Mackenzie, Robert  Malkowski, Doctor Manton, Joel Marsh, Barnabas Marsh Gold Refinery Marsh, Obed Mason, Keziah   Mather, Cotton Mazurewicz, Joe McGregor Family Meadow Hill Memorial Hall Menes Merluzzo, Father Meteorite (of Blasted Heath) Mi-Go

Miskatonic, The  Miskatonic Avenue Miskatonic Reservoir Miskatonic University Miskatonic University Expedition, The  Miskatonic University Museum Miskatonic Valley Monahan, William J. Monolith of Dagon Montagny, Pierre-Louis  Morrison Company, The  Mountains of Madness, The Müller, Boatswain Munoz, Doctor Museum at Hyde Park Mwanu

Mackenzie, Robert B.F. A mining engineer in Western Australia of some prominence during the mid-1930s. Mackenzie is described as a capable man of about fifty who was well read and deeply familiar with all the conditions of Australian travel. After locating strange, ancient masonry in the middle of the desert and relating his find to a friend, a Dr. Boyle, Mackenzie found out that Nathaniel Peaslee had been having dreams about just such masonry for over 22 years. He wrote Peaslee a letter, inviting him to come to Australia to lead an archeological expedition into the area of the stones.
    Mackenzie came to Arkham, Massachusetts in early 1935 to assist in final preparations for the expedition. Upon commission by Peaslee’s group, Mackenzie had tractors and supplies waiting in Pilbarra. He led the group deep into the desert, where they immediately discovered the remains of one of the major cities of the Great Race of Yith and the basalt towers of the Flying Polyps.

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

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Malkowski, Doctor. The doctor summoned by Mrs. Dombrowski to attend to Walter Gilman the night Brown Jenkin killed him by burrowing a hole through his body. By the time the doctor arrived at Witch-House and pulled the sheets back to reveal the deed, Gilman was dead.

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

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Manton, Joel. Principle of East High School in Arkham, Massachusetts, during the early 1920s. Manton, along with his friend, and individual known only as Carter (Randolph?), were attacked by The Unnamable while discussing the impossibility of such a thing existing. Manton was born and bred in Boston, and was more a realist than a surrealist. For every turn of the imagination, Manton believed a logical answer existed. After his brush with death and his encounter with the Unnamable, Manton surely had a change of heart.

The Unnamable, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Marsh, Barnabas. Grandson of Captain Obed Marsh. Barnabas ran the Marsh Gold Refinery from the turn of the century up until February, 1928, when government raids shut the refinery down. Barnabas had acquired the Innsmouth look, and near 1928 was not seen in public because of his turning.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft

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Marsh Gold Refinery. A gold refinery located in an old mill on the mouth of the Manuxet River in Innsmouth, Massachusetts. The refinery was founded by Captain Obed Marsh to process the gold he received from the Deep Ones at the base of Devil’s Reef. To outsiders, a mystery revolves around the origin of the gold. At the turn of the century up to February, 1928, the mill was run by Barnabas Marsh, grandson of Captain Marsh. The refinery was closed down during government raids in February, 1928.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft

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Marsh, Obed. Maritime captain who ported out of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, during the first half of the nineteenth century. Legend and rumors abound of Captain Marsh, mostly about his ties with a tribe in the South Seas and devil-worship. Captain Marsh founded the Marsh Gold Refinery in Innsmouth.
    Because of the War of 1812, Captain Marsh became the only captain to conducting any type of shipping trade out of Innsmouth after 1828. His fleet consisted of three ships—The brigantine Columby, the brig Hetty, and the barque Sumatry. His trade route took him into the East Indies and the Pacific Ocean. It was in the South Seas that Captain Marsh discovered a group of islanders that worshipped the Deep Ones, a race of amphibian creatures who, in turn, worshipped Dagon, Hydra, and the Great Old One, Cthulhu. After learning of the hideous secrets of that religious cult and the rewards the Deep Ones offered in turn for human sacrifice, Captain Marsh brought the dark religion back to Innsmouth in c1838, where it quickly took route as the Esoteric Order Of Dagon.
    Captain Marsh and thirty-two other worshippers of the Order were arrested on Devil’s Reef in 1846 during worship. Though no charges were brought, the individuals were held for a couple of weeks in jail. This led to the attack on Innsmouth by the Deep Ones who lived at the base of Devil’s Reef, which killed off over half the population of the town. Soon after, Captain Marsh married a second wife, Pth’thya-l’yi, and had three children by her. His first wife disappeared altogether. Two of his children disappeared young, while the third, a daughter, was sent to Europe for education under the care of a tight-lipped nanny. When she returned, Captain Marsh tricked an Arkham man, Benjamin Orne, into marrying her. Captain Marsh died in 1878.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft

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Mason, Keziah. A witch of great powers who lived in Arkham in the late 1600s. Along with her familiar, Brown Jenkin, Keziah discovered the relationship between lines and curves and portals to alternate worlds and dimensions. She was caught and tried as a witch in 1692. Under pressure, Keziah admitted to Judge Hawthorne the relationship between mathematics and interdimensional travel. Also revealed the existence of midnight masses beyond Meadow Hill and on the unpeopled island in the Miskatonic River, told of the Black Man (Nyarlathotep), her oath and her secret name of Nahab. Soon after, Keziah disappeared from her cell, leaving the walls covered in a sticky red substance. The gaoler went mad, babbling of a small, white-fanged, furry thing that scuttled out of the cell when he opened the door. Keziah resurfaced in the late 1920s when a student named Walter Gilman rented out her room in the Witch-House. She instructed Gilman on the relationship between mathematics and interdimensional travel in a ploy to take over his soul. Ultimately, Keziah was destroyed by Gilman at the moment she hoped to kill him. In revenge, Brown Jenkin killed Gilman by devouring his heart.

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

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Mather, Cotton. Puritan and witch hunter of the late 17th century. It was Cotton Mather that brought Keziah Mason to justice, though she was able to escape by way of angles and curves taught to her by Nyarlathotep.

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

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Mazurewicz, Joe. A superstitious loom-fixer who resided in Witch-House in the 1920s. Claimed he was so badly haunted by the spirit of Keziah Mason and Brown Jenkin that only the silver crucifix given to him by Father Iwanicki of St. Stanislaus' Church could bring him relief. He could often be heard whining and praying insistently before the Witches' Sabbat and other evil holidays. Mazurewicz witnessed Brown Jenkin killing Walter Gilman. Afterwards, he was moved with the other tenants of Witch-House to an alternate home on Walnut Street. There he remained drunk, whining and muttering about spectral and terrible things.

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

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McGregor Family. Massachusetts family from Meadow Hill. During an outing in February, 1883, the McGregor boys were out shooting woodchucks near the Gardner farm when they discovered an odd specimen whose proportions were not quite right. They threw the thing away, leaving them with nothing more than hearsay to prove their find. Most of the locals new of the strangeness of the Gardner land and tended to believe them.

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

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Meadow Hill. Location just outside of Arkham, Massachusetts, where arcane rites were practiced in worship of the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos. Throughout the history of the area, Meadow Hill plays prominently in horrible sightings of creatures of death and beyond. In the valley of white stone just beyond Meadow Hill, Keziah Mason practiced her own horrors, and confessed these to the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

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

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Memorial Hall. Location in Providence, Rhode Island.

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

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Menes. A small orphan boy who lived a nomadic life with a caravan, most likely Egyptian in heritage. Menes lost both his parents to the plague, and found his only joy in life in his pet cat, a small black kitten. When the caravan visited the city of Ulthar, the kitten was butchered by an old man and woman who hated cats. In retribution, Menes called down a curse on the couple, and the cats of Ulthar devoured them.

The Cats of Ulthar, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Merluzzo, Father. Priest who presided over the Spirito Santo Church on Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island in 1935. At about 2:15 a.m., August 9th, 1935, Father Merluzzo was rouse by members of his parish as a terrible thunderstorm raged across Providence, knocking out the power and throwing the city into darkness. He followed the person who roused him to the Free-Will Church to try to help contain what evil was awake there. At precisely 2:35 a.m., Father Merluzzo witnessed the Haunter of the Dark erupt from its confines within the tower of the church to attack Robert Blake on the other side of the city, though he only saw a phantasmal cloud of darkness dash to the east, accompanied by a horrific stench.

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

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Meteorite (of Blasted Heath). A meteorite that fell on Nahum Gardner's farm west of Arkham, Massachusetts in June, 1882. Nahum went to Arkham the following day to report the incident, and three professors from Miskatonic University went to his farm to investigate. They found the meteorite so soft it was almost plastic in consistency, so soft in fact that they gouged a sample from the stone and took it back for testing. Upon testing, the stone proved unidentifiable, and failed to react to most tests applied against it. It was highly malleable, and actually glowed in the dark. The stone refused to grow cool, and produced shining colours unlike any seen before when heated before a spectroscope. The stone was found to be magnetic, and reacted only a bit to total immersion to acid solvents. The specimen was stored in a glass beaker for the night. When the professors came back the next morning, both the specimen and the glass beaker had dissolved completely.
    The professors returned the next day and found the meteorite had actually shrunk. After gouging deeply, they discovered a large colored globule at the meteorite's center, the actual colours indescribable. The globule popped uneventfully after one of the professors hit it with a hammer. It was the general opinion that other globules would be found as the meteorite wasted away.
    That evening, a thunderstorm ravaged the area, and Nahum witnessed the meteorite being struck by lightning six times within an hour. Nothing was left but a ragged pit, and all the digging in the world would produce nothing else.

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

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Mi-Go . Creatures of superior intelligence from beyond the borders of our galaxy who mine certain areas on earth for minerals not available on their home planet. At the present time, these mining colonies are known to exist in the Andes, the Appalachians, and the Himalayas. The Mi-Go are more vegetable than animal, having a somewhat fungoid composition. It is this composition which prevents them from being photographed by ordinary camera equipment. Various descriptions abound from different parts of the earth, though all are central in composition. The Mi-Go are pinkish in color about five feet long, with crustaceous bodies bearing vast pairs of dorsal fins or membranous wings and several sets of articulate limbs. The Mi-Go have a sort of convoluted ellipsoid where its head should be, covered with a multitude of very short antennae. The Mi-Go genus is unique in its ability to traverse the heatless and airless interstellar void in its corporeal form, though some of its variants do require mechanical or curious surgical transpositions to do so. The Vermont variety have organic wings which allow them free flight in space, though flight in our atmosphere is rather clumsy. Telepathy is their main means of communications. With surgical alterations of the vocal chords the Mi-Go are able to speak human languages, though their voice is buzzy and irritating. The Mi-Go are advanced in the sphere of surgery and can successfully remove the brain of other species into silver cylinders for transportation to other worlds through space. The Mi-Go are physical beings and therefore killable, bleeding a strange, green ichor as blood. Dogs especially hate Mi-Go and will attack viciously.

The Whisperer In Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Miskatonic, The. A barque sailing ship under the command of Captain Georg Thorfinnsen. The Miskatonic originally sailed as a wooden whaling ship, but was since reinforced to move through the ice fields of the Antarctic and given auxiliary steam engines.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Miskatonic Avenue. 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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Miskatonic Reservoir. (The actual name of the reservoir was never given in the story. It is assumed that, due to the location of the reservoir, it is named either the Arkham or Miskatonic Reservoir.) Reservoir built west of Arkham, Massachusetts in the Miskatonic River Valley. The reservoir was built over the gray Blasted Heath, though it isn't known whether the fresh water of the Miskatonic washed the poison from the land.

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

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Miskatonic University. A university located in Arkham, Mass., which plays prominently in the dealings of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is at this university that one of the few remaining original copies of the Necronomicon can be found.

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Miskatonic University Expedition, The. The ill-fated expedition from Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts, sent to explore the hitherto unknown reaches of Antarctica. Funded by the Nathaniel Derby Pickman Foundation, the expedition set sail on two ships, the Arkham and the Miskatonic, from Boston on September 2nd, 1930. On November the 9th, the expedition made landfall on Ross Island.
    Among their many accomplishments, the members of the expedition boast the ascent of Mt. Nansen from December 13-15, overflights of the South Pole on January 6, 1931, and the discovery of the ancient race of the Old Ones on the lost Plateau of Leng. It was this latter discovery that brought disaster to the expedition, cutting it short and sending the survivors home in hopeful silence that no others would dare follow their footsteps. Most of the activity of the expedition was chronicled for the general public in the Arkham Advertiser, though some of the discoveries were intentionally omitted for fear of public panic and mayhem. An shining example of this is the report of the discovery of the ancient race of the Old Ones. While the race and the location of its lost city were, indeed, reported, the details of the deaths and subsequent discoveries of what lay buried beneath the ice of the Plateau of Leng remain unknown.
    On January 22, 1931, Professor Lake led a subexpedition to the northwest of the expedition’s base camp in search of fossils and strata. That evening, the first reports filter back to the base camp of the discovery of the Mountains of Madness, a seemingly impassable chain of mountains gray black with strange, squarish caves littering their faces. Day after day subsequent and ever more miraculous discoveries were made, including the opening of a subterranean cave which contained the frozen corpses of fourteen of the Old Ones. On January 24, though, all contact was lost between the subexpedition and the base camp.
    On January 25, a single plane loaded with the men from the base camp flew in haste to the subexpedition’s last known location. There the men discovered all the members of the subexpedition except one dead, along with all the dogs again except for one. These two bodies were not discovered, and, given the savagery of the deaths, most were apt to blame the missing man for the insane murders.
    On January 26, Dyer and Dansforth, the expedition commander and an team member, flew over the Mountains of Madness and discovered the Plateau of Leng. There they discovered the city of the Old Ones and, after a quick exploration, the Old One’s history. There, too, the pair discover the black pit which the Old Ones used to access the bowels of the earth in hopes of building a new city as Antarctica turned from a temperate clime to one of frigid ice millions upon millions of years ago. While attempting to access this new city, the pair encounter a Shoggoth and barely escape with their lives.
    The two swear silence concerning what they discover and returned over the Mountains of Madness to their friends. Dansforth looked back at the Plateau of Leng as they crossed the threshold of the mountains, what he saw no one will ever know. The sight, though, was enough to drive him stark raving mad.
    By January 28, all planes sent out on the expedition returned safely to McMurdo Sound and linked up with the two ships. On February 2, the Miskatonic and the Arkham, with all hands on board, set sail for Boston, cutting the expedition drastically short.
    It was only because of the organization of the Starkweather-Moore Expedition did Professor Dyer speak up to warn those who would dare face the horror of the Shoggoth and the lost city of the Old Ones on the Plateau of Leng. Still he refused to discuss many aspects of his exploration, the reminders still too hideous in his mind to allow him to do so.
    The expedition was manned by twenty men—four professors from the university, seven graduate students from Miskatonic, and nine skilled mechanics. As much as who was named, an incomplete roster of the expedition follows:

Frank H. Pabodie, Professor of Engineering
Lake, Professor of Biology
Atwood, Professor of Physics
Dyer, Professor of Geology (head of expedition)
Gedney (GS)
Carroll(GS)
Daniels
Moulton
Sherman
Dansforth
Watkins
Fowler
Williamson
Mills
Boudreau

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Miskatonic University Museum. University museum which houses a strange collection of artifacts gathered from all corners of the globe. One of the pieces, discovered by Walter Gilman during his interdimensional excursions with Keziah Mason and Brown Jenkin, still stands unidentified in origin or composition. The item is described as "ridged, barrel-shaped center, the thin radiating arms, the knobs at each end, and the flat, slightly outward-curving starfish arms spreading from those knobs...the color seemed to be a kind of iridescent gray veined with green." Upon testing by a Professor Ellis of the university, the composition of the item was partially identified as being platinum, iron, and tellurium, but mixed with these were at least three other elements of high atomic weight which chemistry was absolutely powerless to identify. The item was found by Gilman in a city inhabited by the Old Ones which inhabited the Plateau of Leng in the Antarctic millions of years ago, and was representative of that race.

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

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Miskatonic Valley. River valley that runs from the west into Arkham, Massachusetts. In the 1930s, a reservoir was built in the valley, hiding the cursed Blasted Heath beneath the water. Whether it cleansed the Heath of the poison that infected the land is something still left to be seen.

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

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Monahan, William J. Patrolman of the Central Station, Providence, Rhode Island in 1935. Officer Monahan was present the morning of August 9th, 1935, when the Haunter of the Dark erupted from its confines within the tower of the church to attack Robert Blake on the other side of the city, though he only saw a phantasmal cloud of darkness dash to the east, accompanied by a horrific stench.

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

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Monolith of Dagon. Found by a castaway from a German sea-raider during World War I on an uncharted expanse of muddy plains in the Pacific, the Monolith of Dagon stands alone in rolling hills of mud and dirt. The Cyclopean monolith is covered with inscriptions and crude sculptures, and gleams pale white in the moonlight. The writing is in a strange, unknown system of hieroglyphics, consisting for the most part of aquatic symbols but intermixed with unknown symbols. The pictorial carvings on the face of the monolith depict mostly humans—or a certain sort of men—though shown in water disporting as fish. The creatures shown are paying homage to some giant monolithic shrine which exists underwater. The creatures are described as grotesque beyond imagination, being damnably human in outline with webbed feet and hands, wide, flabby lips, and glassy, bulging eyes. The creatures seemed disproportionate to their background, one creature is depicted as killing a whale. It can be assumed that the creatures depicted in worship are, in fact, Deep Ones, and the creature shown killing a whale may very well be Dagon. If so, this account indicates a third civilization of Deep Ones somewhere in the South Pacific, though the location is never given.

Dagon, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Montagny, Pierre-Louis. An aged Frenchman of Louis XIII’s time. Montagny 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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Morrison Company, The. Shipping company from Australia that operated in the 1920s. One of the company’s ships, the Vigilant, discovered the derelict Alert and towed her back to port, where the strange story of Gustaf Johansen surfaced to the press.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Mountains of Madness, The. Named penned by Professor Dyer of the ill-fated Miskatonic University Expedition for a mountain range discovered by Professor Lake in the Antarctic. These mountains are found at Latitude 76 15', Longitude 113 10'E, though the range travels from this point north and south as far as the eye can see. The peaks of the mountains rival those of the Himalayas, with the highest peaks soaring over thirty-five thousand feet into the heavens. The peaks are black and bare of snow above twenty-one thousand feet. The mountains consist mainly of pre-Cambrian slate with other strata mixed in. Limestone veins run the entire course of the mountains, and when hollowed by natural or other forces, the Old Ones used the tunnels created to cross the mountain range to their city on the Plateau of Leng.
    Odd formations litter the upper slopes and peaks of the mountains. Great low square blocks run the length in low, vertical ramparts. These blocks are made of a lighter stone than its surrounding, lending to the theory that the Old Ones built these structures using material from other locations.
    The windswept nature of the mountains is due to the gale force storms that often rip through the area. One such storm all but destroyed the Lake subexpedition, its winds howling like the furies of hell and tearing everything in the camp apart.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Müller, Boatswain. An elderly man in the Imperial German Navy and crewman aboard the U-29 submarine during World War I. On June 18, 1917, the U-29 sunk the British ship Victory. After destroying the ship and killing the crew, the U-29 submerged and resurfaced at sunset. Clinging to the rail of the ship was a corpse of a sailor, assumed to be a member of the Victory’s crew. After throwing the corpse overboard, Müller claimed that he watched the corpse draw its limbs into a swimming position and speed away to the south.
    The next day, Müller babbled about dead bodies drifting passed the portholes of the sub, bodies which stared at him insistently. He also claimed that their leader was the corpse they threw overboard the day before. To quiet him, Lt. Cdr. Heinrich, the ship’s captain, had him put in irons and whipped soundly.
    Müller continued his ravings until the following day, when two fellow crew members were killed by Heinrich for going insane. A week later, Müller, along with Zimmer, disappeared and were presumed dead by suicide.

The Temple, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Munoz, Doctor. A Spanish medical doctor who resided on West Fourteenth Street in NYC until his death in October, 1923. Along with a colleague, a Dr. Torres, Dr. Munoz discovered how to preserve life in a dead body through medical experimentation and incantations found in ancient and forbidden tomes. In 1905, Drs. Munoz and Torres’ experiments yielded some success, but the organs of the dead continued to decay even after life was brought back to the subject. Dr. Munoz actually died a first time in 1905, though it is unknown whether the death was accidental or by his own intention to prove his theory. Dr. Torres moved Munoz to a "strange, dark place" where he applied the process and nursed Munoz back to health. Unfortunately, the repulsion and shock of what he had to do killed Torres.
    Dr. Munoz found he could almost stop the deterioration process by living in extremely cold climates. Thus, his apartment on West Fourteenth Street was outfitted with a gasoline pump and an ammonia-based heat absorption unit. This system sufficed until the summer of 1923, when it failed completely.
    Just prior the failure, Dr. Munoz developed a taste for exotic spices and Egyptian incense (probably due to the requirements of the ancient tomes), while his need for an ever colder clime increased drastically. By summer’s end, he required temperatures as low as 28 degrees (F) to keep his organs from decay. He began writing long documents of unknown content to colleagues in the East Indies and a certain French physician thought dead by many. The letters were never delivered, burned by Munoz undelivered and unopened.
    In mid-October, the gasoline pumps failed. Within three hours, the process of ammonia cooling was no longer possible. He summoned his colleague who desperately tried to fix the pumps to no avail. Knowing it was becoming increasing impossible to maintain the frigid required to keep his body from decaying, Dr. Munoz moved to the bathtub and demanded large amounts of ice be poured onto him. Even this did not help, and Dr. Munoz died on his couch a second time, his body decay away into a putrid heap of unrecognizable flesh and bones.
    In life, Dr. Munoz is described as being "short but exquisitely proportioned…a high-bred face of masterful though not arrogant expression…adorned by a short iron-gray beard, and an old-fashioned pince-nez shield the full, dark eyes and surmounted an aquiline nose which gave a Moorish touch to a physiognomy otherwise dominantly Celtiberian. Thick, well-trimmed hair that argued the punctual call of a barber was parted gracefully above a high forehead; and the whole picture was one of striking intelligence and superior blood and breeding."

Cool Air, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Museum at Hyde Park. Museum located in Sydney, Australia. The larger of the two known Statues of Cthulhu stands on exhibit here, put there after its discovery on the Alert, a ship commandeered by Gustaf Johansen and sailed to the shores of R’lyeh.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Mwanu. An aged Kaliris tribe chief in the region of the Congo in the early 1900s who was extremely intelligent and owned an amazing memory. Mwanu confirmed every legend of the gray city of the white apes to Sir Arthur Jermyn, and told Sir Arthur of the stuffed ape-princess.

Arthur Jermyn, H.P. Lovecraft

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