Enoch Bowen

Professor Enoch Bowen is a fictional character from H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 short story "The Haunter of the Dark", who also appears in Robert Bloch's "The Shadow from the Steeple" (1950). He is depicted as an archeologist and occultist who finds the Shining Trapezohedron in Egypt and founds the Church of Starry Wisdom in Providence, Rhode Island.
==Overview==
In Lovecraft's story, all that is really learned about Bowen comes from the notes of the reporter Edwin M. Lillibridge, who died while researching the Starry Wisdom cult. His notes read:
Lovecraft writes that Starry Wisdom was driven from Providence in 1877, but he does not indicate whether Bowen was still leading the cult at that point.
Bloch's sequel does not add much to the legend:
==In the Expanded Mythos==
Leading Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price's short story "The Shining Trapezohedron" elaborates on Bowen's backstory, telling of his journey through the Egyptian desert, his encounter with the Black Pharaoh, and his transformation into a herald of Nyarlathotep.
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