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Feaster From the Stars, The. Short story written by Robert Blake in Providence during 1935. Along with four other stories written during the same period, the story was of his best work.
The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Federal Hill. Hill in the western part of Providence, Rhode Island, where the Free-Will Church was located. The hill is a maze of streets and alleys, populated mainly by superstitious immigrants of Irish and Italian decent.
The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Feeney, Francis X. Man who joined the Starry Wisdom sect in 1849. Upon his deathbed, he confessed to Fr. O’Malley about the Shining Trapezohedron, saying it calls up something that can’t exist in light. If the thing is banished by light, it has to be summoned again.
The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Fenner, Matthew. A diminutive man who died in Peck Valley during the winter of 1880-1881. Under normal circumstances, George Birch, the undertaker, would have treated the man with insensitivity upon his death. But Fenner had helped George during his bankruptcy in 1875, so George did his best to make the funeral and burial above average, giving Fenner the best he could muster. When Fenner’s original casket proved too flimsy, George set it aside and built him a new one.
In The Vault, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Fleur-de-Lys Building. The building in which Henry Wilcox lived in 1925 when he was overcome with the malady related to the appearance of R’lyeh in the south Pacific.
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Flying Polyps (The Elder Race).
An elder race of half polypous creatures which traveled through the dark cold expanses of
space over six hundred million years ago to dominate Earth, along with three other planets
in our solar system. These creature were partially material and partially ethereal,
existing half way into a plane of existence we do not understand. The Flying Polyps were
blind, relying on the use of mental, nonvisual patterns to interpret their surroundings.
When they walked, they left a colossal footprint made up of five circular toe marks. The
Flying Polyps were extremely plastic, being able to take on any shape they desired, and
could temporarily become invisible.
These creatures were solid enough to use tools to create buildings
and other necessities of life. They opted to live in great, windowless basalt towers that
spread across the face of the planet. They had the power of flight, though they had no
wings or other means of floating. Additionally, the Polyps could control the wind with
frightening accuracy, and used the wind in military efforts often. The Flying Polyps were
an especially cruel race, preying horribly on any race they encountered.
When the Great Race of Yith came down to inhabit the bodies of the
cone creatures nearly five hundred million years ago, they subdued and trapped the Flying
Polyps in the catacombs beneath the basalt cities using energy weapons.
As time passed, the Flying Polyps thrived in the darkness of the
inner world, planning their revenge against the Great Race of Yith. Small excursions
erupted in the smaller cities of the Great Race, and the cruelty witnessed there was
unspeakable. In other abandoned cities where paths to the darkness below were not properly
sealed or safeguarded, the Flying Polyps wrecked havoc. Wherever these eruptions
occurred
the carnage was unspeakable, so much so that it marred the thoughts of the Great Race
forever.
About fifty million years ago, the Flying Polyps broke free from
their bonds beneath Earth’s crust and fell upon the Great Ones in a war of horrific
revenge. Such was the horror of this attack that it drove the Great Ones en masse forward
in time to occupy the bodies of the great beetle race which ruled the Earth after
man’s dominion fell. The cone beings, devoid of the intelligence of the Yithians,
quickly fell the Polyps.
It is generally believed that the Flying Polyps died out millions
of years ago and no longer exist. There are whispers, however, that Professor Nathaniel
Peaslee encountered a living Polyp in the subterranean ruins of one of the cities of the
Great Race located in the desert of Australia.
The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Fourth Baptist Church. A church in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1844.
The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Fragments. Name penned by Ammi Pierce for the remains of those attacked and destroyed by the Colour Out Of Space. The creature sucked the life and color out of its victims over an extended period of time, leaving their bodies gray, brittle masses of flesh that disintegrated while the victim was still alive and breathing.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Freeborn, Tyler M.. Member of the Department of Anthropology at Miskatonic University and participant of the Miskatonic expedition into the western Australian outback in search of the city of the Great Race of Yith. With the others, the group discovered over 1250 blocks of varying stages of wear and disintegration, proving the existence of the city over fifty millions into the past.
The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Free-Will Church. Church located on Federal Hill
in Providence, Rhode Island. Professor Enoch Bowen purchased the church in July 1844, upon
his return from Egypt. Once purchased, a sect of the Starry Wisdom took up residence
there, practicing unmentionable rites within the desecrated hall until 1877, when a group
of local citizens threatened the sect. In all, 181 persons left the city to points across
the globe.
In the steeple of the church was a room used by the sect to
contact the Haunter of the Dark. A stone pillar stood in the middle of the fifteen-foot
square room, curiously angled and measuring 4 feet high and 2 feet across. Upon this
pedestal was kept the Shining Trapezohedron. The darkened spire above housed the Haunter
when it was summoned.
In 1893, a newspaperman named Edwin M. Lillibridge entered the
church after learning all he could of its history and disappeared. It can only be assumed
that Edwin encountered the Haunter of the Dark after summoning the creature by staring
into the depth of the Shining Trapezohedron. His skeletal remains remained undisturbed
until 1935, when Robert Blake entered the church and found his remains.
It was in 1935 that Blake became infatuated with the church after
watching it from across town every evening from his window in his home. Finally, Blake
struck out to explore the place. After gaining entry through a basement window of the
church, he did a quick investigation of the lower levels, finding a room full of forbidden
tomes of evil, such as the Necronomicon and the Pnakotic Manuscript. It was
in the tower, though, that he, like Lillibridge, found the Shining Trapezohedron and
summoned the Haunter of the Dark.
Finally, the creature burst free from the steeple during a
terrible thunderstorm and killed Blake. A Dr. Dexter went into the church and discovered
the Shining Trapezohedron, which he allegedly through into the channel of Narragansett
Bay. The Trapezohedron gone, the church and its evil both fell into ruin.
From a distance, the church is described as having a "great
tower and tapering steeple…resting on especially high ground; for the grimy façade,
and the obliquely seen north side with sloping roof and the tops of great pointed windows,
rose boldly above the tangle of surrounding ridgepoles and chimney-pots. Peculiarly grim
and austere, it appeared to be built out of stone, stained and weathered…The
style…was that earliest experimental form of Gothic revival which preceded the
stately Upjohn period…perhaps reared around 1810 or 1815." Up close, Blake
described it as "in a state of great decrepitude. Some of the high stone buttresses
had fallen, and several delicate finials lay half lost among the brown, neglected weeds
and grasses. The sooty Gothic windows were largely unbroken, though many of the stone
mullions were missing…The massive doors were intact and tightly closed. Around the
top of the bank wall, fully enclosing the ground, was a rusty iron fence whose
gate—at the head of a flight of steps from the square—was visibly padlocked. The
path from the gate to the building was completely overgrown. Desolation and decay hung
like a pall above the place, and in the birdless eaves and black, ivyless walls Blake felt
a touch of the dimly sinister beyond his power to define."
The Haunter of the Dark, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Fungi from Yuggoth. Another name for the Mi-Go.
The Whisperer In Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft
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