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horror_ontology_instances.yaml
entity_instances:
- id: person_miss_lally
type: Person
properties:
name: Miss Lally
role: narrator; governess; secretary
occupation: governess / secretary to Professor Gregg
description: Daughter of Steven Lally; came to London seeking work; cared for
an invalid mother; became governess to Professor Gregg and acted as his secretary.
- id: person_william_gregg
type: Person
properties:
name: Professor William Gregg
role: employer; principal investigator
occupation: Professor of Ethnology; F.R.S.; author
description: Authority on ethnology; author of the Textbook of Ethnology; an obsessive
researcher attracted to mysterious inscriptions and a black seal; described
as middle-aged and scholarly.
aliases:
- Mr. Gregg
- Professor Gregg
- id: person_steven_lally
type: Person
properties:
name: Steven Lally
role: father of Miss Lally
occupation: civil engineer
description: Died suddenly early in his career leaving little provision for his
family.
- id: person_miss_lally_mother
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Lally
role: mother of Miss Lally
description: Invalid for many months; died about two years before the narrative's
main events.
- id: person_miss_lally_brother
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed brother (Lally)
role: brother of Miss Lally
description: Recipient of the family's books; described as having provided for
himself and being poorly paid.
- id: person_phillipps
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. Phillipps
role: interlocutor in prologue
description: A determined rationalist and conversational foil in the prologue;
acquainted with Professor Gregg's reputation and work.
- id: person_pomponius_mela
type: Person
properties:
name: Pomponius Mela
role: ancient author referenced
description: "Ancient geographer; author of De Situ Orbis (three books) \u2014\
\ volume present in the house library."
- id: person_solinius
type: Person
properties:
name: Solinus
role: ancient author referenced
description: Ancient author whose chapter heading attracted Miss Lally's attention
(Mira de intimis gentibus Libyae...).
- id: person_descartes
type: Person
properties:
name: "Ren\xE9 Descartes"
role: author referenced
description: Referenced as source from which Miss Lally's brother learned Latin
(Meditationes).
- id: location_leicester_square
type: Location
properties:
name: Leicester Square
type: public square (London)
description: Setting of the opening conversational prologue between the young
lady and Mr. Phillipps.
- id: location_london
type: Location
properties:
name: London
type: city
description: City where Miss Lally lived briefly seeking employment and where
the old manor-house (in a western suburb) is located.
- id: location_west_of_england
type: Location
properties:
name: West of England
type: region
description: General region where Professor Gregg took a country house for the
summer and later a house near Caermaen.
- id: location_caermaen
type: Location
properties:
name: Caermaen
type: town
description: A quiet little town, once a city and headquarters of a Roman legion;
near the country house Gregg leased.
- id: location_grey_hills
type: Location
properties:
name: Grey Hills
type: hillside / moorland
description: Wild, savage hillside many miles from the river where Professor Gregg's
watch, chain, purse and ring were found beside a limestone rock bearing strange
characters.
- id: building_old_manor_house
type: Building
properties:
name: Old brick manor-house (western suburb of London)
function: residence; library and research rooms
condition: old; full of books and cabinets
description: Leased by Professor Gregg before he moved to the country; contained
many books, cabinets of specimens and a bureau with the black seal.
- id: building_country_house_caermaen
type: Building
properties:
name: Country house near Caermaen
function: residence
condition: old; set among lawns, orchards and ancient elms
description: House to which Gregg and Miss Lally moved; set above a valley with
woods, river and Roman Road nearby.
- id: room_bedroom_big_oldfashioned
type: Room
properties:
name: big old-fashioned bedroom
function: bedroom
condition: old-fashioned; large; with bow window
- id: room_professors_study
type: Room
properties:
name: Professor Gregg's study
function: study / office
condition: small, used as inner study; contains pigeonholes, bureau and drawers
- id: artifact_black_seal
type: Artifact
properties:
name: black seal
material: black stone
description: A lump of black stone about two inches long, resembling an old-fashioned
tobacco-stopper; bears the same strange characters as those on a limestone rock
and a parchment.
inscriptions_count: 1
- id: artifact_limestone_rock
type: Artifact
properties:
name: limestone rock (fantastic form)
material: limestone
description: A limestone rock on the Grey Hills with uncouth characters traced
in a red substance; described as of fantastic form.
inscriptions_count: 1
- id: artifact_watch_chain
type: Artifact
properties:
name: watch and chain
material: metal (watch and chain)
description: Personal items of Professor Gregg found beside the limestone rock
after his disappearance.
- id: artifact_purse_and_coins
type: Artifact
properties:
name: purse with three sovereigns
material: leather (purse); gold (sovereigns)
description: Purse found with three gold sovereigns and some loose silver beside
the limestone rock.
- id: artifact_ring
type: Artifact
properties:
name: habitual ring
material: metal (unspecified)
description: Ring habitually worn by Professor Gregg and found among his other
personal effects on the hillside.
- id: artifact_parchment_with_inscription
type: Artifact
properties:
name: parcel of rough parchment
material: parchment
description: Rough parchment wrapped around the found articles; inner side bore
an inscription done with a red substance (characters undecipherable).
inscriptions_count: 1
- id: document_textbook_ethnology
type: Document
properties:
title: Textbook of Ethnology
type: book
summary: A recent publication by Professor Gregg, praised for clarity; proofs
and copies are mentioned in the house.
- id: document_de_situ_orbis
type: Document
properties:
title: De Situ Orbis (three books of Pomponius Mela)
type: quarto (ancient geographer)
summary: An old quarto printed by the Stephani found in the country house library,
containing Pomponius Mela's three books on the situation of the world.
- id: inscription_parchment
type: Inscription
properties:
content: Undecipherable characters traced in red substance on the inner side of
a parcel of rough parchment.
script: corrupt cuneiform (as described)
character_count: 0
- id: inscription_limestone
type: Inscription
properties:
content: A number of uncouth characters shaped somewhat like wedges or daggers,
traced with a red substance on a limestone rock.
script: cuneiform-like; compared to Hebrew alphabet in appearance
character_count: 0
- id: language_cuneiform
type: Language
properties:
name: Cuneiform (corrupt)
description: The inscriptions are described as 'corrupt cuneiform' or cuneiform-like
wedges; characters undecipherable.
phonetic_notes: Described only visually; no phonetic rendering provided.
- id: substance_red_substance
type: Substance
properties:
name: red substance
physicalForm: pigment / red earth or similar
description: Red substance used to trace characters on the limestone rock and
on the inner side of the parchment.
- id: event_meeting_under_lamppost
type: Event
properties:
name: Meeting under the lamp-post (foggy Sunday)
date: unspecified (winter, Sunday afternoon)
description: Miss Lally, exhausted and near-collapse, was accosted beneath a lamp-post
by Professor Gregg who inquired the way and later offered her the governess
position.
event_type: chance meeting / job offer
- id: event_professor_disappearance
type: Event
properties:
name: Disappearance of Professor Gregg
date: unspecified (referred to as 'a terrible accident' some time after Textbook
publication)
description: Professor Gregg left one morning in full health and never returned;
his body was never recovered. His watch, chain, purse with coins and a ring
were later found on a hillside beside an inscribed limestone rock.
event_type: disappearance
- id: event_items_found_on_hillside
type: Event
properties:
name: Discovery of personal effects on Grey Hills
date: three days after Gregg's disappearance (unspecified)
description: Watch, chain, purse with coins and ring were found wrapped in parchment
beside a limestone rock bearing red-substance inscriptions.
event_type: discovery
- id: person_professor_gregg
type: Person
properties:
name: Professor Gregg
role: Researcher / employer
occupation: Professor
description: Academic researching an ancient black seal and mysterious inscriptions;
hosts Miss Lally and engages Jervase Cradock as a house helper.
- id: person_jervase_cradock
type: Person
properties:
name: Jervase Cradock
role: Boy employed at the house
age: 14
description: A youth of about fourteen, black hair, black eyes, olive skin; mentally
weak, subject to fits/convulsions and utters strange jargon during seizures;
docile and obedient.
- id: person_mrs_cradock
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Cradock
role: Mother of Jervase Cradock
description: Mother of Jervase; described as having been 'off her head' and found
crouched on the Grey Hills weeping; glad at prospect of extra income.
- id: person_thomas_cradock
type: Person
properties:
name: Thomas Cradock
role: Deceased father of Jervase
occupation: Workman
description: Father of Jervase; skilled workman who died from lung trouble contracted
working in wet woods.
- id: person_morgan_gardener
type: Person
properties:
name: Morgan
role: Gardener
occupation: Gardener
description: Old man who works in the garden; knows the Cradock family and describes
their history.
- id: person_anne_housemaid
type: Person
properties:
name: Anne
role: Housemaid
occupation: Housemaid
description: Servant in Professor Gregg's house; tidies rooms, heard Cradock's
cries and found the bust moved with a sticky patch and a strange smell in the
study.
- id: person_meyrick
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. Meyrick
role: Rector / guest
occupation: Rector
description: Rector of the local church; member of an old squire family; conversant
in local lore and dialects.
- id: person_mr_hillyer
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. Hillyer
aliases:
- Ty Coch
description: Person who found Mrs. Cradock crouched on the Grey Hills (referred
to as 'Mr. Hillyer, Ty Coch').
- id: person_thomas_barker
type: Person
properties:
name: Thomas Barker
role: Cousin of Anne
description: Cousin of the housemaid Anne; mentioned in relation to a visit to
the zoo.
- id: artifact_bust_of_pitt
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Bust of Pitt
material: uncertain (bust sculpture)
description: Grimy bust of William Pitt that had apparently been high on a cupboard
and was later found on the professor's desk with a large sticky/slimy patch
where dust had been removed.
- id: inscription_sixty_chars
type: Inscription
properties:
content: Grotesque dagger-shaped characters (sixty characters)
script: unknown / ancient
character_count: 60
- id: supernatural_ancient_folk
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Ancient folk (Gens ista)
description: 'A remote people described in a found text: dwell in secret places
on savage hills, celebrate foul mysteries, hate the sun; hiss rather than speak
and have harsh voices.'
manifestations:
- hissing speech
- celebration of foul mysteries on hills
- id: supernatural_ixaxar
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Ixaxar
description: The ineffable secret name associated with the black stone (Hexecontalithon
/ Sixtystone); treated as an unspeakable or uncanny name in the text.
manifestations:
- name engraved/associated with the stone
- invoked in speech heard during seizures
- id: location_ancient_bridge
type: Location
properties:
name: Ancient bridge
type: bridge
description: An old silver-grey stone bridge near the house; described as ancient
and coiling river nearby.
- id: location_woods
type: Location
properties:
name: The wood / forest
type: wood/forest
description: Mystic woods surrounding the house; Professor Gregg walks into them
to find a boy; woods evoke dread in the narrator.
- id: building_professor_house
type: Building
properties:
name: Professor Gregg's house
function: Residence / research house
condition: Older country house with study, terrace, kitchen, and bedrooms
description: House near river with terrace, study (where research and examinations
occur), and servants; contains a study desk, cupboard where bust of Pitt formerly
stood.
- id: room_study
type: Room
properties:
name: Study
function: Research / study
description: Professor Gregg's study where the black seal is examined, where Cradock
was carried and locked, and where the bust of Pitt was later found on the desk.
- id: medicalcondition_fits
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: Fits / convulsions
symptoms:
- body quivering and shaking
- teeth grinding
- foam at the lips
- face swollen and blackened
- incoherent ancient-sounding speech
severity: Severe (recurrent, causing collapse)
- id: location_monmouth
type: Location
properties:
name: Monmouth
type: town
description: Nearby town referenced as a geographic landmark ('between this and
Monmouth').
- id: location_fox_and_hounds
type: Location
properties:
name: Fox and Hounds
type: public house / landmark
description: Local landmark used in directions to the Grey Hills.
- id: person_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Miss Lally
role: Narrator / companion to Professor Gregg
description: Young lady who reads Professor Gregg's manuscript and searches for
him; caretaker of household; narrator of events.
- id: person_2
type: Person
properties:
name: William Gregg
role: Professor / victim / author of manuscript
occupation: Professor, F.R.S., ethnological researcher
description: Researcher who investigated inscriptions and the 'Little People';
left a manuscript and a farewell letter; later disappears.
- id: person_3
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. Morgan
role: Gardener / messenger
occupation: Gardener
description: Old gardener in Professor Gregg's employ; delivers a timed parcel
to Miss Lally.
- id: person_4
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Cradock
role: Village woman / mother of Jervase
description: Young woman who lost her husband, found in a disturbed state by a
limestone rock; pronounced insane by the local doctor; later gave birth to Jervase.
- id: person_5
type: Person
properties:
name: Jervase Cradock
role: Child / subject of encounters
description: Son of Mrs. Cradock; born after his mother's breakdown; described
as of weak intellect and later convulses and utters the jargon of the Black
Seal.
- id: person_6
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. Phillipps
role: Acquaintance / listener
description: Person who hears Miss Lally's account near the end; reflective observer
of the scene in the square.
- id: person_7
type: Person
properties:
name: Gregg's lawyer
role: Lawyer / legal representative
description: Professor Gregg's lawyer who dismisses Miss Lally's account as a
fairy tale and helps circulate the official story that Gregg drowned.
- id: person_8
type: Person
properties:
name: Museum Curator (unnamed)
role: Curator / correspondent
description: Curator in a northern English town who allows Gregg to take a museum
specimen to his hotel; correspondent and contact of Gregg.
- id: person_9
type: Person
properties:
name: Local Doctor (unnamed)
role: Doctor / inquest correspondent
description: Country doctor who examined a murder victim and tested the stone
axe; wrote to Gregg about the inexplicable behavior of the axe and pronounced
Mrs. Cradock insane.
- id: person_10
type: Person
properties:
name: Farmer (unnamed)
role: Finder / witness
description: Farmer who found Mrs. Cradock crouched by the limestone rock after
hearing a mournful wailing; also a witness to local incidents.
- id: person_11
type: Person
properties:
name: Shepherd (unnamed)
role: Witness
description: Shepherd who reported that there had been no mark on the limestone
rock a week earlier, supplying context for the recent inscription.
- id: id_location_1
type: Location
properties:
name: Grey Hills
type: Hills / moorland
description: Desolate limestone hills (Monmouthshire) where inscriptions appear,
and where Professor Gregg later searches; site of eerie local incidents.
- id: id_location_2
type: Location
properties:
name: Wood / forest
type: Woodland
description: Ancient wood near the professor's house; Miss Lally describes the
professor vanishing into the trees and feels imprisoned by the woods' ancient
atmosphere.
- id: id_location_3
type: Location
properties:
name: Museum (northern English town)
type: Museum
description: Museum in a northern English town where Gregg found a specimen inscribed
on its underside that provided the key to the Black Seal.
- id: id_location_4
type: Location
properties:
name: London
type: City
description: Mentioned as a place people might flee to (contextual reference).
- id: id_location_5
type: Location
properties:
name: Site of ancient Babylon
type: Ancient site
description: Referenced as the reputed find-spot of the Black Seal before it came
to Gregg.
- id: building_1
type: Building
properties:
name: Mrs. Cradock's cottage
function: Rural dwelling
condition: Isolated cottage near Grey Hills
description: The cottage where Mrs. Cradock lived and from which she set out when
she was found by the farmer; close to the Grey Hills.
- id: building_2
type: Building
properties:
name: Professor Gregg's house (near Grey Hills)
function: Residence / research base
description: House Gregg later took in the neighbourhood of the Grey Hills to
be near the events and Jervase Cradock.
- id: building_3
type: Building
properties:
name: Northern town museum
function: Museum
description: Building housing the inscribed specimen whose transliteration unlocked
the Black Seal inscription.
- id: artifact_1
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Black Seal
material: Dull black stone
description: Small black stone seal about two inches long with a rough hexagonal
stamping end (1.25 in diameter); bears a mysterious inscription in an unknown
script.
- id: artifact_2
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Stone axe
material: Stone head with gut-bound wooden handle
description: Primitive stone axe found beside a murdered old man; local doctor
found it unmanageable and impossible to wield effectively by ordinary men.
- id: artifact_3
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Museum specimen (inscribed stone)
material: Black stone
description: 'Four-inch square specimen from a museum with two inscriptions on
the underside: one cuneiform and one in the Black Seal character; key to decipherment.'
- id: artifact_4
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Professor's parcel of effects
material: Paper / parchment containing metal objects
description: Paper parcel found on the Grey Hills containing the professor's watch
and chain, purse, and ring; bore the Black Seal characters repeated on the parchment.
- id: artifact_5
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Bust (cupboard)
description: A bust on a cupboard that was grasped and laid on the professor's
desk by a slimy tentacle during Jervase's convulsion.
- id: document_1
type: Document
properties:
title: Farewell letter to Miss Lally
type: Letter
date: Undated (delivered after Gregg's disappearance)
summary: Short letter in which Professor Gregg warns Miss Lally that she may never
see him again, gives directions to the escritoire and envelope, and asks her
to destroy certain papers.
- id: document_2
type: Document
properties:
title: The Statement of William Gregg, F.R.S.
type: Manuscript / statement
date: Undated (found by Miss Lally)
summary: Professor Gregg's lengthy manuscript describing his investigations into
folklore, inscriptions, the Black Seal, the Grey Hills incidents, experiments
and the nature of the 'Little People'.
- id: inscription_1
type: Inscription
properties:
content: Characters matching those on the Black Seal (found in red earth on a
limestone rock)
script: Black Seal script (cuneiform-like altered characters)
character_count: 0
- id: inscription_2
type: Inscription
properties:
content: Inscription engraved on Black Seal (secret key to transmutation)
script: Black Seal script
character_count: 0
- id: inscription_3
type: Inscription
properties:
content: 'Two inscriptions on museum specimen: regular cuneiform and the Black
Seal character'
script: Cuneiform and Black Seal character
character_count: 0
- id: supernatural_1
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: The 'Little People' / fair folk
description: A supposed ancient race lingering in wild places, associated with
abduction, substitution of children, and the dark rites described by Gregg;
linked to the Black Seal's powers.
manifestations:
- Hissing jargon
- Night apparitions on hills
- Transformation rites
- id: medical_1
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: Insanity / acute mental disturbance
symptoms:
- wailing
- unintelligible jargon
- coma
severity: Severe (treated as dangerous by local doctor)
- id: medical_2
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: Convulsive transformation
symptoms:
- convulsions
- foaming at mouth
- body distention
- uttering hissing jargon
severity: Acute and terrifying
- id: experiment_1
type: Experiment
properties:
name: Doctor's tests of the stone axe
method: Doctor and an experienced woodman attempted to wield the stone axe in
a garden to observe effectiveness
description: Local doctor tested the stone axe's usability and found it impossible
for ordinary men to strike an effective blow; the force seemed to rebound on
the wielder.
- id: experiment_2
type: Experiment
properties:
name: Decipherment of the Black Seal
method: Comparative study of inscriptions and transliteration from a museum specimen;
long-term philological research
description: Gregg's prolonged work comparing the Black Seal to a museum specimen's
inscriptions which yielded a transliteration revealing the secret of transmutation.
- id: event_1
type: Event
properties:
name: Disappearance of Professor Gregg
date: Undated (narrative present)
description: Professor Gregg leaves for a long walk and does not return; Miss
Lally later finds his effects on the Grey Hills and reads his manuscript indicating
a likely tragic fate.
event_type: Disappearance
- id: event_2
type: Event
properties:
name: Murder of old man / discovery of stone axe
date: Past incident referenced by Gregg
description: An old man was found done to death on outland hills with a primitive
stone axe beside him; inquest and doctor's tests followed.
event_type: Homicide
- id: event_3
type: Event
properties:
name: Inscription appears on limestone rock
date: Recent (week before shepherd reported none)
description: Red-earth characters appeared on a limestone rock on the Grey Hills;
shepherd reported none earlier; associated with Mrs. Cradock's breakdown.
event_type: Anomalous inscription
- id: event_4
type: Event
properties:
name: Jervase's convulsive episode
date: During Gregg's residence near Grey Hills
description: Jervase had a seizure in which he emitted hissing syllables, convulsed,
protruded a slimy tentacle-like appendage which manipulated a bust, and then
collapsed.
event_type: Supernatural/medical episode
- id: person_hp_lovecraft
type: Person
properties:
name: H. P. Lovecraft
role: author
occupation: writer
description: Author of 'The Horror at Red Hook' (narrative frame).
- id: person_arthur_machen
type: Person
properties:
name: Arthur Machen
role: quoted author
occupation: writer
description: Quoted at head of the story.
- id: person_thomas_malone
type: Person
properties:
name: Thomas F. Malone
role: protagonist/detective
occupation: New York police detective
age: 42
description: A tall, heavily built New York police detective on long medical leave
after a traumatic raid; sensitive, Celtic background (Dublin University man).
- id: person_robert_suydam
type: Person
properties:
name: Robert Suydam
role: subject of investigation / antagonist figure
occupation: scholar / recluse
description: Lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family; longtime solitary resident
of a Flatbush mansion; authority on medieval superstition; associated with nocturnal
meetings in Red Hook and with criminal elements.
- id: person_cornelia_gerritsen
type: Person
properties:
name: Miss Cornelia Gerritsen
role: fiancee / social relation
description: Young woman of excellent position from Bayside, announced as engaged
to Robert Suydam; distantly related to him.
- id: location_red_hook
type: Location
properties:
name: Red Hook
type: neighborhood
description: A squalid hybrid district in Brooklyn near the ancient waterfront
opposite Governor's Island; brick houses, docks, alleys, rife with smuggling
and diverse immigrant populations.
- id: location_pascoag
type: Location
properties:
name: Pascoag
type: village
description: Village in Rhode Island where Malone experienced a public nervous
episode.
- id: location_chepachet
type: Location
properties:
name: Chepachet
type: village
description: Nearby hamlet with wooden Colonial houses; place where Malone had
been sent for convalescence.
- id: location_flatbush
type: Location
properties:
name: Flatbush
type: neighborhood
description: Former village absorbed into Brooklyn; site of Suydam's mansion.
- id: location_borough_hall
type: Location
properties:
name: Borough Hall
type: district / civic area
description: Higher ground area reached from Red Hook, referenced as a place where
loafers and gangs congregate.
- id: location_parker_place
type: Location
properties:
name: Parker Place
type: street/rookery
description: Rookery area in Red Hook where Suydam maintained a basement flat
and an unusual colony of unclassified slant-eyed folk gathered.
- id: location_martense_street
type: Location
properties:
name: Martense Street
type: street
description: Street near which Suydam's Flatbush mansion was set back.
- id: location_governors_island
type: Location
properties:
name: Governor's Island
type: island
description: Island opposite Red Hook waterfront mentioned as geographic reference.
- id: location_brooklyn
type: Location
properties:
name: Brooklyn
type: borough
description: Borough of New York City containing Red Hook, Flatbush, and other
referenced neighborhoods.
- id: location_atlantic_avenue
type: Location
properties:
name: Atlantic Avenue
type: street/area
description: Area referenced in relation to Syrian immigrant populations.
- id: location_ellis_island
type: Location
properties:
name: Ellis Island
type: immigration station
description: Federal immigration facility named as the place that turned some
arrivals back.
- id: location_bayside
type: Location
properties:
name: Bayside
type: neighborhood
description: Residence area of Miss Cornelia Gerritsen.
- id: building_suydam_mansion
type: Building
properties:
name: Suydam Mansion
function: residence
condition: ill-preserved (then renovated during Suydam's metamorphosis)
description: Spacious Flatbush mansion set back from Martense Street, originally
built by Suydam's grandfather; contained a vast library.
- id: building_stone_church
type: Building
properties:
name: Tumbledown stone church
function: unauthorized church / dance-hall
condition: tumbledown, disreputable; used as a dance hall and site of nocturnal
rites
description: Gothic buttressed church near the vilest part of the waterfront;
clergy denied its standing; emitted shrieking and drumming at night.
- id: room_suydam_library
type: Room
properties:
name: Suydam's library
function: study / receiving room
condition: well kept; high-ceiled and packed with tattered, ponderous books
description: One of three ground-floor rooms where Suydam received rare acquaintances.
- id: building_suydam_basement_flat
type: Building
properties:
name: Suydam basement flat (Parker Place)
function: basement lodging / meeting place
condition: squalid
description: Squalid basement flat in Red Hook where Suydam spent many nights
receiving delegations and conducting ceremonies behind green blinds.
- id: artifact_gold_headed_cane
type: Artifact
properties:
name: gold-headed cane
material: metal/wood
description: Gold-headed cane carried by Robert Suydam as part of his distinctive
attire.
- id: document_the_eagle
type: Document
properties:
title: The Eagle
type: newspaper
summary: Newspaper that quietly announced Robert Suydam's engagement to Miss Cornelia
Gerritsen.
- id: document_suydam_pamphlet_kabbalah
type: Document
properties:
title: Pamphlet on the Kabbalah and the Faustus legend
type: pamphlet
summary: An out-of-print pamphlet by Suydam referenced by Malone and friends;
indicates Suydam's scholarship on medieval superstition.
- id: document_miss_murray
type: Document
properties:
title: Witch Cult in Western Europe
type: book
summary: Work by Miss Murray referenced by Malone concerning surviving clandestine
witch cults and Black Masses.
- id: organization_new_york_police
type: Organization
properties:
name: New York Police
type: police
description: City police force; Malone is a detective attached to this organization.
- id: organization_federal_inspectors
type: Organization
properties:
name: Federal Inspectors
type: federal agency
description: Federal inspectors who cooperated with city police in the Suydam
investigation.
- id: organization_immigration_authorities
type: Organization
properties:
name: Immigration authorities (Ellis Island)
type: immigration service
description: Authorities responsible for processing or turning back arrivals;
mentioned in relation to smuggled immigrants.
- id: group_kurds_newcomers
type: Group
properties:
name: Kurds in Red Hook
description: Newcomer immigrant group of obscure dialect, described as 'slant-eyed'
by neighbors; some worked as dock-hands, peddlers, restaurant help; many had
no visible means of support and were associated with smuggling and underworld
pursuits.
- id: group_red_hook_gangsters
type: Group
properties:
name: Red Hook gangsters
description: Various criminal cliques in Red Hook involved in smuggling, bootlegging,
theft, and other lawlessness; some attended Suydam's meetings.
- id: super_sephiroth
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Sephiroth
description: Mystical name uttered by Suydam among others; referenced as part
of cabalistic/demonic vocabulary.
- id: super_ashmodai
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Ashmodai
description: Name of a demonic or mystical entity mentioned by Suydam in his strange
talk.
- id: super_samael
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Samael
description: Name of a mystical/demonic entity referenced by Suydam.
- id: event_collapse_raid
type: Event
properties:
name: Collapse of brick buildings during a raid
event_type: building collapse / raid
description: Collapse of several old brick buildings during a police raid in Red
Hook which caused many deaths and traumatized Malone.
- id: event_raid_dance_hall
type: Event
properties:
name: Raid on the dance-hall church
event_type: police raid
description: City police raid on the tumbledown stone church/dance hall following
a report that the face of a kidnapped child had been seen at a basement window.
- id: event_suydam_hearing
type: Event
properties:
name: Suydam sanity hearing
event_type: court hearing
description: Court action initiated by distant relatives to determine Robert Suydam's
sanity due to odd changes in speech and habits; Suydam defended himself and
preserved his liberty.
- id: event_kidnapping_wave
type: Event
properties:
name: Wave of kidnappings and disappearances
event_type: crime wave
description: Period of kidnappings and disappearances in New York that coincided
with Suydam's metamorphosis and increased police attention.
- id: person_malone
type: Person
properties:
name: Malone
role: detective
occupation: police detective
description: Detective investigating kidnappings and occult occurrences in Red
Hook; narrator-protagonist of the case; later retires to Chepachet.
- id: person_mrs_suydam
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Suydam
role: bride / murder victim
description: Bride of Robert Suydam; found strangled in Suydam stateroom aboard
the Cunarder; throat bore a claw-mark and a fleeting Chaldee inscription 'LILITH'
was seen on the wall.
- id: person_ship_doctor
type: Person
properties:
name: ship's doctor
role: ship's physician
description: Doctor aboard the Cunarder who entered the stateroom after a scream,
attended to Mrs. Suydam, corresponded with Malone, and retained some reticence
about what he saw.
- id: person_captain
type: Person
properties:
name: ship captain
role: Cunarder captain
description: Captain of the Cunarder liner involved in the incident; admitted
men aboard after being presented with Suydam's signed paper.
- id: person_undertaker
type: Person
properties:
name: ship's undertaker
role: undertaker
description: Undertaker on the Cunarder who assisted the ship's doctor with last
services and observed drained blood and missing bottles.
- id: person_arab_leader
type: Person
properties:
name: leader of visiting mariners
role: maritime leader / representative
description: Leader of the men from the tramp steamer described as an Arab with
a 'hatefully negroid mouth' who produced Suydam's signed paper and led the removal
of Suydam's body.
- id: person_sailor_broke_door
type: Person
properties:
name: sailor who broke down the door
role: ship sailor
description: Sailor who first broke into the Suydam stateroom, went completely
mad afterward and ran about the vessel until restrained.
- id: person_delrio
type: Person
properties:
name: Delrio
role: scholar (quoted)
description: An old authority cited by Malone in a rhetorical question about demonic
offspring; referenced textually, not active in narrative.
- id: location_gowanus
type: Location
properties:
name: Gowanus
type: district / street direction
description: Area toward which three missing blue-eyed Norwegian children came
from; referenced in context of local unrest.
- id: location_cunard_pier
type: Location
properties:
name: Cunard pier
type: pier
description: Pier from which the ponderous Cunarder liner departed; site of the
wedding party departure.
- id: location_greenwood_cemetery
type: Location
properties:
name: Greenwood Cemetery
type: cemetery
description: Place where Robert Suydam is buried beside his bride.
- id: location_old_dutch_church
type: Location
properties:
name: old Dutch church
type: church
description: Local church near Flatbush where the Suydam-Gerritsen wedding took
place; an awning stretched from door to highway.
- id: building_dance_hall_church
type: Building
properties:
name: dance-hall church
function: dance-hall / church
condition: dilapidated
description: A converted church used as a dance-hall with crude painted panels,
inscriptions above the pulpit, a crypt beneath, and occult paraphernalia.
- id: building_suydam_house
type: Building
properties:
name: Suydam house
function: residence / smuggling hub
condition: dilapidated; contained secret canal
description: Robert Suydam's basement flat and house with subterranean canal access,
attic laboratory, and cellar linked to a crypt beneath the dance-hall.
- id: building_parker_place_houses
type: Building
properties:
name: Parker Place houses
function: tenements / residences
condition: rotten; three old houses collapsed during the raid
description: Cluster of houses in Parker Place raided by police; site of occult
paraphernalia, gold ingots, and chemical laboratory.
- id: room_suydam_stateroom
type: Room
properties:
name: Suydam stateroom
function: ship cabin
condition: scene of murder
description: Stateroom on the Cunarder where Mrs. Suydam was found strangled and
where a transient phosphorescence and fleeting Chaldee inscription were reported.
- id: room_crypt
type: Room
properties:
name: crypt beneath dance-hall church
function: crypt / chapel
condition: contained cells and occult altar
description: Secret crypt accessible via a narrow passage in the north wall; contained
a croaking organ, arched chapel, wooden benches, small cells with chained prisoners,
and the area tied to the subterranean canal.
- id: room_cellar
type: Room
properties:
name: cellar
function: storage / access to canal
condition: linked to underground canal
description: Cellars and basements in Suydam's house and Parker Place provided
access to subterranean canals; dredged to reveal sawed bones and other evidence.
- id: artifact_carved_golden_pedestal
type: Artifact
properties:
name: carved golden pedestal
material: carved gold
description: Occult throne/pedestal of primary necromantic importance frequently
mentioned by Malone; reportedly toppled into a deep well in a subterranean chamber
and not recovered.
- id: artifact_gold_ingots
type: Artifact
properties:
name: gold ingots
material: gold
description: Pile of genuine gold ingots found in a cellar covered with burlap
and bearing the same hieroglyphics as on the walls.
- id: artifact_metal_basin
type: Artifact
properties:
name: metal basin
material: metal
description: Basin on the altar with rust around the rim; part of the blasphemous
altar paraphernalia noticed by Malone.
- id: artifact_croaking_organ
type: Artifact
properties:
name: croaking organ
material: wood/metal pipes (organ instrument)
description: Cracked bass organ with sardonic notes heard beneath the church and
in the crypt; part of the nightmarish rites.
- id: artifact_glass_stoppered_bottles
type: Artifact
properties:
name: glass-stoppered bottles
material: glass
description: Bottles found scattered in rooms and on racks in the stateroom; some
emptied hastily and their odor detected in the sink; contents used in rites
or disposed of by the ship's doctor.
- id: artifact_beaker_red_liquid
type: Artifact
properties:
name: beaker with red liquid
material: glass
description: Beaker overturned by a cat in Suydam's flat containing a half-full
red liquid; possibly ritual substance.
- id: artifact_red_sash
type: Artifact
properties:
name: red sash
material: fabric
description: Red sash picked up in the areaway and mentioned during an earlier
raid though no stolen child was found in that house.
- id: artifact_burlap_piece
type: Artifact
properties:
name: burlap piece
material: burlap
description: Piece of burlap covering the pile of gold ingots in the cellar.
- id: document_suydam_signed_paper
type: Document
properties:
title: Signed instruction regarding body delivery
type: letter / authorization
date: June (during voyage)
summary: Unsigned message signed by Robert Suydam instructing that in case of
his sudden death his body be delivered to the bearer and his associates unquestioningly.
- id: inscription_greek_pulpit_incantation
type: Inscription
properties:
content: '"O friend and companion of night, thou who rejoicest in the baying of
dogs and spilt blood, who wanderest in the midst of shades among the tombs;
who longest for blood and bringest terror to mortals, Gorge, Mormo, thousand-faced
moon, look favorably on our sacrifices!"'
script: Greek
character_count: 360
- id: inscription_chaldee_lilith
type: Inscription
properties:
content: LILITH (Chaldee letters reported flickering on the wall)
script: Chaldee
character_count: 6
- id: inscription_hebraized_motto
type: Inscription
properties:
content: HEL. HELOYM. SOTHER. EMMANVEL. SABOATH. AGLA. TETRAGRAMMATION. AGYROS.
OTHEOS. ISCHYROS. ATHANATOS. IEHOVA. VA. ADONAL. SADY. HOMOVSION. MESSIAS. ESCHEREHEYE.
script: Hebraized Hellenistic Greek / occult motto
character_count: 180
- id: supernatural_lilith
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Lilith
description: Fearsome female demon/primeval spirit evoked in chants; invoked as
'Great Lilith' during rites; associated with infant deaths and corruption.
manifestations:
- Chanted invocation
- fleeting Chaldee letters on cabin wall
- association with phosphorescent things and ritual
- id: supernatural_phosphorescent_thing
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: naked phosphorescent thing
description: A leering, phosphorescent creature that tittered, pawed at bedding,
sat on the carved golden pedestal, and led a demonic procession in Malone's
nightmare.
manifestations:
- tittering laughter
- phosphorescent glow
- led the nightmare procession and animated rites
- id: group_yezidee_clan
type: Organization
properties:
name: Yezidee clan
type: religious cult / clan
description: Group described as devils-worshippers; several unconvicted Kurds
were identified as belonging to this clan before deportation.
- id: group_smugglers
type: Group
properties:
name: smugglers
description: Smuggling network operating subterranean canals linked to Suydam's
house; involved in man-smuggling and likely in bringing the body from the tramp
steamer.
sizeEstimate: 20
- id: vessel_cunarder
type: Vessel
properties:
name: Cunarder
type: ocean liner
description: Ponderous liner used for the Suydam-Gerritsen voyage; site of Mrs.
Suydam's murder and the delivery of Suydam's body to men from a tramp steamer.
- id: vessel_tramp_steamer
type: Vessel
properties:
name: tramp steamer
type: tramp ship
description: Mysterious tramp steamer whose crew boarded the Cunarder to claim
Suydam's body; crew were not identified and the ship remained an enigma tied
to smuggling.
- id: medical_sailor_madness
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: acute madness
symptoms:
- hysterical shrieking
- delirium
- running about incoherently
severity: severe
- id: medical_prisoners_idiocy
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: complete idiocy
symptoms:
- utter mental impairment
- inability to respond or function
severity: severe
- id: substance_red_liquid
type: Substance
properties:
name: red liquid
physicalForm: liquid
description: Unidentified red liquid found in a beaker in Suydam's flat; possibly
used in rites or experiments.
- id: substance_incense
type: Substance
properties:
name: incense
physicalForm: smoke / aromatic resin
description: Pungent incense burned during the raid that masked odors and was
used in occult ceremonies.
- id: event_suydam_gerritsen_nuptials
type: Event
properties:
name: Suydam-Gerritsen nuptials
date: June (evening / high noon departure)
description: Lavish wedding in Flatbush culminating in departure from the Cunard
pier; preceded the murder aboard the liner.
event_type: wedding
- id: event_murder_on_cunarder
type: Event
properties:
name: murder aboard Cunarder
date: June (night of voyage)
description: Strangulation of Mrs. Suydam in her stateroom; claw-mark on throat
and fleeting Chaldee 'LILITH' reported on the wall; body later removed by men
from tramp steamer.
event_type: homicide
- id: event_raid_parker_place
type: Event
properties:
name: midnight raid on Parker Place
date: June (shortly after wedding evening)
description: Police raid involving multiple stations forcing rooms, arresting
suspects, recovering occult paraphernalia, gold ingots, chained prisoners, and
dredging canals.
event_type: police raid
- id: event_collapse_houses
type: Event
properties:
name: collapse of three Parker Place houses
date: during raid (midnight)
description: Three old houses collapsed without visible cause while many raiders
and prisoners were inside, resulting in numerous deaths.
event_type: structural collapse
- id: event_dredging_canals
type: Event
properties:
name: dredging of subterranean canals
date: after raids
description: Canals dredged and filled; yielded sawed and split bones and evidence
linking kidnappings to Suydam's smuggling tunnels.
event_type: investigative operation
- id: person_narrator_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed Narrator
role: investigator / narrator
occupation: connoisseur of horrors; registered as reporter
description: First-person narrator who explores Tempest Mountain and the Martense
mansion; led the vigil in Jan Martense's room and survived the encounter that
took Bennett and Tobey.
aliases:
- Narrator
- id: person_george_bennett_002
type: Person
properties:
name: George Bennett
role: armed companion
description: One of two muscular companions who accompanied the narrator to the
Martense mansion; slept during the vigil and vanished without trace.
- id: person_william_tobey_003
type: Person
properties:
name: William Tobey
role: armed companion / sentinel
description: Companion placed toward the fireplace during the vigil in Jan Martense's
room; disappeared during the night with no trace.
- id: person_jan_martense_004
type: Person
properties:
name: Jan Martense
role: historical victim / namesake of room
description: An ancestor or earlier resident whose murder looms in local legend;
his room was the site of the narrator's vigil and he is buried near the mansion.
- id: person_arthur_munroe_005
type: Person
properties:
name: Arthur Munroe
role: reporter / colleague
occupation: reporter
age: 35
description: Dark, lean reporter of about thirty-five who assisted the narrator
in investigation and historical research; later found dead with his face chewed
away.
- id: person_hp_lovecraft_006
type: Person
properties:
name: H. P. Lovecraft
role: author
description: Author of the narrative (meta).
- id: location_tempest_mountain_010
type: Location
properties:
name: Tempest Mountain
type: mountain
description: Remote, lonely elevation in the Catskills crowned by the Martense
mansion; subject of local legends and frequent thunderstorms.
- id: location_martense_mansion_site_011
type: Building
properties:
name: Martense mansion
function: mansion / abandoned residence
condition: ancient, grove-circled, deserted and reputedly haunted
- id: location_lefferts_corners_012
type: Location
properties:
name: Lefferts Corners
type: village
description: Nearest village to Tempest Mountain and acknowledged headquarters
of the searchers; contained a hotel where reporters gathered.
- id: location_catskills_013
type: Location
properties:
name: The Catskills
type: region
description: Broader mountain region in which Tempest Mountain lies; historically
penetrated by Dutch settlers.
- id: location_cone_mountain_014
type: Location
properties:
name: Cone Mountain
type: mountain
description: A wooded southern prolongation thought to connect topographically
with Tempest Mountain and considered a likely route for the lurking fear.
- id: location_maple_hill_015
type: Location
properties:
name: Maple Hill
type: hill
description: Hill near the unnamed squatter hamlet; a lone splintered tree on
its side was struck by lightning and linked to the summoning of the fiend.
- id: location_squatter_hamlet_016
type: Location
properties:
name: Unnamed squatter hamlet
type: hamlet
description: Small, nameless settlement of squatters between Cone Mountain and
Maple Hill; site of a lightning-caused cave-in and horrific mutilations.
- id: group_reporters_020
type: Group
properties:
name: Reporters
description: Journalists who overran Tempest Mountain to cover the catastrophe
and who gathered at Lefferts Corners hotel.
sizeEstimate: 20
- id: group_squatters_021
type: Group
properties:
name: Squatters
description: Degenerate, largely isolated residents of the region who tell the
local legends and suffered heavy casualties in the catastrophe.
sizeEstimate: 75
- id: organization_state_troopers_030
type: Organization
properties:
name: State Troopers
type: police
description: State police who investigated the catastrophe and patrolled the region
infrequently.
- id: room_jan_martense_room_040
type: Room
properties:
name: Jan Martense's room
function: bedroom / vigil location
condition: second-story southeast corner chamber with large east window and narrow
south window, panes and shutters missing
- id: artifact_rope_ladders_050
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Three rope ladders
material: rope
description: Three rope ladders fastened side by side to the ledge of the large
east window as an escape route from Jan Martense's room.
- id: artifact_four_poster_bedstead_051
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Wide four-poster bedstead
material: wood
description: Four-poster bedstead dragged against the window and strewn with fir
boughs to provide a resting and escape platform for the watchers.
- id: artifact_dutch_fireplace_052
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Dutch fireplace with scriptural tiles
material: stone / ceramic tiles
description: Enormous fireplace opposite the large window decorated with scriptural
tiles representing the prodigal son.
- id: document_newspaper_accounts_060
type: Document
properties:
title: Newspaper accounts of the catastrophe
type: newspaper articles
date: summer 1921 (reported)
summary: Press coverage describing the massacre in the squatter hamlet, local
legends of the Martense mansion, and interviews with villagers.
- id: document_ancestral_diary_061
type: Document
properties:
title: Ancestral diary
type: diary / manuscript
summary: Diary discovered by the narrator and Arthur Munroe that illuminates the
Martense family's history and ancestral legends.
- id: event_dead_village_discovery_070
type: Event
properties:
name: Discovery of the dead squatter village
date: summer 1921
description: After a violent thunderstorm a squatter hamlet's ground caved in
and the villagers were found mangled, chewed, and missing; the incident drew
press and troopers.
event_type: massacre / catastrophe
- id: event_bennett_tobey_disappearance_071
type: Event
properties:
name: Disappearance of George Bennett and William Tobey
description: On the night of the narrator's vigil in Jan Martense's room both
companions vanished without trace after a thunderous lightning flash; no struggle
was found.
event_type: disappearance
- id: event_arthur_munroe_death_072
type: Event
properties:
name: Arthur Munroe found dead
date: afternoon / stormy vigil (early September 1921)
description: Arthur Munroe was discovered dead in a cabin during a storm; his
head was chewed and gouged so that no face remained.
event_type: attack / murder
- id: supernatural_lurking_fear_080
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: The Lurking Fear
description: A nameless, shapeless abomination or demon long associated with Tempest
Mountain and the Martense mansion; blamed for abductions, mutilations, and death,
and thought to be summoned or activated by thunder.
manifestations:
- shadow on the chimney
- silent heavy foreleg or arm pressed on narrator's chest
- mutilation and removal of villagers
- appearance as a monstrous fireball in lightning
- id: medical_drowsiness_090
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: Excessive drowsiness
symptoms:
- strong sleepiness during vigil
- nodding off despite watchfulness
severity: moderate (contributed to vulnerability)
- id: building_lefferts_hotel_100
type: Building
properties:
name: Hotel at Lefferts Corners
function: hotel
condition: crowded with reporters during the initial investigation
- id: person_narrator
type: Person
properties:
name: Unidentified Narrator
role: investigator
description: Protagonist who investigates Tempest Mountain, digs graves, crawls
subterranean tunnels, and later organizes the dynamiting of the mansion; suffers
insomnia and takes opiates when it thunders.
aliases:
- narrator
- protagonist
- id: person_jan_martense
type: Person
properties:
name: Jan Martense
role: deceased / alleged ghost
description: Descendant of Gerrit Martense; believed dead in 1762; associated
with a vengeful ghost and odd eyes (one blue, one brown).
- id: person_gerrit_martense
type: Person
properties:
name: Gerrit Martense
role: founder / ancestor
description: Wealthy New Amsterdam merchant who built the Martense mansion in
1670; disliked British rule.
- id: person_arthur_munroe
type: Person
properties:
name: Arthur Munroe
role: victim / missing person
description: Person whose disappearance/death prompted the narrator's secret grave-digging;
reportedly saw something at the hamlet and never lived to describe it.
- id: person_jonathan_gifford
type: Person
properties:
name: Jonathan Gifford
role: friend / investigator
description: Albany friend of Jan Martense who visited Tempest Mountain (reached
Sept 20) and discovered a crushed skull; later charged the Martenses with murder.
- id: person_bennett
type: Person
properties:
name: Bennett
role: victim (mentioned)
description: One of the persons taken first by the events at the mansion (mentioned
briefly).
- id: person_tobey
type: Person
properties:
name: Tobey
role: victim (mentioned)
description: One of the persons taken first by the events at the mansion (mentioned
briefly).
- id: family_martense
type: Family
properties:
name: Martense family
description: Clannish lineage descended from Gerrit Martense; isolated, odd-eyed
trait (one blue, one brown eye), intermarried with menial class, later degenerated
and partly migrated, remainder lived at the Martense mansion.
- id: location_tempest_mountain
type: Location
properties:
name: Tempest Mountain
type: mountain
description: Remote woodland summit where the Martense mansion stands; region
notable for frequent violent thunderstorms and many odd mounds and hummocks.
- id: building_martense_mansion
type: Building
properties:
name: Martense mansion
function: ancestral manor / domicile
condition: deserted, partly in ruins (by 1816); later dynamited by narrator's
order
built_year: 1670
- id: location_dutch_garden
type: Location
properties:
name: Dutch garden
type: garden
description: Abandoned garden near the mansion, polluted by white, fungous, overnourished
vegetation and seldom seeing full daylight.
- id: location_graveyard
type: Location
properties:
name: Martense graveyard
type: graveyard
description: Cemetery near the mansion with deformed trees, low mounds, and displaced
slabs; site of Jan Martense's grave.
- id: location_hamlet
type: Location
properties:
name: Distant hamlet
type: hamlet
description: A small settlement about twenty miles away where a cabin was burned
after a creature dropped from a tree; site connected to Arthur Munroe's last
sighting.
- id: location_maple_hill
type: Location
properties:
name: Maple Hill
type: hill
description: Hill overlooking the hamlet where loose earth, landslide region,
and mound-burrows were investigated by the narrator (site of mound excavation).
- id: location_cone_mountain
type: Location
properties:
name: Cone Mountain
type: mountain slope
description: Slope overlooking the hamlet; area searched by the narrator on Nov
14 for tunnels and mounds.
- id: room_martense_cellar
type: Room
properties:
name: Martense mansion cellar
function: storm refuge / subterranean passages
condition: brier-choked, contains base-of-chimney opening leading to burrows
- id: building_fateful_cabin
type: Building
properties:
name: Fateful cabin
function: weak-roofed dwelling in the hamlet
condition: burned by squatters after a creature dropped into it
description: Cabin in which a nameless creature dropped from a tree and the squatters
set the cabin afire to destroy it.
- id: group_squatters
type: Group
properties:
name: Squatters
description: Local degenerate population descended in part from former Martense
relations; investigated the mansion in 1816, burned the cabin to kill a creature,
and reported local events.
- id: artifact_coffin_jan
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Coffin of Jan Martense
material: wood (implied)
description: Coffin unearthed by the narrator; contained only dust and niter.
- id: artifact_crushed_skull
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Crushed skull
material: bone
description: A human skull found by Jonathan Gifford at the grave site, crushed
cruelly as if by savage blows.
- id: artifact_electric_pocket_lamp
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Electric pocket-lamp
description: Small electric lamp the narrator used to light subterranean burrows;
battery eventually ran low.
- id: artifact_automatic_pistol
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Automatic pistol
description: Weapon the narrator used to shoot one of the ape-like monstrosities
under cover of thunder.
- id: substance_dynamite
type: Substance
properties:
name: Dynamite
physicalForm: explosive charge
description: Explosive used by the narrator's hired gang to blow up the Martense
mansion and the top of Tempest Mountain and to stop up discoverable mound-burrows.
- id: creature_death_creature
type: Creature
properties:
name: Death-creature (hamlet)
physical_description: A nameless thing that dropped from an overhanging tree into
a cabin; described by witnesses simply as a 'devil' and apparently destroyed
when the cabin was burned.
behavior: Dropped from trees, attacked occupants; single victim reported by squatters
- id: creature_martense_apes
type: Creature
properties:
name: Martense apes / cannibal devils
physical_description: Thousands of dwarfed, deformed, hairy ape- or devil-like
organisms; filthy whitish gorilla-like creature with matted fur and sharp yellow
fangs described for a straggler.
behavior: Crawled and streamed from subterranean burrows en masse, cannibalistic,
scavenging weaker companions; spread through forest causing death and madness.
- id: supernatural_lurking_fear
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: The lurking fear / ghost of Jan Martense
description: A malevolent, possibly spectral or monstrous force associated with
Tempest Mountain and the Martense family; conceived as a wolf-fanged ghost or
organic subterranean horror linked to Jan Martense.
manifestations:
- vicious dissimilar eyes (one blue, one brown)
- subterranean burrows and mound-tentacles
- swarming ape-like creatures
- apparitions and violent thunderstorms
- id: event_gifford_visit_sep20
type: Event
properties:
name: Gifford visit and discovery
date: September 20 (year unspecified, narrative states after 1760)
description: Jonathan Gifford visited Tempest Mountain, found the mansion in decrepitude,
was told Jan was dead, and discovered a barren, unmarked grave and a crushed
skull; later accused the Martense family of murder.
- id: event_cabin_fire
type: Event
properties:
name: Cabin burning (hamlet)
date: During an October storm / twenty miles from mountain (relative timing)
description: Squatters set a weak-roofed cabin on fire after a creature dropped
into it; the cabin was burned in frenzy to try to prevent the creature's escape.
- id: event_grave_excavation
type: Event
properties:
name: Narrator's grave excavations and subterranean crawl
date: Various (narrative framing around storms and November 14 search)
description: The narrator dug up Jan Martense's grave, broke into subterranean
burrows, crawled through tunnels toward the mansion, encountered dissimilar
eyes/claw underground, surfaced after a bolt, later explored other mound-burrows
and cellar openings.
- id: event_dynamiting
type: Event
properties:
name: Destruction of Martense mansion and top of Tempest Mountain
date: Shortly after the narrator's discoveries (relative)
description: Narrator sent for men from Albany to blow up the Martense mansion
and the entire top of Tempest Mountain with dynamite, stop up discoverable mound-burrows,
and destroy certain overnourished trees.
- id: person_leicester_narrator
type: Person
properties:
name: Leicester
role: narrator
description: First-person narrator; sibling of Francis Leicester; resident of
the family house; concerned about his brother's health.
- id: person_francis_leicester
type: Person
properties:
name: Francis Leicester
role: brother
occupation: law student / aspiring lawyer
description: The narrator's only brother; formerly extremely studious, later adopts
a life of pleasure after taking an administered white powder; exhibits dizziness,
nightmares, icy sweats and a disturbing physical mark on his hand.
- id: person_wyn_leicester
type: Person
properties:
name: Major-General Wyn Leicester
role: father (deceased)
occupation: Major-General, artillery
description: Distinguished officer of artillery who died five years earlier from
a liver complaint contracted in India.
- id: person_dr_haberden
type: Person
properties:
name: Dr. Haberden
role: family doctor
occupation: physician
description: Physician to the Leicester family; initially reassures the narrator
about Francis's condition, later becomes alarmed by Francis's appearance and
by the unknown drug.
- id: person_sayce
type: Person
properties:
name: Sayce
role: chemist / apothecary
occupation: chemist
description: Old chemist who prepared the medicine for Francis from stock acquired
from Burbage's; runs an old-fashioned shop.
- id: person_orford
type: Person
properties:
name: Orford
role: college friend
description: Old college friend whom Francis meets in London and whose company
contributes to Francis's brief spree of pleasure.
- id: person_burbage
type: Person
properties:
name: Burbage
role: drug supplier / source
description: Referenced as the source ('Burbage's') from which Sayce obtained
the uncommon drug.
- id: person_chambers
type: Person
properties:
name: Chambers
role: chemist/analyst (mentioned)
description: Referenced by Dr. Haberden as someone out of town; implied to be
a professional (chemist/analyst) whose absence prevents further information
about the drug.
- id: location_india
type: Location
properties:
name: India
type: country
description: Referenced as the place where Major-General Wyn Leicester contracted
the liver complaint.
- id: location_paris
type: Location
properties:
name: Paris
type: city
description: Planned destination for the narrator and Francis as a prospective
holiday.
- id: location_bibliotheque_nationale
type: Location
properties:
name: "Biblioth\xE8que Nationale"
type: library
description: Mentioned by Francis as a place to avoid while on holiday in Paris.
- id: building_leicester_house
type: Building
properties:
name: Leicester family house
function: residence
condition: occupied; contains multiple rooms referenced (top room, drawing-room,
hall)
- id: building_sayce_shop
type: Building
properties:
name: Sayce's chemist shop
function: pharmacy
condition: old-fashioned, lacking modern display; holds uncommon drug stock
- id: building_dr_haberden_consulting
type: Building
properties:
name: Dr. Haberden's consulting room
function: medical consulting room
condition: ill-lighted; used for the narrator's consultation with the doctor
- id: room_top_room
type: Room
properties:
name: large room at the top of the house
function: Francis's study/chambers
condition: used for intense study; Francis secluded there for hours
- id: room_drawing_room
type: Room
properties:
name: drawing-room
function: parlor/living room
condition: dimming from twilight to gloom in key scene
- id: room_hall
type: Room
properties:
name: hall
function: entry/hallway
condition: contains mirror where narrator sees his face; scene of doctor's departure
- id: artifact_bottle_white_powder
type: Artifact
properties:
name: glass bottle containing white powder
material: glass
description: Glass bottle holding an innocent-looking white powder dissolved in
water leaving it clear; emits a strange, sickly, anaesthetic-like smell; removed
from Sayce's shop for analysis.
- id: substance_white_powder_unknown
type: Substance
properties:
name: white powder (unknown drug)
physicalForm: powder
description: Administered twice daily dissolved in cold water; at first produces
apparent improvement, later associated with dizziness, nightmares, icy sweats,
and disturbing physical/psychological changes; superficially resembles sulphate
of quinine in appearance but has a powerful anaesthetic smell.
- id: medicalcondition_digestive_nervous_trouble
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: digestive and nervous disturbance
symptoms:
- digestive trouble
- nervous irritation
severity: mild to moderate (initially)
- id: medicalcondition_dizziness_night_sweats_nightmares
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: dizziness with nocturnal fearful dreams and icy sweats
symptoms:
- dizziness
- fearful dreams
- icy sweats
- terrifying awakenings
severity: significant
- id: organization_university
type: Organization
properties:
name: University
type: educational institution
description: The university where Francis had an exceptionally brilliant career.
- id: family_leicester
type: Family
properties:
name: Leicester family
description: Family to which the narrator, Francis, and the late Major-General
Wyn Leicester belong; owners/occupants of the family house.
- id: event_medicine_administration
type: Event
properties:
name: Administration of unknown white powder
description: Francis takes the white powder twice daily after lunch and dinner
for weeks; causes initial improvement then later severe physical/psychological
deterioration.
event_type: medical administration
- id: event_doctor_investigation_and_analysis
type: Event
properties:
name: Doctor's investigation and reagent analysis
description: Dr. Haberden visits Sayce's chemist shop, obtains the bottle, smells
and inspects the powder, decides to have it analysed by a chemist friend.
event_type: medical investigation
- id: person_helen_leicester
type: Person
properties:
name: Helen Leicester
role: narrator
description: Protagonist and sister of Francis Leicester; lives in the family
house, witnesses the events (knocks on brother's door, finds black stains and
ceiling drops).
aliases:
- Miss Helen
- Miss Leicester
- id: person_dr_chambers
type: Person
properties:
name: Dr. Chambers
role: consulting scientist/chemist
description: Scientist who analyzed the white powder sent by Haberden and authored
the enclosed manuscript/report describing the powder as the basis for the Vinum
Sabbati.
- id: person_servant_maid
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed servant-maid
role: servant/maid
description: House servant who discovered a black wet stain on her hand and reported
the ceiling dripping black fluid while cleaning the narrator's room.
- id: person_cook
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed cook
role: cook
description: House cook who reported hearing the brother moving about at night
and that the hall door had opened and closed on one occasion.
- id: location_leicester_house
type: Location
properties:
name: Leicester family house
type: residence
description: The family house where the narrator and her brother live; contains
the upper room/study where the monstrous manifestation appears.
- id: room_upper_room
type: Room
properties:
name: upper room
function: brother's room/study
description: The upper room/room of Francis Leicester whose closed door and window
blind conceal the monstrous presence; narrator's spirit 'delayed before the
closed door of the upper room.'
- id: room_brothers_study
type: Room
properties:
name: brother's study
function: study/bedroom
description: Window where the blind was drawn aside revealing burning eyes; location
of the putrid mass discovered when door was forced open.
- id: room_narrator_room
type: Room
properties:
name: narrator's room (below brother's room)
function: bedroom
description: Room beneath the brother's room where narrator slept; ceiling was
seen to drip black liquid and bed-clothes were stained.
- id: room_back_room
type: Room
properties:
name: little back room
function: store/utility room
description: Small back room where odd articles were kept and from which the narrator
fetched an adze-like tool used to break the door.
- id: artifact_adze_like_tool
type: Artifact
properties:
name: adze-like tool
material: iron/wood (implied)
description: Heavy adze-like implement used by the narrator and Dr. Haberden to
force and break open the door of Francis's room.
- id: artifact_lamp
type: Artifact
properties:
name: lamp
description: Lamp held by the narrator and used to light the room when Dr. Haberden
and the narrator entered Francis's room.
- id: artifact_packet
type: Artifact
properties:
name: packet/envelope
description: Packet brought by Dr. Haberden to the narrator containing the report
of Dr. Chambers and the manuscript/letter that explains the white powder.
- id: document_report_dr_chambers
type: Document
properties:
title: Report / manuscript from Dr. Chambers
type: report/letter
summary: A scientific account and confession explaining that a flaky white powder
produced the Vinum Sabbati; includes discussion of occult implications and the
origin/effects of the substance.
- id: document_payne_knight_appendix
type: Document
properties:
title: Appendix to Payne Knight's monograph
type: monograph appendix
summary: Referenced work mentioned as containing information on the true Sabbath,
though the narrator warns the appendix does not print all the writer knew.
- id: event_break_in_discovery
type: Event
properties:
name: Forcing of Francis's door and discovery
description: Dr. Haberden and the narrator force open the locked door with an
adze-like tool; they discover a dark, putrid, seething mass with two burning
eye-like points and writhing limbs in the corner of the room.
event_type: discovery
- id: event_haberden_sails_and_dies
type: Event
properties:
name: Dr. Haberden sails and dies at sea
description: Dr. Haberden sells his practice and embarks on a long voyage (possibly
to California) and is reported to have died at sea shortly after leaving England.
event_type: voyage/death
- id: substance_white_powder
type: Substance
properties:
name: flaky white powder
physicalForm: flaky powder in a stoppered phial
description: A rare powder procured from an apothecary and analyzed by Dr. Chambers;
identified as the precursor substance used to prepare the Vinum Sabbati.
- id: substance_vinum_sabbati
type: Substance
properties:
name: Vinum Sabbati
physicalForm: liquid/wine prepared from the white powder
description: "The 'wine of the Sabbath' \u2014 an infernal sacrament brewed from\
\ the white powder that, when ingested, causes neophytes to perceive and manifest\
\ an external monstrous companion or transformation."
- id: substance_black_liquor
type: Substance
properties:
name: black dripping liquor
physicalForm: viscous black liquid
description: Black wet substance seen dripping from the ceiling into the narrator's
bed and staining the servant-maid's hand; associated with the putrid mass in
Francis's room.
- id: supernatural_manifestation
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: the putrid thing / uncanny manifestation
description: A dark, putrid, seething mass described as neither liquid nor solid,
with two burning eye-like points and writhing limbs; earlier glimpsed as burning
eyes behind the window blind and a black stump pulling aside the blind.
manifestations:
- two burning eyes
- black stump/beast's paw drawing the blind
- seething putrid mass in the corner
- black dripping from ceiling
- id: medical_corruption
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: corruption / putrefaction
symptoms:
- putrid seething mass
- black oily bubbles
- black dripping/liquor
- bandaged hand (implied injury/infection)
severity: extreme
- id: experiment_preparation_vinum
type: Experiment
properties:
name: Preparation/process producing Vinum Sabbati
method: "Delicate process involving recurring variations of temperature on the\
\ white powder over many years (40\xB0 to 80\xB0) leading to a result not reproducible\
\ by ordinary apparatus."
description: Dr. Chambers' explanation that specific, long-term temperature variations
and chance produced a substance from the white powder used to make the Vinum
Sabbati.
- id: person-henry-james
type: Person
properties:
name: Henry James
role: author
occupation: writer
description: Author of The Turn of the Screw (title/attribution at head of text)
- id: person-douglas
type: Person
properties:
name: Douglas
role: storyteller / friend
description: Friend who reads the discovered manuscript to the circle around the
fire; collector/recipient of the manuscript pages
- id: person-frame-narrator
type: Person
properties:
name: Frame narrator (unnamed)
role: listener / recorder
description: First-person narrator of the framing story who recounts Douglas's
reading and later transcribes the manuscript
- id: person-governess
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed governess
role: protagonist / governess
occupation: governess
description: Young woman who takes service at Bly as governess; narrator of the
embedded manuscript account; entrusted pages to Douglas before her death (per
frame)
- id: person-mrs-grose
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Grose
role: housekeeper / superintendent
occupation: housekeeper
description: Housekeeper at Bly, formerly maid to the master's mother; acts as
superintendent and caregiver for Flora and assistant to the governess
- id: person-flora
type: Person
properties:
name: Flora
role: child pupil
description: Young girl, the little niece at Bly, described as angelic and radiant;
sister of Miles
- id: person-miles
type: Person
properties:
name: Miles
role: child pupil
age: 10
description: Young boy (described as 'scarce ten years old'); returned from school
for the holidays and subject of concern when the headmaster dismisses him
- id: person-the-master
type: Person
properties:
name: The Master (employer)
role: guardian / employer
occupation: landowner
description: Bachelor gentleman who is guardian to the niece and nephew; owner
of Bly, wealthy, extravagant in appearance; had parents who died in India
- id: person-previous-bly-governess
type: Person
properties:
name: Previous governess (at Bly)
role: former governess
description: The young woman who formerly looked after the children at Bly; described
as a 'most respectable person' who died (her death led to Miles going to school)
- id: person-manuscript-author-deceased
type: Person
properties:
name: Manuscript author (deceased)
role: author / former governess
description: Woman (governess) who wrote the pages Douglas reads; Douglas says
she had been dead twenty years and had sent him the pages before she died
- id: person-mrs-griffin
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Griffin
role: member of the framing audience
description: One of the ladies in the circle who comments on the story being told
- id: person-griffin
type: Person
properties:
name: Griffin
role: member of the framing audience / husband
description: Husband of Mrs. Griffin; present in the framing circle
- id: person-headmaster
type: Person
properties:
name: Headmaster
role: school head
occupation: headmaster
description: Headmaster of the school Miles attended; sends a letter leading to
Miles's dismissal (referred to as 'awful bore' by the master)
- id: location-bly
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly
type: country estate
description: Old family country house in Essex where the children live and where
the governess takes service
- id: location-harley-street
type: Location
properties:
name: Harley Street
type: street / London address
description: Location in London where the governess presented herself for interview
at the master's townhouse
- id: building-bly-house
type: Building
properties:
name: Bly (house)
function: country home / family seat
condition: old family place, antique but convenient
- id: room-schoolroom
type: Room
properties:
name: Schoolroom
function: room for lessons and children's activities
condition: arranged for children's use; contains child's bed and school materials
- id: room-tower
type: Room
properties:
name: Machicolated square tower
function: part of the house traversed by the children and governess
condition: old; dizzying to climb
- id: document-manuscript
type: Document
properties:
title: Governess's manuscript
type: manuscript / personal account
summary: First-person account written by the governess about events at Bly (including
uncanny appearances); Douglas reads an exact transcript of this manuscript to
the framing circle
- id: document-letter-with-key
type: Document
properties:
title: Letter enclosing key
type: letter
summary: Letter sent to Douglas by post containing the key to a locked drawer
holding the manuscript packet
- id: document-headmaster-letter
type: Document
properties:
title: Letter from the headmaster
type: letter
summary: Missive received at Bly informing that Miles is dismissed / cannot be
kept at school; causes distress
- id: artifact-red-album
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Faded red album
material: paper / gilt-edged binding
description: Thin old-fashioned gilt-edged album with a faded red cover that Douglas
opens when beginning to read
- id: supernatural-apparition
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Apparition / ghost
description: Dreadful appearance reported in the stories; apparition that appears
to children and terrifies them
manifestations:
- appears to children in their rooms
- wakes children in terror
- reported as a visitation in an old house
- id: group_1
type: Group
properties:
name: house staff
description: The maids and the men of Bly who serve in the household; they are
present and take notice of the household's altered atmosphere.
- id: loc_1
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly
type: country estate / house
description: The country estate where the governess, Miles, Flora, and household
staff reside; primary setting of the narrative.
- id: room_1
type: Room
properties:
name: schoolroom
function: teaching and lessons for the children
condition: site of disrupted custom and altered relations after recent incidents
- id: room_2
type: Room
properties:
name: dining room
function: meals
condition: scene of a tense private meal between the governess and Miles
- id: room_3
type: Room
properties:
name: hall
function: entrance / common area
condition: location of a table from which a letter was taken
- id: room_4
type: Room
properties:
name: bedroom (Miles's / bed)
function: sleeping chamber
condition: referenced as site of previous conversation (night of the storm)
- id: supernatural_2
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Miss Jessel (apparition)
description: Apparition associated with Miss Jessel, perceived or named by Miles
and feared as an influence over the children.
manifestations:
- referred to by Miles in moments of fear
- implied presence connected to window-sightings
- id: person_governess_01
type: Person
properties:
name: Unspecified governess (narrator)
role: Governess / narrator
occupation: Governess
description: First-person narrator employed as governess at Bly; caring for Miles
and Flora; discovers a terrifying visitor and guards the children.
- id: person_mrs_grose
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Grose
role: House attendant / companion
occupation: Housekeeper / companion
description: Companion and domestic servant at Bly; confidante of the governess;
provides local knowledge (identifies the visitor as Peter Quint).
- id: person_miles
type: Person
properties:
name: Miles
role: Pupil / child
description: Young boy in the governess's charge; described as extraordinarily
innocent and sensitive.
- id: person_flora
type: Person
properties:
name: Flora
role: Pupil / child
description: Little sister of Miles; accompanies the governess on parts of the
house (led her to the tower).
- id: person_peter_quint
type: Person
properties:
name: Peter Quint
role: Former valet / manservant
occupation: Valet / the master's man
description: Former servant of the household (the master's man); described with
close-curled red hair, pale long face, small fixed eyes and queer red whiskers;
later identified as dead but apparently appears to the governess.
- id: person_the_master
type: Person
properties:
name: The master (unnamed)
role: Estate owner / employer
description: Referred to as 'the master' of Bly; employer of Peter Quint; presently
absent from the house.
- id: location_bly_estate
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly
type: Estate
description: The country estate/home where the governess, Mrs. Grose, Miles, and
Flora reside.
- id: building_bly_house
type: Building
properties:
name: Bly house
function: Main residence on the Bly estate
condition: Old, with romantic revival architectural features (battlements, towers)
- id: building_old_tower
type: Building
properties:
name: Old tower (at Bly)
function: Architectural tower flanking one end of the house
description: One of a pair of square, crenelated towers flanking the house; the
governess first sees the visitor on one of the towers.
- id: building_new_tower
type: Building
properties:
name: New tower (at Bly)
function: Architectural tower flanking the opposite end of the house
description: The companion tower to the old tower; together they flank the house.
- id: room_dining_room
type: Room
properties:
name: Dining room (grown-up dining room)
function: Dining
description: A cold, clean mahogany-and-brass room used occasionally for the children's
tea; the visitor peers through a closed window into this room.
- id: room_schoolroom
type: Room
properties:
name: Schoolroom
function: Children's study / school
description: Room where the governess and Mrs. Grose withdraw to 'have everything
out' and discuss the apparition and their pledges.
- id: room_governess_room
type: Room
properties:
name: Governess's room
function: Private sleeping / study room
description: The narrator's room where a 'horrible letter' is locked in a drawer
and where she retreats to think.
- id: location_grounds_park
type: Location
properties:
name: Grounds / park / garden
type: Park / garden
description: The lawns, terraces, plantations and shrubberies around Bly where
the governess strolls and first encounters the visitor on the tower.
- id: location_terrace
type: Location
properties:
name: Terrace
type: Outdoor architectural feature
description: The terrace adjoining the dining room and lawn; the visitor stands
on the terrace beneath the dining-room window.
- id: location_village
type: Location
properties:
name: Village (near Bly)
type: Village
description: Nearby village reached by good road; destination for an intended
walk to church.
- id: artifact_gloves
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Pair of gloves
material: Fabric (sewn)
description: A pair of gloves that had required three stitches; left on a chair
in the dining room and recovered by the governess before seeing the visitor.
- id: artifact_waistcoats_missing
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Waistcoats (missing)
description: Waistcoats that had been noted as missing; Mrs. Grose links their
absence to the master's man (Quint).
- id: artifact_portraits
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Portraits (in the hall)
description: Family portraits decorating the hall at Bly.
- id: document_horrible_letter
type: Document
properties:
title: Horrible letter (unnamed)
type: Letter
date: unspecified
summary: A cruel charge concerning Miles kept locked in the governess's drawer;
the governess deems it grotesque and resolves to do nothing in response.
- id: document_letters_from_home
type: Document
properties:
title: Letters from home
type: Correspondence
summary: Disturbing letters received by the governess from her family, contributing
to her anxieties.
- id: supernatural_quint_apparition
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Apparition of Peter Quint
description: 'An uncanny visitation of Peter Quint: appears looking in through
the dining-room window and previously seen on the tower despite Quint being
dead.'
manifestations:
- Figure on the old tower watching the governess
- Figure peering through the dining-room window
- Recognized by Mrs. Grose as Quint (though he is dead)
- id: person_governess
type: Person
properties:
name: The governess
role: governess / narrator
occupation: governess
description: Young female narrator and governess at Bly; sensitive, observant,
emotionally troubled, keeps children's letters.
- id: super_quint
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Quint
description: A hideous apparition/ghostly figure seen by the governess and the
children; associated with battlements and playing cruel tricks on the children.
manifestations:
- appears on the battlements
- played hideous apparition at the boy's rest
- seen from windows and in shrubbery
- id: super_miss_jessel
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Miss Jessel
description: Apparition of a woman; tragic, dishonored, linked to the schoolroom
and to an expressed desire to 'have' Flora.
manifestations:
- appears seated at the governess's table
- seen on the stair/upper landing
- reported as longing to share torments
- id: person_uncle_harley_street
type: Person
properties:
name: Miles' uncle
role: guardian
description: Miles and Flora's guardian living in Harley Street; referenced as
a possible authority figure who might be summoned.
- id: person_goody_gosling
type: Person
properties:
name: Goody Gosling
role: villager
description: Local woman known for a celebrated mot (witty remark) referenced
by villagers.
- id: person_father
type: Person
properties:
name: Narrator's father
role: father
description: Mentioned as eccentric; father of the narrator.
- id: creature_cat
type: Creature
properties:
name: Household cat
physical_description: The cat kept at home, mentioned among household details.
- id: creature_dog
type: Creature
properties:
name: Household dog
physical_description: The dog kept at home, mentioned among household details.
- id: creature_vicarage_pony
type: Creature
properties:
name: The vicarage pony
physical_description: Local pony noted for cleverness; part of a village anecdote.
- id: building_bly
type: Building
properties:
name: Bly
function: country house / estate
description: The estate where the governess and children live; setting for most
of the narrative, described with autumnal imagery and an atmosphere of theatrical
emptiness.
- id: building_church
type: Building
properties:
name: The church
function: church
description: Local church near Bly where the characters walk and attend service;
contains the churchyard with tombs.
- id: location_park
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly park
type: park
description: The park/grounds of the Bly estate; contains shrubbery, battlements,
and paths where apparitions are expected.
- id: room_upper_landing
type: Room
properties:
name: upper landing
function: landing / hallway
description: Landing at the top of the stairs where the governess once felt the
presence of a woman at the foot of the stair.
- id: artifact_tablelike_tomb
type: Artifact
properties:
name: tablelike tomb
material: stone
description: A low, oblong, tablelike tomb in the churchyard where the governess
sat and reflected.
- id: document_children_letters
type: Document
properties:
title: Children's letters
type: letters
summary: Letters written by the children that the governess kept and did not post;
she says she has them all to this hour.
- id: document_expulsion_letter
type: Document
properties:
title: Letter from his old place
type: school letter
summary: A letter concerning Miles' dismissal/expulsion from his previous school,
referenced as evidence of problems.
- id: event_schoolroom_encounter
type: Event
properties:
name: Schoolroom encounter with Miss Jessel
date: ''
description: The governess finds Miss Jessel seated at her table in the schoolroom
on her return; the apparition rises and appears as her 'vile predecessor'.
event_type: apparition sighting
- id: person_governess_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed governess
role: governess
occupation: governess
description: Narrator and governess at Bly; watches Miles and Flora, experiences
supernatural encounters and growing alarm.
- id: person_miles_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Miles
role: pupil
description: Young boy in governess's care; expelled from school, described as
very clever, charming, and implicated in mysterious nocturnal events.
- id: person_flora_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Flora
role: pupil
description: Young girl in governess's care; described as very innocent-looking,
golden curls, observed peering from behind a blind at night.
- id: person_mr_quint_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Quint
role: former servant / apparition
description: A male figure who appears as a living, detestable, dangerous presence
in the house; known to the children and seen by the governess on stairs, tower,
and garden.
- id: supernatural_quint_001
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Quint (apparition)
description: Supernatural manifestation of Quint who appears on the staircase,
in the tower, and at other high places; fixes the governess with a malignant
stare.
manifestations:
- appears on staircase landing
- appears near tower window
- seen from garden/lawn
- id: supernatural_woman_001
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: female apparition
description: A woman associated with Quint; described indirectly and seen as a
woe-stricken figure on the stairs and implicated in the children's haunting.
manifestations:
- seen sitting on lower steps with head in hands
- associated with appearances at windows and near water
- id: person_mrs_grose_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Grose
role: housekeeper
occupation: housekeeper
description: Housekeeper at Bly; practical, unimaginative, sympathetic to the
governess, watches the children and helps manage the household.
- id: person_uncle_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Children's uncle
role: guardian
description: Uncle and legal guardian of Miles and Flora; referenced as distant,
indifferent, and the person who should be asked to intervene (unnamed).
- id: building_bly_001
type: Building
properties:
name: Bly
function: country house / estate
condition: large, with disused rooms and an old tower; grounds, terraces, staircases
and rooms described throughout the narrative
- id: room_tower_chamber_001
type: Room
properties:
name: tower chamber
function: bedroom (large, rarely used)
condition: large square chamber in the old tower, kept in order but unoccupied
for years; has shutters and commanding view of lawn
- id: room_flora_bedroom_001
type: Room
properties:
name: Flora's bedroom
function: child's bedroom
condition: contains a small bed with white curtains and small silk counterpane;
scene of nighttime incidents
- id: room_staircase_001
type: Room
properties:
name: great staircase / lobby
function: staircase / circulation space
condition: oak stair with tall window presiding over the turn; site of Quint's
apparition and governess's encounters
- id: location_garden_lawn_001
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly grounds / lawn / garden
type: garden / lawn
description: Exterior grounds of Bly with lawns, terrace, and a pool; used by
the children and site from which figures look up to the house
- id: document_fielding_amelia_001
type: Document
properties:
title: Amelia
type: novel
date: 18th century (Fielding)
summary: The governess was reading Fielding's Amelia by candlelight on the night
she encountered Quint on the staircase.
- id: document_storybook_001
type: Document
properties:
title: unnamed storybook
type: storybook
summary: A storybook from which Miles reads aloud while walking on the lawn with
Flora.
- id: artifact_candle_001
type: Artifact
properties:
name: candle
material: wax
description: Candles used by the governess for reading and night watching; lights
blown out on several occasions during nocturnal events.
- id: artifact_silk_counterpane_001
type: Artifact
properties:
name: small silk counterpane
material: silk
description: Small silk counterpane on Flora's bed, found disarranged the night
she hid behind the blind.
- id: group_children_001
type: Group
properties:
name: Miles and Flora
description: The two child charges of the governess who often move together; unusually
sweet, oddly complicit, and central to the haunting.
sizeEstimate: 2
- id: organization_school_001
type: Organization
properties:
name: Miles's school
type: school
description: The school that expelled Miles; referenced as having known persons
(teachers) and contributing to Miles's backstory.
- id: event_quint_stair_encounter_001
type: Event
properties:
name: Encounter with Quint on staircase
date: night (unspecified)
description: Governess meets Quint on the stair landing in the faint dawn/dusk
light; he stops and fixes her, then turns and descends into darkness.
event_type: supernatural encounter
- id: event_flora_peers_001
type: Event
properties:
name: Flora peers out behind blind
date: night (unspecified)
description: Flora hides behind her bedroom blind and peers out into the night,
later revealed to be looking at an apparition by the lake / lawn.
event_type: observation
- id: person_mrs_marcet_001
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Marcet
description: A comparative reference invoked by the governess (cultural/moral
reference); mentioned impersonally in conversation.
- id: location_1
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly
type: country estate
description: The estate where the governess, Mrs. Grose, Miles, and Flora reside;
site of the house, grounds, and pond/lake.
- id: location_2
type: Location
properties:
name: pond / lake at Bly
type: pond / lake
description: A pond or small lake on the grounds of Bly, used by the children
in play; site where the governess sees a supernatural figure across the water.
- id: location_3
type: Location
properties:
name: road from the village
type: road
description: The road leading from the village where Peter Quint was found dead
at dawn.
- id: location_4
type: Location
properties:
name: public house (nearby)
type: public house / pub
description: A public house Quint left the night he later died; inquest suggests
he left it in liquor and slipped on an icy slope.
- id: location_5
type: Location
properties:
name: school (Miles's school)
type: school
description: The external school attended by Miles, referenced via a letter from
his school.
- id: person_governess_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Governess (narrator)
role: governess
occupation: governess
description: Unnamed first-person narrator; governess of Miles and Flora; perceives
apparition of Miss Jessel and tries to protect pupils.
aliases:
- narrator
- id: person_miles_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Miles
role: pupil
age: 8
description: A young boy pupil at Bly; described as a small gentleman with an
enigmatic, sometimes unsettling maturity and bravado; companion of Quint in
narrative references.
aliases: []
- id: person_flora_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Flora
role: pupil
age: 5
description: A little girl pupil at Bly; outwardly innocent but capable of strange,
old-souled behaviour; becomes feverish and distressed, refuses to admit seeing
the apparition.
aliases: []
- id: person_mrs_grose_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. Grose
role: housekeeper / companion
occupation: housekeeper
description: Elderly housekeeper at Bly; companion and confidante to the governess;
skeptical or unable to see the apparition; protective of Flora.
aliases: []
- id: person_quint_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Quint
role: associate/servant
description: Named male figure referenced as being with Miles in the schoolroom;
implicated in past events and in the children's companionship.
aliases: []
- id: person_luke_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Luke
role: servant / messenger
description: Servant mentioned as taking the governess's letter to the village;
presumably employed at Bly.
aliases: []
- id: person_uncle_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Miles's uncle
role: guardian / uncle
description: Uncle and guardian of Miles and Flora; recipient of a letter the
governess intends to send; unnamed in the text.
aliases: []
- id: person_miss_jessel_person_1
type: Person
properties:
name: Miss Jessel
role: former governess
description: Former governess at Bly, deceased; referenced as a real person in
the household history and as the figure the governess recognizes.
aliases: []
- id: supernatural_miss_jessel_1
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: Miss Jessel (apparition)
description: A pale, rigid apparition seen by the governess on the opposite bank
of the lake; described as 'pale and ravenous' and as a vivid, undimmed presence
that only the governess perceives.
manifestations:
- appears on opposite bank of the lake/pool
- seen as a rigid, flame-like presence by the governess
- associated with haunting influence over Flora
- id: building_bly_house_1
type: Building
properties:
name: Bly (house)
function: private country house / estate residence
condition: inhabited; has areas of gloom and socketed rooms frequently referenced
built_year: ''
- id: location_bly_estate_1
type: Location
properties:
name: Bly (estate)
type: country estate
description: The estate setting for the narrative; contains the house, lake/pool,
copse, and grounds.
- id: location_pool_lake_bly_1
type: Location
properties:
name: Lake / pool at Bly
type: lake / pool
description: Oblong pool of water on the Bly grounds where the boat is moored
and where the governess sees Miss Jessel; frequently used by the children.
- id: location_copse_1
type: Location
properties:
name: Copse by the lake
type: wooded copse
description: Thick clump of trees on the far side of the lake; conceals a recess
where the boat might be hidden and from which Flora is likely to have emerged.
- id: room_schoolroom_1
type: Room
properties:
name: Schoolroom
function: pupils' lessons and music
condition: in regular use; site of Miles's piano playing and children's activities
- id: room_hall_1
type: Room
properties:
name: Great hall
function: main reception / hall
condition: contains a large table where the governess's letter was laid
- id: vessel_boat_1
type: Vessel
properties:
name: Flat-bottomed boat
type: rowboat
description: Small flat-bottomed boat moored at the lake with a pair of short,
thick oars; used by the children to cross the pool.
- id: document_letter_uncle_1
type: Document
properties:
title: Letter to Miles's uncle
type: letter
date: ''
summary: A sealed and directed letter the governess has written to Miles's uncle
concerning the children's behaviour and events at Bly; intended to be taken
by Luke to the village.
- id: artifact_piano_1
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Old piano
material: wood
description: Piano in the schoolroom at which Miles plays, performing with exceptional
tact and skill.
inscriptions_count: 0
- id: artifact_candle_1
type: Artifact
properties:
name: candle
material: wax
description: Candle that the governess notices has been blown out during a sudden
chill/occurrence in Miles's bedroom.
inscriptions_count: 0
- id: artifact_fern_spray_1
type: Artifact
properties:
name: withered fern spray
material: organic (fern)
description: A big spray of withered fern plucked by Flora when she emerges from
the copse; used as a small prop in her outing.
inscriptions_count: 0
- id: medicalcondition_flora_fever_1
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: fever
symptoms:
- marked feverishness
- extreme unrest during the night
- fears directed at governess
severity: marked
- id: person_dr_raymond
type: Person
properties:
name: Dr. Raymond
role: experimenter/surgeon
occupation: physician
description: "Middle\u2011aged, gaunt and thin, pale yellow complexion; devoted\
\ to 'transcendental medicine' and conducted the brain operation on Mary to\
\ 'lift the veil'."
aliases:
- Raymond
- id: person_mr_clarke
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. Clarke
role: witness/narrator
occupation: gentleman
description: Cautious yet curious gentleman; served as witness to Dr. Raymond's
experiment and compiler/author of manuscript 'Memoirs to prove the Existence
of the Devil'.
aliases:
- Clarke
- id: person_mary
type: Person
properties:
name: Mary
role: subject of experiment
age: 17
description: "Girl of about seventeen, rescued from destitution by Dr. Raymond;\
\ after the experiment became mentally deranged\u2014described as a 'hopeless\
\ idiot'\u2014having seen the Great God Pan."
- id: person_helen_v
type: Person
properties:
name: Helen V.
role: forest wanderer / central figure in Dr. Phillips' narrative
age: 23
description: Pale, clear olive skin and strongly marked, somewhat foreign features;
orphan adopted and placed with Mr. R.; fond of long solitary rambles in the
forest where strange incidents occurred.
- id: person_rachel_m
type: Person
properties:
name: Rachel M.
role: friend/companion of Helen V.
age: 22
description: Daughter of a prosperous farmer, considered prettier than Helen;
described as having the red-and-white rural complexion; later noted as deceased
in Clarke's account.
- id: person_trevor_w
type: Person
properties:
name: Trevor W.
role: victim/afflicted child
age: 18
description: Described as an imbecile aged eighteen at time of record; suffered
terror, fits and long-term intellectual weakness after witnessing or perceiving
a 'strange man' in the wood when he was a child (about seven).
aliases:
- Trevor
- id: person_joseph_w
type: Person
properties:
name: Joseph W.
role: labourer / father of Trevor
occupation: labourer
description: Forest labourer who discovered his son Trevor distressed after the
boy reported seeing Helen V. playing with a 'strange naked man'.
- id: person_mr_r
type: Person
properties:
name: Mr. R.
role: guardian / foster parent
occupation: farmer
description: "Well\u2011to\u2011do farmer who took Helen V. into his household\
\ under the terms that she have a room to herself and be largely left to her\
\ own devices."
- id: person_dr_phillips
type: Person
properties:
name: Dr. Phillips
role: informant/narrator
occupation: physician
description: Friend of Clarke who related the singular narrative concerning Helen
V., Rachel M. and Trevor W.; reported having seen the Roman stone head and described
its evil impression.
- id: person_oswald_crollius
type: Person
properties:
name: Oswald Crollius
role: historical/authorial reference
description: 'Referenced in Dr. Raymond''s laboratory as an early guide; quoted:
''In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.'''
- id: location_dr_raymond_house
type: Location
properties:
name: Dr. Raymond's house
type: residence
description: "The doctor's house with a terrace facing a valley and a laboratory\
\ formerly a billiard\u2011room."
- id: building_laboratory
type: Building
properties:
name: Dr. Raymond's laboratory
function: medical/experimental laboratory
condition: dimly lit, lined with shelves of bottles and phials; contained an adjustable
chair and stone slab with drain
built_year: 0
- id: room_laboratory_central
type: Room
properties:
name: laboratory (central room)
function: site of the experiment (operation chair positioned here)
condition: shadowy with a glass dome, lamp with heavy shade, shelves of phials
- id: location_forest
type: Location
properties:
name: the forest / wood
type: woodland
description: Large picturesque forest sheltering the nearby village; frequent
site of Helen V.'s long solitary rambles and the setting of strange encounters.
- id: location_valley_and_mountains
type: Location
properties:
name: valley and western mountain-line
type: landscape
description: "Valley with river winding between lonely hills and a western mountain\u2011\
line seen from Dr. Raymond's terrace."
- id: location_village_wales_border
type: Location
properties:
name: village on the borders of Wales
type: village
description: Small scattered hamlet of about five hundred souls, situated on rising
ground about six miles from the sea and sheltered by a large forest.
- id: location_roman_road
type: Location
properties:
name: Roman Road
type: ancient road
description: A green causeway traversing the highest part of the wood; site near
which Helen V. was seen by villagers.
- id: artifact_stone_head_faun
type: Artifact
properties:
name: stone head (faun/satyr)
material: stone
description: "Curious Roman\u2011period grotesque head found in foundation work\
\ and built into a wall above a door; its presence triggered intense terror\
\ in the boy Trevor."
- id: artifact_operating_chair
type: Artifact
properties:
name: adjustable chair
material: wood and green velvet (upholstery)
description: Odd-looking adjustable chair with levers and foot-rest used to seat
Mary during the operation.
- id: document_clarke_memoirs
type: Document
properties:
title: Memoirs to prove the Existence of the Devil
type: manuscript/collection
date: undated
summary: Clarke's manuscript volume compiling eerie and occult accounts; includes
his account of Dr. Phillips' narrative and his own experiences.
- id: document_parchment_oswald
type: Document
properties:
title: Parchment of Oswald Crollius
type: parchment
description: Parchment in Raymond's book-case referenced as an early influence;
quoted by Raymond.
- id: substance_green_phial_oily
type: Substance
properties:
name: green phial (oily fluid)
physicalForm: liquid (inhalant)
description: Oily fluid placed to Mary's nostrils to render her unconscious prior
to the brain operation.
- id: event_experiment
type: Event
properties:
name: The Experiment
date: night (unspecified)
description: Dr. Raymond's surgical/physiological operation on Mary's brain intended
to 'lift the veil' and allow perception of the spirit world (the god Pan).
event_type: medical/occult experiment
- id: event_mary_sees_pan
type: Event
properties:
name: Mary sees the Great God Pan
date: immediately following the experiment
description: Immediate aftermath of the operation in which Mary appears to perceive
the Great God Pan and subsequently suffers convulsions and permanent mental
derangement.
event_type: supernatural encounter
- id: supernatural_pan
type: SupernaturalEntity
properties:
name: The Great God Pan
description: Ancient god invoked by Dr. Raymond's theory; the entity Mary is said
to have seen when the veil between worlds was lifted.
manifestations:
- perceived by Mary during the experiment
- referenced as the goal of Raymond's operation
- id: medical_mary_condition
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: Severe mental derangement (idiocy)
symptoms:
- vacant grin
- rolling head from side to side
- convulsions
- loss of coherent intellect
severity: severe
- id: medical_trevor_condition
type: MedicalCondition
properties:
name: Weakness of intellect / hysterical fits
symptoms:
- violent hysteria
- fits
- night screams
- persistent terror of 'the man in the wood'
severity: chronic
- id: person-clarke-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Clarke
role: Narrator / chronicler
occupation: Author
description: Collector of strange cases; keeper of the 'Memoirs'; practical-minded
friend who tries to rationalize odd stories.
- id: person-villiers-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Villiers
role: Friend / inquirer
occupation: Man about town / club member
description: Well-dressed, fond of dining and exploring obscure London byways;
curious about mysterious cases.
- id: person-charles-herbert-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Charles Herbert
aliases:
- Herbert
role: Former tenant of Number 20; husband
occupation: Former landed proprietor
description: Once a man of property and means in Dorset; later reduced to a beggar
and wandered the streets; later died 'starved to death' in a lodging-house.
- id: person-helen-vaughan-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Helen Vaughan
aliases:
- Helen
role: Wife of Charles Herbert / central mysterious woman
age: 19
description: Described as extraordinarily beautiful and yet repulsive; alleged
to have corrupted Herbert 'body and soul'; her true history is obscure and she
disappeared.
- id: person-austin-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Austin
role: Acquaintance / informer
description: Club acquaintance of Villiers, knowledgeable about London life and
recounted the Paul Street case details.
- id: person-phillips-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Phillips
role: Storyteller
description: Friend who related the forest disappearance tale (about Rachel) in
an earlier account mentioned by Clarke.
- id: person-rachel-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Rachel
role: Daughter (of Mrs. M.)
description: Young woman who spent time in the forest, returned in distress, and
later was reported to have vanished in broad sunlight while walking in a meadow.
- id: person-mrs-m-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Mrs. M.
role: Mother (of Rachel)
description: Mother who noticed Rachel's altered manner and later discovered her
in distress, asking why she had been allowed into the forest with Helen.
- id: person-mr-blank-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Unknown gentleman (referred to as Mr. Blank)
aliases:
- Mr. Blank
role: Deceased victim found in Paul Street area
description: A man of apparently good social position found dead in the area of
Number 20 Paul Street; unnamed in reports and said by a physician to have died
of 'fright'.
- id: person-mary-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Mary
role: Recollected acquaintance
description: Referenced in Clarke's memory ('Mary will see the god Pan!'); limited
contextual detail in the excerpt.
- id: person-doctor-1
type: Person
properties:
name: Unnamed physician
role: Examining doctor
description: Medical man consulted about the man found dead in Paul Street; opined
that the man died of sheer terror, citing hideously contorted features.
- id: location-london-1
type: Location
properties:
name: London
type: City
description: Primary urban setting for the narrative; referenced as the 'city
of Resurrections' and site of Soho, Paul Street, and other streets mentioned.
- id: location-paul-street-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Paul Street
type: Street
description: Dismal street off Tottenham Court Road where Number 20 is located
and where a mysterious death occurred.
- id: building-number-20-1
type: Building
properties:
name: Number 20, Paul Street
function: Terraced lodging / lodging-house / private residence
condition: Empty after the Herberts left; described as having a 'queer, heavy
feeling' and in bad odour with neighbours
- id: location-soho-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Soho
type: District
description: West London district where Villiers first encountered Herbert in
rags.
- id: location-shaftesbury-avenue-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Shaftesbury Avenue
type: Street
description: Street Villiers and Herbert walk along briefly early in their encounter.
- id: location-rupert-street-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Rupert Street
type: Street
description: Street traversed by Villiers and Herbert during their initial conversation.
- id: location-tottenham-court-road-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Tottenham Court Road
type: Street / thoroughfare
description: Major road near Paul Street; used as geographic reference for the
Paul Street case.
- id: location-marylebone-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Marylebone
type: District
description: Area where a lodging-house case of 'Starved to Death' is reported
and where Charles Herbert ultimately died.
- id: location-dorsetshire-1
type: Location
properties:
name: Dorsetshire
type: County
description: Rural county associated with Herbert's former estate and family property.
- id: room-first-floor-number20-1
type: Room
properties:
name: First-floor room at Number 20, Paul Street
function: Sitting/bed room (unspecified)
condition: Doleful, overpowering atmosphere; described as full of horror; contained
a pile of old newspapers and a curious sketch
- id: artifact-sketch-helen-1
type: Artifact
properties:
name: Pen-and-ink sketch of a woman's head
material: Ink on paper
description: Small, carefully drawn pen-and-ink portrait found among old newspapers
at Number 20; likeness later identified as the woman's face that both Villiers
and Clarke recognize (Helen Vaughan).
- id: document-newspapers-pile-1
type: Document
properties:
title: Pile of old newspapers (found at Number 20)
type: Newspapers / bundle
date: circa three to four years prior (as described)
summary: Bundle of newspapers, some torn and used for packing; contained the pen-and-ink
sketch and contributed to the oppressive room atmosphere.
- id: document-memoirs-devil-1
type: Document
properties:
title: Memoirs to prove the Existence of the Devil
type: Manuscript / book
summary: A work referenced by Clarke; contains accounts of strange cases and includes
the earlier inscription 'Et Diabolus incarnatus est. Et homo factus est.'
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name: Discovery of a dead man in Paul Street area
date: circa three years prior (relative reference)
description: Early-morning discovery of a gentleman's body in the area of Number
20 Paul Street; identification papers indicated a man of means; medical opinion
later varied and police could not prove cause.
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name: Death of Charles Herbert (starvation)
date: Reported some months after Villiers' encounter with Herbert (relative reference)
description: Charles Herbert was reported in the evening paper as 'Starved to
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Street mystery.
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name: Chianti
physicalForm: Liquid (wine)
description: A small flask of Chianti consumed by Villiers during the evening
he encountered Herbert; used in the narrative to set the scene and Villiers'
disposition.
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name: Nervous shock and exhaustion
symptoms:
- shaking
- collapse
- exhaustion
severity: Reported as significant; Villiers was 'in bed for a week' suffering
from this condition after visiting Number 20.
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role: investigator/confidant
occupation: gentleman/amateur investigator
description: Associate of Austin; conducts inquiries into Mrs. Beaumont/Helen
Vaughan; visits London's seedier districts; distressed by occult discoveries
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name: Austin
role: friend/confidant
description: Listener to Villiers' account; emotionally affected by the revelations;
correspondent of Villiers
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type: Person
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name: Helen Vaughan
aliases:
- Mrs. Herbert
- Mrs. Beaumont
description: Central female figure of the narrative; appears in respectable society
as Mrs. Beaumont but has a sordid past in Soho/Paul Street; born Aug 5, 1865
at the Red House, Breconshire; died Jul 25, 1888 in Ashley Street; associated
with uncanny transformations and the story's horror
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name: Mrs. Beaumont
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- Mrs. Herbert
- Helen Vaughan
description: Social identity used in society (Ashley Street, Piccadilly); same
person as Helen Vaughan according to Villiers' investigations
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type: Person
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name: Crashaw
role: former resident/figured in narrative
description: Man who came out of the Ashley Street house the night he hanged himself
in his garden; associated with the house of Helen/Beaumont
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type: Person
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name: Clarke
role: friend/associate
description: Acquaintance mentioned as someone likely to have facts about Mrs.
Beaumont; referred to as Mr. Clarke
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type: Person
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name: Dr. Harding
role: physician (Buenos Ayres)
occupation: doctor
description: Doctor in Buenos Ayres who attended Meyrick for three weeks before
his death; reported collapse probably caused by severe shock; mentions a Mrs.
Vaughan among Meyrick's acquaintances
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type: Person
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name: Dr. Robert Matheson
role: physician/author of manuscript
occupation: Med. Dr.
description: Well-known physician of Ashley Street, Piccadilly; died suddenly
(apoplectic seizure) at beginning of 1892; author of hastily written Latin notes
translated in the text; eyewitness to horrific transformation described in his
manuscript
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type: Person
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name: Rachel
role: victim/child
description: Girl whose death in the village caused grief to her parents; mentioned
in connection with the wood and as holding hands with a dying figure in a vision
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name: Flavius Senilis
role: inscription dedicant
description: Name given on a Roman pillar inscription discovered near Caermaen
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name: Raymond
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description: Recipient of letters and confidant addressed by an eyewitness; asked
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site of Helen Vaughan's death (25 Jul 1888)
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description: Part of London where Villiers tracked Mrs. Herbert/Beaumont to a
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description: Location referenced in connection with 'Mrs. Herbert of Paul Street'
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name: Strand
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description: Street traversed during the tailing of Mrs. Herbert/Beaumont
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name: Westminster
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description: Area traversed during the tailing of Mrs. Herbert/Beaumont
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name: Piccadilly
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name: State of Washington
type: region
description: Destination where relatives of Rachel's family purportedly emigrated
six months before the narrator's inquiry
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name: The Red House, Breconshire
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name: Ancient wood near Caermaen
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description: Forest where dramatic events occurred; contains a Roman road, a glade,
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description: The house in a disreputable Soho street where Villiers observed Helen/
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name: Small town museum near Caermaen
function: museum
condition: holds Roman remains
description: Museum containing Roman remains and the recently discovered white
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name: Hemp cord with running noose
material: hemp
description: Long coil of new, hard hempen cord with a running noose purchased
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Helen Vaughan
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name: Small square white stone pillar
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description: Square pillar discovered in the wood near Caermaen and placed in
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name: Neat packet of manuscript
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description: Paginated account of the entertainment Mrs. Beaumont provided for
choicer guests; found by Villiers and causing horror to Austin; said to have
been written by a man who narrowly escaped with his life
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title: Meyrick's book of horrors
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date: ''
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from human to beast and worse; he declares the account true and warns against
publication'
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Flavius Senilis has erected this pillar on account of the marriage which he
saw beneath the shade.'')'
script: Latin
character_count: 260
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- local cultic allusion
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mentioned in discussion of ancient rites and human terror
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- visions in the wood
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and long-term horrors (Mary's madness, subsequent manifestations)
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