ARKHAM is an unchanging legend-

haunted city, with clustering gambrel

roofs that sway and sag over attics

where witches hide from the King’s

men in the dark, olden years of the

Province. Nor was any spot in that city

more steeped in macabre memory than

the gable room which harbored old

Keziah Mason, whose flight from Salem

Gaol no one was ever able to explain.

Wilbur Whateley corresponded with the

Widener Library at Harvard, the Biblio-

thèque Nationale in Paris, the British

Museum, the University of Buenos

Aires, and the Library of Miskatonic

University at Arkham had failed to

trust him the loan of the book he des-

perately wanted; so at length Wilbur set

out in person, shabby, dirty, bearded,

and uncouth of dialect, to consult the

copy at Miskatonic, which was the near-

est to him geographically.

MYCROFT Holmes, the brother of Sher-

lock Holmes. Seven years Sherlock’s sen-

ior, he ostensibly audited the books in some

of the Government departments, but in

actuality, Mycroft occasionally was the

British Government. Holmes insisted that

his brother had even better powers of ob-

servation and deduction, but that Mycroft

had no ambition and no energy. He was

“heavily built and massive, there was a

suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in

the figure, that after the first glance one for-

got the body and remembered only the

mind.” &MORAN, Col. Sebastian (b. 1840), officer

in the Indian Army and renowned heavy-

game hunter; forced to leave India, went to

London, and was appointed chief of staff to

Professor James Moriarty. He witnessed

Moriarty’s death at Reichenbach Falls and

attempted to kill Sherlock Holmes there and

in London some three years later, resulting

in his arrest for the murder of the Honorable

Ronald Adair.

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