Capwell, Judge Carter, Randolph Castro Central Station  Chaos Chapman Farm Chapman's Brook Chesunook, Maine   Choynski, Paul Christchurch Cemetery  Church Street City of Pillars Clapman-Lee, Sir Clark's Corner Coleopterous

College Street  Collins, Captain Colour Out Of Space Commoriom  Court of Oyer and Terminer  Crawling Chaos Crom-Ya Crowningshield Cthulhu Cthulhu Cult, The Cthulhu Spawn Cthulhu, Statue of Cultes des Goules Czanek, Joe  Czanek, Mary

Capwell, Judge. A resident of Peck Valley in the 1870s who died and was mistakenly buried under the headstone of Hannah Bixby. The mistake was realized when Hannah’s family exhumed the casket to move it to the city where they lived and found the Judge’s body, instead.

In The Vault, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Carter, Randolph. Randolph Carter was born in 1873 as heir to an old and rich to an old and rich New England family, and spent many times in his family house in Kingsport, and explored the "Snake Den" cavern in the area, reputed to be a former haunt of wizard Edmund Carter. Until age thirty, he would often spend time sleeping and dreaming fantastical, improbable dreams that many did not believe. At age thirty, however, he stopped for an unknown reason and drifted slowly into old age. When he was fifty-five, he disappeared mysteriously while walking near his old and deserted family house. Although their was a brief report of him visiting some friends in 1930, nothing has been heard of him since.
    As the narrator of The Unnamable. Carter was a writer, his known works included The Attic Window, which was published in the January, 1922 issue of Whispers. The story revolved around a creature so horrific it defied description, therefore earning the title The Unnamable. During the early 1920s, Carter and a friend, Joel Manton, discussed the possibilities of the existence of such a creature in an ancient burial ground in Arkham just outside the house used as the setting for Carter's short story. As night fell, the two were attacked by the creature and both barely escaped with their lives.

(The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Silver Key, and Through The Gates of the Silver Key, H.P. Lovecraft)
Submitted by Sean Rodgers.

The Unnamable, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Castro. An aged mestizo captured by police in the swamps south of New Orleans on November 1, 1907. Castro claimed to have sailed to strange ports and talked to undying leaders of the Cthulhu Cult in the mountains of China. Revealed to the police the base existence of the Cthulhu Cult, the Great Old Ones, and the now infamous translation of Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, or In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. (Though Castro was never directly attributed with providing this translation, it can be assumed that he was the one who gave it realizing the amount of information given by him and his sole mention by the police as the source of other information.) Though the records are not specific, it is indicated that only two of those cult members arrested on November 1st were sane enough to be hung. One wonders whether Castro was considered sane because of his ability to provide police with pertinent information on the case, or insane because of the content of that information.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Central Station. A location in Providence, Rhode Island.

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

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Chaos. Another name for the universe, or what is considered the universe in layman's terms. Chaos represents all, and has no order as believed by many renowned scientists and theorists. In the dead center of Chaos is a throne, and upon this throne sits Azathoth, the idiot god. It is surrounded by shrill of mindless flutists who play unceasingly, and his whims are carried out by the Black Man, or Nyarlathotep.

The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Chapman Farm. An abandoned farmhouse located beyond Meadow Hill near Arkham, Massachusetts. In 1904, the Chapman farm was occupied by Herbert West and a colleague in order to conduct experiments on human cadavers in secret. As a result of one such experiment, the farmhouse was burned to the ground while the reanimated corpse escaped.

Herbert West–Reanimator, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Chapman's Brook. A brook bridged by a rustic bridge west of Arkham, Massachusetts, situated between Ammi Pierce's and Nahum Gardner's land.

The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Chesunook, Maine. Town in upstate Maine bordering on the unexplored forests of that state. It was in Chesunook that Daniel Upton discovered his friend, Edward Pickman Derby, babbling of blasphemous locales and dark magic.

The Thing On The Doorstep, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Choynski, Paul. A boarder at the Witch-House in Arkham, Massachusetts in 1928-29. Paul was present during the time Walter Gilman was overcome by Keziah Mason and her familiar, Brown Jenkin. Soon after the death of Gilman, Choynski, along with the other tenants of Witch-House, were moved out by the landlord because of rat problems.

The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Christchurch Cemetery. Cemetery in Arkham, Massachusetts. During an outbreak of typhoid in 1905, the cemetery was described a brimming with the unembalmed bodies of the dead.

Herbert West–Reanimator, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Church Street. Street in the southeastern section of Arkham, Massachusetts. On April 20th, 1928, Walter Gilman found himself weeding through the back streets of Arkham, ever moving southeast, and only by pure force of will was he able to stop himself at a cafeteria on Church Street and vanquish the unexplained yearning.

The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.

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City of Pillars. See Irem.

Clapman-Lee, Sir Eric Moreland, Major, D.S.O Canadian Medical Corps. During World War I, Clapman-Lee worked with Herbert West in a field hospital behind the lines at St. Eloi, Flanders. Clapman-Lee was the officer who helped West to his commission of major, and quickly became a friend and student to West in the studies of reanimation.
    In March, 1915, Clapman-Lee was killed in a plane crash during a battle. Though he was nearly decapitated, the body was in near perfect shape. West, in spite of his friendship with Clapman-Lee, took the major's body, completed the decapitation, and stored Clapman-Lee's head in a vat of reptilian cell-matter. West reanimated Clapman-Lee's body separate of the head, thought to West's horror, the head came alive as well, half way across the room! An intensive German artillery barrage destroyed the building moments after the successful reanimation, preventing West and his colleague from verifying the destruction of Clapman-Lee's corpse.
    In 1921, Clapman-Lee, along with a troop of reanimated corpses one can only assume he brought to life through his studies under West, went to the Sefton Asylum and aided in Dr. Allan Halsey's escape. Those who witnessed the escape and butchery described Clapman-Lee as a menacing military figure who talked without moving his lips and whose voice seemed to come from an immense black case he carried. His expressionless face was handsome to the point of radiant beauty., but the shocked superintendent who saw him quickly realized the face was made of wax with glass eyes.
    Later, Clapman-Lee exacted his revenge upon Herbert West by leading his silent tomb legion into West's house and tearing the man's body into pieces.

Herbert West–Reanimator, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Clark's Corner. Village west of Arkham, Massachusetts.

The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Coleopterous. The great beetle race that rules the Earth in the distant future. It was to this race that the Great Race of Yith transferred their minds en masse to save themselves from the terrible attack by the Flying Polyps.

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

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College Street. Street in Providence, Rhode Island, where Robert Blake took up residence the winter of 1934-1935.

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

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Collins, Captain. Captain of the ill-fated Emma. On March 22nd, 1925, the Emma was sunk for trying to move into the area of R’lyeh by the ship Alert. The crew of the Emma was able to board and kill the Alert’s crew and then went on to find R’lyeh. Captain Collins was killed in the battle.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Colour Out Of Space, The. An indescribable creature initially bound to the heart of a meteorite that fell on Nahum Gardner's farm west of Arkham, Massachusetts in June, 1882. The meteorite fell near the Gardner well. Nahum reported the meteorite to the authorities in Arkham, and three professors from Miskatonic University came out to his farm to investigate. Over a period of a couple of days, the professors finally uncovered a colored globule embedded in the center of the meteorite. The globule popped after being hit with a hammer. It was the general opinion of the professors that the meteorite contained other such globules, and it is from one of these that the Colour came.
    The creature began to nourish itself on its surroundings, actually drawing the color from the ground and all living things. As time went on, its influence grew and spread, infesting the Gardner home and its residents. The creature's effects even infested the trees, making them sway on their own accord without wind to move them. For over a year, the creature grew until it first drove the Gardner's mad, then killed them. Death was especially horrific, the victim's body turning into gray, brittle matter that disintegrated into an unidentifiable pile while the victim was still alive.
    It was the death of Nahum and Nabby Gardner that led to the discovery of the creature. Ammi Pierce had gone to Nahum's farm after losing contact with the farmer for more than two weeks. Upon investigation, he found the entire family dead except for Nahum. When Ammi went to the room Nabby was locked up in, he found a gray pile of death in the corner. While there, though, he witnessed a "momentarily cloud eclipse the window, and a second later he felt himself brushed as if by some hateful current of vapor. Strange colors danced before his eyes…" Upon returning to the ground floor of the house, he witnessed Nahum's death to the Colour.
    Ammi reported the incident to the authorities and returned to the farm with them that same day. After emptying the well, one of the police officers discovered the creature, though at the time, he didn't realize it. What they found was described as ooze and slime, porous and bubbly. When the man poked the slime with a stick, he professed he could not find the bottom.
    As night fell, the area around the well began to glow, the glow actually shooting up from the well like a searchlight. The light was a queer colour, the same strange colour of the globule embedded in the meteorite. As the minutes passed, the light became brighter and brighter, no longer shining but actually pouring out of the well directly into the sky. At the same time, a glow infected everything organic around the well, spreading until the interior of the house, itself, began to glow. Suddenly, the light erupted into a weave of fantastic shape and indescribable colors. The men fled the farmhouse, looking back only when they were over Chapman's Brook. Upon looking down into the valley, they were met with a horrific sight. The entire area was shining with the strange blend of colours, the tree branches tipped with eerie fire that reached to the sky. Without warning, the creature shot vertically to the sky, like a rocket, disappearing into a hole in the sky.
    Though is no definite proof, it can be assumed that at least one more of these creatures still exists in the well now beneath the water of the reservoir. The gray, brittle poison continued to expand around the area at the average one inch a year. It is not known whether the waters of the reservoir cleansed the area or the thing is still growing.

The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Commoriom. Great fabled megalopolis of earth's prehistory.

Court of Oyer and Terminer. The court that tried Keziah Mason for being a witch in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. The court was presided over by a Judge Hathorne. Under pressure of the court (torture), Keziah admitted the use of angles and curves as intricate to the study of her dark magic. It was these same angles and curves that she used to escape her confinement to the Salem Gaol prior to the completion of her trial and her pending execution.

The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Crawling Chaos. Another name for the end of the world. One individual described it as the ceaseless pounding of the waves of a dark ocean that eats away endlessly at the earth until finally nothing is left. When this occurs then our world ends, swallowed finally by Chaos into the abyss of nothingness.
    The name more likely describes the Chaos at which Azathoth rules from the center, and how his power of consumption spreads out like waves, devouring all that stands in its way until nothing is left.
    Some state the the Crawling Chaos is another name for Nyarlathotep. This theory may have basis in fact, for Nyarlathotep is the messenger of Azathoth and spreads his will throughout the realm of reality. By doing so, he is acting as the waves of Chaos, spreading from the center to destroy all.

The Crawling Chaos, H.P. Lovecraft.

The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Crom-Ya. A Cimmerian chieftain of 15,000 B.C.. Crom-Ya 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 Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Crowningshield. The house at the end of High Street in Arkham, Massachusetts, bought by Asenath (Waite) Derby to live in during the Derby’s three year marriage. The location was selected by Asenath not so much in consideration for Edward and his father as its nearness to Miskatonic University.

The Thing On The Doorstep, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Cthulhu. Leader of the Great Old Ones. Cthulhu exists in a deep sleep of death in the watery depths of R'lyeh silently dreaming, waiting for the day when the stars are right and his worshippers raise R'lyeh from the Pacific Ocean. It is his spells that protect and preserve the other Great Old Ones. Cthulhu has never been directly described, for those few who have seen him go stark raving mad. A description, then, can only be brought from a statue found depicting him. Cthulhu has a vaguely anthropoid outline, but with and octopus-like head whose face was a a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. He is of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and his cephalopod head is covered with facial feelers. Some have said to imagine Cthulhu, one must imagine a squid, a dragon and a man together in one body.

See Great Old Ones, The; R'lyeh.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Cthulhu Cult, The. A cult of humans who worship Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones. The cult dates back to the beginning of humanity when the Great Old Ones reached out from their deathless sleep in R'lyeh to infest the souls of mankind. It is believed that the cult has always existed, and will always exist until the end of time. Branches of the cult lay hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world, waiting patiently for the day when the stars are right and the Great Old Ones are ready to rise again. At that time, it is the cult's responsibility to release them from their tombs, for the spell that preserves the Great Old Ones binds them. The center of the cult is believed to exist somewhere in the vast deserts of Arabia (Saudi Arabia). The cult is not related to any European witch-cult and is virtually unknown to those outside its membership.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Cthulhu Spawn. Land dwelling creatures which resembled octopi which filtered down from the cosmos to earth during the reign of the Old Ones soon after the moon was wrenched from the South Pacific. These creatures worshipped and followed the Great Cthulhu. Upon their arrival on earth, the spawn waged a war against the Old Ones, and managed to drive the Old Ones from the lands completely into the oceans. It was the Cthulhu Spawn that built the great city of R'lyeh for their master. Another catastrophe sunk R'lyeh beneath the ocean, taking the race with it.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Cthulhu, Statue of. A statue found by Inspector John R. Legrasse south of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting. So singularly hideous were the rites connected to it that the police could not but realize they had stumbled on a dark cult totally unknown to them, and infinitely more diabolic than even the blackest of the African voodoo circles. The figure was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with and octopus-like head whose face was a a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. The thing was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with indecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the center, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way down toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge forepaws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees. The source of the statue remains unknown and its age remains incalculable.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Cultes des Goules. Book of black arts written by Francois-Honore Balfour, Comte d'Erlette in 1702. Published in France and denounced by the church. Only a handful of copies are in existence. 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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Czanek, Joe. A thief from Kingsport, Massachusetts, who worked with Angelo Ricci and Manual Silva. The three believed the Terrible Old Man was hiding gold in his house and paid him a visit one night to collect it. Later, three unidentifiable bodies were found, horribly slashed and mangled as if by cutlasses and trampling feet.

The Terrible Old Man, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Czanek, Mary. Neighbor of Anastasia Wolejko and Polish immigrant who lived on Orne's Gangway in Arkham, Massachusetts. Just before Walpurgis Night in 1928, Anastasia asked Mary to stay in her son's room to protect him from being taken by Keziah Mason for sacrifice, but Mary declined, knowing her fate if she did. Ultimately, Ladislas Wolejko was kidnapped and sacrificed to Azathoth.

The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.

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