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Tagged: Starry Wisdom

Themes & context

Church of Starry Wisdom

The Church of Starry Wisdom is the abandoned Federal Hill building and the forbidden congregation associated with it in The Haunter of the Dark. Its fictional records connect an Egyptian artifact, nineteenth-century disappearances and Robert Blake’s fatal investigation in 1935.

5 min read · 964 words

A human-form Nyarlathotep presents uncanny apparatus to an audience.
Entities & creatures

Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep is the intelligent messenger and soul associated with the Other Gods, encountered as a performer, a royal guide, a figure of witchcraft and a manifestation in darkness. His distinctive terror is personal: he understands human curiosity and desire well enough to exploit them.

10 min read · 1,919 words

A dark many-faceted viewing stone rests in its open metal box.
Books & artifacts

Shining Trapezohedron

The Shining Trapezohedron is the dark, red-striated polyhedral object through which Robert Blake encounters remote worlds and awakens the Haunter of the Dark. Its unusual container, visionary effects and recorded passage through nonhuman and human civilizations make it one of the most extensively contextualized artifacts in Lovecraft’s fiction.

6 min read · 1,161 words

A shadowed manifestation gathers inside the deserted Starry Wisdom church.
Entities & creatures

The Haunter of the Dark

The Haunter of the Dark is the presence awakened through the Shining Trapezohedron in Lovecraft’s story of the same name. It occupies the darkness of a deserted Providence church, develops an intimate connection with Robert Blake and is identified in his final diary as an avatar of Nyarlathotep.

5 min read · 893 words

Blake watches the church’s protective lights fail during a storm.
Literature

The Haunter of the Dark

The Haunter of the Dark follows Robert Blake’s investigation of a deserted Providence church and the growing connection between his mind and a presence unable to endure light. Written in November 1935 and published in the December 1936 Weird Tales, it combines a local cult history, a cosmic artifact and a fatal citywide power failure.

9 min read · 1,814 words