Pabodie, Frank H.   Parker, Mr.   Peabody Avenue Bridge Peaslee, Hannah (Wingate) Peaslee, Jonathan  Peaslee, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, Professor Wingate Peck, Darius Peck Valley Peck Valley Cemetery Penguins of Leng Pickman, Richard Upton Pierce, Ammi

Plateau of Leng Pnakotic Manuscripts de la Poer, Gilbert de la Poer, Godfrey de la Poer, Lady Mary de la Poer, Walter Pond Street Potter's General Store   Providence Art Club Providence Telegram, The Psi Delta Pth’thya-l’ya

Pabodie, Frank H. Professor Pabodie stood as Professor of Engineering at Miskatonic University in the late 1920s and was a member of the ill-fated Miskatonic University Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930-31. In fact, it was Professor Pabodie’s invention of a new type of drill which fueled the fire beneath the expedition in the first place. The revolutionary lightness and its ability to bore through varying strata with ease made it perfect for the job.
    During the expedition, Pabodie along with two graduate students—Gedney and Carroll— made a successful ascent of Mt. Nansen during the period of December 13-15. On January 6th, 1931, Pabodie accompanied a group which made one of several successful overflights of the South Pole.
    During the period of January 11-18, Pabodie accompanied Professor Lake and five others on their first trek to the northwest into lands never seen by human eyes before. Numerous borings done by Pabodies' revolutionary drill produced Archaen slate filled with strange, but normal, fossil markings. It was these drillings that pushed Professor Lake farther northwest to the base of the Mountains of Madness.
    During Professor Lakes' doomed subexpedition, Pabodie remained at the base camp with Professor Dyer. When it became apparent that something terrible had happened to Lake's group, Pabodie accompanied Dyer and the others to the terrible sight. On January 28th, Pabodie and the others returned to McMurdo Sound with the remnants of their doomed expedition and returned to Boston, setting sail from the Antarctic on February 2nd, 1931.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Parker, Mr. A member of the crew of the ill-fated Emma. On March 22nd, 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. Parker was one of eight crewmembers to survive the attack by the Alert. After the crew released Cthulhu from its tomb, Parker slipped and fell into an angle in the titanic masonry of R’lyeh, an angle that didn’t make since, one that was acute but acted as if it were obtuse.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Peabody Avenue Bridge. A bridge in Arkham, Massachusetts that crosses the Miskatonic River. This bridge was used by Walter Gilman to cross the river so he would not have to look at the unpeopled island in the midst of the river where Keziah Mason and Brown Jenkin were sure to be.

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

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Peaslee, Hannah (Wingate). Mother of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee. Jonathon was of Haverhill stock, living at the homestead in Boardman Street near Golden Hill.

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

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Peaslee, Jonathan. Father of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee. Jonathon was of Haverhill stock, living at the homestead in Boardman Street near Golden Hill.

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

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Peaslee, Nathaniel Wingate. Professor of Political Economy at Miskatonic University and the subject of a most extraordinary series of events beginning in 1908 and ending in the deserts of Western Australia July 17-18, 1935. On Thursday, May 14, 1908, at about 10:20 a.m., Professor Peaslee was teaching Political Economy VI. Suddenly strange shapes appeared his eyes. He fainted away and lost over five years of his life.
    During his amnesia, his manner of speech and life changed drastically. He visited strange and exotic places, some of which no one knows of to this day. He studied the arcane tomes hidden deep in the recesses of the library at Miskatonic University, absorbing as much information as he possibly could in those five dark years.
    Unfortunately for Nathaniel, this change of personality stretched thin his old friendships, and destroyed his marriage. Rightly so, his wife swore he was possessed by some unnamable creature and divorced him in 1910. Even after he regained his senses, the woman refused to have anything to do with him.
    In truth, during this period Nathaniel’s mind had been displaced by a member of the Great Race of Yith from some one hundred and fifty million years in the past. Nathaniel’s own mind had been sent back in time, where he experienced the splendor and horror of that time. Upon his return to his own time, Nathaniel’s memories of his experience were wiped away by the Yithians as much as they possibly could. Nathaniel’s recollections proved too strong, though. Over the 22 years, he was able to piece together the entire history of what happened to not only him, but also other beings from other times, and planets, as well. Until July of 1935, Nathaniel believed what he was experiencing was only a form of delusion.
    Upon his return to present time, Nathaniel began to work at Miskatonic University in February of 1914. He began to have dreams, first cloudy and only hinting at the truth, then later vivid with sight and sound. These dreams became an obsession to the man, with Nathaniel recording every single aspect of each vision he could possibly remember. With the help of his son, Wingate Peaslee, a psychologist, he tried to attribute the dream cycle to that somewhat common to individuals suffering abnormally long periods of amnesia. Finally, Nathaniel was able to get his transcripts published in the Journal of the American Psychological Society.
    These dreams remained an illusion to Nathaniel until 1935, when he received a letter from a Robert Mackenzie of Pilbarra, West Australia. Mr. Mackenzie had read of his dreams at the behest of a Dr. Boyle after Mackenzie reported finding strange and ancient stone blocks in the desert. He sent Nathaniel a picture of some of the blocks, and immediately, Nathaniel saw why Mackenzie wrote at all. Except for being severely weather worn, the blocks were the same as those he saw used in the buildings of his dreams.
    Along with Professor William Dyer (known best for his participation in the ill-fated Miskatonic Antarctic Expedition of 1930-31), Ferdinand C. Ashely of the Department of Ancient History, Tyler M. Freeborn of the Department of Anthropology, Nathaniel’s son, Wingate, Dr. Boyle, and Mr. Mackenzie, Nathaniel set off to discover the truth behind his dreams.
    Almost immediately upon entering the area, the group discovered the blocks Mackenzie had talked about, but it was Nathaniel, during nocturnal walks, who discovered the real story. On the evening of July 17-18, Nathaniel was able to gain access to entire buildings that comprised the city of the Yithians, now buried under tons of shifting sand. While in the darkness, Nathaniel discovered what he most feared, that he had been in the place before, over a hundred and fifty million years in the past.
    Fleeing from the truth, Nathaniel found yet another horrible truth. The Flying Polyps, creatures believed dead for millions of years, still lived within the depths of the city. Barely escaping with his life, Nathaniel left the city behind in the shifting sands, never to find it again.

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

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Peaslee, Professor Wingate. Second child of Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee, born in Arkham, Massachusetts in 1900. Through his father’s state of amnesia and the years following up to 1935, Wingate stood by his father when the rest of the family turned their backs on Nathaniel Peaslee. During 1935, Wingate accompanied his father and others on an expedition into the deserts of Australia to a location where stone blocks, much like the ones his father dreamed of, were found.

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

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Peck, Darius. A member of the Peck Valley community who died the winter of 1880-1881. When the spring thaw came, he was the first of nine members of the community who died that winter to be buried, on April 12th, 1881.

In The Vault, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Peck Valley. A town in New England where George Birch was the undertaker during the late 1800s.

In The Vault, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Peck Valley Cemetery. Cemetery in Peck Valley.

In The Vault, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Penguin of Leng. Giant albino penguins which live in the bowels of the earth near the subterranean city of the Old Ones. The penguins stand over six feet high and are totally white. Beyond its color, size, and virtual eyelessness, the penguins are much like their other cousins in every aspect.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Pickman, Richard Upton. Prolific painter who lived in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1920s. Pickman was best known for his ability to fuse life and horror into the canvas. His works caused numerous uproars in the local art world, and most critics would not even look at his material because of its inherent morbidness. Originally, Pickman had a studio on Newbury Street in Boston, but confided in a follower that there were things that couldn’t be conceived in such a setting. Used a separate place in the North End he rented under the name of Peters to do some of his more monstrous works. Used the basement of the place in North End as his studio. An earthen well in the corner of the basement allowed Pickman’s models access to his studio. A confidant named Thurber who visited the studio discovered that Pickman used photographs of ghouls which dwelt beneath the city streets to create his paintings. Though not directly, Thurber implies that Pickman may be a changeling, the spawn of ghouls who was left in a cradle under human care in exchange for the human baby there. This comes from The Lesson, a painting depicting the life of these changelings. The changeling in the picture, although brought up by a Puritan family, remarkably resembled Pickman in a strange, eerie way. Some of his mentioned works include Ghoul Feeding, The Lesson, Subway Accident, and Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow Lie Buried in Mount Auburn.

Pickman’s Model, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Pierce, Ammi. Farmer living west of Arkham and near the Blasted Heath who was born in 1842. Ammi witnessed first hand the events which created the Blasted Heath, along with the death of the Gardner family and the eruption of the Colour Out Of Space from the Gardner well.
    The events, as far as Ammi was concerned, began in 1882 when Nahum Gardner stopped by Ammi's place on his way to town to tell everyone about the meteorite that fell on his land next to his well. The next day, three professors from Miskatonic University went to Gardner's farm, accompanied by Ammi and his wife, to inspect the meteorite. By this time, the rock was shrinking. The professors took specimens of the meteorite back to the university with them. On the very next day the professors returned, telling Ammi of the rock's strange composition and its utter disappearance. Once again, Ammi accompanied the professors to Nahum's farm. This time the professors broke apart what was left of the meteorite, exposing a large, colored globule embedded in the substance. The globule broke uneventfully when prodded by one of the professors. Within a week the meteorite disappeared, destroyed when six bolts of lightning struck it during a thunderstorm.
    Over the next year, Ammi witnessed strange things at the Gardner farm as the effects of the meteorite spread. The Gardner fruit crop, though visibly large and fantastic, failed due to its inedible quality. The vegetation around the well mutated into a strange, glowing form, and the ground immediately adjacent to the well began to turn gray. The well water became putrid, though the Gardners continued to drink it. One by one throughout the year, the members of the Gardner family went insane.
    On the October 19th, 1883, Nahum showed up at Ammi's with news that Thaddeus, Nahum's second son, had died in his attic room where he was shut after going mad. He despaired to tell Ammi the details, only saying that he'd dug a grave in the family plot for the child and buried what was left of him there. Ammi walked Nahum back to his farm to see if there was anything he could do for the man, but left before dark. Nothing could make him stay to witness the strange glowing of the ground.
    Three days later, Nahum burst into Ammi's kitchen, hysterical and distraught over the disappearance of Merwin, his youngest son. A search yielded nothing except a crushed lamp and a pail the boy was carrying near the well when he vanished. After an exhaustive search, Nahum confided to Ammi his belief that something was "creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen." He asked Ammi to look after his wife and son Zena when he was gone if they survived the ordeal.
    Two weeks later, Ammi returned to the Gardner farm, finding Nahum sprawled on the couch, a mere husk of the man he was a year ago. Everyone else in the house was dead. Ammi searched the house, finding Nahum's wife Nabby's mutilated body in her attic room. While in the room, Ammi fancied some cloud-like apparition made of strange colours whisping past him and out the door. He gathered his wits and forced himself downstairs where he heard a thumping. After an eternity of waiting, he continued downstairs and found Nahum dying, brittle and gray, his body disintegrating before Ammi's eyes. With his dying words, Nahum warned that the colour in the well was what killed his family.
    Ammi fled the farm through the back woods. Upon arriving at home, he immediately set out for Arkham and reported the incident to the police. Albeit reluctantly, Ammi returned to the farm with 3 police officers, the coroner, the medical examiner, and a veterinarian in tow.
    Initially, the group discovered what Ammi had already explained to them—Nahum and his wife dead in the house and the children buried or missing. A mention of the well by Ammi force the group to drain its fetid contents in search of clues. In its depths, the police found the bones of Merwin and Zenas, along with the skeletons of assorted other animals. Additionally, they found the depths of the well filled with an inexplicably porous and bubbling slime without any discernable bottom.
    The men returned to the house to discuss what they found. Suddenly, a beam of unexplainable colours shot from the well skyward, all the while the strange glowing which inflicted the Gardner farm grew brighter and brighter within the house. Fear for their lives drove the men out of the house into the night as the colour disappeared into space.
    Ammi refused to ever go near the place again, and was visibly glad some 44 years later (1927) when he learned of the new reservoir to be built in the area. Though Ammi's fate was never voiced, it was mentioned by a surveyor that he feared Ammi may yet suffer Nahum's fate.

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

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Plateau of Leng. Plateau located to the east of the Mountains of Madness between that mountain range and Kadath of the Cold Wastes three hundred miles to the east. The city of Leng (?), the center of the Old Ones civilization, is located on the Plateau of Leng.

At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Pnakotic Manuscripts. Manuscripts originated before the coming of the human race which describes horrific creatures and locations which existed at the beginning of time. 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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de la Poer, Gilbert. Declared as first baron Exham of Priory in 1261.

The Rats In The Walls, H.P. Lovecraft.

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de la Poer, Godfrey. Second son to the fifth baron of Exham Priory.

The Rats In The Walls, H.P. Lovecraft.

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de la Poer, Lady Mary. Married the Earl of Shrewfield. Soon after the wedding, the Earl and his mother killed her. The pair were absolved and blessed by a priest for committing the murder.

The Rats In The Walls, H.P. Lovecraft.

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de la Poer, Walter. Eleventh Baron of Exham Priory. Branded a murderer after his father, five of his siblings, and several servants at Exham Priory were brutally killed. Walter fled to Virginia and founded the Delapore family line. It is rumored the villagers of Anchester branded Walter a hero for ridding the countryside of a terrible blight and even assisted in his escape to America.

The Rats In The Walls, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Pond Street. Street in Bolton, Massachusetts where Herbert West and his colleague let a rundown cottage to conduct their experiments of reanimation on human corpses.

Herbert West–Reanimator, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Potter's General Store. General store located in Clark's Corner, Massachusetts during the late 1800s.

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

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Providence Art Club. Conservative art club in Providence, Rhode Island that considered Henry Wilcox a lost cause because of his reclusive lifestyle.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Providence Telegram, The. Newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island.

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

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Psi Delta. Fraternity house belonging to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Robert Blake’s home looked out upon the Psi Delta house. It was members of this fraternity that discovered Blake’s death and reported it to the police.

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

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Pth’thya-l’ya. A female Deep One who married Captain Obed Marsh in 1846 and bore him three children. Two of the three returned to the sea early in life, while the third, a daughter, received an education in Europe under the guidance of a French nanny. When she returned, Captain Marsh tricked a man from Arkham, Benjamin Orne, into marrying her. After Captain Marsh died in 1878, Pth’thya-l’ya returned to Y’ha-nthlei, the city of Deep Ones at the base of Devil’s Reef off the coast of Innsmouth.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft

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