Ernst Kant

Baron Ernst Kant is a fictional character created by Brian Lumley as a recurring background element in his Cthulhu Mythos stories. He is first mentioned in Lumley's story "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971). 
Kant is described as a "witch-hunter"Lumley, "Aunt Hester." or "the witch-hunting Baron."Brian Lumley, "The Mirror of Nitocris." He was the putative owner of a silver-plated revolver accompanied by silver bullets, later sold to occultist Henri-Laurent de Marigny; there is an "ornately inscribed 'K' on the weapon’s butt," but de Marigny acknowledges that there is not "a single shred of evidence" that the pistol actually belonged to Kant. Nevertheless, he describes the "rather odd and ornate pistol" as "a favorite fetish of mine," one that he has carried as a precaution against Mythos threats.Lumley, The Burrowers Beneath.
Kant is said to be the father of occultist Joachim Feery--though Feery was "illegitimate," and thus not eligible to inherit Kant's title.
Kant suffered a "hideous and inexplicable death in a WestphalianWikipedia, "Westphalia." Bedlam." According to "a comparatively modern work on singular foreign mental cases," Kant believed that "his every insane action [was] controlled by a creature he called Yibb-Tstll," which he described as “huge and black with writhing breasts and an anus within its forehead, a black-blooded thing whose brains feed upon its own wastes….”Lumley, "The Horror at Oakdeene."
== Appearances ==
* "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971)
* The Burrowers Beneath (1974)
* "Aunt Hester" (1975)
* "The Horror at Oakdeene" (1977)
== References ==
Category:Characters Originating From Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Humans
Category:Deceased (In Mythos)