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April Marston

**April Marston** (b. 1982) was a trusted member of Henry Akeley's witchcraft coven based in Rendlesham Forest. She is a member of the Marston family.

## Early Life

Marston was born around 1982 and raised primarily by her mother. Her father, Thomas Marston, was a member of Amelia Fenner's Suffolk Coven in the 1970s/80s and, along with Henry Akeley, they were responsible for conducting the Babalon Working in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. This event, the Rendlesham Forest Incident, led to her father having a nervous breakdown and it is presumed that, when April was still very young, Thomas moved to the United States to get away from Rendlesham and his occult past.

Despite her father's absence from her childhood, it appears that Marston was well known to her father's associates. She would become a key member of Henry Akeley's own coven in the late 2010s and she was also the sole named beneficiary in Walter Brown's will. Marston trained as a primary school teacher and got a job at the school in Saxmundham, Suffolk. It's unclear when Marston became an active participant in witchcraft but it appears to have been a good number of years before the disappearance of Henry Akeley. Despite Marston's outward appearance as a perfectly normal, even boring, individual, the Department of Works, identified her as a potential follower of Babalon and thus a threat to mystical safety. For this reason, they planted a deep-cover agent who took on the cover of a woman named 'Isabel', with whom April fell in love. The two women married, Isabel taking April's surname.

## The Disappearance of Henry Akeley

By 2019, April Marston had become an important member of Henry Akeley's secret witch coven. When Akeley eventually succumbed to possession by Nyarlathotep and went missing, it was at Marston's home in Saxmundham that he hid. When Kennedy Fisher tracked Akeley down to Marston's house, she and Isabel drugged and kidnapped the podcaster and tied her up in preparation for a meeting with the possessed Akeley.

Despite Akeley having mutilated his own face, Marston was convinced of his good intentions to summon Babalon, who she believed was a goddess of mother Earth. Marston believed Babalon would reverse the damage that society had brought upon itself and its environment and she had no qualms about the means she used to meet this end, such as holding Fisher at knife point.

Akeley's attempt to conduct another Babalon Working was ultimately foiled by the Department of Works. Immediately after this, April was officially reported as 'missing' and the house she shared with Isabel was quickly emptied and abandoned.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 TWiD: "Episode 7"
2. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 4"
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 6"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 TWiD: "Episode 8"
Michael Carter

**Detective Inspector Michael Carter** is a police officer based in East Anglia whose constabulary covers the village of Pleasant Green. In 2007, he led the investigation into the death of retired Major John Grant.

## Operation Pleasant Green

On September 16th 2007, Carter and his partner, DS William Haynes, were called to the village of Pleasant Green after it was reported that a 70-year-old man, John Grant, had been shot. Grant didn't immediately die and was rushed to hospital but almost immediately Carter and Haynes arrested 18-year-old Kelly Ryan for attempted murder. This arrest became for actual murder when Grant died in the hospital later that same day.

Carter led the interviews with Ryan. She did not deny murdering Grant but Carter was keen to understand the motive behind her actions. While investigating the crime scene, Carter and Haynes discovered the surveillance equipment that Grant had set up as well as his self-recordings in which he admitted responsibility for a nuisance campaign that Pleasant Green had been suffering for the last few months.

In order to understand Ryan, Carter recognised that he had to listen to Grant's tapes to understand *his* motivation, as it soon became clear that Ryan and Grant had been working together. Toward the end of their investigation, Carter believed he'd come to understand Grant's frustrations about the lack of community, saying of the village that the residents had "sterilised it".

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Fragments"
Barnaby Kay

### Series

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

## External Links

**Barnaby Kay** (born 9 April 1969) is a British actor who played Matthew Heawood in all seasons of *The Lovecraft Investigations*, and Remington Schofield in Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? He is married to Nicola Walker.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations* (as Matthew Heawood)
	+ All episodes except “Episode 6” of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
	+ All episodes except “Funeral in London” (as Remington Schofield)
Chloe Ashton-Heath

**Chloe Ashton-Heath** (b. 1 January 2000) is the daughter of Wilberforce Ashton-Heath MP and Lesley Tillinghast. She is a member of the Fisher, Gladwin, Tillinghast and Ashton-Heath families.

Chloe was specifically born on the first day of 2000 with the aim of becoming the future vessel for the Curse of the 21st Century like her great-grandmother, Abigail Gladwin, had been for the 20th century. Obed Marsh's Babalon Working ritual in Pleasant Green in 2020 had been intended to allow Chloe to be possessed but intervention by Matthew Heawood meant this ritual failed.

## References

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 7"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Pleasant Green"
Assassination of John F. Kennedy

The **assassination of US President John F. Kennedy** took place on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. According to Parker, the murder was actually carried out by Elvis Presley who used a ballistic serendipity charm which essentially meant he was shooting lucky bullets.

## External Links

* Elvis Presley at Wikipedia
* John F. Kennedy at Wikipedia
* Assassination of John F. Kennedy at Wikipedia

1. ↑ Mythos: "Albion"
Elizabeth I

**Elizabeth I** (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland for the latter half of the 16th century.

According to research by Dr. Eleanor Peck, there are indications in archive materials that Elizabeth was convinced by her astronomer and court magician, John Dee, that he might be able to use rituals from the *Necronomicon*, recently translated by Dee, Edward Kelley and Quentin Fisher, to help in her defeat the French and Spanish. Indeed, there was a rumour that the Spanish Armada was moved by Dee when performed such a ritual.

With Elizabeth's blessings, Dee set up a network of covens all over East Anglia, located along interconnecting ley lines that formed a symbol of power designed to amplify the Babalon Working.

However, upon Elizabeth's death in 1603, James I (and VI of Scotland) came to power and tore down Dee's occult network, feeling that Elizabeth and Dee had used the magic of the *Necronomicon* against James's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.

## External Links

Elizabeth I at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth\_I
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TWiD: "Episode 6"
Chapter Four: The Murder Clowns

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Phoebe Fox as Clara Page
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Aldrich Kemp
* Nicola Walker as Mrs. Boone
* Kyle Soller as Sebastian Harcourt
* Karla Crome as Nakesha Kemp
* Susan Jameson as Aunt Lily
* Jana Carpenter as Forsaken McTeague, Jane and Catherine Underwood
* Rebecca Boey as Sabine Seah
* Barnaby Kay as Remington Schofield
* Cherrelle Skeete as Lotte Amutenya
* Kate Isitt as Mrs. Bartholomew
* Ben Crowe as Dr. David Hazlitt
* James Joyce as Film Director

Created, written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg
Sound design by David Thomas
Producer Sarah Tombling
Executive Producer Karen Rose
Brazil

Flag of Brazil

**Brazil** is the largest country in South America.

In 1923, the Brazilian town of Hoer Verde was inexplicably deserted. 600 people disappeared and all that was left behind was a recently-fired gun and a note reading, "*Não há salvação".* Dr. Eleanor Peck presented this case, along with others, as possible examples of Obed Marsh's failed attempts to summon Azathoth from the Dreamlands.

The commercial freight company, Liberty Flights, operated in Brazil. In 2023, they flew a shipment out of Sau Paulo to an airfield in Utah, USA. This shipment had travelled by truck up from Uruguay and contained a new genetically-engineered strain of measles.

1. ↑ "There is no salvation."
2. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
3. ↑ WKAK: "Liberty Flights"
Parker

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## Parker

### Aliases

Ether Parker
Cordelia Parker
Cinderella Parker
Hermione Parker
Rebecca

### Relationships

Arjun Taleb (past romance)
Lairre (colleague)
Johnson (boss)

## Portrayal

### Last Appearance

"Pleasant Green"

**Parker** works for the Department of Works a.k.a. The Department. She is one of the main characters in Mythos.

## Mythos

In Mythos, Parker is introduced in the second episode, Glamis. She is a practitioner of chaos magic, whose magic appears to require her to take on new personas to manifest different powers.

She is first introduced as Cinderella Parker (a fire mage) but is said to have been cycling through elemental magics, previously identifying as Ether Parker (presumably air magic), and Cordelia Parker (water magic).

In the third episode of Mythos, Albion, she is introduced as Hermione Parker (an earth mage) but is keen to change since earth magic is "all a bit woo-woo" and has something worked out to do with Modesty Blaise.
Daley

**Daley** was a member of the British establishment. Robert Blake's investigations in the fascist far-right uncovered that Daley was very likely involved with the Church of Starry Wisdom. When Blake confronted Godfrey Tillinghast with this accusation, Tillinghast warned him against besmirching the reputation of such a person as Daley.

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 5"
John Stearne

**John Stearne** (c. 1610-1670) was a witch hunter and associate of 'Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins. Stearne and Hopkins built on the fear and violence instigated by James I against the witch covens set up by John Dee during the reign of Elizabeth I. However, Stearne's and Hopkins's 'witch hunting' in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk only amounted to the persecution of innocent people, the majority of whom were women. The real covens had gone underground.

An example of this was that, in response to the actions of these witch hunters, Temperance Fisher and her son, Matthew, escaped to North America and continued their occult practices in Innsmouth, Massachusetts.

## External Links

John Stearne at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Stearne\_(witch-hunter)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
Bill

**Bill** was a member of Blue team, codenamed 'Blue 4', which was conducting a surveillance operation in Heathrow Airport in 2023 when both their target, assassin Miguel Angel Espinosa, and Espinosa's target, understood to be Aldrich Kemp, were killed. The team was taken by surprise by this turn of events but Bill was not completely focused as Clara Page ('Blue 3') had only minutes earlier indicated her dissatisfaction with the sexual relationship that she and Bill had only recently begun.

1. ↑ WKAK: "Funeral in London"
Chapter One: Funeral in London

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Phoebe Fox as Clara Page
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Aldrich Kemp
* Nicola Walker as Mrs Boone
* Kyle Soller as Sebastian Harcourt
* Karla Crome as Nakesha Kemp
* Susan Jameson as Aunt Lily
* Jana Carpenter as Jane and Catherine Underwood
* Rebecca Boey as Sabine Seah
* Kate Isitt as Mrs. Bartholomew
* Ben Crowe as 'Blue 2', Novak and Taxi Driver
* James Joyce as Winslow and 'Blue 1'

Created, written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg
Sound design by David Thomas
Producer Sarah Tombling
Executive Producer Karen Rose

## Notes and Trivia

* This episode marks the first appearance of Kate Isitt in the Pleasant Green Universe.
Margot Benoit

**Margot Benoit** (d. 2022) was a secret member of Conrad Spijker's organisation, The Black Windmill.

Benoit betrayed her own brother, Guillaume, a DGSE agent who presumably was working under deep cover, to Spijker. This resulted in Guillaume being found close to death in Lake Tanganyika.

When Aldrich Kemp confronted Benoit at her own base of operations, a hidden basement underneath Shakespeare and Company in Paris, she initially denied any connection with Spijker. However, after declaring her true loyalties, her henchmen were killed by Jane and Catherine Underwood. Kemp then tasked the sisters to torture Benoit for information about Clara Page's whereabouts. After this, Benoit is believed to have been killed by the Underwoods.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
2. ↑ WiAK: "Clara Page"
David Collings

## External Links

**David Collings** (4 June 1940 - 23 March 2020) was a British actor who played Geoffrey of Monmouth in the *Mythos* story, “Albion”.

Collings previously had a recurring role in the TV series, Sapphire & Steel, which Julian Simpson has described as an influence on his work.

## Performances

* *Mythos*
	+ "Albion" (as Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Nancy Cunard

**Nancy Cunard** (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a British writer and anti-fascist. Cunard was part of the Cunard family that owned the Cunard Line shipping business. In 1925, she was photographed outside the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris by Man Ray. Others in the photograph's foreground included were Aleister Crowley, Alice Prin, André Gide and Pablo Picasso, while in the background were Obed Marsh, Edwin Lillibridge and Ernest Gladwin.

## External Links

Nancy Cunard at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy\_Cunard
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 7"
3. ↑ K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
4. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
Chapter Three: The Black Windmill

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Phoebe Fox as Clara Page
* Tim McInnerny as Mr. Bartholomew
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Aldrich Kemp
* Nicola Walker as Mrs. Boone and Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Kyle Soller as Sebastian Harcourt
* Karla Crome as Nakesha Kemp
* Susan Jameson as Aunt Lily
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Steven Mackintosh as Conrad Spijker

Created, written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg
Sound design by David Thomas
Producer Sarah Tombling
Executive Producer Karen Rose

## Notes and Trivia

* The title of this episode pays homage to 1970s British spy thriller, *The Black Windmill*.
* Kennedy Fisher's final message to Eleanor Peck mentions a new line of investigation - Edwin Lillibridge. This new lead results in The Haunter of The Dark.

## References

1. ↑ Julian Simpson interview with SFB
James I

**James I (and VI of Scotland** (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland, England and Ireland in the early 17th century.

According to research by Dr. Eleanor Peck, when James I came to the throne, he actively set himself in opposition to the occult network of covens that John Dee set up throughout East Anglia at Elizabeth I's behest. The reason for this was that James felt Elizabeth and Dee had used the magic of the *Necronomicon* against his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.

## External Links

James VI and I at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_VI\_and\_I
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
Sudan

**Sudan** is a country in the northeast of Africa. In 1985, the Aldrich and Nakesha Kemp and their parents crashed in Sudan when their private plane developed engine problems. Aldrich and Nakesha being the only survivors, the two spent two days walking through the Sudanese desert before encountering a trader caravan travelling to Khartoum. However, when one of the traders took too much interest in Nakesha, she ended up slitting the man's throat with a pottery shard.

Several years later, Nakesha discovered that the plane crash was an intentional assassination of their parents. Their quest for vengeance led to their involvement in and eventual running of the Themis Group.

## External Links

Sudan at Wikipedia

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WiAK: "Themis House"
Tyler Green

**Tyler Green** is an American publisher who lives in New York City. He lived in Providence, Rhode Island until the age of 12 and was a childhood friend of Charles Dexter Ward.

Green and Ward spent time together outside school, playing video games and exploring their neighbourhood. Green’s memories of Ward were of a relatively normal, tall, gawky boy about to enter adolescence.

In their final summer together in 2005, they explored a derelict house at 23 Olney Street in Providence. Inside this house, they discovered handwritten love letters from Joseph Curwen addressed to Barbara Sayers, who was the owner of the property in the 1970s. These letters grabbed Ward’s attention to the extent that he became uninterested in hanging out with Green for the remainder of Green’s time in Providence and the two boys parted ways not on good terms.

Kennedy Fisher tracked Green down and interviewed him for the Mystery Machine podcast in 2018.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 TCoCDW: ”Episode 2”
Samuel Barnett

## External Links

**Samuel Barnett** (born 25 April 1980) is a British actor who played Charles Dexter Ward in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations* (as Charles Dexter Ward)
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- All episodes except “Episode 5” and “Episode 8”
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- “Footsteps” (archive audio)
		- “Haumea” (archive audio)
Pardon Tillinghast

**Pardon Tillinghast** (1625 - 29 January 1718) was an early settler of Providence, Rhode Island and the first of the Tillinghast family to settle in North America. His descendants would go on to establish occult connections as well as strong financial and political interests in both the United States and Great Britain.

Pardon's uncle was the fifth monarchist, John Tillinghast.

## External Links

John Tillinghast at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon\_Tillinghast
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
Mark Bazeley

### Series

Standalones, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth

## External Links

**Mark Bazeley** (born 30 September 1970) is a British actor who played Martin Willis in “The Listener”, and Dr. Jonathan Willett and John Silence in *The Lovecraft Investigations*.

When the Shadow over Innsmouth was being recorded, Bazeley developed a temperature the day before he was due to join production. This being the height of the COVID pandemic, he was unable to join everyone else in a house in Sussex, and so had to record all of his lines remotely.

## Performances

* "The Listener" (as Martin Willis)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- All episodes except “Episode 5”, “Episode 6” and “Episode 8” (as Dr. Jonathan Willett)
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- All episodes except “Episode 1”, “Episode 6”, “Episode 9” and “Urgent Update” (as John Silence)
		- “Episode 6” (as Dr. Jonathan Willett)
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- "Footsteps" and "Haumea" (as Dr. Jonathan Willett)
		- “Harlequin” and “Pleasant Green” (as John Silence)

1. ↑ Miskatonic University Podcast, Episode 215
William Bradford

**William Bradford** (1590-1657) was a 17th-century Englishman who travelled on the Mayflower on its historic sailing to the Americas in 1620.

In his diary, Bradford mentioned another passenger who wasn’t on the ship’s official manifest, Mr Ely, who was a cunning man. According to Bradford, Ely disappeared as soon as the ship landed at Plymouth Rock.

1. ↑ Christened March 19, 1590; died May 9, 1657
2. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 4”
Ben

**Ben** is a TV producer and former military operative. He was introduced to Matthew Heawood by a mutual acquaintance and has some ties, however peripheral, to the Department of Works.

By 2019, when Heawood met him, Ben was running a production company responsible for high-end, current affairs TV documentaries. However, before this, Ben had worked in a somewhat nebulous role as a liaison between the armed forces and the intelligence services. Both careers appear to have been quite lucrative for Ben as was a member of a rather exclusive club on Pall Mall in London.

Heawood was pointed in Ben's direction by a mutual acquaintance (possibly his contact from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward) but Ben quickly explained that he wouldn't be able to help Heawood. I later emerged that he was acting as more of an evaluator who, based on what Heawood shared with him, saw fit to recommend that a Department agent, the Mystery Woman, should talk to Heawood directly. When Heawood and the woman's rendezvous led to Heawood being chased down by unidentified men in an underground car park, the podcaster returned to Pall Mall club demanding answers.

This second meeting revealed that Ben, far from being ignorant of the situation in Rendlesham, was quite well versed in the recent esoteric history of Henry Akeley and the Suffolk Coven. While not admitting on record to subscribing to any such occult beliefs, he presented a logical line of reasoning that finding Akeley would provide more answers for Heawood than trying to directly investigate powerful conspiracies and the summoning of aliens.

## Notes

* This named role was developed for Ben Crowe specifically after Julian Simpson had enjoyed working with him in "Fugue State" and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TWiD: "Episode 3"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 4"
3. ↑ Night of the Living Podcast Interview
Pope John Paul I

**Pope John Paul I** (17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was the head of the Catholic Church. He is notable for having died only a month after being elected to papacy. According to Lilith Tregowan, his death was actually the result of an assassination at the hands of 'The Colonel'.

1. ↑ Pope John Paul I at Wikipedia
2. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
Berlin

**Berlin** is the capital city of Germany.

Ernest Gladwin and Abigail Fisher honeymooned in the city in 1931, accompanied by Aleister Crowley. Gladwin visited the city again in 1939 as a guest at Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday celebrations only a few months before the outbreak of the Second World War.

Obed Marsh is believed to have been present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In 2007, an army barracks in Berlin was the target of a terrorist bombing. Of the five terrorists connected with the attack, four were immediately shot dead by special forces, but a fifth member of the cell, Mia Warren, managed to escape.

The architect, Jonathan Blake, had done some work in Berlin before he disappeared from his home in 2010.

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 3"
2. ↑ TSoI: “Saint Germain”
3. ↑ "The Listener"
4. ↑ "Bad Memories"
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

## Series

*The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward*; the only full-length work of fiction by cult American author H P Lovecraft, – Stephen King: “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of horror,” – gets a twenty-first century makeover by award winning UK-based writer/director Julian Simpson.

Simpson takes his cue from investigative podcasts like *Serial* and *Tanis*, presenting the story as a truly terrifying ten-part modern mystery podcast, hosted by Matthew Heawood and his roaming researcher Kennedy Fisher.

At the heart of their investigation is Charles Dexter Ward, a young man from a prominent family who is incarcerated in a locked room in a mental asylum whence he subsequently vanishes without trace.

Where did he go? Interviewing a range of people who knew him, including a former teacher and a childhood friend, Kennedy and Heawood’s investigations, which have more twists than a Chubby Checker dance off, takes them across the Atlantic to Providence and New York, and finally into the heart of darkness.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Alun Armstrong as Ezra Weeden
* Adam Godley as George Shepley
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Mark Bazeley as Dr. Jonathan Willett
* Samuel Barnett as Charles Dexter Ward
* Penny Downie as Barbara Sayers
* Steven Mackintosh as Dr. Mark Lyman

### Minor

* Madeleine Potter as Claire Rushmore and Maître d'
* Phoebe Fox as Lucy Hawthorne
* Nathan Osgood as Al Treggore and Sylvester Birtwistle
* Samantha Dakin as Alice and Waitress
* Cherrelle Skeete as Nurse and Akuma
* Alex Lanipekun as Tyler Green
* Susan Jameson as Amelia Fenner
* Richard Cordery as Sir Godfrey Tillinghast
* Ben Crowe as Warden, Guard, Contact and Thug 1
* Harry Kay as Young Charles Dexter Ward

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide
Tom (student)

**Tom** was a student who, along with a friend, explored the burnt out remains of the Blake House. While exploring the abandoned building, he fell through floorboards weakened by a recent fire and discovered the remains of five bodies in a cellar that was part of the original Marston House that had previously stood in that location.

## Appearances

* "Bad Memories"

1. ↑ "Bad Memories"
Who is Aldrich Kemp?

## Series

With a stellar cast, headed by Phoebe Fox, alongside Nicola Walker, Tim McInnerny, Ferdinand Kingsley and Kyle Soller, we are back in Julian Simpson's imagination - this time trying to find out just *Who is Aldrich Kemp?* On a heightened and fun journey, which takes us to glamourous and sometimes improbable locations, we encounter Euro-villains and murderous housekeepers.

The series has five episodes.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Phoebe Fox as Clara Page
* Tim McInnerny as Mr. Bartholomew
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Aldrich Kemp
* Nicola Walker as Mrs. Boone
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher, Jane Underwood and Catherine Underwood

### Minor

* Kyle Soller as Sebastian Harcourt and Florist
* Karla Crome as Nakesha Kemp
* Susan Jameson as Aunt Lily
* Steven Mackintosh as Conrad Spijker
* Louise Brealey as Secretary, Cyclist, and Margot Benoit
* Ben Crowe as Uncle Dave, Dr. David Hazlitt, Howlett and Sir Christopher
* James Joyce as Tom and McGarry

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide
0. Prologue (Transcript)
1. Chapter One: Clara Page (Transcript)
2. Chapter Two: Themis House (Transcript)
3. Chapter Three: The Black Windmill (Transcript)
4. Chapter Four: The Spirit of the Age (Transcript)
5. Chapter Five: Kholat Syakhl (Transcript)

## Notes & Trivia

* The series title derives from a question Julian Simpson wrote down for himself after mentioning Aldrich Kemp in the Shadow over Innsmouth bonus episode, "The Somerton Man".

* Jana Carpenter recorded all of her dialogue for Jane and Catherine Underwood, and Kennedy Fisher in one day.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Julian Simpson interview with SFB
Oxford University

**Oxford University** is one of the top universities in Britain.

Godfrey Tillinghast attended Oxford after having attended Winchester College.

Selena Page had hoped that her daughter, Clara, would go to Oxford but she instead went to Cambridge.

## External Links

* University of Oxford at Wikipedia

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 3"
2. ↑ WiAK: "Clara Page"
Steven Mackintosh

### Series

Standalones, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Who is Aldrich Kemp?

## External Links

**Steven Mackintosh** (born 30 April 1967) is a British actor who played Phillip Gibson in “Bad Memories”, Blake Hornsby in “Fugue State”, Dr. Mark Lyman in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 'Jasper' in The Whisperer in Darkness and The Shadow over Innsmouth, and Conrad Spijker in Who is Aldrich Kemp?

## Performances

* “Bad Memories” (as Phillip Gibson)
* "Fugue State" (as Blake Hornsby)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 5” and “Episode 8” (as Dr. Mark Lyman)
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- “Episode 4” and “Episode 7” (as 'Jasper')
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- All episodes except “Haumea”, “Melusine” and “Saint Germain” (as 'Jasper')
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
	+ “The Black Windmill”, “The Spirit of the Age” and “Kholat Syakhl” (as Conrad Spijker)
	+ “The Spirit of the Age” (as 'Concierge')
The Wild Man of Orford

**The Wild Man of Orford** is a tale from English folklore.

In the late 12th century, during the reign of Henry II, fishermen caught a suspected ‘merman’ in their nets near what is now Orford Ness. This man appeared to have the ability to live in the water. He was taken to Orford Castle and interrogated by the local lord but he managed to escape into the river and was never seen again.

Dr. Eleanor Peck presented this piece of folklore as evidence, used by followers of Nyarlathotep, that the *Necronomicon* was in use in the Suffolk area at this time. Peck suggested that folkloric creatures such as the Wild Man, Black Shuck, or the Green Children of Woolpit were all indications that rituals from the *Necronomicon* were being carried out and leaving “tears in the fabric of reality”.

This concept of a merman (half-man, half-fish) would be one that Matthew Heawood would encounter again in Mosul, Iraq in the form of an unusual carving in the stone wall of a café. This image of a man holding a trident with the tail of a fish would be a symbol for Dagon.

## External Links

* The Wild Man of Orford at English Heritage’s Youtube channel

## References

1. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 4”
2. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 6"
3. ↑ TSoI: “Footsteps”
Marjorie Johnson

**Marjorie Johnson** is the wife of Johnson, the head of the Department of Works.

She and her husband appear to have a very traditional form of marriage whereby Johnson depends on his wife to find and lay out his clothes as well as do any necessary laundry. When it emerges that Johnson has an intimate relationship with Lady Viviane, a ruler in folkloric dimension of Avalon, Lairre and Parker quickly surmise the Marjorie is not aware of this extra-marital affair with Johnson justifying that affairs don't count if they are with fictional characters.

1. ↑ "Mythos"
2. ↑ "Albion"
3. ↑ "Glamis"
The Haunter of the Dark

## Series

Three years on from Heawood's dramatic disappearance at Pleasant Green, Kennedy has lost hope of ever seeing him again.

Following the dramatic end to The Shadow Over Innsmouth, she has travelled extensively, following apparent leads, and there is no trace of him. But then a mysterious man leaves a message on the Red Hook Stories answerphone. Perhaps the story isn't over yet.

Kennedy Fisher and The Lovecraft Investigations podcast are back in Julian Simpson’s H. P. Lovecraft-inspired universe.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Ben Crowe as Marcus Byron and Robert Blake
* Catherine Kanter as Victoria Ness and Laura Gibson
* Kate Isitt as Caroline Morse
* Michael Maloney as Aramis Levesque and Ian Bartram
* Rufus Wright as Wilberforce Ashton-Heath and Sir Godfrey Tillinghast

### Minor

* Abigail Thaw as Diane Netley
* Ferdinand Kingsley as ‘Slide’
* Anthony Calf as Jonathan Blake (archive audio from Bad Memories)
* Steven Mackintosh as Phillip Gibson (archive audio from Bad Memories)

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide
Sarah Wilson

**Sarah Wilson** is the daughter of Jack and Mrs. Wilson and lived in the village of Pleasant Green in 2007.

The Wilsons moved out of London in 2005, and while her mother struggled to adjust to life in the countryside, Sarah engaged with the sporting opportunities afforded by her new school. By 2007, she was delighted to have been selected for one of the racket teams, although her mother couldn't remember whether it was tennis or badminton. Over that summer, Sarah went away with her school.

1. ↑ "Fragments"
Miguel Angel Espinosa

**Miguel Angel Espinosa** (d. 2023) was a Venezuelan assassin who was tasked with killing Aldrich Kemp at Heathrow Airport in 2023.

Espinosa was generally recognised as being a second-rate assassin and it was this poor reputation that led Kemp, when he learned that Espinosa had accepted a contract on this life, to surmise that Espinosa was merely a distraction to allow a far more capable assassin to make the actual kill. This led to Kemp orchestrating a rather complex plan. Firstly, in response to the threat from *Espinosa*, Kemp tipped off the British intelligence services who deployed a 4-person surveillance team, Blue Team, which would be ready to apprehend Espinosa should anything happen, however, he also assigned one of his own operatives, Sabine Seah, to prevent Espinosa from completing his mission. Secondly, in response to the threat from the expected *second* assassin, Kemp had actually switched identities with a lookalike, Wilhelm Ausberger.

Espinosa was killed by Seah who stabbed him in the throat and then made a rather public escape on foot. This forced 'Blue 1' to divide his team's resources overseeing 'Blue 3' and 'Blue 4' in their pursuit of Seah and keeping only 'Blue 2' on 'Aldrich Kemp' (actually Ausberger). Kemp's instincts proved correct when a second assassin, Novak, managed to kill Ausberger in all of the chaos.
Pleasant Green (website)

**Pleasant Green** is the name of Kennedy Fisher's website. It provides a number of articles and investigative notes from the podcaster, along with additional content behind a paywall. Much of the content covers the period between The Shadow over Innsmouth (2020) and The Haunter of the Dark (2023).

It can be found at **www.pleasantgreen.co.uk**.

1. ↑ Pleasant Green website
Wilhelm Ausberger

**Wilhelm Ausberger** (d. 2023) was a member of old German nobility descending from the Kaiser and thus a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

While born into considerable wealth, Ausberger was a gambling addict who lost much of his inheritance playing *Chemin de fer.* When he discovered he had inoperable liver cancer and would leave his wife and children in debt, he made a deal with Aldrich Kemp. Ausberger became Kemp's double in Heathrow Airport when, in 2023, the Themis Group got word that there would be an assassination attempt on Kemp. With a promise that his family would be well taken care of, and keen to avoid a slow, painful death from cancer, Ausberger willing offered to be assassinated in Kemp's place so that the assassin could be identified. The plan was successful as the German was assassinated by Novak with an air gun that fired an iridium steel needle into his head, killing him instantly and painlessly.

Clara Page, also part of this operation, remarked that Ausberger's likeness to Kemp was uncanny. However, it's unclear whether Ausberger was naturally a physical double of Aldrich Kemp or whether part of the agreement was surgery to change his appearance. Page knowingly misidentified Ausberger as Kemp for the authorities.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WKAK: "Funeral in London"
Pleasant Green (location)

Pleasant Green (pre-2016)

**Pleasant Green** is a small, quintessential English village that never existed located 40 miles from Central London in East Anglia. In 2007 it had a population of 676.

The location of Pleasant Green has been inhabited since at least the Middle Ages.

Residents include Major John Grant, Claire and Robert Ryan and their daughter, Kelly Ryan, Dr. Stephen Mortimer as well as Bob, Clive, Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Wilson.

In 2016, the village was sealed off by the authority of the Department of Works. Officially this was due to an apparent gas leak, but in reality, a new numbers station had started broadcasting from this location. Further investigation uncovered that everyone in the village had entered a fugue state, including an astrophysicist, Blake Hornsby, who was sent into the village to investigate. At the same time, the village became a surveillance blackspot where satellite imagery showed a 2-mile-radius black hole.

After this incident, the village was removed from all maps and records, and it’s possible that Johnson attempted to physically destroy the village in response to the perceived threat of the numbers station incident. The incident was covered up and classified to the point where it became an Echelon trigger word and information about it was restricted to those of clearance level Cobalt India or above.

Initially, attempts to keep the incident from becoming public knowledge were not completely successful. By the following year, the incident was a regular topic of investigation for Jonathan Hicks on his Hickstory Podcast before he started working for the Department of Works. However, by 2019, a search for Pleasant Green on Google returned no results about the village.

In 2020, after having been physically missing for the last four years, Pleasant Green reappeared in its previous location due to the alignment of Haumea, Neptune and Earth, when the constellation of Pisces was directly above the village. This had been predicted by Dr. Eleanor Peck and Parker, and this led to Kennedy Fisher and Matthew Heawood entering the village to seek out and stop Obed and Daisy Marsh from using the opportunity to summon Azathoth.

## Notes

* In an interview with BBC, Julian Simpson has said of Pleasant Green's location that "*in my imagination Pleasant Green appears in an empty bit of Suffolk, somewhere between Orford and Rendlesham Forest in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, but I couldn't put a pin in a map and tell you exactly where.*"

* See a possible location on the East Anglia map.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Fragments"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TSoI: "Rubaiyat"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Fugue State"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 TWiD: "Episode 4"
5. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 5"
6. ↑ WiAK: "The Black Windmill"
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mythos: "Mythos"
8. ↑ TSoI: "Pleasant Green"
9. ↑ "Suffolk location of mystery village revealed"
The Shadow over Innsmouth

## Series

A foggy seafront town where something’s coming from the water. An ancient cult, a stranger with a bandaged face and a body in a shallow grave. The podcast investigation continues.

Podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher return and this time the story is Kennedy Fisher. A simple investigation into the disappearance of a young man from a mental health facility has taken them from Rhode Island to Iraq, to the Suffolk countryside – as they realised that everything uncovered in season one threaded through to season two.

Towards the end of 'The Whisperer In Darkness,' the investigation turned inward as Kennedy discovered a possible family connection to the uncovered conspiracy. And evidence forces Heawood to question the veracity of Kennedy's account of her time in Iraq. As Kennedy heads off to Innsmouth, to look into her apparently spooky ancestry, Heawood is going to Iraq to answer the most disturbing of all questions: could Kennedy be a killer?

Both Kennedy and Heawood make life-changing discoveries as the two investigations come together and reach a gripping conclusion, just as the Coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the world.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Kyle Soller as Casey
* Steven Mackintosh as Jasper
* Mark Bazeley as Dr. Jonathan Willett
* Samuel Barnett as Charles Dexter Ward

### Minor

* Ferdinand Kingsley as 'Slide'
* Karla Crome as Melody Cartwright
* Jennifer Armour as Alice
* David Calder as Henry Akeley
* Walles Hamonde as Zadok Allen
* Michael Maloney as Aramis Levesque
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Mark Bazeley as John Silence

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide

1. Footsteps (Transcript)
2. Haumea (Transcript)
3. Apartment 6 (Transcript)
4. Melusine (Transcript)
5. Harlequin (Transcript)
6. Saint Germain (Transcript)
7. Rubaiyat (Transcript)
8. Pleasant Green (Transcript)
9. The Somerton Man (Transcript)
10. Who is Mary Lairre? (Transcript)
11. Heawood and Kennedy (Transcript)
The London Library

The **London Library** is an independent library based in London, UK. Matthew Heawood has used this resource on at least two occasions when researching history around cases being investigated by the Mystery Machine podcast. He will occasionally record audio while doing this research but tries to avoid it as the officials at the library "really don't like it".

In 2019, Heawood used the library to look up details about the Tillinghast family. Using relevant issues of Debrett's and an internet search engine, he was able to establish the family connection between Lucy Hawthorne and Charles Dexter Ward.

Heawood returned to the library later in the year to make use of the Times Room, a temperature-controlled archive that keeps two centuries' worth of the Times newspaper. It was here that he discovered evidence of Kennedy Fisher's own family's connection to the Tillinghasts. Elsewhere in the library, he looked up details about the more recent case of the disappearance of the Blake family.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: "Episode 3"
2. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 5"
The Whisperer in Darkness

## Series

An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest; folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?
The duo’s last update patched together frantic updates from Baghdad as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe… But for now, a new investigation calls.
Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of *The Whisperer in Darkness*.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Mark Bazeley as Albert Wilmarth
* David Calder as Henry Akeley
* Nicola Stephenson as Mystery Woman
* Robert Glenister as Dean Perry
* Phoebe Fox as Parker

### Minor

* Rebekah Staton as April Marston
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Slide, Newsreader and Policeman
* Gabrielle Glaister as Tania Radcliffe, Maria, and FCO Operator
* Steven Mackintosh as Contact
* Karl Johnson as Walter Brown and Old Man
* Ben Crowe as Ben and Policeman
* Phoebe Frances Brown as Charlotte Davenport
* Edie Simpson as Child's voice

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide
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The Great Storm of 1987

**The Great Storm of 1987** was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15th-16th October. It was during this storm that Robert Blake died. There is some uncertainty about whether Blake's death was a murder made to look like an accidental death brought about during the storm, or whether he was scared and suffered a heart attack or whether he was actually struck by lightning. Another impact of the storm was that, large swathes of Rendlesham Forest were torn up by the high winds and had to be replanted afterwards.

## External Links

* Great storm of 1987 at Wikipedia

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 5"
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 10"
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 8"
The Origin

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First alluded to existing in July of 2020 in Kennedy Fisher's online blog, the Origin is an American secret society controlling the USA from the shadows, similar to The Department of Works in the UK. They become more relevant however in Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?, during which Forsaken McTeague from The Origin joins Themis in stopping Remington Schofield from unleashing a measles pandemic with the help of the airline, Liberty Flights.

Known Members of The Origin:

* Forsaken McTeague
* Vartan Boghossian (Presumed)
Temperance Fisher

**Temperance Fisher** (1601 - ?) was an influential member of the Fisher family. In 1645, she moved with her son, Matthew, from England to Innsmouth, Massachusetts in North America. This move established the Fisher family in a town they would stay in for the next three centuries.

## Early Life and Parentage

Temperance was born in 1601 outside Chelmsford, Essex in England to parents Mary Fisher and Obed Marsh. Unfortunately, her mother died in childbirth and her father, a sea captain having no interest in settling in England or raising Temperance, soon continued his travels abroad. To avoid scandal, Mary’s brother, took his niece and raised her as one of his own along with her nephews and nieces.

It’s unclear how much Temperance was aware of her real father or his association with her grandfather, Quentin Fisher. It seems likely that Temperance was raised with some understanding of her occult background because, even as a youth, she had developed a reputation as a powerful Cunning Woman in the local area.

## Obed Marsh’s Return

In 1619, when Temperance was 18, Obed Marsh returned to England and began a sexual relationship with his own daughter. The product of this was a baby boy the following year - Matthew Fisher. Again, Marsh soon left mother and son and travelled back to the New World to establish the town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. In the meantime, Temperance’s prowess as a powerful witch continued to grow. She was clearly influenced by Marsh as over the next 20 years she established herself at the centre of an increasingly powerful Ipqu-Aya cult.

## Fleeing the Witchfinder General

By the 1640s, being a woman who had accumulated a large amount of power and influence, Temperance had become a target for John Stearne and Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. To avoid execution, she and Matthew escaped England in 1645 and reunited with Obed Marsh in Innsmouth.

## Life in Innsmouth

Temperance’s arrival in North America marked the start of Innsmouth as a trading port. She entered into a business partnership with Marsh and quickly built a house and acquired a crewed ship, which she named The Ipqu-Aya. Within her lifetime, this business partnership becomes very lucrative.

## Legacy

Temperance’s move to Innsmouth marks an enormous shift in the power enjoyed by the Fishers. In collaboration with Obed Marsh through the centuries, the Fisher family continued to amass large amounts of wealth and in turn, Marsh used this to build influential occult groups around the world, including but not limited to the Rosicrucians, the Invisible College, the Freemasons, the Theosophists, the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and the Church of Starry Wisdom.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 TSoI: “Saint Germain”
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TSoI: "Apartment 6"
3. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 8"
Miss Stone

**Stone** is a Department of Works employee who worked in the quartermaster's office.

In 2017, Jonathan Hicks, upon being dragooned into joining the Department, was sent to Miss Stone to receive his Department-issued smartphone loaded with a complete set of John Dee grimoires and Enochian wards loaded onto it.

## References

1. ↑ Mythos: "Mythos"