U-29 Ubbo-Sathla Ulthar Unaussprechlichen Kulten   University Spa

Unnamable, The Updike, Mrs.  Upham, Professor Upton, Daniel Uzuldaroum

U-29. Submarine commissioned in the Imperial German Navy 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. The corpse was thrown overboard, marking the beginning of the end for the crew and the submarine.
    During the following days, members of the crew became sick and then violently insane. All the while, dolphins in ever increasing numbers swam a wreath around the submarine. On June 29th, an explosion in the boiler/engine room rocked the submarine, effectively crippling it. The sub could still rise and submerge, but it could not propel itself. As the days passed, an uncharted current drew the ship south.
    On July 3rd, the ship was forced to submerge due to bad weather and was unable to rise again. The sub drifted deeper and deeper to the south, always in company with its dolphin escort. On August 13th, the U-29 hit bottom in the midst of lost Atlantis.

The Temple, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Ubbo-Sathla. One of the Outer Gods. 

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Ulthar. A city of ancient history (most likely Germanic in origin) where it is forbidden to kill cats of any kind. This law stemmed from an incident centuries ago when a caravan from the south (probably Egypt in origin by the description of the caravan and people) visited the city. A small boy from the caravan named Menes had a small black kitten, which was killed by an old man and woman who hated cats.
When the boy was told of the possible fate of his friend, he brought down a curse in which all the cats from the city surrounded the old man and woman's house and devoured them. From that point on, the mayor, Kranon, declared the law in which no cat could be killed.

The Cats of Ulthar, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Unaussprechlichen Kulten. Book of black arts written by Friedrich Wilhelm von Jutz in 1839. The book is also known as the Black Book. Only six copies of the German text are known to be in existence, though English translations are also in circulation. 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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University Spa. A restaurant or bistro at Miskatonic University sometimes visited by Walter Gilman prior to his death in the Witch-House.

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

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Unnamable, The. A creature that so defies human comprehension that it is truly unnamable. Hints at its appearance abound, though no definite description is available. The unnamable is reported to live in a house near a seventeenth century tomb in the old burying ground in Arkham. The creature is described as more than a beast but less than a man, a thing with a blemished eye, and moves with a loping gate. Later spectral legends refer to monstrous apparitions more frightful than anything organic could be; apparitions more frightful than anything organic could be; apparitions of gigantic bestial forms sometimes visible and sometimes only tangible, which floated about on moonless nights and haunted the old house, the crypt behind it, and the grave beside it. The unnamable has been attributed with attacks on unwary travelers, leaving them with marks of horns on their chest and ape-like claws on their backs and leaving the marks of split hooves and vaguely anthropoid paws in the dust. During the early 1920s, Joel Manton and a companion name Carter (Randolph?) were viciously attacked by the Unnamable. According to Manton, the thing was—

"...everywhere—a gelatin—a slime—yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes—and a blemish. It was the pit—the maelstrom—the ultimate abomination. Carter, it was the unnamable!"

The Unnamable, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Updike, Mrs. One of three servants working for Crawford Tillinghast during his experiments to break down the barrier between dimensions. It was Mrs. Updike who, by turning on a light switch in Tillinghast’s house against his wishes, caused the death/disappearance of her colleagues as well as herself.

From Beyond, H.P. Lovecraft.

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Upham, Professor. Professor of Mathematics at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts. Walter Gilman astonished the professor with his sudden understanding and theories on the problems of fourth-dimensional equations in 1928. Professor Upham was especially impressed with his demonstration of the kinship of higher mathematics to phases of magical lore.

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

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Upton, Daniel. Close friend and confidant of Edward Derby. Daniel was Derby’s senior by eight years, yet he found much in common with the younger man. Daniel attempted early in his life to illustrate the bizarre works of Derby, but turned from art design to follow a career in architecture. Upton attended Harvard and studied architecture in a Boston office. After marrying, Daniel returned to Arkham, Massachusetts, to set up office. Upon his return, he set up house in the family home on Saltonstall Street. At the age of twenty-eight, he and his wife had their only child, a son, who Daniel named Edward Derby Upton after his friend.
    At the age of forty-nine, Daniel began to notice a definite, terrible change in his friend after Derby’s marriage to Asenath Waite. Late August of the third year of Derby’s marriage, Daniel received a call from the marshal of Chesunook, Maine, informing him that Derby had been found wandering the forest in the area in a half-crazed state. Daniel immediately drove to Maine to pick up his friend. On the way back to Arkham, Edward described to Upton his wife’s power to change bodies with him. He described how Asenath would often leave his mind in her body locked in the library in Crowningshield while she would take his body to the most horrific of places. If Asenath’s powers failed at any time during this transference, Edward would find himself in some terrible, unknown place in the midst of insane rituals. In addition, Edward stated that it wasn’t Asenath in her body at all, but the mind of her father, Ephraim Waite. At first Daniel didn’t believe his friend, but began to notice a definite trend that explained otherwise.
    In October of the same year, Edward visited Daniel and explained everything that had been happening to him since he married Asenath, everything except the fact that he had just killed his wife. In December, Daniel had Edward committed to the Arkham Sanitarium.
    In late January of the following year, Daniel received an anonymous phone call in the middle of the night. Unable to discern anything more than a glub sound, he hung up. Within a day or two, a knocking in Edward’s familiar three-two code rousted him from bed. At the doorstep he found Asenath’s rotting corpse gripping a note written in Edward’s script. The note explained that Ephraim had taken over his body and he must be destroyed. Soon after, Daniel went to the Arkham Sanitarium and put six bullets in Edward’s head.

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

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Uzuldaroum. Great fabled megalopolis of earth's prehistory.

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