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Howard Philip Ward

**Howard Philip Ward** (d. 2013) was an American investor who lived in Providence, Rhode Island. He was married to Sarah Ward until her death and was the father of Charles Dexter Ward.

## Early Life

Ward’s family appear to date back to the earliest European settlers as records indicate a clear hereditary line between Ward and Mr Ely, a cunning man of England who was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620.

In 1991, Ward married Sarah Tillinghast and two years later they welcomed their one and only child, Charles Dexter Ward. It’s unknown whether Sarah shared the truth of her parentage with her husband but it seems likely given the strong circumstantial evidence of her link to the Ipqu-Aya bloodline and Howard’s link to a 17th-century follower of Abdul Alhazred’s teachings.

## Charles Dexter Ward

While Howard’s attitude suggested to some that he was somewhat disinterested in his son’s wellbeing, it appears neither Howard nor Sarah was keen to encourage Charles to pursue his occult birthright. Sarah made a point of not sharing any information to her son about his grandfather, Joseph Curwen; and both parents had serious enough about their son that they chose to employ psychiatrist, Dr Jonathan Willett.

After Charles was effectively expelled from the public school system in 2007, Charles and Sarah employed Barbara Sayers as a personal tutor, wanting to make sure their son’s education did not suffer as a result of his increasingly problematic behaviour. Unfortunately, Sayers fed Charles’s interest in the occult and in Joseph Curwen in particular. She convinced Charles to modify his behaviour around his parents to the point where Willett’s services were seen as no longer necessary.

## Hit-and-Run

Charles's wife, Sarah, died in a supposed hit-and-run traffic accident in 2010. The driver was never caught and the similarity of her death to her half-sister’s raises questions about whether it was in fact murder. If her death was intentional, it’s unclear what motivated it.

## Later Years

Howard’s relationship with his son after the death of his wife was not a smooth one. Recognising Charles’s behavioural issues to have worsened, he fired Barbara Sayers as Charles’s tutor and re-employed the services of Dr Willett. During this time, there was at least one physical altercation between father and son where Charles punched his father, bruising Howard’s jaw.

Despite this, Charles managed to eventually convince his father to replace Willett again, this time with Dr. Allen. As far as Howard was concerned, Allen provided psychiatric support for his son for the rest of his minority, but this was again untrue as Allen, like Sayers before him, instead pushed Charles further in his research of Joseph Curwen and Ipqu-Aya.

## Death

Howard Ward died in 2013, just three years after losing his wife.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 7”
2. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 3”
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 1”
4. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 2”
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 5”
6. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 10”
7. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 4”
Mythos - Glamis

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## Synopsis

In Glamis, Lairre and Parker accompany their boss Johnson (Tim McInnerny) to Glamis Castle in Scotland, where a secret door has been discovered. Said door leads into a folkloric dimension, where monster hunter Libby Ward (Jana Carpenter) is tracking a dangerous monster and has kidnapped an innocent American tourist to use as bait. Time bends, dimensions fragment and our heroes realise that the monster Ward is hunting may be a lot closer to home than they thought…

## Cast and Characters

* Nicola Walker as Lairre
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Tim McInnerny as Johnson
* Ewan Bailey as Carlton Murray and Sir Miles of the Laundes
* Jana Carpenter as Libby Ward
* David Holt as Moorehead
* Beverley Klein as Lady Viviane
* Becky Wright as Elaine of Corbenic

## Notes and Trivia

* This story is a direct continuation of the first Mythos story, "Mythos".
* Libby Ward makes reference to the year being 2018. However, given this story takes place immediately after the previous story, "Mythos", which is established to either be in 2016 or 2017 (see 'Notes and Trivia" on that episode), this would appear to be an error on Libby Ward's part given that neither this story nor the previous one made any mention of Christmas or New Year.
* Lairre refers to "the TL;DR version" - this means *Too Long; Didn't Read*.
* When Lairre finds Carlton Murray she addresses him by saying, "I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi." This is an obvious reference to Luke Skywalker's rescue of Princess Leia from the Death Star in Star Wars.

## Music

* "Aether" by Hildur Gudnadottir
* "Opaque" by Hildur Gudnadottir
* "Elevation" by Hildur Gudnadottir
* "Flugufrelsarinn" by Kronos Quartet
* "The Queen’s Galliard" by John Dowland
* "We (Too) Shall Rest" by Ólafur Arnalds
Lairre

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## Lairre

### Aliases

Mary Lairre
Marie Lairre
Dr. Eleanor Peck

### Relationships

Parker (colleague)
Johnson (boss)

## Portrayal

### Last Appearance

"The Haunter of the Dark Episode 10"

*"The problem with you conspiracy nuts is you have no idea how weird the world really is."* - **Marie/Mary Lairre**

*"Scepticism at this stage is good, because, because it is all bollocks. But there are actually a variety of theories as to just how bollocks it is."* - **Dr. Eleanor Peck**

## Background

* Lairre
* Dr.Eleanor Peck

**Lairre** is the ghost of a French nun. The character is based on Marie Lairre, a ghost contacted during an investigation into hauntings in Borley Rectory around 1938 using a planchette. She is one of the main characters in Mythos.

In Who is Mary Lairre?, the second bonus episode of The Whisperer in Darkness , Parker implies that Dr. Eleanor Peck is really a cover identity for Lairre, who has forgotten who she really is. Between the events of Mythos and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Lairre was subjected to something similar to a Kaleidoscope machine, wiping her memories and becoming Dr. Eleanor Peck. However during the events of The Haunter of The Dark, her being exposed to a breach causes her to change back into Lairre temporarily, before Ness whispers something to her, causing her to return to being Eleanor.

Dr. Eleanor Peck plays a major role in The Lovecraft Investigations. She is a lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck University and the author of several books on the history of witchcraft and folklore in Britain and Europe. She lives in Lewes.

Her input is very valuable to Matt and Kennedy in figuring out what has happened to Charles Dexter Ward. She is extremely knowledgeable about everything to do with witchcraft and folklore, both in Britain and in the larger world. She introduces Matt to the history of the Ipqu-Ayah cult that Joseph Curwen was a part of.

## Throughout the Series

* Mythos
* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* The Whisperer in Darkness
* The Shadow over Innsmouth
* The Haunter of the Dark

## Personality

* As Lairre
* As Dr. Eleanor Peck

Lairre is extremely blunt, matter-of-fact and does not suffer fools.

Dr. Eleanor Peck's personality is similar to Lairre's in that she is very matter-of-fact. She is also extremely rational and knowledgeable about her subject matter of expertise.

## Skills/Powers

* As Lairre
* As Dr. Eleanor Peck

Lairre is usually rendered corporeal by a number of wards. She has the power to become a ghost again, enabling her to be free of the restrictions placed on normal human bodies.

Dr. Eleanor Peck has a wealth of knowledge about the history of witchcraft and likes to monologue about it in great detail.

## Relationships

* As Lairre
* As Dr. Eleanor Peck

## References

1. ↑ TCoCDW: Episode 4
Albert Wilmarth

**Albert Wilmarth** is the vicar of the Anglican Church of the Holy Cross in Rendlesham. Henry Akeley, while not a religious man, developed a friendship with the reverend. For much of The Whisperer in Darkness, John Silence posed as Albert Wilmarth. After the events of Akeley's Babalon Working attempt, Kennedy Fisher met the real Albert, who revealed that he had been away for the previous four weeks on holiday in Tuscany, the result of a prize he 'won' by surprise.

## Notes

This character is based on Professor Albert N. Wilmarth, a character from the original Lovecraft story, The Whisperer in Darkness.
Nathan Osgood

## External Links

**Nathan Osgood** is a British actor who played Sylvester Birtwistle in "Episode 1", and Al Treggore in "Episode 6" and "Episode 8" of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 1” (as Sylvester Birtwistle)
		- “Episode 6” and "Episode 8" (as Al Treggore)
Alfred Binet

**Alfred Binet** (8 July 1857 - 18 October 1911) was a famous French psychologist who worked with André de Lorde, playwright and manager of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, to develop a number of plays that focused on the nature of insanity.

Aramis Levesque posited, while in conversation with Kennedy Fisher, that Lorde drew on Binet's studies on insanity to write plays that sought to understand the psychological horrors of the First World War, which itself was influenced by the Curse of the 20th Century.

## External Links

Alfred Binet at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred\_Binet
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 THoTD: "Episode 4"
Claire Ryan

**Claire Ryan** was a resident of Pleasant Green. She and her husband, Robert Ryan, and daughter, Kelly Ryan, moved from London in 2007, just before John Grant's nuisance campaign, Operation Pleasant Green.

Claire and Robert's relationship before their move was an unhappy one, with Claire often being the recipient of Robert's often sullen mood. Claire's relationship with her daughter was also a difficult one as both she and Robert struggled to accept their daughter was an adult and this led to the imposition of a number of house rules that Kelly resented.

Approaching the end of the Operation Pleasant Green events, Claire received photographs from an anonymous source (later revealed to be Kelly) that showed Robert was having an affair. Claire and Robert divorced soon afterwards and, by the time her daughter was released from prison having been found guilty of manslaughter, she had remarried a man who, in Kelly's opinion, was just like her father.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Fragments"
Church of the Holy Cross

**The Church of the Holy Cross** is an Anglican church in Rendlesham, Suffolk.

The church has a partially thatched roof and is surrounded by a well-kept graveyard. The vicarage sits to the side of the graveyard on the other side of an old stone wall. The church is about 100 yards down the road from Henry Akeley's house, which dates back to 1522. Thomas Marston is buried in the church's graveyard.

In 2019, the church was run by Reverend Albert Wilmarth and had a rather small congregation. However, in light of increasingly bizarre events and odd behaviour by a resident of the town, Henry Akeley, the Department of Works arranged for Wilmarth to 'win' a month-long holiday in Tuscany. This allowed the operative John Silence to take Wilmarth's place and identity while Akeley's disappearance was investigated by Kennedy Fisher and Matthew Heawood.

While searching for Fisher, who had been kidnapped by April Marston and Henry Akeley, the church was used as a base of operations for Heawood, Silence, Parker and Dean Perry during their search efforts.

## References

1. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 2"
2. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 1"
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 3"
4. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 8"
5. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 7"
New York City

**New York City** is the biggest city in New York state, USA, and is one of the largest cities in the world.

In 1918, Aleister Crowley was living in New York, just off Central Park, when he attempted an occult ritual known as the Amalantrah Working. It was during this ritual that he claimed to have summoned an entity called Lam.

Joseph Curwen was reported to be in New York soon before the Son of Sam killings in 1976.

In 1986, Barbara Sayers left New York and travelled to Europe and later Asia and Africa in search of the *Necronomicon*.

In 2019, Kennedy Fisher travelled to New York to interview Tyler Green, a childhood friend of Charles Dexter Ward, who was now working as a publisher.

1. ↑ TWiD: ”Episode 4”
2. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 4"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: “Episode 5"
4. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 2"
Fugue State

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## Synopsis

In the heart of the English countryside in a specialist residential hospital. A man, a government agent, is in a fugue state - a psychological shutdown - the result of something seemingly threatening that has taken place in a remote village. Needing to act before the situation escalates and believing the patient can still hear, Doctor Fallon uses sound recordings to recreate events leading up to the point of shutdown, to prompt the patient's brain into remembering what has happened.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Nicola Walker as Dr. Fallon
* Steven Mackintosh as Patient
* Tim McInnerny as Johnson
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Simon
* Phoebe Fox as Polly
* Ben Crowe as Driver, Butler, Pilot, Barman and Dave

* Writer & Director: Julian Simpson
* Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling
* Sound Engineer: David Thomas
* Scientific Advisor: Paul Fletcher
* Producer: Karen Rose

## Notes and Trivia

* The drama was inspired by a series of talks and workshops at the Wellcome Trust, based around the latest thinking on how the human brain processes inputs - how it builds a model of the world, which we call reality, based on sensory information and our prediction of what we are expecting to see, hear or feel.
* Winner of ‘Best Use Of Sound’ and the Tinniswood Award for ‘Best Radio Drama Script’ at the Audio Drama Awards 2016
* This story marks the first appearance in the Pleasant Green Universe for Phoebe Fox, Ferdinand Kingsley and Ben Crowe.

## External Links

* Sweet Talk Productions: Fugue State
* Julian Simpson's SoundCloud: Fugue State
* BBC: Fugue State
George Pickingill

**George Pickingill** (c. 1806-1909) was an English occultist and black magician. He was born and died in Canewdon, Essex and may well have been the oldest man in England when he died in 1909 and was likely a vessel of Ipqu-Aya.

In 1860, at the age of 54, Pickingill was an apprentice of the last of the cunning men of England, James Murrell. Murrell, being in possession of the artefact holding Ipqu-Aya’s spirit, and the tablets prescribing the ritual for its release, put the spirit into Pickingill and died shortly thereafter. For the next 49 years, Pickingill, according to legend, was the vessel for Ipqu-Aya.

In 1909, like Murrell before him, Pickingill transferred Ipqu-Aya to one of his followers, a man named Edward Landsdale. Along with this, Pickingill also bequeathed his acolyte and heir a collection of esoteric gold iconography with depictions of Dagon similar to those recorded in the possession of Charles Dexter Ward and Rudolf von Sebottendorf.

## References

1. ↑ According to the Wikipedia entry on Pickingill, his recorded age of death was disputed by the parish vicar who stated that Pickingill was “only in his 93rd year”.
2. ↑ THoTD: “Episode 1”
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 7”
4. ↑ The transference of Ipqu-Aya from Pickingill to Edward Landsdale, and then again from Edward Landsdale to Rudolf Sebottendorf, implies that a genetic bloodline is not absolutely necessary for this spirit to be passed down the generations.
5. ↑ TSoI: "Haumea"
Alan-a-Dale

**Alan-a-Dale** is a mythical woodland spirit who lived for a time in Sherwood Forest. Alan spoke on behalf of Robin Hood, a giant troll with limited mental capacities and a desire to kill and eat tourists who entered the woods. He declared himself to be "The Voice of the Forest".

When Mary Lairre tried to reason with the group, Alan-a-Dale expressed the group's general predisposition towards xenophobia and cannibalism. However, none of the mythical spirits, including Hood, were able to attack Lairre as they were being contained by spells being cast by Hermione Parker. Parker then used her Earth magic to cast the spirits back down into Mother Earth.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Albion"
Geoffrey of Monmouth

**Geoffrey of Monmouth** (c. 1095 - c. 1155) was a 12th century British cleric and historian who wrote "*A History of the Kings of Britain*".

Within this text, Geoffrey referred to Gogmagog the Albian, the last of the giants who lived in Britain before the arrival of men. The text also included trojans and other giants. The contents of Geoffrey's text contributed greatly to folkloric idea of Englishness which led to the 2018 Blackfriars Albion Event. During this event, Gogmagog from the folkloric dimension of Albion awoke and threatened to destroy London.

Mary Lairre and Hermione Parker averted this disaster by travelling back in time to stop Geoffrey from writing his book in the first place. However, their brief interaction created a predestination paradox whereby Geoffrey plagiarised the idea of Gogmagog by listening to the conversation between Lairre and Parker about a giant. When he refused to accept he'd stolen the idea from "the heads of mere women", Parker shot and killed him.

Killing Geoffrey led to a new alternate history being created which avoided the grandfather paradox created by killing the cleric but also prevented the Blackfriars event.

## References

1. ↑ Geoffrey of Monmouth at Wikipedia
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mythos: "Albion"
Ipqu-Aya (ship)

***Ipqu-Aya*** was the first ship purchased by Temperance and Matthew Fisher when they started their shipping company out of Innsmouth, Massachusetts in the 1640s. The start-up costs of their company, including the purchase of the *Ipqu-Aya*, were financed by Obed Marsh. The name of the ship indicates the unified goal of Marsh and the Fishers to use the company as a means to their occult ends.

1. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
Kyle Soller

## External Links

**Kyle Soller** (born 1 July 1983) is an American actor who played Casey in The Shadow over Innsmouth, and Sebastian Harcourt in Who is Aldrich Kemp? and Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? He is married to Phoebe Fox.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth (as Casey)
		- “Footsteps”
		- “Haumea”
		- “Melusine”
		- “Harlequin”
		- “Pleasant Green”
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
	+ All episodes (as Sebastian Harcourt)
	+ "Themis House" (as Florist)
	+ "The Spirit of the Age" (as Shopkeeper)
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? (as Sebastian Harcourt)
	+ All episodes
John Silence

## Background

John Silence is an operative of The Department. He is undercover as Albert Wilmarth, the local vicar in Rendlesham Forest during the events of The Whisperer in Darkness. He appears again in The Shadow over Innsmouth and helps Matt and Kennedy hunt down the Harlequin.

## Notes and Trivia

* This operational name of 'John Silence' is likely an homage to author Algernon Blackwood's occult detective character of the same name.
* It has been theorised that John Silence is the same character as Martin Willis, a cyborg who has his identity erased so he can become different people. This character, like John Silence, is a skilled impersonator and is played by Mark Bazeley.

## References

1. ↑ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse
André de Lorde

**André de Lorde** (1869-1942) was a French playwright who ran the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in the 1920s. Lorde worked with the psychologist Alfred Binet to develop a number of plays that focused on the nature of insanity.

It is Aramis Levesque's thesis that the works of Lorde's plays in the 1920s were influenced by his earlier association with Binet as well as the psychological horrors of the First World War, which itself was influenced by the Curse of the 20th Century.

## External Links

André de Lorde at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9\_de\_Lorde
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
Hutchinson and Orne

**Hutchinson and Orne** is the name of an American legal firm in Boston, Massachusetts that facilitated a large financial donation to The Mystery Machine podcast in 2018. This anonymous donation made The Case of Charles Dexter Ward a financially viable investigation and allowed Matthew Heawood to focus more on the case and less on his role as producer of the podcast. Heawood discussed this donation with one of the firm's partners, Simon Orne.

It was later discovered that the donation was actually from Dr. Allen, who was keen for the Mystery Machine to find other heirs to Joseph Curwen's Ipqu-Aya legacy.

## Notes

* The name is a reference to the necromancers Jedediah Orne and Edward Hutchinson from H. P. Lovecraft's *The Case of Charles Dexter Ward*, who were Curwen's compatriots in raising the dead to torture their secrets out of them.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 4"
2. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 9"
Ezra Weeden

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## Portrayal

### First Appearance

"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Episode 3"

## Background

**Ezra Weeden** is a retired police officer who used to be in the Providence Police Department. He was present for the siege on Joseph Curwen's house in Pawtuxet. In the final episode of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it is revealed that he is part of the cult.

## Throughout the Series

* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* The Whisperer in Darkness

Ezra first appears in Episode 3, when Kennedy visits him at his house to ask him about the siege. He tells her that the local PD got involved because FBI and ATF didn't want to do the work. He also says the "siege" wasn't really worthy of the name, and that the people they ended up arresting were likely new recruits, low-level in the cult. He also says that they were "way beyond crazy". Furthermore, he says that the police and ATF officers who went own into the tunnels all were subsequently discharged on mental health grounds.

In Episode 5, Ezra tells Kennedy that he has managed to "fill in the blanks" on Barbara Sayers. He has been tracking her movements since the 1980s and her stays include Paris and the Middle East. Kennedy surmises that this means she was looking for the Necronomicon. Ezra also found out that she was Lucy Hawthorne's nanny.

In Episode 8, Ezra looks after Kennedy when she is in hospital and informs Heawood. They then go to Al Treggore's place and Ezra gets Treggore to admit them to the tunnels. The tunnels explode shortly afterwards, but they manage to get out. Later, when Kennedy is dining out with George Shepley, Ezra calls her to tell her that George Shepley isn't who he says he is: nobody at the school has ever heard of a George Shepley and the school librarian is a woman.

In Episode 9, he calls Matt to tell him what he has found out about George Shepley.

In Episode 10, Ezra's investigative skills help Kennedy and Matt to track down Melody Cartwright. Then, at the very end ofthe episode, he leaves a message on the Red Hook Stories answerphone:

"Mr. Heawood? It's Ezra Weeden. Delete this message. You lost. *Ogthrod ai'fgeb'l-ee'h Yog-Sothoth'ngah'ng ai'yzhro*."
Ezra's only appearance is in the first episode, in which the answerphone message is replayed.

## Personality

Ezra is gruff and speaks very bluntly. Being ex-police, he can be threatening. He has a sense of humour but is very deadpan.

## Skills/Powers

Ezra has very good investigative skills from his time in the police, which helps Matt and Kennedy figure out key points in the mystery.

## Notes and Trivia

The character is based on Ezra Weeden, a minor character in the original H.P.Lovecraft story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
2013 Kokomo cyberattack

The **Kokomo cyberattack** was a worldwide cyberattack in 2013 by the Kokomo virus, which disrupted the networks of businesses and public services by encrypting any and all data it came into contact with thus rendering it unusable to its owners.

## Timeline of attack

The first indications of a problem were disruptions within civilian telecommunication networks and email servers - caller ID failing, inboxes being inaccessible and/or filled with indecipherable content. Banking systems also quickly started to experience problems with many people registering problems with passwords or physical cards not being recognised or records simply not being accessible. Within the first few hours of the attack, 75% of online commerce sites had gone down, chip and PIN machines had started to be affected and, as a result, the financial markets started to collapse.

At this point, a cyberterrorism group calling themselves the Harlequinade made contact with the UK's Counter-Terrorist Unit. They took responsibility for the attack and requested to speak with a specific CTU negotiator, Alice Price. They met with her in Room 903 of the Park Hotel, London.

While the group discussed their motives with Price, the virus continued to spread. In the UK, two of the main banks were forced to shut their systems down and in response to this, the London Stock Exchange ceased trading only a few minutes later. The Dow Jones in the USA followed this lead and closed early in hopes that they might preserve their networks and data. At this point, the safety of health systems and data, such as patient and treatment records, was considered vulnerable.

By the time Price had managed to establish that the Harlequinade had no intention of negotiating a restoration of the data, the virus had spread to UK air-traffic control with the airports at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted all reporting their flight plans and schedules had been compromised and were now failing. At this point, the CTU had managed to establish that government firewalls were still working and that government and military systems were not in danger.

Less than an hour later the money circulation had more or less stopped and the general public were beginning to panic. Governments started to become concerned about rioting and social unrest with reports of violence and looting already taking place. Under this pressure, the Harlequinade appeared to buckle and provided the CTU with a 'decryption key' that they claimed would shut down the attack and decrypt the affected data. However, not adhering to safety protocols, the head of the CTU, Philip Levine, ordered that the virus be let through their firewall believing the decryption key would shut down the attack before worldwide panic grew any worse.

The 'decryption key' actually switched the function of the virus from encrypting the data it encounters to *deleting* it. Now with access to behind the government firewalls, Kokomo was able to swiftly sweep through government networks and do considerable damage.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Kokomo"
Devil's Reef Trailer Park

The **Devil's Reef Trailer Park** is a privately owner trailer park located in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island.

The park was set up by Al Treggore in 1981 when he bought the land shortly after the demolition of Joseph Curwen's house that had been site of a siege between the police and the Soldiers of Ipqu-Aya the previous year. Treggore had planned to establish a circus museum with the land but injuries he sustained in his previous career in the circus had led to much of his finances going towards medical bills. Thus he abandoned his plans for a museum and set up a trailer park instead. He named the park after the Devil's Reef, an area of water just off his home town of Innsmouth. The imagery on the welcome sign, judging by Kennedy Fisher's description of it, was a depiction of Dagon.

The trailer park continued to run for a good number of years before a specific trailer plot was bought by Dr. Allen and Charles Dexter Ward. This trailer plot lay directly on the site of the old Curwen house and thus had access to old smugglers' tunnels that the Soldiers of Ipqu-Aya used to evade capture by the police. Allen and Ward used these tunnels as a laboratory to do various experiments connected to the occult and necromancy.

In 2018, investigative podcaster, Kennedy Fisher, visited the trailer park hoping to learn more about Ward and Allen. Her interest in the site prompted surviving soldiers of Ipqu-Aya to clear out the laboratory and booby-trap the tunnels and trailer above with gasoline. Treggore was murdered before an explosion that destroyed his remains, Ward's trailer and the tunnels.

It's unknown whether the trailer park has continued as a business beyond the death of its founder.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 TCoCDW: "Episode 6"
2. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 3"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 8"
Mythos

## Series

*Mythos* is a three-episode paranormal drama, first broadcast in 2018 for BBC Radio 4 and focusing on the Department of Works (also known as simply The Department), a clandestine governmental branch that investigates and combats supernatural occurrences across the UK.

A description from the BBC website describes it thus: Mythos is a series that looks at British folklore through a quasi-scientific prism. It's laced with sardonic humour, ridiculous situations and insane leaps of logic - but its foundations lie in the stories that have become part of the British cultural DNA over the last two thousand years.

Main characters are:
Mary/Marie Lairre, the ghost of a French nun formerly haunting Borley Rectory. She works for the Department and is rendered corporeal by complex Enochian wards.

Parker, an agent of the Department and chaos magic practitioner. She is capable of adopting different personalities depending on the magic system she is using.

Johnson, Parker and Lairre's boss at the Department.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

### Main Cast

* Nicola Walker as Lairre
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Tim McInnerny as Johnson

### Minor Cast

* Jonathan Bailey as Hicks
* David Calder as Seth Taylor
* Emma Fielding as Kate Taylor
* Hugh Ross as Aubrey Dawson
* Ewan Bailey as Carlton, Warden Godfrey, Hood
* Jana Carpenter as Libby Ward
* David Holt as Moorehead, Alan-a-Dale, Aide 1, Danvers
* Beverley Klein as Lady Viviane
* Becky Wright as Elaine of Corbenic‏‎, Aide 2
* Tracy-Ann Oberman as Miranda Hyde
* David Collings as Geoffrey of Monmouth

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide
1. Mythos (Transcript)
2. Glamis (Transcript)
3. Albion (Transcript)
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh

**Holy Trinity Church** is the parish church of the village of Blythburgh in the county of Suffolk, England.

In outlining the rich folkloric history of the area, Albert Wilmarth told Kennedy Fisher a story about Black Shuck's attack on the church. Wilmarth explained that one of the church's doors still bears scorch marks that, according to legend, were made in 1577 when the devil took the form of Black Shuck, burst through the doors and killed two parishioners. While Wilmarth claimed not to believe the story was literally true, he did suggest that the legend might have emerged from a much simpler story of a rabid dog killing two people during a church service.

## External Links

* Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh at Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 2”
Gabrielle Glaister

## External Links

**Gabrielle Glaister** (born 27 July 1960) is a British actress who played Tania Radcliffe in The Whisperer in Darkness. She also played the minor roles of Maria and FCO Operator in that same season.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- "Episode 3" (as Tania Radcliffe)
		- "Episode 4" (as Tania Radcliffe and Maria)
		- "Episode 7" (as FCO Operator)
Matthew Fisher

**Matthew Fisher** (b. 1620) was the son of Obed Marsh and Temperance Fisher, who herself was a daughter of Marsh by Mary Fisher.

## Early Life

Fisher was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1620 after his father, Obed Marsh, returned to England and started an incestuous relationship with his daughter, Temperance. Marsh didn't settle down in Chelmsford and so Fisher was raised by his mother. For her part, Temperance was a devout follower of Marsh's occult practices and while Matthew was growing up his mother was accumulating a powerful reputation as the centre of a growing Ipqu-Aya cult. However, this made Temperance a target for witch hunters, John Stearne and Matthew Hopkins. To avoid being burnt at the stake, Temperance and Matthew, now aged 25, escaped England in 1645 and reunited with Obed Marsh in Innsmouth.

## Life in Innsmouth

Settling in Innsmouth, Matthew registered his father as a 'Mr. Fisher' who had died in England. This was a lie to hide that Fisher was a bastard and it also made it easier for his mother to integrate into the community as a widow instead of an unwed mother. With Obed Marsh's financial backing, Matthew and his mother set up a shipping company in Innsmouth which worked in partnership with the Marsh Refining Company and went on to help the Fisher family accumulate a large fortune over the coming years. The company's first ship was named 'The Ipqu-Aya'. It is known that the shipping company continued to operate under the Fishers for at least two centuries - in the 1860s, the company was run by Samuel and Emily Fisher.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: "Apartment 6"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
3. ↑ TSoI: "Haumea"
McCann

**McCann** is a member of the British establishment. Robert Blake's investigations into connections between the ruling class and the far right suggested that McCann was involved with the Church of Starry Wisdom. When Blake confronted Godfrey Tillinghast with this accusation, Tillinghast warned him against sullying the reputation of such a powerful individual as McCann.

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 5"
Claire Rushmore

**Claire Rushmore** is an American educator who worked as the principal of the school Charles Dexter Ward attended before he was dismissed from the school by mutual agreement in 2007.

Rushmore described Ward as difficult and anti-authority. However, she was of the opinion that what set Ward apart from other problem students was a darkness that made the other children afraid of him. She was also under the impression that Ward’s mother, Sarah, shared her concerns about Charles.

Rushmore was interviewed by Kennedy Fisher for the Mystery Machine podcast a decade later. During the interview, she suggested that Charles Dexter Ward put her in mind of disturbed students who are involved in school shootings.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 TCoCDW: ”Episode 1”
Diane Netley

**Diane Netley** (b. 1963) is a resident of Sible Hedingham who worked as a secretary at the Evening Standard newspaper in the 1980s. In this capacity, she had an acquaintance with Robert Harrison Blake. By the early 2020s, she was working full-time as her husband's carer.

## At the Evening Standard

In the 1980s, one of Netley’s roles as secretary to one of the editors at the Evening Standard was to be ‘gatekeeper’ for any calls that came from Robert Blake. Having passed his heyday, the newspaper was no longer interested in any of the stories that Blake would pitch and it was Netley’s job to prevent Blake’s calls from wasting her boss’s time. Blake’s persistence led Netley to look into his professional history and they struck up a friendship of sorts.

Blake’s interest in Netley became more direct when she revealed that she lived in the Sible Hedingham, the same village as fascist, Savitri Devi. While Netley was a neighbour of Devi's, they had little contact and Devi passed away when Netley was around 20 years old.

Netley and Blake met in person on a few occasions and he confided in her that he had evidence in his notebook that would be very damaging to the British establishment. However, he never let Netley look at the notebook.

It is likely that Netley was the last person to speak to Blake before he died during the Great Storm of 1987. He called her on Thursday, October 15th and told her that he’d found ‘the missing piece’. However, before he could say more, the line went dead due to the storm and his body was found outside his house the following morning.

## Later Life

By 2023, Netley’s husband’s health was declining as a result of multiple sclerosis and Diane had taken on the duties of carer for him. Her desperation to help her husband led Netley to contact Wilberforce Ashton-Heath MP in an attempt to blackmail him. Before Blake’s death, he shared with Netley a recording of a phone conversation he had with Godfrey Tillinghast that implied a connection with the Church of Starry Wisdom and possible involvement in the disappearance of Edwin Lillibridge. While none of this directly connected to Ashton-Heath, Netley acted in the hopes that the recording’s potential damage to the British establishment in general might force Ashton-Heath to act.

It’s unclear what led Netley to believe that Ashton-Heath would be able to use magic to cure her husband of his MS, but she eventually decided to give the recording to Matthew Heawood instead of continuing to hold it as a possible item of blackmail.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 THoTD: "Episode 4"
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 3"
3. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 5"
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Cherrelle Skeete

## External Links

**Cherrelle Skeete** (born 1988) is a British actress who played Amelia Fenner's nurse in "Episode 4" and "Episode 9", Akuma in "Episode 10" of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and Miss Lotte Amutenya in Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- "Episode 4" and "Episode 9" (as Nurse)
		- "Episode 10" (as Akuma)
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
	+ All episodes except “Funeral in London” (as Lotte Amutenya)
IKEA

IKEA is an international Swedish chain of furniture stores.

According to Johnson, the layout of IKEA stores is governed by Norse dimensional magic. As a result, when a Department operative, Gerhart, tried to use a charm to find a direct route to the canteen, he was sucked into a seventh-dimensional junction and returned anatomically inverted whereupon his remains were distributed over one of the modular sofas.

It was this incident that prompted Johnson to write Department protocols governing magical use in unknown realms.

Parker learned of Gerhart’s unfortunate fate during her mission to Glamis Castle with Johnson and Lairre in 2017. By 2019, Parker had become far more attuned and concerned whenever any reference was made to IKEA.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: “Glamis”
2. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 5”
Destiny

## Portrayal

### Series

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Haunter of The Dark

**Destiny** (1963 - ?) was the illegitimate daughter of Amelia Fenner and Joseph Curwen and was, therefore, part of the Ipqu-Aya bloodline. She was killed in a car accident at some point before 2018.

## Birth

Destiny was deliberately conceived in some haste in 1962 after the leader of the New Forest Coven, Joseph Curwen, was abandoned by members of the powerful Tillinghast family, two of whom, Caroline Hughes and Eliza Tillinghast, he had recently impregnated. With his control of the Ipqu-Aya bloodline now under threat, Curwen turned to another acolyte, Amelia Fenner, to produce another potential vessel for the spirit of Ipqu-Aya that currently resided in him.

When police raids at the behest of Godfrey Tillinghast appeared to be targeting Curwen specifically, he fled the coven and abandoned Fenner. In response, the pregnant Fenner, along with a friend, moved up to Winchester, Hampshire to join a group of Wiccans. The following year, Fenner successfully gave birth to a girl but chose not to keep her and instead left the baby on the steps of a hospital in Winchester. The nurses of the hospital, presumably influenced by the hippy, new-age culture of the time, named the girl Destiny.

## Early Life

Having been abandoned and left as a ward of the state, Destiny unsurprisingly grew up in orphanages and foster homes. Around age 22, Destiny married Phillip Gibson in 1985 in Chelmsford, Essex. While likely not aware of their family connection, Destiny and Phillip were actually half-siblings, as Gibson was also an illegitimate child of Joseph Curwen by Emily Gladwin, although Phillip's recognised father was a man called Christopher Gibson. Destiny and Phillip had a daughter, Samantha, who had numerous health issues throughout her life. Destiny and Phillip divorced in 1991. She remarried in 1996 to a man named Cartwright, and in 1999 they had a daughter, Melody Cartwright.

## Death

Destiny died as a result of a car accident at some point before 2018. The similarity of her death and that of her half-sister, Sarah Ward, raises questions about whether Destiny might actually have been intentionally targeted.

It's unclear whether Melody was aware of her mother's passing. By 2020, she and her mother had not spoken in three years. The fact that Melody said the only family she had by this point was her mother, also indicates that her father had passed away, however, it's unclear if Melody was referring to Destiny (not knowing of the fatal car accident) or whether she was referring to a stepmother, a woman her father married after Destiny's death.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 TCoCDW: ”Episode 10”
2. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 4”
3. ↑ THotD: "Episode 2"
4. ↑ THotD: "Episode 1"
5. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

**Lake Shore Drive** is an expressway in Chicago.

Aldrich Kemp met with the Shadow Mayor of Chicago in a rare bookstore off Lake Shore Drive. In payment for a favour, Kemp was given a coin from pirate Captain Kidd's Oak Island hoard - a token that Kemp would later use to get an audience with Forsaken McTeague.

## External Links

* Lake Shore Drive at Wikipedia

1. ↑ WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
Continuity of the Blake House Incident

The Blake House Incident was introduced in the standalone story “Bad Memories”, broadcast in 2011. Julian Simpson used this story again in The Whisperer in Darkness (2019) and The Haunter of The Dark (2023) but repurposed the story for the broader narrative arc of *The Lovecraft Investigations*.

As a result, while the broad plot points of the Blake family disappearance and the Marston family murder have remained consistent, there are a number of details that were changed.

> **Note**: Where no contradiction is present, the information in "Bad Memories" is considered canonical. However, when this is not the case, articles in this wiki align with the details as established in *The Lovecraft Investigations*. A complete list of discontinuities between the two tellings of this excellent story are provided below.
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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Bad Memories"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 TWiD: "Episode 5"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 THoTD: "Episode 2"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "The Blake House Mystery"
5. ↑ *This year is based on the initial newsreader’s report about the family’s disappearance stating that Matthew was 11 years old. This could have been a journalistic error.*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 THoTD: "Episode 5"
Danvers

**Danvers** was a Department of Works operative who was assigned as a driver for Johnson in 2018. When a trans-dimensional sinkhole opened up in Blackfriars, London, Danvers and Johnson's car fell into it. While Johnson survived, and was subsequently possessed by the spirit of Albion, Danvers did not survive the crash.

## References

1. ↑ Mythos: "Albion"
Mayflower

***Mayflower*** was an English ship that transported early settlers from England to North America in 1620. One of the passengers on board, Mr Ely, was not listed on the official passenger manifest and only mentioned in the William Bradford's diary. When landing a Plymouth Rock, Ely is said to have disappeared.

It is theorised that Ely was a magical practitioner known at the time as a 'cunning man'. Dr. Eleanor Peck's research uncovered rumours that Ely may well have been the first to bring the teachings of Abdul Alhazred to the New World, possibly in the form of a recently translated copy of the Necronomicon.

## External Links

*Mayflower* at Wikipedia

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: "Episode 7"
Cinnabar Nemesis

***Cinnabar Nemesis*** is a Department security classification. It was applied by Head of Department, Johnson, while he was possessed by the spirit of Albion during the 2018 Blackfriars Albion Event.

Under this classification, the head of the Department immediately supersedes the authority of the Prime Minister and the monarch. However, under the Article 7 of the 1972 Accord, it is possible for such authority to be rescinded. Before Miranda Hyde could intervene, 'Johnson' used *Cinnabar Nemesis* to give him the authority to order a nuclear strike on London, ostensibly, in order to close the trans-dimensional sinkhole that had emerged.

The command of COBRA over the Department of Works during Obed Marsh's attempts to summon Azathoth in 2020 might suggest that *Cinnabar Nemesis* and its protocols had been removed from the books by this point.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Albion"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Pleasant Green"
Eliza Orne

**Eliza Orne** (d. 1897) was a member of the Fisher family living in Innsmouth, Massachusetts in the 19th century. She has the distinction of being the last person in Innsmouth to receive a traditional Christian burial. She is also the last recorded death in Innsmouth between 1897 and at least 2020.

Orne's dubious honour of being the last member of the Innsmouth community to be buried was discovered by Alice, an archivist and associate of Kennedy Fisher (a distant relative of Orne's). While Alice suggested that no one had died in Innsmouth in over a century, Casey later clarified that after Orne's death, the town began to bury their dead at sea, in the Devil's Reef, as an offering to the Deep Ones.

Eliza may also be a relative of Simon Orne, the Boston lawyer used by Dr. Allen to fund the Mystery Machine's investigation into the disappearance of Charles Dexter Ward.

## Notes

* Eliza Orne is likely based on the character of the same name in H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'.

## References

1. ↑ TSoI: “Melusine”
2. ↑ TSoI: “Harlequin”
3. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 4"