Raabe, Engineer Regan, Patrick Rhode Island School of Design Ricci, Angelo Rice, Stephen

R'lyeh Robinson, Buck  Rodriquez, Mr. Round Hill Rue d'Auseil

Raabe, Engineer. Engineer aboard the German submarine U-29 during June, 1917. Engineer Raabe died at 2 a.m. on June 19, 1917 when a violent explosion ripped through the U-29’s engine room, crippling the ship.

The Temple, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Regan, Patrick. Citizen of Providence, Rhode Island in the mid-1800s. Patrick lived on Federal Hill near the infamous Free-Will Church. In 1869, all traces of Patrick Regan disappeared his unfortunate demise the result of the Starry Wisdom sect at the church and their need of a sacrifice to the Haunter of the Dark. Patrick’s disappearance incited a near riot when the church was attacked by a mob of Irish boys.

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

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Ricci, Angelo. A thief from Kingsport, Massachusetts, who worked with Joe Czanek 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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Rice, Stephen. Resident of the area west of Arkham, Massachusetts and Clark's Corner. In early March, 1883, Stephen was driving past Nahum Gardner's farm when he noticed the strange way the skunk cabbage grew near the farm. His report stirred an awed discussion at Potter's general store at Clark's Corner, raising awareness of the strange goings on at the Gardner place to the general public.

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

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Rhode Island School of Design. School that Henry Wilcox studied sculpting in 1925 when the sudden malady struck him in 1925, portending the rise of R’lyeh in the south Pacific.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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R'lyeh. City of the Great Old Ones now lying under the Pacific Ocean. Castro, a member of the Cthulhu Cult captured in the swamps south of New Orleans on November 1, 1907, stated that the Great Old Ones slumber in their stone houses in the great city of R’lyeh, waiting for the time when the stars are right and the earth is ready for their return. He goes on to say that it is the spells of Great Cthulhu who preserve the Great Old Ones. For countless millennium R’lyeh sat abandoned and in deathless sleep, then a catastrophe struck and it sank beneath the waves. The uppermost pinnacles of the city and Great Cthulhu’s tomb are located at S. Latitude 47° 9’, W. Longitude 126° 43’, though the full size and extent of the city is unknown. On February 28, 1925 (EST), R’lyeh raised from the depth of the Pacific Ocean floor. There is only one recorded physical encounter with the city of R’lyeh, written in English text by Gustaf Johansen prior to his strange and untimely death. It is thought that he wrote the encounter in English to protect his wife from inadvertently reading it rather than providing a more accurate description (Johansen was Norwegian). Johansen encountered R’lyeh on March 23, 1925. Initially, Johansen describes a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry. At the pinnacle of the island stood a garganteous monolith that soared into the heavens. The monolith was surrounded by greenish stone blocks of unbelievable size. Though not describing any definite structure, Johansen describes broad impressions of vast angles and surfaces too great to belong to anything on this earth. This description collaborates with that of Henry Wilcox, who described the geometry of the place as wrong—abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions not of our own. Johansen describes the polarizing miasma of the place as mind affecting, creating illusions of insanity in conjunction with the crazily elusive angles of carved rock. He goes on to tell of climbing what he could only imagine to be a staircase made of titan oozing blocks which was meant for no mortal foot. Atop the monolith was an oddly angled door which he accidentally opened, releasing Great Cthulhu from his tomb. Johansen fled along with one other member of his crew, who later died. The island sunk again on April 2, 1925 and lies again as the tomb of the deathless Great Old Ones.
See also Cthulhu.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Robinson, Buck. A low grade professional boxer who participated in illegal boxing matches in Bolton, Massachusetts in 1906. In March of that year, Robinson fought a boxer named Kid O'Brien and was subsequently killed in that match. In order to keep the existence of the match secret, the mill workers got Herbert West to dispose of the body. West took the boxer's body and injected it with his reanimation serum. West and his colleague buried Robinson in the fields behind their cottage a little later, believing their experiment a failure when Robinson's corpse did not respond. The experiment proved all too successful, though. The next evening, a steady rattling at the back door roused the pair from sleep. There they found Robinson's corpse, covered with caked mud and vines and chewing on the arm of a small child. Herbert West shot the corpse six times, returning it to the land of the dead.

Herbert West–Reanimator, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Rodriguez, 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. Rodriquez was one of eight crewmembers to survive the attack by the Alert. It was Rodriquez who first stepped up to the door of Cthulhu’s tomb on R’lyeh, but died soon afterward. No mention is made on how he died.

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Round Hill. Location in Vermont a mile and a half east of Henry Akeley's farm and Dark Mountain. Round Hill is one of the known Mi-Go outposts.

The Whisperer In Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft

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Rue d'Auseil. Street in an unnamed city in France where Erich Zann lived. The street is described as being almost a cliff, and so steep in some places that several spots consisted of stairs. d'Auseil was closed off to all vehicular traffic. Its paving was irregular, sometimes stone slabs and sometimes bare earth. A few overhead bridges crossed the street from house to house. The Rue d'Auseil lay across a dark river, a river shadowy and so adorous it steamed with evil stenches.

The Music of Erich Zann, H.P. Lovecraft.

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