Joachim Feery

Joachim Feery is a fictional scholar of the occult, created by Brian Lumley, who frequently cites him as an authority in his Cthulhu Mythos stories. He is first mentioned in Lumley's "Cement Surroundings," which debuted in the 1969 Arkham House anthology Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Lumley's fullest discussion of the character occurs in the short story "Aunt Hester" (1975).
Feery appears as the author of limited-edition commentaries on books of eldritch knowledge, such as his Notes on the Necronomicon, which was first referenced in "Cement Surroundings", and Notes on the Cthaat Aquadingen, which Lumley cited in "The Fairground Horror". The existence of a more complete first edition of Notes on the Necronomicon--known as the Original Notes on the Necronomicon--was revealed by Lumley in "Name and Number". Other sources cited by Feery include Unspeakable Cults and De Vermis Mysteriis.Brian Lumley, "Aunt Hester." 
Feery's books were published in limited editions, mostly at his own expense, and the vast majority of copies were "bought up and destroyed as fast as they appeared" by "religious and other authorities"--making the surviving examples exceedingly rare.
While Lumley's occultists find Feery to be a valuable resource, they also urge caution. Titus Crow cautions that Notes on the Necronomicon is "hardly what one could call a reliable guide,"Brian Lumley, "The Caller of The Black." and Thomas Millwright warns that "Feery’s reconstructions and translations were often at fault or fanciful in their treatment of the original works."Brian Lumley, "The Kiss of Bugg-Shash." Hester Lang notes that Feery's "quotes, while apparently genuine and authoritative, often differ substantially when compared with the works from which they were supposedly culled," because "Feery claimed that most of his occult knowledge came to him ‘in dreams’!” 
Feery is said to be the illegitimate son of the "witch-hunter" Baron Kant, and to have "died quite mysteriously in 1934 while still a comparatively young man."
== Appearances ==
* "Cement Surroundings" (1969)
* "The Caller of The Black" (1971)
* "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971)
* "Aunt Hester" (1975)
* "The Fairground Horror" (1976)
* "The Kiss of Bugg-Shash" (1978)
* "Name and Number" (1982)
==References==
Category:Characters Originating From Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Humans