Elihu Whipple

Elihu Whipple is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft in his story "The Shunned House." A physician and antiquarian, Whipple traces the history of the maladies afflicting the house of the title, and is determined to confront the supernatural evil using modern science. He triumphs over the house's malignant entity at the cost of his own life.
He is described in the story as "a sane, conservative physician of the old school...a bachelor; a white-haired, clean-shaven, old-fashioned gentleman, and a local historian of note."
Peter Cannon writes that Whipple "is probably a composite portrait of Lovecraft's two learned uncles-in-law and maternal grandfather"; the grandfather's name was Whipple Van Buren Phillips.More Annotated Lovecraft, "Introduction," by Peter Cannon (Dell, 1999). An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia points in particular to one of the uncles, Dr. Franklin Chase Clark, who was both a doctor and a genealogist.An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, "Clark, Franklin Chase, M.D., (1847-1915)," by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Hippocampus Press, 2001).
== References ==
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Humans
Category:Deceased (In Mythos)