bank as Danton Heisinger. Powers died of a heart attack and was taken to a Pierce Brothers Mortuary. Shortly afterwards, Mike Miller impersonated Powers in order to interview Kay Keith. [RB Strange]

Powers of Darkness

RB Mummy 285.

Practical Applications in Military Technology

In 1945, a journal on astrophysics mentioned a recent gathering at Princeton University, at which the guest speaker, Dr. Ambrose Dexter, had delivered an address on "Practical Applications in Military Technology." It apparently was part of Dexter's plan to doom humanity by introducing us to ever more-powerful weapons, like the H-bomb. [RB Steeple (online text) 220]

Prague

Czechoslovakia. HPL Case (online text) 164, 194-195, 197, 199, 203, 223.

AWD Six 125.

Precambrian era

4.5 billion to 600 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 12, 14, 25.

Prentiss, Rhoda

Of New England; fiancee of Adam Duncan. AWD Attic 311, 313-315, 318, called from Boston on the way home 321, 324-327.

Presbyterian Cemetery

Baltimore. RB Poe (online text): Located at Fayette and Green Streets. Christopher Canning helped arrange for Poe's coffin to be moved there and a monument erected. But no coffin actually lies in the grave, because Canning removed it to a room beneath his mansion.

Presbyterian-Lane

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 135.

Pretoria

Transvaal, South Africa. HPL Winged (online text) 244.

Incl. Slauenwite, Dr. Paul.

Price, Jed

AWD Survivor (online text) 162.

Aka: Alligator Man.

Primal One

Synonym for Nodens. RB DarkIsle 112.

Prince of Darkest Dark

HC Death (online text) 368.

Prince of Darkness

Synonym for Satan [RB Hell (online text) 37, 44, 64].

REH Dig (online text) 79, 84: The Mohammedans identify Malik Tous with the Prince of Darkness. The ritual pronounced over John Grimlan's body says "ye Prince of Darkness taketh hys due in ye endde & he is not to bee cozened."

Prince of Evil

HC Death (online text) 365-366; Isle (online text) 157.

Synonym for: Hastur.

Prince of Wales Island

AWD Island 179.

Prince Street

Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 16.

Princess Ellen

A ship. AWD Keeper 144, 147, 151.

Princeton University

HPL Call (online text) 135; Medusa (online text) 169-170.

RB Steeple (online text) 220.

Principle of Evil, The

Subject of a story by Edgar Gordon. RB Demon 65.

Pringle Street

Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 107.

Incl: Chambers house.

Prinn, Abigail

Of Salem. HK Salem (online text) 250, 252, 254, 257, 259-261, (262-265), 266.

Prinn, Ludvig

Flemish alchemist and sorcerer who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition at the height of the witch trials. This would probably place his death in the 1600's. However, Prinn claimed to be the sole survivor of the Ninth Crusade (1271), which would have made him something like four centuries old. Though his claim of such extreme age was disbelieved by contemporaries, the old chronicles of the Ninth Crusade listed a Ludvig Prinn who was a gentleman retainer of Montserrat. [RB Shambler (online text) 180]

Prinn claimed to have acquired his sorcerous arts during travels in Saracenic lands. This included years spent captive among the wizards and wonder-workers of Syria, where he encountered djinns and efreets. Prinn also consorted with the mediaeval seers and prophets of Saracen times in Egypt, where he journeyed in the deserts and looted tombs in the hidden valleys of the Nile. The Libyan dervishes preserve legends of his deeds in Alexandria. [RB Faceless 41; Fane 135-136, 141, 143; Sebek 123-124]

Prinn may have had a doctorate, on the basis of a reference to him as Dr. Ludvig Prinn [AWD Whippoorwills 43].

In his later years, Prinn returned to the Flemish lowland country of his birth. He lived in the ruins of a pre-Roman tomb in the forest near Brussels. He was said to be accompanied by familiars and other conjured beings, who were spoken of fearfully as "invisible companions" and "star-sent servants." Local peasants shunned the forest by night because of strange noises that resounded to the moon, and feared that sacrifices were being performed at ancient pagan altars in the darker glens.

However, when the soldiers of the Inquisition came for Prinn, they found the tomb empty of familiars and bare of any sorcerous instruments or apparatus, though some of the nearby pagan altars had fresh bloodstains. Prinn was subjected to particularly atrocious tortures, but gave no information to his questioners, who eventually tired of the process and cast him into a dungeon.

It was while he was in prison, awaiting trial, that Prinn wrote the work for which he is remembered, De Vermis Mysteriis. It is not known how the pages were smuggled out of jail, but the volume was first published a year after his death. [RB Shambler (online text) 180-181]

Will Benson held that Prinn was not a charlatan [HK Hunt (online text) 167]. Charles stated that Prinn was a considerable sorcerer in his day [RB Philtre (online text) 293].

See: De Vermis Mysteriis.

Pritchett, Cap

Mailman; Vermont? RB Notebook (online text) 234, 236, 238-239, 242-245, 249.

Probilkski, Donald

Of Shreveport. An oil man and founder of the Probilski Foundation. Married to Elsie Probilski. Died ca. 1976-1978. [RB Strange]

Probilski, Elsie

Widow of Donald Probilski. She ran the Probilksi Foundation as administrator. She traveled to a private clinic outside Mexico City to undergo treatment for terminal cancer. She disappeared shortly after donating the Probilski Foundation museum and cliff property to the Starry Wisdom Temple. Mike Miller speculated that the cult had promised to cryogenically preserve Elsie for future resurrection. [RB Strange]

Probilski Foundation

Organization that built a private museum of Egyptian antiquities north of Malibu, at 400 Lampton Drive. Elsie Probilski donated the museum and property to the Starry Wisdom Temple. The museum included statues of many Egyptian deities. Reverend Nye took Kay Keith there to pose for photos. Tunnels beneath the museum held many horrors, including a horde of rats, a collection of cryogenically preserved corpses, and the sounds of Deep Ones flopping nearby. The entire museum was destroyed and the tunnels buried by an explosion. [RB Strange]

Project Arkham

A government project to investigate the possible truths underlying H. P. Lovecraft's stories. Based in a facility hidden under the Pinckard Salon Furniture factory in Washington, D.C. [RB Strange]

Incl: Lowenquist, Dr.; Miller, Mike; Sanderson, Orin;

Prolonged of Life

HPL Gates (online text) 431-432.

prophecy

RB Faceless return of Nyarlathotep 41.

Prospect Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 109, 165, 181, 203, 220.

Prospect Terrace

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 113.

Proteus

An ancient author. RB Kiss (online text) 47.

Providence

Rhode Island.

HPL Beyond (online text) Crawford Tillinghast lived in Benevolent Street 91, narrator was once held up in East Providence 93; Call (online text) 2 refs 126, 2 refs 128, 142; Case (online text) 107, 112-117, 122-123, 125, 131, 133, 139, 141, 147, 152-153, 159, 165, 181, 192, 195, 229; Gates (online text) 424-425; Haunter (online text) 93-throughout.

RB Shambler (online text) 182; Steeple (online text) 211-214, 216-220, 222, 225-227, 229.

H. P. Lovecraft wrote to Richard Upton from Providence. Richard Upton visited Providence, probably to see Lovecraft. [RB Strange]

AWD Brotherhood 329-331, 333, 335-337, 342, 345, 348, 351; Dweller 148; Middle 359; Survivor (online text) 148-151, 153, 156, 159-160, 165, 167.

FL Terror2 269, 293.

DWR Music (online text) 293-294, 297.

Incl:

Allan, Mr.; Asa, Old; Atwood, Alijah; Blake, Robert; Bowen, Asenath; Bowen, Prof. Enoch.; Bowen, Dr. Jabez.; Bowen, Prof. Enoch; Brown, John; Brown, Joseph; Brown, Moses; Brown, Nicholas; Carter, John; Carter, Randolph; Charriere, Dr. Jean-Francois; Checkley, Dr.; Clark and Nightingale; Cobbett, Hepzibah; College Street; Cotton, Dr.; Crawfords; Crooker decorating firm; Cunningham, Inspector; Curwen, Eliza; Curwen, Joseph; Dexter, Dr. Ambrose; Dexter, Elisha, Mr. & Mrs.; Dexter, Gregory; Dexter, Knight; Dexter, Rose; Doyle, Mayor; Drowne, Dr.; Dwight, Walter C.; Eddy, Orin B.; Federal Hill Boys; Feeny, Francis X.; Field, Naphthali; Gamwell; Gamwell, Mrs.; Gomes, Tony; Graves, Rev. John; Green, Daniel; Green, James; Gregory; Hannah; Hart, Robert; Hopkins, Capt. Esek; Hopkins, Stephen; Hoppin, Aaron; Hurley, William; Jackson, Steven; Jenckes, Daniel; Jonas, Tom; Lanigan; Lillibridge, Edwin M.; Lillibridge, Edwin M.; Lovecraft, Howard Phillips; Lyman, Dr.; Manning, Rev. James; Matthewson, Capt. James; Merluzzo, Father; Merritt, John; Monahan, William J.; Nig; Nightingale, Mr.; Nightingale-Talbot letters; O'Malley, Father; Olney, Epenetus; Orne, Simon; Peck, Dr.; Perrigo, Mr.; Peters, Melville F.; Phillips, Arthur; Phillips, Ward; Phillips, Whipple; Poe, Edgar Allan; Potter, Ann Tillinghast; Potter, Welcome?; Purvis, Ogden; Regan, Patrick; Riley, Sergt.; Russell family; Sabin, Thomas; Sayles, Mr.; Sheeley, Bert; Smith, Eleazar; Snow, Deacon; Tillinghast, Crawford; Tillinghast, Capt. Dutee; Tillinghast, Capt. James; Updike, Mrs.; Waite, Dr.; Ward, Charles Dexter; Ward, Mrs.; Ward, Theodore Howland; Weeden, Ezra; Weeden, Hazard; West, Benjamin; Whipple, Capt. Abraham; Whitefield adherents; Whitman, Sarah Helen; Willet, Dr. Marinus Bicknell; Winsor, Samuel

Abbot's distil-house; Amasa Field; Angell Street; Athenaeum; Baker & Greenbaugh; Baptist Church; Barnes Street; Barnes Street; Bay and Book; Benefit Street; Benevolent Street; Biltmore hotel; Broad Street; Brown University; Cathedral of St. John; Central Station; Charriere house; Cheapside; Christian Science Church and Dome; City Hall; College Hill; College Street; Colony House; Conanicut Island; Congdon Street; Congregational Church; Court-House Parade; Cranston line; Crown Coffee House; Deacon Snow's Church; Doubloon Street; Douglass' Histrionick Academy; Dr. Cotton's hill church; Durfee-Arnold Letters; Elephant; Elmwood Avenue; Empire Street; Federal Hill; First Baptist Church; Free Will Church; Free-Will Church; Frying-Pan and Fish; George Street; Golden Ball Inn; Great Bridge; Hacher's Hall; Herrenden's Lane; Historical Society; Industrial Trust beacon; Jenckes Street; John Carter Brown Library; John Hay library; Journal; Judge Durfee House; King's Chapell; Langer Brothers Circus; Long Dock; Market House; Market Parade; Meeting Street; Memorial Hall; Mile-End Cove; Moses Brown School; Muddy Dock Bridge; Narragansett; Nentaconhaunt; New Coffee-House; North Burial Ground; North End; North Providence; Olney Court; Physician's Service Bureau; Plainfield Pike?; Poe Street; Post Office Square; Power Street; Power's Lane; Presbyterian-Lane; Prospect Street; Prospect Terrace; Providence Art Club; Providence Bulletin; Providence Evening Bulletin; Providence Gazette and Country-Journal; Providence Journal; Providence River; Providence Telegram; Psi Delta House; Public Library; Red Bridge; Resevoir Avenue; Rochambeau Avenue; Sabin's Tavern; Second Station; Seekonk river?; Shepley Library; Sign of Shakespear's Head; Sign of the Elephant; Sign of the Goat; Sign of the Golden Eagle; Sign of the Golden Lion; Sign of the Unicorn and Mortar; South Main; South Water Street; Spirito Santo Church; St. John's Church; Stamper's Hill; Starry Wisdom Sect; State House; Swan Point Cemetery; Tau Omega fraternity house; Thurston's tavern; Town Street; Turk's Head; Waite's hospital; Washington Bridge; Waterman Street; Weybosset Point; Weybosset Street; Williams Street

Providence Art Club

HPL Call (online text) 128.

Providence author, a

Wrote a privately-published manuscript on Innsmouth horror. AWD Hastur 6.

Note: This might be an reference to HPL, rather than just an HPL-like character, if Innsmouth (online text) was ever privately published; I think it might have been. Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos cites a Vanguard Press edition in 1936.

Providence Bulletin

Synonym for Providence Evening Bulletin? HPL Haunter (online text) 107.

RB Steeple (online text) 217-218.

Providence Evening Bulletin

Probable full title of Evening Bulletin. Or else full title may be Providence Bulletin.

Providence Gazette and Country-Journal

HPL Case (online text) 114, 126, 128, 135, 147.

See also: Journal (1).

Providence Historical Society

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112.

Providence Journal

Providence. AWD Brotherhood 333, 351; Survivor (online text) 150.

Providence Telegram

HPL Haunter (online text) 103.

RB Steeple (online text) 213.

Incl: Lillibridge, Edwin M..

Providence River

Rhode Island. AWD Brotherhood 344.

Psamathe

HPL Electric (online text) 70.

Psi Delta House

College Hill, Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 113.

pthagon

Membrane. HPL Aeons (online text) the inner skin of the extinct yakith lizard; T'yog scroll written on pthagon membrane 274.

Ptmâk

A child of Nug and immediate parent of Cthulhu [CAS Pnom].

Pth'thya-l'yi

Of the frog-fish (Deep Ones). HPL Innsmouth (online text) 367.

Ptolemy Press

Hollywood, California. Publishers of The Tunneler Below by Georg Reuter Fischer. [FL Terror2 267.]

Ptolmeic

Period of Egyptian history. RB Sorcerer (online text) 161.

Public Library

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112.

Pueblos Indians

HPL Mound (online text) Pueblo village 96, indians 107, village of Zuni 116, village 120; Yig (online text) 83.

Puritans

RB Satan 5, 6, 12.

purple spiders

From vales neighboring Leng. HPL Kadath (online text) 371.

Purvis, Ogden

Private investigator, Providence. RB Steeple (online text) 220-222.

Pyramids of Gizeh

Egypt. HPL Pyramids (online text) 217, 219, 221-225, third pyramid that of Queen Nitokris 226, Great Pyramid 227, Second Pyramid 231 & 235.

Pyrenees

Where Chaugnar Faugn once dwelt. FBL Hills (online text) 254, 280-281.

Pythias

Damon and Pythias friendship. HPL Man (online text) 201.

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