Lake, Professor Lanigan Lee's Swamp Legrasse, John Raymond Lemuria Leng

Lesson, The  Lexington, The Liber Ivonis Lillibridge, Edwin M. Lomar

Lake, Professor. Professor Lake was a Professor of Biology at Miskatonic University in the 1920-30s and a member of the ill-fated Miskatonic University Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930-31. Among his accomplishments during the first part of the expedition, Lake, along with six others of his party, flew over the South Pole as part of several observation flights.
    It was Lake's discoveries which lent him fame, though. At the beginning of the expedition during an initial drill and blast, he discovered a strange and puzzling print in sandstone—a queer, triangular, striated marking about a foot across. He became determined that the print was of an unknown creature hitherto unclassified by any human. He constantly demanded that the expedition move northwestward instead of the originally planned direction in order to discover more about the prints. Finally, Lake led a group on a sub-expedition to the northwest on January 22nd, where he discovered the Mountains of Madness. Forced down at the mountain range's base by a mechanical problem with one of the planes, subsequent drillings discovered thirteen specimens of the Old Ones. Professor Lake reported his find to the world, along with the results of his attempted dissection of one of the specimens.
    A storm of unheard of magnitude lashed out the subexpedition base camp soon after his discovery. At the same time, the specimens regained consciousness after over fifty million years of suspended animation and killed Lake and his party.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Lanigan. Member of the staff of the Providence Telegram and co-worker of Edwin Lillibridge. Lanigan was referred to by Lillibridge in notes found on the latter’s skeleton in the tower of the Free-Will Church atop Federal Hill. Lanigan had access to a photograph of the Free-Will Church taken in 1851, and this photograph had some importance into Lillibridge’s investigation into the Starry Wisdom sect that practiced there until 1877.

The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Lee's Swamp. A swamp at the foot of Dark Mountain. A dark, closed cave located at the point where the mountain rises from the swamp is the location where Henry Akeley first recorded a religious ceremony by the Mi-Go and a human ally (Mr. Noyes) on May 1, 1915.

The Whisperer In Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Legrasse, John Raymond. The Inspector of Police for New Orleans in 1908. Inspector Legrasse attended the American Archaeological Society meeting in St. Louis that year. He went to find information on a statue that figured prominently in a murder case he was investigating in New Orleans. His discovery, a statue of hideous history and nature, caused quite a stir at the meeting.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Lemuria. Great fabled megalopolis of earth's prehistory.

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Leng. (Actual name not given). City of the Old Ones located just to the east of Mountains of Madness in the Antarctic. The city was discovered by Professor Dyer of the ill-fated Miskatonic University Expedition and his colleague, an individual named Dansforth, upon their investigation into the destruction of a subexpedition base camp to the west of the mountain range. The city was built on the site where it is believed the Old Ones first came to earth from the cosmos. The Plateau of Leng is considered sacred to the Old Ones because of this fact.
    The city sprawls fifty miles in every direction, and a huge river once ran through it. Huge, elaborate structures fill the area, though upon its discovery by Dyer most buildings had collapsed or had been swallowed by the ice. At its height, the city was a magnificent splendor unrivaled by current locations, overgrown with plush vegetation and the center of activity for the race of the Old Ones. The coming of the ice fields and the unspoken horror from the Cold Wastes of Kadath to the west destroyed the city, driving its inhabitants to the subterranean city located miles under the earth's crust below the plateau.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Lesson, The. Painting by Richard Upton Pickman. Features a squatting circle of dog-faced things in a churchyard teaching a human child how to feed like them on human flesh. Private collection, only one person other than Pickman is known to have seen it, a confidant by the name of Thurber.

Pickman’s Model, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Lexington, The. The ship that took the Miskatonic University expedition into the western Australian outback in search of a lost city of the Great Race of Yith. The ship departed on March 28th, 1935, sailing from Boston Harbor across the Atlantic through the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal, down the Red Sea, and across the Indian Ocean.

The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Liber Ivonis. Latin translation of the Book of Eibon done by Caius Phillipus Faber. One of the known copies existed for 91 years in an arcane library in the Free-Will Church o f Providence, Rhode Island. After Robert Blake’s death in 1935 to the Haunter of the Dark, a Doctor Dexter removed this and other tomes and added it to his library.

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Lillibridge, Edwin M. Reporter for the Providence Telegram in the late 1800s. Lillibridge began investigative work on the background of the Starry Wisdom sect who practiced in the Free-Will Church atop Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island. Through his investigation, Lillibridge was able to find out about the Shining Trapezohedron and the Haunter of the Dark, along with certain rituals required to utilize both to the benefit of the Starry Wisdom sect. This investigation led to Lillibridge’s death to the Haunter of the Dark. Having enough information, Lillibridge went to the Free-Will Church to see first hand the works of the Starry Wisdom before they left the church in 1877. It can be assumed that upon entering the church tower, he discovered the Shining Trapezohedron perched upon the octagonal pillar. The lure of the crystal too great for Edwin, his staring summoned the Haunter of the Dark, who gained access from the abyss into the church through the room above the tower. Lillibridge was killed outright by the creature, and his fate was never discovered until 42 years later, when Robert Blake entered the tower while exploring the church for himself. In Lillibridge’s possession, Blake found a notebook and a piece of paper with all the information he’d found out up until his death.

The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Lomar. The great polar kingdom which existed hundreds of thousands of years in the past. The King of Lomar was a victim of a mind transfer with a member of the Great Race of Yith. This transfer took him back to almost 150,000,000 B.C., where he met Professor Peaslee.
    The kingdom thrived until the yellow skinned Inuta drove them from the Arctic, thus ending the kingdom's reign.

The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.

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