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Zann, Erich. German violinist who played
evenings in cheap theater operas in an unspecified town in France. Those who listened to
his work quickly discovered Zann was a genius. Erich was mute, described as a small, lean,
bent person with shabby clothes, blue eyes, grotesque, satyr-like face, and nearly bald
head. Zann lived in a garretted room on the sixth floor of a house at the end of Rue
d’Auseil. When Zann first moved into the room, he believed no one could hear his
music. When he discovered someone had moved into a room on the fifth floor, he offered to
have the man moved to a lower floor and to defray the difference in rent.
Zann’s musical prowess was always directed at the window in
his room which opened on the area beyond the wall at the end of Rue d’Auseil. His
music was challenged by some unseen force beyond the window. An observer caught a glimpse
beyond the window during Zann’s playing. He described the view as space and blackness
unlimited; unimagined space alive with motion and music, and having no semblance of
anything on earth.
Zann died in contest with the entity beyond the window, his wild,
howling viol screeching against the force even in his death.
The Music of Erich Zann, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Zath. A former coroner of Ulthar who treated devoured bodies of the old man and woman who killed cats there. This grisly find resulted in the enactment of the law prohibiting the killing of cats within the city.
The Cats of Ulthar, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Zimmer, Seaman. Sailor of 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. Zimmer,
along with a sailor named Schmidt, threw the corpse overboard, but not before a bump
caused the dead man’s eyes to open and stare mockingly at them.
On June 18th, Seaman Zimmer led a delegation who
requested Lt. Cdr. Heinrich, the ship’s captain, to dispose of the ivory carving
confiscated after its finding in the pocket of the dead sailor. The request was denied. A
week later, Zimmer disappeared, assumed dead by suicide, probably by drowning.
The Temple, H.P. Lovecraft.
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