Everyone who is interested in the occult has heard of Professor Armitage of the reknowned Miskatonic University. Gary Kennedy has attended some classes of his while at Harvard and was impressed by his vast spread of knowledge.
A noted occult investigator and author of several disturbing books. Sebastian Ashley knew Rupert Skellan through Mark Wainthrop and has become acquianted with Gary Kennedy and Archibald Smythe following the MacMorn affair. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of occult matters, but is noted as being rather disturbed and eccentric.
Professor of Anthropology at University College London. Supervisor to Rupert Skellan, Gary Kennedy and Archibald Smythe. Particularly interested in ancient Egyptian history. Ex-supervisor to Sebastian Ashley. Did a sabbatical at Miskatonic University in 1919.
Wealthy barrister and MP for Old Winchester. Old firend of St.John Delaney’s father (Horrace Fraser Delaney). Collector of rare and ancient artifacts from around the world. A difficult man to see, but has powerful friends. His wife, Cordelia, is an old dragon and a gossip. 2nd cousin of Archibald Smythe.
The Kennedy family physician in Boston. He is a wealthy man with a considerable practice among the more affluent members of the Boston elite. He has a great many contacts among the medical profession in Boston and elsewhere in Massachussets. He is an acquaintance of Professor Henry Armitage at Miskatonic University in Arkham. Neophyte of the Order of the Silver Twighlight in Boston.
Spence’s ex CO, now runs the Africa desk at the Ministry for War. Highly capable commander, although his war experiences have made him a hard and ruthless man, and possibly a little unhinged.
Secretary of the Bedford Archaeological Society.
Mutual friend of Smythe and the late Mark Winthrop (they attended Eton together). Now lives in a remote Scottish village. Keen scientist.
An occult investigator and author, of independent means, currently living in Maine, New England. He is an acquaintance of Sebastian Ashley, through their joint interest in the occult. Originally born in Ontario, Canada, he attended the University of Toronto at the same time as Rupert Skellan, but spent the war years as a journalist in America. He is now a US citizen.
Brother of the reknowned Dr. Thomas Foling, he is the family physician to the Skellan family. He has a select general practice in Toronto. His war service in East Africa in the Medical Corps has made him an expert in tropical diseases. Although this is a rarely required skill in Toronto, on the few occasions when people have turned up there with strange illnesses, he has usually been involved.
A leading psychologist in Toronto and brother of Dr. Andrew Foling. He is an associate director of the Royal Toronto Asylum. A keen Freudian, he is a keen advocate of dream analysis and electro-shock therapy. He has written a number of learned monographs on the subject of psychopathic personality disorders.
Solicitor to the Wainthrop family, and a partner in a London firm. An intensely boring man (he never uses his first name), but absolutely trustworthy. It has been said that Grimm helped to cover up one of Sir Hugo’s more scandalous extra-marital affairs; although Grimm would never comment on the matter to anyone. He has extensive experience in handling money and property matters.
The Skellen family solicitor in Toronto, Canada. His family came to England from Germany in 1817 and from thence to Canada in 1915 due to the wave of anti-German sentiment in Britain at the time. He is a noted member of the Canadian Philological Society.
Antiques dealer on Bond Street with whom Wainthrop and Delaney’s families have had dealings in the past. Has a specialist interest in the more unusual pieces. It is rumoured that he has an opium addiction.
Librarian and Master of the Order of the Silver Twilight in Boston. Associate of Gary Kennedy.
Self-made millionaire and railway tycoon with interests in mid-west lumber and mining concerns.
Farmer in Strathmorne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Shepherd in Strathmorne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Works for Farmer MacIntyre. Owes us a favour!
Former aviator during the Great War, now a dilettante and a socialite. Has undertaken several, independently finance, expeditions in the Far East in search of adventure. Otherwise indulges in excessive socialising, party-going and womanising when in London. Is currently, it would seem, trying to spend his £1m inheritance as rapidly as possible.
Associate of Kennedy's. Owns a Boston-based small mining firm. Neophyte of the Order of the Silver Twilight in Boston.
Former army comrade of Skellan’s. Lives in Edinburgh.
Professor of Archaeology at the University of California. Previous to this he was a lecturer at Tronto University. He is also a distant cousin of Paul Wainthrop (hence the transferred surname), and he was an acquiantance of Mark Wainthrop and through him, Sebastian Ashley. He also lectured Rupert Skellan at Toronto University.
Police inspector based in Aberdeen. Investigated the MacColl and Higgins murders in Strathmorn in 1921. Knows Kennedy, Skellan and Smythe who showed him evidence that there was some kind of wild beast or supernatural agent at work.
High Philosopher and Master of the Order of the Silver Twilight in Boston. Known to Kennedy.
An occult investigator of some notoriety amongst the community over his methods who was killed in 1921 on an expedition in Greenland. He was regarded as a authoritative source on the more sinister aspects of the Mythos due to his wide reading, but this degree of knowledge had also led other investigators to question his motives and sanity.
Medical doctor in private practice on Harley Street. Has been the family doctor to the Delaneys for 25 years. Trustworthy and straight as a die, probably wouldn’t put up with any “funny business” unless there was a damn good reason. His son, Ernest, is at medical school.
Attached to the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of London. Member of the Bedford Archaeological Research Society.
Professor of Early American Archaeology at Harvard University and a lecturer of Gary Kennedy's. Also a good friend of Professor Henry Armitage. An expert on Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian artefacts, but also a holder of some very unorthodox views on Mayan cultural backgrounds.