# Short Fiction — Character guide

> Key figures in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): The first-person narrator of many stories, often unnamed.
- [Edward Derby Upton](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/edward_derby_upton.md): A sensitive young man drawn into supernatural horror.
- [Young Blake](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/young_blake.md): A young man who experiences strange events in a haunted house.
- [Randolph Carter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/randolph_carter.md): A dreamer and occultist who travels through other dimensions.
- [Wilbur Whateley](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/wilbur_whateley.md): A monstrous hybrid being from Dunwich seeking forbidden knowledge.
- [Ammi Pierce](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/ammi_pierce.md): An elderly farmer who witnessed the colour from outer space.
- [Dr. Armitage](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/dr_armitage.md): A librarian and scholar who battles the Dunwich horror.
- [The Doctor](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_doctor.md): A mysterious physician involved in strange experiments.
- [Asenath Waite](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/asenath_waite.md): A witch with the power to swap bodies with others.
- [The Man](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_man.md): A generic male figure appearing in various stories.
- [Kuranes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/kuranes.md): A dreamer who becomes king of the dream city Celephaïs.
- [Malone](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/malone.md): A police detective investigating horrors in Red Hook.
- [Richard Upton Pickman](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/pickman.md): A painter whose works depict ghouls and other horrors.
- [Erich Zann](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/erich_zann.md): A mute violinist who plays music from beyond reality.
- [Nahum Gardner](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/nahum_gardner.md): A farmer whose family is destroyed by the colour from space.
- [Joe Slater](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/joe_slater.md): A man possessed by an alien entity from Yuggoth.
- [Iranon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/iranon.md): A wandering minstrel seeking the lost city of Aira.
- [Robert Suydam](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/robert_suydam.md): A scholar involved in occult rituals in Red Hook.
- [Sir Wade Jermyn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/sir_wade_jermyn.md): An explorer who discovered a degenerate white ape tribe.
- [Lieutenant Klenze](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/lieutenant_klenze.md): A German U-boat officer who goes mad at sea.
- [Harley Warren](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/harley_warren.md): An occultist who descends into a cursed crypt.
- [Sir Arthur Jermyn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/sir_arthur_jermyn.md): A scientist who uncovers his family's ape ancestry.
- [Young Wilcox](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/young_wilcox.md): A sculptor who dreams of the sunken city R'lyeh.
- [Crawford Tillinghast](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/crawford_tillinghast.md): An inventor who creates a device to see other dimensions.
- [Capt. Norrys](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/capt_norrys.md): A sea captain who encounters the colour from space.
- [Joel Manton](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/joel_manton.md): A professor who debates the nature of the unnamable.
- [Dr. Johnson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/dr_johnson.md): The famous lexicographer, featured in a reminiscence.
- [Barzai the Wise](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/barzai_the_wise.md): A priest who climbs a mountain to see the gods.
- [Cap'n Obed](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/capn_obed.md): An old sailor with knowledge of Innsmouth's secrets.
- [Little Atal](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/little_atal.md): A young priest who accompanies Barzai up the mountain.
- [Cthulhu](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/cthulhu.md): A monstrous cosmic entity sleeping in sunken R'lyeh.
- [Gustaf Johansen](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/gustaf_johansen.md): A sailor who survived an encounter with Cthulhu.
- [Nigger-Man](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/nigger_man.md): An old African man living in a haunted house.
- [Inspector John R. Legrasse](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/inspector_legrasse.md): A police inspector investigating Cthulhu cultists.
- [Ephraim Waite](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/ephraim_waite.md): A wizard who continues to exist after death.
- [The Servants](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_servants.md): Generic household staff in various stories.
- [Robert Blake](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/robert_blake.md): An author investigating a haunted church in Providence.
- [Jan Martense](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/jan_martense.md): A murdered man whose ghost haunts the Martense mansion.
- [Nyarlathotep](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/nyarlathotep.md): A crawling chaos who appears as a mysterious showman.
- [William Harris](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/william_harris.md): A man involved in the strange events at the shunned house.
- [Arthur Munroe](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/arthur_munroe.md): A man who disappears during the Innsmouth investigation.
- [Curtis Whateley](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/curtis_whateley.md): A relative of the Whateley family in Dunwich.
- [Cotton Mather](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/cotton_mather.md): A historical Puritan minister mentioned in the story.
- [Walter de la Poer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/walter_de_la_poer.md): An ancestor of the Jermyn family with a dark secret.
- [Charles Le Sorcier](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/charles_le_sorcier.md): An alchemist who cursed the Manton family.
- [Old Dr. Fenton](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/old_dr_fenton.md): A physician who treats the narrator in a strange case.
- [Mr. Czanek](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/mr_czanek.md): A man who assists in a robbery of the Terrible Old Man.
- [Professor Angell](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/professor_angell.md): A professor who studied the Cthulhu cult.
- [Alfred Jermyn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/alfred_jermyn.md): A member of the degenerate Jermyn family.
- [St. John](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/st_john.md): A friend of the narrator who dies in a crypt.
- [Denys Barry](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/denys_barry.md): An Irish landowner who drains a bog and awakens horror.
- [Lavinia Whateley](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/lavinia_whateley.md): The mother of Wilbur Whateley, a deformed albino woman.
- [Matt Eliot](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/matt_eliot.md): A friend of the narrator in the story 'He'.
- [Captain Obed Marsh](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/captain_obed_marsh.md): A sea captain who made a pact with the Deep Ones.
- [Little Merwin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/little_merwin.md): A child who disappears in the story 'The Moon-Bog'.
- [Daniel Upton](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/daniel_upton.md): The narrator and friend of Edward Derby.
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_stranger.md): A mysterious visitor in several stories.
- [Dr. Francis Morgan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/dr_francis_morgan.md): A doctor who investigates the strange case of Joe Slater.
- [Sir Robert Jermyn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/sir_robert_jermyn.md): A member of the cursed Jermyn family line.
- [Henry Anthony Wilcox](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/henry_anthony_wilcox.md): A sculptor who dreams of Cthulhu and R'lyeh.
- [The Whateleys](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_whateleys.md): The degenerate family of Dunwich involved in dark magic.
- [Luther Brown](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/luther_brown.md): A man who witnesses the horror in the Martense mansion.
- [Castro](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/castro.md): An old cultist who reveals the history of Cthulhu.
- [Zenas Low](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/zenas_low.md): A missing person in the story of the shunned house.
- [Dr. Reid](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/dr_reid.md): A doctor who treats the narrator in 'Hypnos'.
- [The Boatswain Müller](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_boatswain_muller.md): A boatswain on the U-boat in 'The Temple'.
- [Wal](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/wal.md): A character in the story 'The Picture in the House'.
- [Professor Warren Rice](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/professor_warren_rice.md): A professor who investigates the Dunwich horror.
- [Carrington Harris](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/carrington_harris.md): A man who tells the story of the shunned house.
- [Mr. James Boswell](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/mr_james_boswell.md): The biographer of Dr. Johnson in the reminiscence.
- [Abdul Reis](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/abdul_reis.md): A dragoman who guides the narrator in Egypt.
- [Old Zadok](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/old_zadok.md): A drunken old sailor who tells of Innsmouth's horrors.
- [Kilderry](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/kilderry.md): A character in the story 'The Moon-Bog'.
- [Sir John Hawkins](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/sir_john_hawkins.md): A historical figure mentioned in the Jermyn family history.
- [Menes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/menes.md): A pharaoh mentioned in the story 'Imprisoned with the Pharaohs'.
- [The Gardners](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/the_gardners.md): The family of Nahum Gardner, victims of the colour.
- [Earl Sawyer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/earl_sawyer.md): A man who helps investigate the Dunwich horror.

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