CharactersAsenath Waite
Asenath Waite is the Innsmouth-born woman who marries Edward Pickman Derby in The Thing on the Doorstep. The story’s later disclosures make her identity unusually difficult to summarize: the body known socially as Asenath is said to have been occupied by her father, Ephraim, before the marriage.
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