George Rogers

George Rogers is the main antagonist of H. P. Lovecraft's revision story "The Horror in the Museum". He runs a wax museum of horrors in the Southwark borough of London, and insists that some of the figures on display are actual specimens of eldritch creatures. 
== Description==
Rogers is described as "tall, lean, and rather unkempt, with large black eyes which gazed combustively from a pallid and usually stubble-covered face."
==History==
Rogers had previously worked for Madame Tussaud's, but he was discharged amidst "aspersions on his sanity and tales of his crazy forms of secret worship". He started his own museum in a basement of Southwark Street, where he was able to fully indulge his passion for "teratology and the iconography of nightmare." 
A "person of disconcertingly wide scholarship in dark and dubious fields," Rogers consulted "forbidden books like the Necronomicon, the Book of Eibon, or the Unaussprechlichen Kulten of von Junzt," and even "such monstrous and half-fabulous books as the prehistoric Pnakotic fragments and the Dhol chants attributed to malign and non-human Leng," for ideas for displays. 
He took "mysterious trips to Thibet, the African interior, the Arabian desert, the Amazon valley, Alaska, and certain little-known islands of the South Pacific" to gather not just suggestions for wax figures, but actual specimens that he would put on display. 
Most notably, he acquired on a trip to Alaska a grotesque hibernating creature named Rhan-Tegoth. Rogers proclaimed himself "High Priest of Rhan-Tegoth", and began to offer animal sacrifices to the creature in hopes that it would fully revive. 
Rogers met Stephen Jones, a connoisseur of bizarre art, and dared him to spend the night in the museum--hoping to make him another sacrifice to Rhan-Tegoth. Rogers dresses up in the hide of a Dimensional Shambler to surprise Jones, but Jones manages to subdue Rogers and flees, leaving Rogers to himself become a sacrifice to the alien god. 
==Gallery==
Rhan-Tegoth (Borja Pindado).jpg|Rhan-Tegoth, illustration by Borja Pindado. Represents Rogers in front of Rhan-Tegoth.
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TheHorrorInTheMuseum.jpg|Original illustration by Jayem Wilcox (Weird Tales)
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Category:Humans
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works