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Carlton Murray

**Carlton ‘Carl’ Murray** is an American tourist who was coerced by Libby Ward in her scheme to hunt and trap Mary Lairre in Avalon.

In 2017, Murray travelled from Virginia to Scotland on a sightseeing holiday. Two days into the holiday he was staying at a hotel near Glamis Castle when he was approached by Libby Ward and convinced to join her in exploring a restricted section of the castle during their tour. This led to Murray and Ward travelling to the folkloric dimension of Avalon.

Murray was greatly distressed by his new surroundings and Ward’s apparent disinterest in his well-being as she openly acknowledged he was simply being used as bait for her trap. Ward was easily able to coerce Murray into handing Lairre the quantum entanglement trap, similar in appearance to a snow globe, and Lairre was successfully captured.

However, Murray let slip his involvement in Ward’s scheme while seeking rescue from Johnson and Cinderella Parker. Instead of smuggling the trap out of Avalon, as had been Ward’s plan, Murray was tortured by Parker until he revealed the trap and relinquished it to the Department operatives.

Lairre was released from her imprisonment and instead, it was Libby Ward who left in her own trap. Murray was returned to his tour group after Miranda Hyde wiped his short-term memory of the event and, in lieu of any punishment for his relatively easy coercion, Hyde also seeded some particularly nasty nightmares into Murray’s subconscious.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mythos: “Glamis”
Chapter Three: Liberty Flights

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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 Nurse
* 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 Camera Assistant

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

**Jeff** is a security guard who was on duty at the Department of Works when the 2018 Blackfriars Albion Event was initially designated Eburnean Ultra. The consequence of this was that all operatives were recalled from the field and this meant that Jeff was responsible for lifting the protective wards that would otherwise have prevented Mary Lairre, a ghost, from entering the building.

## References

1. ↑ Mythos: "Albion"
Chapter Two: The Man Who Sold the World

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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, and Forsaken McTeague
* Rebecca Boey as Sabine Seah
* Barnaby Kay as Remington Schofield
* Kate Isitt as Mrs. Bartholomew
* Ben Crowe as Novak and Vartan Boghossian
* Cherrelle Skeete as Lotte Amutenya

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

## External Links

**Louise Brealey** (born 27 March 1979) is a British actress who played Harlequin in “Kokomo” and Margot Benoit in “Chapter Four: The Spirit of the Age”.

## Performances

* "Kokomo" (as Harlequin, Receptionist and Phone Agent 2)
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
	+ “Chapter One: Clara Page” (as Secretary)
	+ “Chapter Two: Themis House” (as Cyclist)
	+ “Chapter Four: The Spirit of the Age” (as Margot Benoit)
	+ “Chapter Five: Kholat Syakhl” (as Nurse)
Gerhart

**Gerhart** was a magic user and an operative for the Department of Works.

He was killed in IKEA while using a magical charm to navigate a direct path to the canteen, not realising that IKEA store layouts are based on Norse dimensional magic. The magical conflict between the Gerhart's charm and IKEA layout led to Gerhart being briefly transported to seventh-dimensional junction and then being returned inside out. According to colleague, Mary Lairre, his insides were sprayed "all over a modular sofa".

Gerhart's careless use of magic led Johnson to write stricter protocols on the use of magic in unknown realms.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: “Glamis”
Mrs. Fisher

**Mrs. Fisher** is Kennedy Fisher's mother. Kennedy and her mother appear to have a good relationship and, as a keen listener to the Mystery Machine podcast, Kennedy was keen for Matthew Heawood to be very clear that any connection between the Fishers and possible occult conspiracies was historic and not current.

1. ↑ "Footsteps"
Edie Simpson

## External Links

**Edie Simpson** is a British actress who played 'Child's voice' in "The Whisperer in Darkness". Simpson is the daughter of Julian Simpson and Jana Carpenter.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations* (as Child's voice)
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- "Episode 2"
		- "Episode 3"
		- "Episode 4"
		- "Episode 6"
		- "Episode 8"
John White

**John White** (c. 1539 – c. 1593) was an English explorer during the Elizabethan period. White led Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition and second attempt to establish a permanent colony at Roanoke.

White sailed across the Atlantic in 1586, a year after the first attempt at establishing a colony had failed. In his retinue was a friend of Raleigh's, Quentin Fisher. The second colony was established in 1587 and White became the colony's governor. However, in that capacity, White was forced to sail back to England the following year to secure a supply chain for the colony. Unfortunately, the English war with Spain delayed his return to the Americas and he didn't return to Roanoke until 1590. By this time, Quentin Fisher and Obed Marsh had already tried and failed to conduct a ritual from the *Necronomicon* to summon Azathoth. This led to the complete annihilation of the colony and all the colonists, with only the immortal Marsh surviving.

When John White arrived, he discovered the settlement had been completely abandoned. The only clue White or his men could find to what had happened was the word "Croatoan" carved into the palisade.

## External Links

John White at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_White\_(colonist\_and\_artist)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TSoI: "Apartment 6"
Kokomo (malware)

**The Kokomo virus** is a piece of malware used by a group of cyberterrorists calling themselves the Harlequinade. In 2013, the group released the virus worldwide causing widespread disruption to a variety of business and public services.

## Description

The virus uses the increasingly interconnected nature of computing to spread. As it does so, it encrypts all data it comes into contact with to a level of complexity that, according to one of the cyberterrorists, Columbina, would take "all the computers in the world several lifetimes to untangle". Put another way, Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU) officer, Steven Daguero, explained that "[it changes] the ones and zeros to... symbols and squiggles. Nothing can read them. [It basically encrypts] every scrap of information that it touches."

However, unwanted encryption was just one of the functions of the virus. A second function was that, with the right code phrase the virus would switch from a mission of encrypting data to deleting it. The code phrase to do this was the words "*Ryan White can go back to school*" in a simple text file. This was in acknowledgement of the social injustices suffered by an early sufferer of the AIDS virus, Ryan White, in Kokomo, Indiana; the name of the town being used to give the virus its name.

While capable of spreading throughout the civilian networks around the world, Kokomo's primary weakness is its incapability of penetrating government firewalls without relying on human error.

## Development

It's unclear who developed the Kokomo virus. In the early stages of the cyberattack the disruption to commercial and financial services meant that identifying any signatures that might indicate the author of the code was not high priority. When Alice Price asked the Harlequinade if they were the authors of the virus, they claimed ignorance of the level of computing skills to put such a piece of malware together. It's possible this, like many other things they said, was a lie but it's equally possible that the three people Price was speaking to - Pantalone, Columbina and Harlequin - did not represent the entirety of the Harlequinade group.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Kokomo"
Graham

**Graham** is the warden of Broadmoor Hospital, an associate of Sir Godfrey Tillinghast, and a possible follower of Ipqu-Aya.

Throughout their investigation into the disappearance of Charles Dexter Ward, Matthew Heawood was keen to interview Dr. Jonathan Willett, who had been sentenced to Broadmoor after viciously killing Lucy Hawthorne. However, Graham was adamant that no access would be given. This policy was reversed by Hawthorne's grandfather, Sir Godfrey Tillinghast, when he sought to mollify Heawood and shut down the Mystery Machine's investigation into his family.

Graham was unhappy with this strategy and protested to Sir Godfrey but was overruled when Tillinghast spoke back in the tongue of Yog Sothoth, which Graham appeared to understand. This was captured in an audio recording by Heawood, and he later used this leverage on at least two occasions to get access to interview Willett.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 1"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TCoCDW: "Episode 10"
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 6"
Hôtel de Ville

The Hôtel de Ville after the attack of the Paris Commune in 1871.

The **Hôtel de Ville** is the city hall of Paris. In 1870, Napoleon III made the Hôtel de Ville the headquarters of a commission he set up to investigate rumours of the continued existence of the Comte de Saint Germain, who had supposedly died nearly a century earlier. However, the building was set alight the following year and all records of the investigation were lost.

1. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
John Legrasse

**John Legrasse** is a police inspector who presented at the Royal Archaeological Society in 2023. He invited podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher to attend his talk as he felt the subject matter would be of particular interest to them.

## Notes

* This character is based on John Raymond Legrasse, a character from the original Lovecraft story, The Call of Cthulhu.

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 10"
Clive

**Clive** was a resident of Pleasant Green and a committee member of the village's golf club. During the Operation Pleasant Green nuisance campaign in 2007, Clive suggested to Dr. Stephen Mortimer, another committee member, that the club might consider using anti-graffiti paint in response to "You are not safe" being spray-painted on the wall of the clubhouse. Mortimer passed this suggestion onto Bob.

1. ↑ "Fragments"
Isle of Skye

The **Isle of Skye** is the largest island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island has a Neolithic stone circle called the Callanish Stones.

In 2020, the Department of Works deceived the British Army by sending it up to the Isle of Skye to defend the country from Obed Marsh and the threat of the arrival of Azathoth at the Callanish Stones. This was done deliberately to keep non-experts of the esoteric out of the way while Department assets sought to stop Marsh where he actually was - the village of Pleasant Green.

## External Links

Isle of Skye at Wikipedia

1. ↑ TSoI: "Pleasant Green"
Grand Tie Wei Mountain

Grand Tie Wei Mountain (lit. “great border mountain of steel”) is the outermost layer of the Samsara. It protects the six realms of Samsara from the Winds of Chaotic Tribulation, and is the only thing capable of stopping those winds. The Huang Quan Realm of Samsara is part of Grand Tie Wei Mountain itself. The lower half of the mountain rests in the Forgetting River and has pathways leading deep into the underground, where the 18 layers of hell reside. These pathways are in the Forgetting River.

As something capable of blocking the Winds of Chaotic Tribulation, Grand Tie Wei Mountain is nigh-indestructible.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 386
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 388
Matthew Hopkins

**Matthew Hopkins** (c. 1620 – 12 August 1647) was the self-proclaimed 'Witchfinder General' of England in the 17th century. He and his associate, John Stearne, continued the persecution of witch covens that was instigated by James I against coven network set up by John Dee during the reign of Elizabeth I. Hopkins and Stearne focused their efforted in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk but it is now generally understood that their actions merely amounted to the violent, misogynistic persecution and execution of innocent people, mostly women - any real witch covens in the area had gone underground.

One of the most horrific events connected to Hopkins is the Chelmsford assizes of 1645 wherein he accused 29 women of being witches. One of Hopkins's victims was a young dairy maid called Faith Mills. Mills was originally released by a local magistrate who could find no evidence against her. However, she feared 'mob justice', tried to flee to relatives living in Orford but was caught by Hopkins in Rendlesham Forest. She was then tortured and made a false confession which led Hopkins' group to not only hang her from a tree but then drive a stake through her heart and bury her upside down at the crossroads of two forest trails.

It was in response to the actions of men like Hopkins and Stearne that Temperance Fisher and her son, Matthew, escaped to North America to continue their occult practices in Innsmouth, Massachusetts.

## External Links

Matthew Hopkins at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew\_Hopkins
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
3. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
4. ↑ “The Blake House Mystery”
Karen Rose

**Karen Rose** is a producer who has been involved in all of Julian Simpson’s Pleasant Green audio dramas.

After working in theatre publicity, Rose spent ten years at the BBC in promotions and casting before a stint in Radio 4 presentation. Between 1997 and 2000 she worked as a freelance producer making programmes for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5. In 2000, she co-founded Sweet Talk Productions. Her award-winning productions include the dramas: Henry’s Demons; An Angel At My Table; Fugue State and Bad Memories. Rose was also a trustee for the charity Anno’s Africa.

## Production Credits

* “Fragments” (as Producer)
* “The Listener”
* “Bad Memories”
* “Kokomo”
* “Fugue State”
* “Mythos”
* “Glamis”
* “Albion”
* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* The Whisperer in Darkness
* The Shadow over Innsmouth
* Who is Aldrich Kemp? (as Executive Producer)
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
* The Haunter of The Dark

## External Links

* Karen Rose on LinkedIn
* Karen Rose on IMDb

1. ↑ Sweet Talk Productions: People
Hoer Verde

**Hoer Verde** was a town in Brazil with 600 residents. In 1923, everyone in the town disappeared and all that was left behind was a single gun that had been recently fired and a note that read, "There is no salvation."

Dr. Eleanor Peck, in an uncharacteristic mood of credulity, suggested that this event, like Roanoke in North America, Melusine in France, Demon's Alley in New Jersey, and Pleasant Green in England, might have been the result of an occult ritual to bring Azathoth from the Dreamlands.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Lesley Tillinghast

**Lesley Tillinghast** is a member of the British establishment with considerable political connections. A member of the influential Tillinghast family, her father was Sir Godfrey Tillinghast, Cabinet Secretary from 2008 to 2016. She's also married to the MP Wilberforce Ashton-Heath. They have a daughter, Chloe, who was born to provide a vessel for the Curse of the 21st Century.

## References

1. ↑ THotD: "Episode 3"
2. ↑ THotD: "Episode 7"
Dave

**Dave** was a resident of Pleasant Green in 2016 just before the village disappeared. When Blake Hornsby investigated the village and went into the local pub, he asked about any barns in the area. Both the barman and Dave had the memory of a barn somewhere in the village but couldn't remember where it was.

1. ↑ "Fugue State"
Chapter One: Clara Page

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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
* Kyle Soller as Sebastian Harcourt
* Karla Crome as Nakesha Kemp
* Susan Jameson as Aunt Lily
* Louise Brealey as Secretary
* Ben Crowe as Howlett
* James Joyce as Tom

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

* For the opening fencing scene, David Thomas got Phoebe Fox to perform her lines while wearing a colander over her face and wearing Julian Simpson's coat backwards. From an audio perspective, this mimicked a fencing suit.
* This episode marks the first appearance of James Joyce in the Pleasant Green Universe.

## References

1. ↑ Phoebe Fox interview with SFB
Abigail Gladwin

**Abigail Gladwin née Fisher** (January 1, 1900 - December 31, 1999) was a member of the Fisher family, founder of the Church of Starry Wisdom, wife of Ernest Gladwin, mother of Emily and Elizabeth Gladwin, lover of Obed Marsh, and the living vessel for the Curse of the 20th Century.

## Early Life

Abigail Fisher was born on the first day of the 20th century. She was preordained as a vessel into which the Curse of the 20th Century could be put. The Melusine ritual of 1914 successfully achieved this and, from this point onward, Fisher’s goal, with the support of Obed Marsh, was to destabilise the 20th century.

Until 1928, Fisher was the head of the Fisher family's business interests in Innsmouth. However, as a result of Robert Olmstead's visit to Innsmouth in 1927, federal agents raided the town in February of 1928. This prompted Fisher to flee the town and this was supposedly the last time a member of the Fisher family visited Innsmouth until nearly a century later when Kennedy Fisher was investigating her family tree in 2020.

## Relocating to Europe

Abigail relocated to England and it was here that she met and married Ernest Gladwin, an occultist with fascist leanings. They honeymooned in Berlin in 1931 and were accompanied by occultist, Aleister Crowley.

Abigail and Ernest's marriage appears to have been more of a political alliance than a bond based on romance. Abigail's two children, Emily and Elizabeth, while taking Gladwin's name, were actually the daughters of Obed Marsh. According to Caroline Morse, Ernest was well aware of their parentage but was unconcerned with this when weighed against the occult connections that his marriage to Abigail afforded him.

It was also at this time that Gladwin, as she now was called, made use of a 13th-century church caught in a breach in Dunwich, Suffolk. This breach was found by Marsh in the 19th century and the land surrounding it was bought by the Marsh Refining Company and a house was built above it. However, decades later, Gladwin used the location to establish the headquarters for the Church of Starry Wisdom.

## References

1. ↑ *While it was intended that, as the Curse of the 20th Century, Abigail should be born on the first day and die on the last day of the century, it's not established whether December 31st 1999 was actually the date of her death.*
2. ↑ THotD: "Episode 4"
3. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
4. ↑ TSoI: "Haumea"
5. ↑ TSoI: "Melusine"
6. ↑ THotD: "Episode 3"
7. ↑ THotD: "Episode 8"
8. ↑ THotD: "Episode 9"
David Thomas

**David Thomas** is a sound engineer who has worked on every Pleasant Green audio drama since “Kokomo”. In the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016, he won Best Use of Sound for “Fugue State”.

## Production Credits

* “Kokomo” (as Sound Engineer)
* “Fugue State”
* “Mythos”
* “Glamis”
* “Albion”
* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* The Whisperer in Darkness
* The Shadow over Innsmouth
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
* The Haunter of The Dark

## External Links

* Sonic Boom Audio (David Thomas's website)
* David Thomas at IMDb
Bulletin 1 - September, 2022

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski / Unsplash

## Synopsis

Kennedy reflects on that events after "The Black Windmill" that have led her to Paris to ask Aramis Levesque about an old photo in Matthew Heawood's files.

## Notes and Trivia

* Kennedy's meeting with Aramis Levesque is heard in "Episode 4" of The Haunter of The Dark.
* Available to listen to on Kennedy Fisher's website: www.pleasantgreen.co.uk
Glamis Castle

**Glamis Castle** is situated in Angus, Scotland and is open to public tours.

The present castle was built in the 17th century but a fortification of one form or another has been on the site for considerably longer. It is at Glamis where where the historic King Malcolm, a rival of Macbeth in Shakespeare's play, died.

The current castle houses a trans-dimensional doorway to the folkloric repository dimension of Avalon, which exists at the end of a corridor that can extend to much longer on the inside than it might appear from the outside of the castle. There are a number of theories as to why the passage to Avalon exists where it does. One legend is that, in 1486, the 2nd Lord Glamis offered sanctuary to a family called the Ogilvies who were fleeing a rival clan, but Lord Glamis betrayed them by locking them into a room and bricking up the doorway. Another, more recent legend is that a monster was born to the Glamis family many years ago and was hidden from society in a secret room within the castle.

In 2017, Libby Ward and Carlton Murray found the doorway to Avalon having left their tour group. When the guide went looking for them she opened the door to see the 'room' behind it looked about 50 miles across and encompassed a forest and a mountain range. One of the employees at the castle, Mr. Moorehead, alerted the Department of Works of this development and provided Johnson, Lairre and Parker with the necessary access to retrieve the Americans.

## External Links

Glamis Castle at Wikipedia

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Glamis"
Marsh Refining Company

The **Marsh Refining Company** was a gold refinery in Innsmouth, Massachusetts in the 19th century.

It was set up by the influential Marsh family and worked with the Fisher family to export Dagon iconography worldwide. One of the major shareholders of the company was the Tillinghast family. It's unclear exactly who was registered as the owner of the company but in September 1865, a local newspaper identified Annabelle Marsh as the refinery owner's wife.

Near the end of the century, the company purchased land in Dunwich, Suffolk in England, in order to build a property that would sit over a breach that led to a 13th-century church.

The company was long defunct by the 21st century, possibly closed down due to the government raids in 1928.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: "Haumea"
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 9"
Carter

**Carter** was a member of the SD1 counter-terrorist unit who was involved in surveillance and tactical assault during the Mia Warren case.

Carter was team leader for Bravo Team who ran exterior surveillance of Charles Dylan and Leonard Price's flat. His tactical superiors in this case were Yuri Kerchenko and Martin Willis. When they suspected SD1's surveillance had been compromised, Willis gave Carter and his team the green light to assault the target. When Bravo Team entered the flat, Carter discovered that both Dylan and Price had been murdered - their throats slit.

1. ↑ "The Listener"
Alf Boxall

**Alfred "Alf" Boxall** (16 April 1906 - 17 Aug 1995) was an operative for the Department of Works based in Australia.

During the Second World War, Boxall had been assigned to military intelligence. It's unclear if he had been recruited by the Department at this point but by the late 1940s, he was known to be a Department operative and his cover was as a worker in a bus depot in Sydney.

In 1948, Boxall intercepted and killed an assassin working for Obed Marsh while in Adelaide. This assassin's body was found on a beach in Somerton and the mystery around his death led to one of the biggest folklore mysteries of the 20th century - The Somerton Man. Despite being a professional, Boxall was linked temporarily to the case as he had been in a romantic relationship with Jessica Thompson during which time she gifted him with a copy of *The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* - a book of Persian poetry. This linked Boxall to Somerton Man because the assassin was also found with a copy of *The Rubaiyat*, which in this case had Thompson's phone number written inside.

## References

1. ↑ "Alfred Boxall" at Geni.com
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TSoI: "The Somerton Man"
3. ↑ TSoI: "Rubaiyat"
Aramis Levesque

**Aramis Levesque** is the proprietor and director of the Levesque Institute of Paranormal and Parapsychological Research in Paris.

When Matthew Heawood meets Levesque in 2020, he describes the archivist as “in his late 60s or early 70s, tall and thin with thick silver hair that sat on his collar.” Levesque, a Frenchman, also speaks English and is comfortable holding discussions in that language.

Despite running a private library focused on the paranormal and parapsychological, Levesque appears to be something of a sceptic. For example, while being well-versed in the legend of the Comte de Saint Germain, he does not initially believe in his immortality.

Because Levesque does not use any recognisable filing system in his institute, people must use him to help find what they are looking for. This was the case for Dr. Allen, as well as Melody Cartwright and Matthew Heawood, when they were investigating the disappearance of Melusine during the First World War. A few years later, Heawood’s colleague, Kennedy Fisher, made an appointment with Levesque to better understand a photograph she found in Heawood’s notes.

## Appearances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- "Melusine"
	+ The Haunter of The Dark
		- "Episode 4"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 TSoI: "Melusine"
2. ↑ K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
Michelangelo illusion

The Michelangelo audio illusion is an audio illusion. When you listen to it, it will sound like white noise. Once you know what it's saying, you can hear it: It says "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free".
The Michelangelo audio illusion first appears in Fugue State as a message from the inhabitants of the planet Haumea.
A loop of the Michelangelo audio illusion is uploaded as ninth episode of The Whisperer in Darkness.
John Tillinghast

**John Tillinghast** (1604-1655) was an English clergyman and Fifth Monarchist, an extreme Puritan sect that emerged after the English Civil War. In the aftermath of Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne's witch trials in Fressingfield, Suffolk which led to the execution of Faith Mills, the village invited Tillinghast to a congregational meeting to discuss their supposed witch problem.

Tillinghast was also an early member of the powerful Tillinghast family and uncle to Pardon Tillinghast, an early settler of Providence, Rhode Island.

## External Links

John Tillinghast at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Tillinghast
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
Gordon Blackwood

**Gordon Blackwood** is a butcher who worked in the village of Pleasant Green in 2007. Blackwood took over the family business from his father, who had bought it from the previous owner just after the Second World War. However, in light of economic pressures due to internet shopping and grocery delivery, Blackwood confided in John Grant that he expected he would have to close the shop before the end of the year due to increasing overheads and a decreasing customer base.

It's unknown whether Blackwood's prediction came true or whether he was still a resident of Pleasant Green when it disappeared in 2016.

1. ↑ "Fragments"
2. ↑ "Fugue State"
Hakeem Bamberick

**Hakeem Bamberick** is a contact and sometime associate of Sebastian Harcourt. While investigating the Black Windmill, Harcourt was looking for Bamberick when he was abducted by agents of Conrad Spijker and transported to the Black Windmill's headquarters in Kholat Syakhl.

1. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
Mrs. Gibson

**Mrs. Gibson née Davis** is Laura Gibson's mother and was Phillip Gibson's second wife. She married Gibson at some point in the early-to-mid 1990s and their daughter, Laura, was born just a few years later. Phillip Gibson disappeared in 2010 but before this, he had rented a storage facility in Canewdon, his place of birth, under his wife's maiden name of Davis.

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 1"
Al Treggore

**Al Treggore** (d. 2018) was the owner and proprietor of the Devil's Reef Trailer Park in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island.

## Early Life

Treggore’s family was originally from Innsmouth, Massachusetts and this heritage was strong enough that when he set up the trailer park he named it after the Devil's Reef off Innsmouth Harbour.

In his early life, Treggore was part of a circus troupe but a fall broke his back and forced him to retire from that career. This was a pivotal event in Treggore’s life and one that he never really recovered from. Trying to make use of his skill set, he became an entertainer for children’s parties under the persona of a clown called ‘Uncle Giggle’.

Treggore tried to move closer to his circus routes when, soon after the Pawtuxet siege involving Joseph Curwen and the Soldiers of Ipqu-Aya, Treggore bought the land in 1981 with a plan to set up a circus museum. However, medical bills relating to his injury put financial pressure on him and he was forced to abandon his museum plan and use the land to set up a trailer park instead.

## The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

In 2018, Treggore was visited by Kennedy Fisher who was searching for Charles Dexter Ward’s trailer. The trailer park owner was reluctant to help and not forthcoming with answers but did eventually lead Fisher to a trailer registered to Dr. Allen.

Fisher later returned to the park with Ezra Weeden to investigate an old system of tunnels she’d discovered. Treggore was not keen for such an investigation to take place because of the attention Fisher’s first visit had brought and citing client confidentiality (something he hadn’t been concerned about during Fisher’s first visit). However, Weeden strong-armed Treggore into allowing access to Ward/Allen’s trailer once again.

During their investigation, Fisher and Weeden discovered that someone had doused the property and underlying caves with gasoline. Returning from the tunnels they discovered Treggore dead, murdered in the trailer, but this was only moments before the gasoline was ignited causing an explosion that Fisher and Weeden were lucky to escape from alive.

## Personality

Al Treggore was a misanthropic person who, in his later years, showed very little care for others. His broken back and end of his circus career appear to start Treggore down a path of bitterness to the point where, when Kennedy Fisher encountered him in 2018, he lacked many of the social niceties. However, despite appearing to see little joy in anyone or anything, he filled his office with memorabilia about his life in the circus and even his time as a children’s clown.

## Appearances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- "Episode 6"
		- "Episode 8"

## Background Information

* The name and backstory for Al Treggore were developed by Julian Simpson out of a set of Call of Cthulhu description cards for non-playable characters.

1. ↑ TSoI: “Harlequin”
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 TCoCDW: ”Episode 6”
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 8”
4. ↑ Miskatonic University Podcast, Episode 195
Kate Isitt

## External Links

**Kate Isitt** (born 1961) is a British actress who played Mrs. Bartholomew in Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? and Caroline Morse in The Haunter of The Dark.

## Performances

* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? (as Mrs. Bartholomew)
	+ All episodes
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Haunter of The Dark
		- "Episode 3" (as Caroline Morse)
		- "Episode 8"
		- "Episode 10"
Lady Viviane

**Lady Viviane**, also known as the **Lady of the Lake**, is the ruler of the folkloric dimension of Avalon.

At some point prior to 2017, Johnson from the Department of Works had visited Avalon and had become an intimate associate of the Lady Viviane, a fact he was keeping from his wife. Their night of passion was quite memorable for the Lady although she was disappointed when Johnson made a hasty departure from her chambers at first light.

When Johnson returned to Avalon with Cinderella Parker and Mary Lairre in search of Libby Ward and Carlton Murray, they were they were escorted by Sir Miles of the Laundes and Elaine of Corbenic to Lady Viviane's court. At court, Lady Viviane and her entourage found it quite amusing that the Department agents misunderstood the Ogilvy family to be blood-thirsty monsters when the court knew full well the Ogilvies were vegetarian. Personally, Lady Viviane was very pleased to see Johnson again and demanded another night with Johnson, this time inviting Parker to join them but rejecting Lairre on the grounds that "I don't lie with ghosts".

Johnson managed to avoid an awkward nocturnal reunion with Lady Viviane by taking his leave to retrieve Ward and Murray.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mythos: "Glamis"
Dr. Stephen Mortimer

**Dr. Stephen Mortimer** was a GP working the village of Pleasant Green in 2007.

One of Mortimer's patients was Mrs. Wilson, who was seeing him about medication for depression. When John Grant later broke into Mortimer's office one night, he discovered that anti-depressants were the most prescribed drug in the village. Despite this prevalence, Mortimer's recorded interactions with Wilson indicate someone who cared about his patients and in dealing with the underlying issues and not simply medicating around the symptoms.

A keen golfer, Mortimer was on the local golf club's committee and spoke with other members about graffiti that was found on the clubhouse wall, part of a wider nuisance campaign conducted by Grant and Kelly Ryan.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fragments"
Harlequin (character)

**Harlequin** is a member of the cyberterrorist group, the Harlequinade, and may also go by the name of **Stephanie Jackson**.

In 2013, Harlequin and the Harlequinade launched a cyberattack on financial and commercial systems around the world using the the Kokomo virus, a piece of malware that encrypted, and thus made useless, any piece of digital data it encountered. The overall goal of the group was to facilitate complete infection of all computer systems worldwide in an effort to prevent technological evolution from outpacing and overwhelming human evolution. However, to infect the more protected government computer systems, the group conceived of a deception to get the Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU) to let the virus through its firewalls.

At the group's request, Alice Price was sent to meet them in the Park Hotel. Harlequin appeared to be the most eccentric and quietest of the trio, something that Price chose to focus on in discussion as a strategy to break the unity of the group. This appeared to work when Harlequin made a secret cry for help by tapping out "Help me" in Morse code with her pen. Price capitalised on Harlequin's apparent weakness and youth to scare her by describing the poor chances of her coming out alive once CTU sent in a tactical squad.

Harlequin appeared to break and revealed both her 'real' name, Stephanie Jackson, and those of her colleagues. She explained that she was an unemployed artist and CTU were able to identify through records that she was 30 years old with both parents deceased. Columbina soon appeared to also break once it was explained that Kokomo would be unable to fulfil its goal without infecting government systems - a weakness of the code that Pantalone had apparently not shared with his colleagues. Price further sewed descension by suggesting that Pantalone, who was an investment banker, might well have ulterior financial motives for launching the cyberattack.

A visibly scared Harlequin then explained that a decryption key in the form of a text file was available to shut down the cyberattack and reverse the digital damage. However, the group had bought enough time with their conversation with Price that CTU, desperate to stop the cyberattack before civil unrest became uncontrollable, let the virus through their firewalls in order to introduce the key. Once this happened, Harlequin started to tap out a new message in Morse code, "Ha ha ha"; far from stopping the cyberattack, the key instead modified the Kokomo virus, now also on government systems, to delete any encrypted information for good.

Harlequin's mood immediately changed, revealing that the whole conversation with Price in the Park Hotel was one big deception in which all three of the group were merely playing parts. She celebrated the spread of Kokomo onto the government computers claiming that the danger presented by technology was now "all gone away."

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Kokomo"
Mary Fisher

**Mary Fisher** (1582 - 1601) was a member of the Fisher family, mother of Temperance Fisher, and briefly a lover of Obed Marsh.

## Early Life

Fisher was born in 1582 in England. She was only four years old when her father, Quentin Fisher, left her and her brother to join John White in establishing the second colony of Roanoke in North America.

## Meeting Obed Marsh

In 1600, 18-year-old Fisher met and became intimate with Obed Marsh, a sea captain who had been an associate of her father in the Roanoke colony some 10 years earlier. It’s almost certain that Marsh deliberately sought out the daughter of Quentin, seeing some sort of genetic potential in the man he’d conducted the failed Roanoke ritual with. It’s unrecorded as to whether Mary Fisher was aware of Marsh’s involvement in the ritual that claimed her father’s life.

## Death

The following year, Mary Fisher died in childbirth with Marsh’s daughter, Temperance Fisher. Marsh did not settle in Chelmsford but instead continued his travels around the world and therefore Temperance was raised by her uncle, Mary’s brother, as one of his own children.

## References

1. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Columbina

**Columbina** is a member of the cyberterrorist group, the Harlequinade, and may also go by the name of **Olivia Wade**.

In 2013, Columbina and the Harlequinade launched a cyberattack on financial and commercial systems around the world using the the Kokomo virus. To facilitate the infection of the more protected government computer systems, the group conceived of a deception to get the Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU) to let the virus through its firewalls. To this end, they requested the CTU send a specific negotiator - Alice Price.

Columbina was the member to open the door and give Price entry to their room in the Park Hotel. True to her namesake's characteristics, Columbina presented as 'the smart one', being calm, informed and in control of the situation; it fell to Columbina to do most of the explaining to Price about the Harlequinade's philosophy and overall goals.

When Harlequin made a secret cry for help by tapping out "Help me" in Morse code with her pen, both she and Pantalone appeared very angry at this betrayal. Soon after this, Harlequin revealed that Columbina's 'real' name was Olivia Wade and that she was a journalist.

Columbina and Pantalone remained resolute in their convictions until Price started to suggest that Pantalone, being an investment banker, might have orchestrated the entire cyberattack for his own financial gain. This betrayal of the Harlequinade's core philosophy appeared to anger Columbina, who began to side with Harlequin claiming that the true goal of the attack, to "[turn] the clock back 30 or 40 years" technologically speaking would be impossible if Kokomo couldn't infect government systems - a weakness of the code that Pantalone had apparently not shared with his colleagues.

The performances of Columbina and her compatriots was convincing enough to trick a desperate CTU into using a so-called decryption key, provided by Harlequin in a supposed effort to save herself from a pending tactical assault. Without first making sure it would work, the CTU let the virus onto the government computer systems, bypassing their firewalls, and then realised that, far from stopping the cyberattack, the key instead modified the Kokomo virus to delete any encrypted information for good.

Columbina celebrated getting the virus onto the government computers claiming that "We've beaten the machines."

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Kokomo"
Mythos - Albion

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## Synopsis

A sinkhole opens up beneath the City of London and Lairre and Parker, fresh from battling Robin Hood and his Merry Men, are tasked by Miranda Hyde (Tracy-Ann Oberman) to rescue Johnson from the depths of the city. Lairre battles an incorrect cultural consensus of British history, while Parker channels Modesty Blaise to become the world’s greatest secret agent; and together they find themselves facing Gogmagog the Giant, as Britain’s past erupts through time to destroy the present.

## Cast and Characters

* Nicola Walker as Lairre
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Tim McInnerny as Johnson
* Tracy-Ann Oberman as Miranda Hyde
* Ewan Bailey as Warden Godfrey, Robin Hood and Tudor 2
* David Holt as Alan-a-Dale, Danvers, Aide 1 and Tudor 1
* David Collings as Geoffrey of Monmouth and Jeff
* Becky Wright as Aide 2

## Notes and Trivia

* Lairre and Parker's mention of Alan-a-Dale being a chicken is a reference to that character's portrayal in the Disney animated film of 1973.
* Lairre's exclamation that "We got Rickmanned!" refers to Alan Rickman's character of Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
* Parker and Lairre's discussion about "Midwich" and "those children" at the end of the story is a reference to John Wyndham's "*The Midwich Cuckoos*".

## Music

* "Aether" by Hildur Gudnadottir
* "Opaque" by Hildur Gudnadottir
* "Elevation" by Hildur Gudnadottir
* "Flugufrelsarinn" by Kronos Quartet
* "My Donegal Shore" by Daniel O’Donnell

## References

1. ↑ http://www.sweettalkproductions.co.uk/production/mythos-episode-3-albion/
Heawood and Kennedy

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher

## Notes and Trivia

* This episode provides a longer, unedited recording of the conversation between Heawood and Kennedy heard in "Footsteps".
* During this conversation, Heawood misremembers the carriage accident at Niagara as taking place in 1865. It actually took place in 1869.
* Heawood mentions the positive review from Miranda Sawyer. This acknowledges Sawyer's real-life review for the Guardian about The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Sawyer has gone on to write positive reviews for all three of the following series.
* Kennedy references a lot of real-life true crime shows as she and Matt try to figure out what tone they want to set for their third season. Jinx, Staircase, the Serial podcast, and Making a Murderer.
Eburnean Ultra

***Eburnean Ultra*** is a Department security classification. It was applied by Deputy Head of Department, Miranda Hyde, during the 2018 Blackfriars Albion Event.

This classification imposes the following protocols:

* All operatives are recalled for briefing and must attend subject to charges
* No hostage rescue is to be attempted during an *Eburnean Ultra* event

With regard to briefings on the event, the protocols are as follows:

* No notes may be taken during any meetings about the event
* No discussion about a briefing may be had outside of the meeting

Violators of any of these particular two protocols are subject to a complete memory wipe and permanent incarceration in a secure mental health facility.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Albion"
Lord Ambrose Tillinghast

**Lord Ambrose Tillinghast** was a British member of the nobility and a prominent member of the influential Tillinghast family. He was married to Lady Beatrice Tillinghast with whom he had at least one son, Godfrey, and one daughter, Eliza.

In 1962, it is believed he arranged for his daughter to move to America after she became pregnant out-of-wedlock by Joseph Curwen.

## Notes

* Aramis Levesque mentions that a member of the Tillinghast family was present at the 1914 Melusine ritual. It is possible this was Lord Ambrose’s father.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 3”
2. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 4”
Alun Armstrong

## External Links

**Alun Armstrong** (born 17 July 1946) is a British actor who played Ezra Weeden in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations* (as Ezra Weeden)
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 3”
		- “Episode 5”
		- “Episode 6”
		- “Episode 8”
		- “Episode 9”
		- “Episode 10”
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- “Episode 1” (archive audio)
James Joyce

## External Links

**James Joyce** is a British actor who has played various characters in the Aldrich Kemp series, Who is Aldrich Kemp? and Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

## Performances

* *Who is Aldrich Kemp?*
	+ “Chapter One: Clara Page” (as Tom)
	+ “Chapter Four: The Spirit of the Age” (as McGarry)
* *Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?*
	+ “Chapter One: Funeral in London” (as Winslow, 'Blue 1' and Airport Worker)
	+ “Chapter Three: Liberty Flights” (as Camera Assistant and Liberty One Pilot)
	+ “Chapter Four: The Murder Clowns” (as Film Director)
	+ “Chapter Five: Bogota” (as Co-Pilot)
Kokomo

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## Episode Guide • Transcript

Kokomo (2013) is a 1-hour radio play by Julian Simpson.

## Synopsis

A single act of cyber-terrorism. A computer virus - incredibly advanced and coded in a language no one understands - is released onto the internet, encrypting every piece of information held on every system.

All information is being held hostage.

Alice Price is sent in to negotiate the safe return of the information before the world descends into chaos. But who are the terrorists and why have they asked for Price?

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Robert Glenister as Philip Levine and Phone Agent 3
* Rufus Wright as Steven Daguero and Phone Agent 1
* Tim McInnerny as Pantalone
* Louise Brealey as Harlequin, Receptionist and Phone Agent 2
* Hermione Norris as Columbina
* Nicola Walker as Alice Price

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

## Music

* "Infra" by Max Richter
* "Malfunction" by Jonathan Sharp
* "2 Bling" by Tom McCarthy and performed by Ultraphonic

## Notes and Trivia

* This story marks the first appearance in the Pleasant Green Universe for Tim McInnerny, Rufus Wright, Robert Glenister and Louise Brealey.

## External Links

* Sweet Talk Productions: Kokomo
* Julian Simpson's SoundCloud: Kokomo
* BBC: Kokomo
Man Ray

**Man Ray** (27 August 1890 – 18 November 1976) was an American visual artist. In 1925, he is believed to have taken a photograph outside the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol of a gathering of significant friends and associates. In the photograph's foreground were Aleister Crowley, Alice Prin (Man Ray's girlfriend at the time), Nancy Cunard, André Gide and Pablo Picasso. May Ray's photograph became important nearly a century later when further investigation indicated the photographer had unwittingly also captured another significant gathering in the background of the picture. This was a meeting of fascists and occultists including Obed Marsh, Edwin Lillibridge and Ernest Gladwin.

## External Links

Man Ray at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man\_Ray
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 7"
3. ↑ K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
4. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
Ivan Kerchenko

**Ivan Kerchenko** (d. 2015) was a Russian oligarch who was married to Ada Hefelfinger and owned property in London on The Bishops Avenue. He was assassinated in Vienna, Austria in 2015, leaving much of his estate to his wife. While in the guise of Philip Mendell, Aldrich Kemp suggested to Clara Page that the Themis Group was responsible for Kerchenko's death, possibly at the behest of Hefelfinger's herself.

1. ↑ WiAK: "Clara Page"