Dark Man

The Dark Man is a character created by American author Ron Shiflet for his Cthulhu Mythos fiction. He made his first appearance in the short story "The Dark Man's Assassin", published in the April 1998 edition of Edward P. Berglund's online fanzine Nightscapes.
==Description==
The Dark Man manifests as a looming figure made entirely out of a black, smoky substance, standing in excess of seven feet in height. Although its only consistently-visible facial details are a pair of fiery red eyes, it occasionally reveals the barest hints of shifting features, and is possessed of a smile which chills the recipient to their very core.
Although the Dark Man likes to enact Byzantine schemes to gain material power, he also appears to be a somewhat capricious creature, occasionally granting boons to mortals in exchange for their service, and visiting upon them a terrible vengeance when they betray him.
==Known Activities==
*The Dark Man attempted to install a pawn of his, Senator Wilson, into the seat of the US presidency, but was thwarted by a cabal of Miskatonic University occultists and a former psychiatric patient (: "The Dark Man's Assassin")
*He granted a disgraced 1950s music star a second chance at fame, then took it away again in a fiery wrath when the man reneged on his deal (: "The Jealous God")
==Appearances==
*"The Dark Man's Assassin" (1998)
*"The Jealous God" (2008)
Category:Avatars of Nyarlathotep
Category:Characters Originating From Expanded Mythos Works