Hall School. School in Kingsport, Massachusetts. Asenath Waite attended Hall School.
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Halsey, Allan. Doctor of medicine
and dean of the Medical School of Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts. Dr.
Halsey was most known for his work on behalf of the stricken. It was Dr. Halsey who
forbade Herbert West, then a medical student of Miskatonic, from further experiments on
reanimation of dead organisms on school grounds. During the outbreak of typhoid in Arkham
from 1905, Dr. Halsey distinguished himself in sacrificing service, taking on cases other
medical personnel refused because of danger or futility. During the month of July, he
became a popular hero for his actions.
Dr. Halsey died on August 14th, 1905 and was buried after a hasty
funeral the very next day. That evening, Herbert West and a colleague stole the
doctor’s body and injected it with West’s reanimation solution. Dr.
Halsey’s corpse reacted violently to the process and escaped. This brought about a
more immediate horror to Arkham as a mysterious killer cut a swath of blood and
cannibalism through the city. Three days later, Dr. Halsey was captured and interred in
the Sefton asylum. After sixteen years he escaped with the aid of Major Clapman-Lee and
his ghouls to exact vengeance on Herbert West.
Herbert West–Reanimator, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Hastur the Unspeakable.
One of the Great Old Ones. Described by Derleth as "A titanic aquatic being,
tentacled. Octopoid, but far, far larger—ten—twenty times larger than the giant
Octopus apallyon of the west coast. What was its neck alone easily fifteen rods in
diameter."
Hastur is linked with the Lake of Hali and the Yellow Sign,
Carcosa, and the Yellow King. Many cults exist on earth in worship of Hastur.
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Hathorne, Judge. The judge presiding over the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692. It was Judge Hathorne that tried Keziah Mason for witchcraft, and was to him that Keziah confessed the use of curves and angles to travel to worlds outside our sphere; of Nyarlathotep and her secret name of Nahab; and of the secret meetings in the dark valley beyond Meadow Hill.
The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Haunter of the Dark, The. The creature
summoned by staring into the depths of the Shining Trapezohedron. The creature is said to
know all things, but demands outrageous sacrifices in exchange for the knowledge. The
Haunter resides in the black gulfs of chaos, and cannot abide lights of any kind. In fact,
even the faintest of light will send the Haunter fleeing before it, while strong lights
will banish it back to the void from whence it came.
It must be assumed, through deductions and associations, that the
Haunter of the Dark is somehow directly linked with both Azathoth and Nyarlathotep.
Nephren-Ka, the Black Pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt, built a dark temple around
the Shining Trapezohedron and used it to further his religion. Nephren-Ka was known to
directly worship Nyarlathotep, and as such, it must be assumed that the use of the Shining
Trapezohedron to summon the Haunter and the worship of Nyarlathotep are directly related.
Additionally, Robert Blake, in his final ramblings of his diary minutes before his death,
claimed the Haunter of the Dark as an avatar of Nyarlathotep.
Descriptions of the creature are scant at best. When the creature
erupted from the steeple of the Free-Will Church, those who saw it could only describe it
as "a spreading blur of denser darkness against the inky sky—something like a
formless cloud of smoke." It is accompanied by an unbearable stench that can choke
and make a man violently sick and often the sound of flapping wings. Robert Blake
described the creature only as a titan blur with black wings and a three-lobed burning
eye. The Haunter attacks and devours its prey in the most horrid of manners, charring the
body and bones and leaving a yellow residue. This same residue is apparent whenever the
creature moves across the ground, charring whatever it touches in its wake. It is
speculated that the yellow residue can actually dissolve bone and tissue, as was evident
by the way the ends of Edwin Lillibridge’s bones were oddly dissolved on the ends.
The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Haverhill, Massachusetts. Town where Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee was born and raised. Home town of Walter Gilman prior to his move to Arkham and his letting of an apartment in the Witch-House. It was this rental that led to his discovery of Keziah Mason and his ultimate death.
The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.
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The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Heinrich, Karl. Lieutenant Commander of the
Imperial German Navy during World War I and captain of the submarine U-29. Lt. Cdr.
Heinrich wrote the manuscript The Temple as a record of the events that occurred
aboard his ship between June 18 and August 20, 1917. During that period of time, his ship
was crippled and he managed to kill off most of his crew. Ultimately, he claims to have
discovered the lost city of Atlantis, and died by drowning on August 20th while exploring
a temple there (see Temple, The for more details).
Lt. Cdr. Heinrich was a very opinionated, bigoted individual, one
who carried prejudice against others not of his lineage and breeding with a heavy hand.
This fact was repeatedly illustrated in his comments about commoners and Rheinlanders. One
can only ask whether what he wrote was reality, or a figment of paranoia to cover his own
shortcomings he refused to face and admit.
The Temple, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Hero. Ammi Pierce's horse. When Ammi Pierce went to the
Gardner farm to find the entire family either dead or dying, the horse was driven into a
frenzy by the unseen Colour Out Of Space as it slipped back into the well. The horse,
dragging an empty buggy, arrived at Ammi's farm moments before he did on foot, and drove
Ammi's wife insane with worry.
The second time the horse visited the Gardner farm with Ammi that
day, the Colour Out Of Space erupted from the well near where the horse was tethered. In a
fit of insane panic the horse killed itself while trying to escape.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Herrero, Esteban. The son of Mrs. Herrero, who lived in the four-story brownstone mansion on West Fourteenth Street in NYC.
Cool Air, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Herrero, Mrs. Landlady of the four-story brownstone mansion on West Fourteenth Street in NYC. She is described as a "slatternly, almost bearded Spanish woman." Mrs. Herrero know of Dr. Munoz’ past, but only so far as to know he was a medical doctor of some renown in Spain.
Cool Air, H.P. Lovecraft.
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High Street. Street in Arkham where the more affluent and rich reside. Even then, these folk are not immune to the darkness that is Arkham.
The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Hoadley, Abijah. The reverend of the Congregational Church at Dunwich Village in 1747. He preached a memorable sermon on the close presence of Satan and his imps at Dunwich. The reverend disappeared soon after delivering the sermon, though the text is still intact in Springfield, Mass..
The Dunwich Horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow Lie Buried in Mount Auburn. Painting by Richard Upton Pickman. Depicts a vast cross-section of Beacon Hill, Boston, with ant-like armies of ghouls squeezing themselves through burrows that honeycomb the ground.
Pickman’s Model, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Hound, The. A nightmarish creature of unknown origin encountered by grave robbers after stealing an amulet from the grave of a Dutch graverobber. Though no direct description of the hound is available, the amulet which is connected to its appearance depicts the beast as crouching winged hound or sphinx with a semi-canine face, the expression on its features was repellent in the extreme, savoring at once of death, bestiality, and malevolence. Those who possess the amulet, which is carved in Oriental fashion from a small piece of jade, become target of the hound and is hunted down and mangled by the beast. The hound is a tireless and unerring tracking, biding its time to extend its terror upon the intended victim.
The Hound, H.P. Lovecraft
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Huntingdon, England. Town in England in which the madhouse where Sir Wade Jermyn was committed in the late 1700s resides.
Arthur Jermyn, H.P. Lovecraft
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