Joe Sargent

Joe Sargent is a minor character created by the late American author H. P. Lovecraft for the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, one of his most popular works.
==Overview==
In 1927 Robert Olmstead rode Joe Sargent's bus and described him thus:
Although he did not know what it was at the time, Olmstead was looking at a case of the Innsmouth Look, although not one so far advanced as to be obviously identifiable as non-human. He immediately disliked Sargent, further stating:
== Bus route==
Sergeant drove the only bus which ran between Newburyport and Arkham, via Innsmouth. The coach itself is described as a decrepit grey rattletrap and cost 60¢ to ride.
===Hammond’s Drug Store Stop, Newburyport (10 AM / 7 PM)===
*Out of Market Square onto State Street
*Left into High Street.
*Past the Lower Green and Parker River, and finally emerging into a long, monotonous stretch of open shore country.
*Past Plum Island on the main highway to Rowley and Ipswich.
* Down a narrow road very near the beach.
*A steeper incline with the Atlantic to the left.
* Down into the valley of the Manuxet with a view of the long line of cliffs that culminate in Kingsport Head and veer off toward Cape Ann.
*Past a series of ruined farms.
*Through the outer layers of Innsmouth on Federal Street.
*Past the New Church Green and the Esoteric Order of Dagon Hall.
*Across the Federal Street Bridge into the Town Square.
===Gilman House Stop, Innsmouth (11 AM) / 8 PM)===
*Southbound on Federal Road
* ???
=== Arkham (? / ?)===
==Appearances==
Although a minor character in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", his family name has been incorporated into several other Cthulhu Mythos entries, including the following:
*In The Innsmouth Heritage by Brian Stableford, the protagonist meets with and genetically tests one Gideon Sargent, the grandson of Joe, before he mysteriously dies.
*In Brian McNaughton's The Doom That Came to Innsmouth, the main character Bob Smith is Sargent's grandnephew. Joe's sister Alma also made a brief appearance.
*Sargent appeared as a Blight card (a creature with negative effects on the players) in Fantasy Flight Games' Miskatonic Horror expansion for Lovecraftian board game Arkham Horror.
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Other Supernatural Beings
Category:Deceased (In Mythos)