Character guide

Unknown Narrator

major

Also known as I, me, mine, myself

The first-person narrator of many stories, often unnamed.

Edward Derby Upton

major

Also known as Edward Derby, Derby, young Derby, Upton, Ed

A sensitive young man drawn into supernatural horror.

Young Blake

major

Also known as Blake

A young man who experiences strange events in a haunted house.

Randolph Carter

major

Also known as Carter, Betty, Randy, Randolph

A dreamer and occultist who travels through other dimensions.

Wilbur Whateley

major

Also known as Old Whateley, Wilbur, young Wilbur, Willy

A monstrous hybrid being from Dunwich seeking forbidden knowledge.

Ammi Pierce

major

Also known as old Ammi Pierce, old Ammi, Ammi

An elderly farmer who witnessed the colour from outer space.

Dr. Armitage

major

Also known as Armitage

A librarian and scholar who battles the Dunwich horror.

The Doctor

supporting

Also known as the Doctor

A mysterious physician involved in strange experiments.

Asenath Waite

major

Also known as Asenath

A witch with the power to swap bodies with others.

The Man

minor

Also known as the man

A generic male figure appearing in various stories.

Kuranes

major

A dreamer who becomes king of the dream city Celephaïs.

Malone

supporting

Also known as II To Malone, VII Malone, Thomas F. Malone

A police detective investigating horrors in Red Hook.

Richard Upton Pickman

supporting

Also known as Pickman

A painter whose works depict ghouls and other horrors.

Erich Zann

supporting

Also known as Zann

A mute violinist who plays music from beyond reality.

Nahum Gardner

supporting

Also known as Nahum, Nahum Gardner

A farmer whose family is destroyed by the colour from space.

Joe Slater

supporting

Also known as Slater

A man possessed by an alien entity from Yuggoth.

Iranon

supporting

A wandering minstrel seeking the lost city of Aira.

Robert Suydam

supporting

Also known as Robert, Suydam, the Suydam

A scholar involved in occult rituals in Red Hook.

Sir Wade Jermyn

supporting

Also known as old Sir Wade, Sir Wade, Wade Jermyn, Jermyn

An explorer who discovered a degenerate white ape tribe.

Lieutenant Klenze

supporting

Also known as Klenze, poor Klenze, the madman Klenze

A German U-boat officer who goes mad at sea.

Harley Warren

supporting

Also known as Warren

An occultist who descends into a cursed crypt.

Sir Arthur Jermyn

supporting

Also known as Arthur Jermyn, Arthur, young Arthur, Jermyn

A scientist who uncovers his family's ape ancestry.

Young Wilcox

supporting

Also known as Wilcox, poor Wilcox

A sculptor who dreams of the sunken city R'lyeh.

Crawford Tillinghast

supporting

Also known as Tillinghast

An inventor who creates a device to see other dimensions.

Capt. Norrys

minor

Also known as Norrys, Capt . Norrys, the plump Capt . Norrys

A sea captain who encounters the colour from space.

Joel Manton

minor

Also known as Manton

A professor who debates the nature of the unnamable.

Dr. Johnson

minor

Also known as Dr. Johnson, Johnson, Samuel Johnson

The famous lexicographer, featured in a reminiscence.

Barzai the Wise

minor

Also known as Barzai, unseen Barzai

A priest who climbs a mountain to see the gods.

Cap'n Obed

minor

Also known as Obed

An old sailor with knowledge of Innsmouth's secrets.

Little Atal

minor

Also known as Atal

A young priest who accompanies Barzai up the mountain.

Cthulhu

supporting

Also known as Cthulhu fhtagn, great Cthulhu, mighty Cthulhu

A monstrous cosmic entity sleeping in sunken R'lyeh.

Gustaf Johansen

supporting

Also known as Johansen, Second Mate Johansen, Mate Johansen

A sailor who survived an encounter with Cthulhu.

Nigger-Man

minor

Also known as old Nigger-Man

An old African man living in a haunted house.

Inspector John R. Legrasse

supporting

Also known as Inspector Legrasse, Legrasse

A police inspector investigating Cthulhu cultists.

Ephraim Waite

supporting

Also known as Waite, Ephraim, old Ephraim

A wizard who continues to exist after death.

The Servants

minor

Also known as the servants

Generic household staff in various stories.

Robert Blake

major

Also known as Blake

An author investigating a haunted church in Providence.

Jan Martense

minor

Also known as young Jan Martense, Martense, Jan

A murdered man whose ghost haunts the Martense mansion.

Nyarlathotep

supporting

Also known as Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep

A crawling chaos who appears as a mysterious showman.

William Harris

minor

Also known as Harris, William

A man involved in the strange events at the shunned house.

Arthur Munroe

minor

Also known as Munroe

A man who disappears during the Innsmouth investigation.

Curtis Whateley

minor

Also known as Curtis

A relative of the Whateley family in Dunwich.

Cotton Mather

minor

Also known as Mather

A historical Puritan minister mentioned in the story.

Walter de la Poer

minor

Also known as Walter

An ancestor of the Jermyn family with a dark secret.

Charles Le Sorcier

minor

Also known as Charles, Le Sorcier, young Charles

An alchemist who cursed the Manton family.

Old Dr. Fenton

minor

Also known as old Dr. Fenton

A physician who treats the narrator in a strange case.

Mr. Czanek

minor

Also known as Joe Czanek, Czanek

A man who assists in a robbery of the Terrible Old Man.

Professor Angell

minor

A professor who studied the Cthulhu cult.

Alfred Jermyn

minor

Also known as Alfred, Sir Alfred Jermyn, Jermyn

A member of the degenerate Jermyn family.

St. John

minor

A friend of the narrator who dies in a crypt.

Denys Barry

minor

Also known as Barry

An Irish landowner who drains a bog and awakens horror.

Lavinia Whateley

supporting

Also known as Lavinia, Lavinny

The mother of Wilbur Whateley, a deformed albino woman.

Matt Eliot

minor

Also known as Eliot, Matt

A friend of the narrator in the story 'He'.

Captain Obed Marsh

supporting

Also known as Marsh, old Captain Marsh, Obed Marsh, Captain Obed

A sea captain who made a pact with the Deep Ones.

Little Merwin

minor

Also known as Merwin

A child who disappears in the story 'The Moon-Bog'.

Daniel Upton

supporting

Also known as Dan, Daniel Upton

The narrator and friend of Edward Derby.

The Stranger

minor

Also known as the stranger

A mysterious visitor in several stories.

Dr. Francis Morgan

minor

Also known as Dr. Morgan, Morgan

A doctor who investigates the strange case of Joe Slater.

Sir Robert Jermyn

minor

Also known as Robert Jermyn, Sir Robert

A member of the cursed Jermyn family line.

Henry Anthony Wilcox

minor

Also known as Wilcox

A sculptor who dreams of Cthulhu and R'lyeh.

The Whateleys

minor

Also known as the decadent Whateleys, witch Whateleys, Whateleys

The degenerate family of Dunwich involved in dark magic.

Luther Brown

minor

Also known as gasps Luther, Luther

A man who witnesses the horror in the Martense mansion.

Castro

minor

Also known as Old Castro, old Castro

An old cultist who reveals the history of Cthulhu.

Zenas Low

minor

Also known as Zenas, the missing Zenas

A missing person in the story of the shunned house.

Dr. Reid

minor

Also known as Reid

A doctor who treats the narrator in 'Hypnos'.

The Boatswain Müller

minor

Also known as Müller

A boatswain on the U-boat in 'The Temple'.

Wal

minor

A character in the story 'The Picture in the House'.

Professor Warren Rice

minor

Also known as Professor Rice, Rice

A professor who investigates the Dunwich horror.

Carrington Harris

minor

Also known as Carrington, Harris

A man who tells the story of the shunned house.

Mr. James Boswell

minor

Also known as Mr. Boswell, James

The biographer of Dr. Johnson in the reminiscence.

Abdul Reis

minor

Also known as Abdul, Abdul Reis el Drogman

A dragoman who guides the narrator in Egypt.

Thaddeus

minor

Also known as Thad, young Thaddeus

A young man in the story 'The Tomb'.

Old Zadok

supporting

Also known as Zadok, Zadok Allen

A drunken old sailor who tells of Innsmouth's horrors.

Kilderry

minor

A character in the story 'The Moon-Bog'.

Sir John Hawkins

minor

Also known as Sir John, Hawkins

A historical figure mentioned in the Jermyn family history.

Menes

minor

Also known as small Menes

A pharaoh mentioned in the story 'Imprisoned with the Pharaohs'.

The Gardners

minor

Also known as Gardners

The family of Nahum Gardner, victims of the colour.

Earl Sawyer

minor

Also known as Sawyer

A man who helps investigate the Dunwich horror.

Sally Sawyer

minor

Also known as Sally

A woman involved in the Dunwich events.