Miskatonic Arcihves

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Tagged: Primary fiction

Characters

Wilbur Whateley

Wilbur Whateley is the outwardly human-presenting child of Lavinia Whateley and Yog-Sothoth, and the principal researcher in his family’s attempt to bring outside powers into the world. His premature development, concealed anatomy and library inquiries form the first major mystery of The Dunwich Horror.

7 min read · 1,313 words

Characters

William Dyer

William Dyer is the Miskatonic University geologist who narrates At the Mountains of Madness and later participates in the Australian expedition in The Shadow out of Time. His Antarctic account is written to prevent further exploration, after discoveries force him to reinterpret both Earth’s prehuman history and the beings initially treated as fossil specimens. His first name is explicitly supplied in the later story.

6 min read · 1,101 words

Entities & creatures

Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth is associated with the boundaries of space and time, the opening of gates, forbidden invocation and a form of existence in which separate identities can become aspects of a larger whole. Its role ranges from the Whateleys’ attempted incursion at Dunwich to Randolph Carter’s encounter beyond the Ultimate Gate.

10 min read · 1,986 words

Characters

Zadok Allen

Zadok Allen is the elderly Innsmouth resident whose long conversation with a visiting student supplies the town’s hidden history in The Shadow over Innsmouth. His account of Obed Marsh, the events of 1846 and the Deep Ones is initially dismissed as drunken invention, then increasingly corroborated by the visitor’s experience.

5 min read · 862 words