Doctor Oddfellow

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Dr. Oddfellow's Grand Circus & Exposition/Doctor Oddfellow's Carnival of Thrills
Madame Basiel
Oddfellow's Trademark Trading & Imports
Vampire Council (formerly)

## Physical Description

### Species

Human (formerly)
Immortal

### Gender

Man

**Doctor Rich Oddfellow** is a recurring character from *Halloween Horror Nights* who eventually became the icon of *Halloween Horror Nights 32*.

## History

### Background

#### Expedition Horror

Doctor Rich Oddfellow was a black explorer during the early 20th century, obsessed with immortality. In the 1920s, Oddfellow travelled to the Jungle of Doom, in search of a Crystal Skull which would allow him to achieve immortality. In the jungle, Oddfellow discovered an ancient temple which contained the Crystal Skull which he used the magic of to fill the jungle with monsters like humanoid plants, fungus, snakes, bats, and jaguars.

#### Dr. Oddfellow's Grand Circus & Exposition

By the year 1920 Oddfellow fashioned the crystal skull into an occult item known as the "Cane of Souls" and travelled to the USA. In the states, Oddfellow created the travelling "Dr. Oddfellow's Grand Circus & Exposition"/"Doctor Oddfellow's Carnival of Thrills*"* which was rumoured to employ former convicts along with monsters of Oddfellow's own creation. Oddfellow secretly used the travelling circus to abduct and murder guests in order ot imitate the signs of the zodiac, while absorbing their power within his Cane of Souls in hopes of achieving immortality. Oddfellow's rituals and power would be associated with a mystical symbol.

In 1939, Oddfellow was approached by his clown employee Jack Schmidt AKA "Jack the Clown", who confided in Oddfellow that he had murdered thirteen children at the circus and was now being pursued by the police. Not wanting the authorities to investigate the circus, Oddfellow murdered Jack but not before Jack could scar Oddfellow's face, resulting in Oddfellow's supernatural blood dripping into Jack's corpse. Oddfellow then hid the corpses of Jack and the children in the circus, stuffing Jack inside of a large prop jack-in-the-box.

At some point, Oddfellow burned down the circus and used his Cane of Souls to escape to the "Dark Dimension" of the Zodiac, leaving behind hundreds of murdered and mutilated patrons and employees. Oddfellow's rituals gave him the ability to shape-shift, while always retaining the scar left on him by Jack. The vampire council-member Casilla travelled to the circus in pursuit of fellow vampire, Olatto. When she came to the circus, she found the scene of Oddfellow's murderous rituals rather than the signs of a vampire massacre.

#### Shipyard 32

By the 1940s, Oddfellow had established the business *Oddfellow's Trademark Trading & Imports* which used his symbol as their logo. Oddfellow and his company had a private warehouse in Shipyard 32 within the city of San Francisco. Oddfellow used this warehouse and company to ship and store large amounts of monsters from his experiments and from the Dark Dimension. Amongst these monsters were: Tooth Fairies, Demon Guards, Man-Bat Creatures, various vampires, Evil Fairies, Sculders, the Hedgeapple Imp, a man with a twisted maw, a hairless beast and the "Twisted Soul".

At some point in the 1940s, Oddfellow's monsters escaped from their imprisonment and massacred the dockworkers. Oddfellow chose to partake in the slaughter and chaos by shape-shifting into a monster.

#### Summer of Blood

In 1961, Doctor Oddfellow attempted to manipulate the vampire council by disguising himself as a vampire named Earlow Wolfe. Oddfellow made up a backstory about having been a circus-worker who was bitten by a vampire and transformed. He claimed to have been turned into a vampire by vampire council member, Olatto, during his attack on a circus in the year 1938. In this year, he met a vampire woman named Casilla who would become loyal to him.

In 1968, Earlow Wolfe became a member of the Vampire Council where he was rivals with fellow council-member, Olatto. He also changed some of the details of his story, which caused Casilla to begin suspecting him. In the summer of 1969, he convinced the vampires to go on a feeding frenzy at a "Music Fest" occurring in a small town of upper New York. Oddfellow went against vampire clan leader Orlotto's wishes and prematurely released the vampires, causing mass carnage and several vampires to fall dead, all of whom Doctor Oddfellow absorbs the souls of. It is believed that during this incident, Doctor Oddfellow sacrificed Olatto to absorb his power.

#### Carnival of Carnage

In the 2000s, Jack the Clown returned as an undead monster clown. In the year 2005, Jack the Clown's brother Eddie Schmidt created a black-market business called "Oddfellow's Ultimate Ventures" where he provided snuff entertainment for the rich and famous by murdering captives, before turning on his patrons to murder them as-well. It is unknown if this business, seemingly named for Oddfellow, had any connection to him or not.

In the year 2007, Jack the Clown discovered that Doctor Oddfellow was alive as-well, so hunted him down and seemingly murdered him. In actuality, Oddfellow simply went into the Dark Dimension, though Jack did claim the Cane of Souls and used it to create a "Carnival of Carnage". In 2007, the vampire Casilla met with Jack the Clown and learned about Doctor Oddfellow's origins and apparent death from him.

#### Return

By around 2022, Casilla began investigating Oddfellow's history and the history of his symbol, which she connected to the shipping crates at the massacre of Shipyard 32, and to his expedition in the Jungle of Doom. By 2023, Doctor Oddfellow returned from the Dark Dimension through unknown means (theorized to be connected to the sacrifice of Olatto), and reclaimed his Cane of Souls. Oddfellow began working as a ringmaster/snake-oil salesman, working crowds while promising elixirs which would give immortality if he inflicted his form of fear in others.

Casilla happened upon this stage of Oddfellow's life, where his words appeared to have a hypnotic effect on the crowd and on herself. In her final moments of free-will, Casilla wrote about her founding to her vampiric father, Heinrich. Casilla then became Doctor Oddfellow's primary hench-woman and accomplice. Oddfellow would seize control of "Halloween Horror Nights" in the vain of those he described as "...Silly creatures that would call themselves Icons*".* Oddfellow's circus was assisted by New York City based psychic, Madame Basiel who assisted him as a psychic and with "A myriad of cosmic untangling".

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights X

Oddfellow was first introduced as part of Jack the Clown's backstory.

##### Fearhouse

This haunted house revolved around Oddfellow's circus.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16

##### Run: Hostile Territory

The name of Eddie's black-market business was, "Oddfellow's Ultimate Ventures".

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage (HHN 17)

A major plot-point in this event was Jack the Clown murdering Doctor Oddfellow and taking-over his circus.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 32

Doctor Oddfellow was icon of this HHN. He appeared as a central character in multiple scarezones which connected to his backstory.

##### Dr. Oddfellow’s Traveling Oddities

This was an overlay of the gift-shop *All Hallows Eve Boutique* themed around Oddfellow's circus.

##### Dr. Oddfellow's Twisted Origins

This haunted house retold Oddfellow's circus origins.

##### Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy Fate

Oddfellow's symbol appeared within Merlyn's spell book,.

##### Jungle of Doom: Expedition Horror

Oddfellow's human, explorer-self appeared in this scarezone.

#### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store

The Jack the Clown themed section of the 2020 Tribute Store featured flyers from Doctor Oddfellow's Circus, and a wooden sign for the circus.

## Trivia

* Posters promoting Oddfellow's circus at HHN mentioned concessions coming from *Meetz Meats*, a recurring HHN business based out of Carey, Ohio which sells meat secretly made from human flesh. It also mentioned a sponsorship from the *Wicked Growth* pumpkin-patch, also based out of Carey.
* Oddfellow's crystal skull is inspired by the real-world crystal skull hoaxes.
* Merlyn's Spellbook in *Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy Fate* could hint that the magic which Oddfellow harnesses was studied by Merlyn or has lore connections to the Merlinwood/Lost Continent.
* Oddfellow's monsters in *Shipyard 32: Horrors Unhinged* appear to connect him to past HHN houses and scarezones including: *Conjure the Dark, The Spawning, Evil's Roots, Scarecrow: Cursed Soil*, and *Revenge of the Tooth Fairy*.
* Oddfellow's *Legion of Horror* placement is presently unknown.
* It is sometimes theorized that Oddfellow is connected to the overarching HHN villain, Fear. Possible evidence for this could be found in his dialogue frequently referencing the emotion of fear, such as in the *Dr. Oddfellow's Collection of Horror* story where he says, "I want you to feel fear. Not because you need fear me. You want be like me, but it is fear that brought me here. Why was I obsessed with discovering the power I now possess? Because of fear. It will drive you, lift you, take you where you want to be".
* Doctor Oddfellow frequently mocked and nicknamed past icons and major HHN characters including Jack the Clown, the Terra Queen, the Director, and the Cryptkeeper.
* Dr. Oddfellow’s Traveling Oddities had references to "Madame Basiel" being affiliated with him. Madame Basiel is the downstairs neighbour of Boris Shuster whose home can be seen in Universal's New York.
* Oddfellow's cabinet contained photos of him on his jungle expedition and at his music festival.
* One of the flyers for Oddfellow's Circus in the 2020 Tribute Store was for "The Horrifying Rat Lady", a character original to Halloween Horror Nights who has been recurring ever since the first *Fright Nights* in 1991. This flyer also identified the circus as being just south of the Shadybrook Sanatorium, a recurring Halloween Horror Nights location.

## External links

* *Dr. Oddfellow on the Halloween Horror Nights wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ Flyer for circus from 1920 in 2020 Halloween Horror Nights tribute store
2. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/the-saturday-six-looks-at-hhn-32-across-the-universal-orlando-resort-revenge-of-the-dead-coconut-club-in-3d-cabana-bay-and-more/