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Ian Bartram

**Ian Bartram** is the manager of a caravan park near Dunwich, Suffolk. He is also a former police detective with the Suffolk Constabulary who led the investigation into the disappearance of the Blake family in 2010.

Early in Bartram's career, he was called to the discovery of Robert Blake's body outside his home near Orford. Officially, Blake's death was ruled a heart attack, possibly brought on by being outside during the Great Storm of 1987. However, Bartram noted that while he had seen many heart attack victims during his career in the police, Blake was unusual in that he was found with a look of "pure, bloody terror" on his face.

## The Blake House Mystery

Bartram's last case before retiring from the police was the disappearance of the Blake family in November, 2010. His investigation didn't provide any answers and the fact this last case went unsolved was very frustrating to him. However, six years later Bartram was brought in as a consultant when five bodies were discovered below the now-abandoned Blake house, in the cellar of the Marston house that had been there before it.

However, despite this discovery, the evidence couldn't be used as it brought up some very odd results to the extent that when investigative journalist, Kennedy Fisher, interviewed Bartram about the case in 2023, he was initially reluctant to talk about it for fear that what he would say would make him look foolish. However, Bartram did confirm several odd facts about the case including that the bodies had been in the cellar since 1935, long before any of the deceased had even been born; that the fourth body was Phillip Gibson, that an *80-year-old* digital voice recorder was also discovered with the remains; and that some of the evidence went missing afterwards.

## Retirement

Bartram was married but his wife died at some point in the 2010s. Not doing well with the loneliness, he took up a job as manager of a caravan park on National Trust land on the southern edge of Dunwich, Suffolk. He lives on-site in one of the static caravans.

## Notes

* The character of Ian Bartram replaces that of DI Jim Marquez of Christchurch Police who was lead investigator of the Blake family's disappearance in "Bad Memories" when the story was set in the New Forest, Hampshire.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 THoTD: "Episode 5"
Abdul Alhazred

**Abdul Alhazred** (? - 738) was a follower of Ipqu-Aya and the author of the *Necronomicon*. He was also known as the Mad Poet of Sanaa.

## Early Life

Little is known about Alhazred’s childhood and upbringing. He is believed to come originally from Sanaa in the Umayyad Caliphate (located in present-day Yemen).

## Following the Path of Ipqu-Aya

By 700, Alhazred had become a committed follower of Ipqu-Aya and to that end, he travelled to Nineveh in Mesopotamia (located in present-day Mosul, Iraq) looking for the artefact containing Ipqu-Aya’s soul as well as the clay tablets with the ritual instructions to resurrect the evil sorcerer. Alhazred was ultimately unsuccessful in finding these particular items but did find a number of clay tablets with other teachings of Ipqu-Aya.

Spurred on by these findings, Alhazred travelled into the Empty Quarter (Rub’ al Khali) and tracked down a secret race of ‘Elder Beings’ that according to legend inhabited the Earth long before humans. Alhazred then spent the next 10 years under the desert with these ancient beings, learning the secrets of death as well as numerous other rituals.

## Return to Damascus

Alhazred emerged from the desert around 710 and travelled to Damascus. Once there, he distilled everything he had learned into a book that would come to be known as the Necronomicon. Unfortunately, for Alhazred, if the goal had been to disseminate the knowledge of the Elder Beings, then this greatly angered them and they retaliated.

## Death at the Hands of the Harlequin

In 738, Alhazred was attacked and killed in the middle of a Damascene street by an invisible monster known as the Harlequin. Dr. Eleanor Peck suggests that Alhazred’s fantastical death at the hands of a mythological beast is the result of centuries of exaggeration of Alhazred being ambushed and assassinated by a sect like the Hashishin who were engaged in a ritual known as the Wild Hunt.

Peck and podcaster Matthew Heawood also conjectured that Alhazred’s murder might actually have been prompted by his rejection of what he’d learned in the Empty Quarter once he realised that his communing with the Elder Beings was actually just Nyarlathotep trying to manipulate him into opening a portal for Azathoth from the Dreamlands.

## Legacy

Regardless of the reasons for his death, Alhazred’s legacy is a strong one and he has had followers and devotees centuries after his death, including noted 20th-century occultist, Aleister Crowley. The Mad Poet’s magnum opus, the *Necronomicon*, continued to be tracked down the centuries and at various times the search for Alhazred’s teachings became the sole focus for many people, including Amelia Fenner, Barbara Sayers, Charles Dexter Ward and Tania Radcliffe. Despite this, Parker, who claims to have read the book, criticised it as boring.

## References

1. ↑ TCoCDW: “Episode 5"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 TCoCDW: ”Episode 7”
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 TSoI: “Harlequin”
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
5. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 5”
Charles Dylan

**Charles 'Charlie' Dylan** (d. 2008) was an associate of Leonard 'Lenny' Price and Mia Warren.

Charlie lived with Lenny but, unlike his friend, didn't have a job and spent most of the day, according to Yuri Kerchenko, smoking marijuana and watching TV. Despite having a clean criminal record, he was involved by association with Mia and Lenny's terrorist activities. While surveillance by the SD1 counter-terrorism unit didn't reveal Charlie having any direct involvement with such activity, he was almost certainly aware of his friends' criminal acts.

Both Charlie and Lenny were murdered by Warren who slit their throats to guarantee a quiet kill as she was well aware they were under surveillance. She arranged for at least a day of conversation in their flat to be recorded beforehand and then played the recording on a loop to fool Kerchenko and Martin Willis. The underlying reason for Charlie and Lenny's execution is unclear as Warren was shot dead by SD1 officers before she could be interrogated on this matter.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Listener"
Chapter Five: Bogota

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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 and Pilot
* James Joyce as Co-Pilot

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

**Heidi Mundt** (d. 2023) was a Swiss white-supremacist who ran an international human-trafficking network. She was the wife of Carl Mundt.

Around 2022, Mundt was approached by Vladimir North to collaborate in manufacturing a world-wide measles pandemic that would kill millions of people. While Mundt's racist philosophy and ethically abhorrent treatment of her fellow human beings means she might have willingly helped North in this endeavour, it is possible that she, like Aldrich Kemp, was subjected to mind control to guarantee her compliance. Despite all this, Lilith Tregowan still considered Mundt a nice woman who was perfectly good company.

Mundt's role in the project was to provide human test subjects on which Dr. Scott Alvarez could test and refine as virulent and lethal strain of measles as possible. It then fell to another collaborator, Nadir Abdulrahman, to establish transport networks and timetables that would allow materials and test subjects to be delivered to Alvarez in Uruguay. Mundt's other contribution to North's goal was as a director on the board of the freight company, Liberty Flights, along with Alvarez, Abdulrahman, North and Kemp. This company had been bought for the purpose of releasing the virus through an air-crash in a major European city.

Being a psychopath with the goal of killing as many people as possible, North arranged for Mundt's death as soon as she'd served her purpose for him. She died in a car accident in the Swiss Alps.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WKAK: "The Murder Clowns"
2. ↑ WKAK: "Liberty Flights"
3. ↑ WKAK: "Bogota"
4. ↑ WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
Fisher (surname)

* The Fisher Family Tree

## Notable people with the surname

* Abigail Fisher, (1900-1999), head of the Church of Starry Wisdom
* Edith Fisher
* Emily Fisher, 19th century co-owner of Fisher shipping company
* Kennedy Fisher (b. 1985), investigative podcaster
* Mary Fisher (1582-1601)
* Matthew Fisher (b. 1620), co-founder of Fisher shipping company
* Quentin Fisher (d. 1589), occultist and early English settler of North America
* Samuel Fisher, 19th century co-owner of Fisher shipping company
* Temperance Fisher (b. 1601), English cunning woman and co-founder of the Fisher shipping company

1. ↑ Conjectural
Black swan events

**Black swan events** are the label given to catastrophic events that are currently impossible to predict, such as random acts of terror.

For many years, it was theorised that an advanced enough computer system might be able to identify the small, seemingly random events that will contribute to a forthcoming catastrophe. In this way, forecasting of such events might help to save lives. Namibian computing engineer and entrepreneur, Lotte Amutenya, successfully achieved this feat of computer programming in 2022 when she built Cascade. Unfortunately, she used it in league with Vladimir North not to predict disasters but to manufacture one deliberately.

1. ↑ WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
Mr. Durchdenwald

**Durchdenwald** was an associate of Mr. Bartholomew who was based in Vienna, Austria.

Bartholomew directed his subordinate, Clara Page, to meet with Durchdenwald when she reported in after escaping Conrad Spijker's Albanian dungeon. Page disobeyed these orders on the advice of Aldrich Kemp after it was revealed that Bartholomew was working with Spijker. Bartholomew had already asked Spijker to kill Page, so it is likely that Durchdenwald was an assassin tasked with finishing the job.

1. ↑ WiAK: "Kholat Syakhl"
2. ↑ WiAK: "The Black Windmill"
Alice Prin

**Alice Prin** (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), also known as **Kiki de Montparnasse**, was a French model, actress and painter. In 1925, she was photographed outside the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris by Man Ray, her boyfriend at the time. Others in the photograph's foreground included were Aleister Crowley, Nancy Cunard, André Gide and Pablo Picasso, while in the background were Obed Marsh, Edwin Lillibridge and Ernest Gladwin.

## External Links

Alice Prin at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice\_Prin
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 7"
3. ↑ K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
4. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
Marjorie Wild

**Marjorie Wild** is an American school librarian who worked at the school that Charles Dexter Ward attended before being expelled. As of 2018, she had been in position for seven years. Ezra Weeden revealed this information to Kennedy Fisher as a means of proving that George Shepley, who had been posing as the school librarian, was not who he said he was.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 8"
Newburyport

**Newburyport** is a coastal city in Massachusetts, United States. It provides one of the main bus routes to get to the more southerly coastal town of Innsmouth.

In 1927, Robert Olmstead was travelling from Newburyport when his bus stopped in Innsmouth and he had to stay in that town overnight.

Kennedy Fisher stopped off in Newburyport on her own journey to Innsmouth in 2020 when she was investigating her family tree. Soon after this, Fisher's colleague, Alice, crosschecked Innsmouth records with those in Newburyport and the state archives in Boston to discover that no deaths had been registered in Innsmouth in 1897.

While in the guise of Casey, Obed Marsh told Kennedy Fisher that his mother's side of the family was from Newburyport.

## References

1. ↑ TSoI: "Haumea"
2. ↑ TWiD: "Urgent Update from Kennedy Fisher"
3. ↑ TSoI: "Harlequin"
Adam Godley

## External Links

**Adam Godley** (born 22 July 1964) is a British/American actor who played George Shepley in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations* (as George Shepley)
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 1”
		- “Episode 2”
		- “Episode 3”
		- “Episode 5”
		- “Episode 7”
		- “Episode 8”
		- “Episode 9”
Cambridge University

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

Both Aldrich Kemp and Clara Page went to Cambridge. Clara's mother, Selena, had hoped she would go to Oxford, but Clara graduated with a first-class degree having read the History of Modern Languages.

The university is also home to the Cambridge University Audio Lab, whose experts such as Rachel Weir and Charlotte Davenport have been consulted on cases such as the Blake House Mystery and The Whisperer in Darkness.

## External Links

* University of Cambridge at Wikipedia

1. ↑ WiAK: "Themis House"
2. ↑ WiAK: "Clara Page"
3. ↑ "Bad Memories"
4. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 6"
André Gide

**André Gide** (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a famous French author. In 1925, he 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, Nancy Cunard and Pablo Picasso, while in the background were Obed Marsh, Edwin Lillibridge and Ernest Gladwin.

## External Links

André Gide at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9\_Gide
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 7"
3. ↑ K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
4. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
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Cerulean Harvest

***Cerulean Harvest*** is a Department security classification. It was used for the 2017 Glamis Castle Incident.

Under this classification, any team deployed to an event requires high-level oversight in the field. Director Johnson used *Cerulean Harvest* to justify his inclusion on Lairre and Parker's team, despite not being field-certified.

## References

1. ↑ Mythos: "Mythos"
2. ↑ Mythos: "Glamis"
Ben Crowe

### Series

Standalones, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness, Who is Aldrich Kemp?, Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?, The Haunter of The Dark

## External Links

**Ben Crowe** is a British actor who has played at least 24 characters in the Pleasant Green Universe but is best known for his role as Marcus Byron in The Haunter of The Dark, and Dr. David Hazlitt in Who is Aldrich Kemp? and Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

## Performances

* “Fugue State” (as Driver, Butler, Pilot, Barman and Dave)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 1” (as Contact)
		- "Episode 4" (as Thug 1)
		- “Episode 5” (as Guard)
		- "Episode 9" (as Thug 1 and Warden)
		- "Episode 10" (as Warden)
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- "Episode 2" (as Jim Penniston)
		- “Episode 3” (as Ben)
		- “Episode 4” (as Ben and Policeman)
	+ The Haunter of The Dark
		- All episodes except "Episode 3", "Episode 4" and "Episode 5" (as Marcus Byron)
		- “Episode 5” (as Robert Blake)
* *Who is Aldrich Kemp?*
	+ “Chapter One: Clara Page” (as Howlett)
	+ “Chapter Four: The Spirit of the Age” (as Uncle Dave and Sir Christopher)
	+ “Chapter Five: Kholat Syakhl” (as Dr. David Hazlitt)
* *Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?*
	+ All episodes (as Novak)
	+ “Chapter One: Funeral in London” (as ‘Blue 2’ and Taxi Driver)
	+ "Chapter Two: The Man Who Sold the World" (as Vartan Boghossian)
	+ “Chapter Three: Liberty Flights” (as Dr. David Hazlitt and Liberty One Co-Pilot)
	+ “Chapter Four: The Murder Clowns”
	+ “Chapter Five: Bogota” (as Dr. David Hazlitt and Pilot)
Counter-Terrorist Unit

**The Counter-Terrorist Unit** or **CTU** is a government department attached to the security services responsible for protecting the United Kingdom from terrorist threats. The head of the CTU in 2013 was Philip Levine.

In 2013, the CTU took the lead in responding to the Kokomo cyberattack instigated by the cyberterrorist group, the Harlequinade. Levine and his deputy, Steven Daguero, sent in negotiator, Alice Price, to talk with the group at their request. Levine and Daguero listened in to their conversations through a wire that Price was wearing.

Unfortunately, Levine's lack of understanding around cybersecurity as well as pressure from Whitehall to resolve the situation before riots and societal collapse, meant the CTU head overruled Daguero and, without running safety tests first, allowed the Kokomo virus to spread onto government systems. Along with a 'decryption key' that was in actuality a modifier to the virus that ordered the deletion of all previously encrypted data, this ended up making the situation much worse.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kokomo"
Mahala Smith

**Mahala Smith** (d. 1869) was a lady living in Providence, Rhode Island in the 19th century. On September 24th 1869, she was travelling in a horse-drawn carriage from Buffalo to Providence with Mr Tillinghast, Mary Ann Ballou, Emily Fisher and a fourth woman who may have been Annabelle Marsh.

Around Niagara Falls, the driver lost control of the horses and the carriage plummeted into a precipice near Clifton House. Smith died instantly in the accident while her associate, Mary Ann Ballou, died of her injuries a short while later.

The incident was significant enough to have been reported in the Times newspaper in London the following month.

1. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 5"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Haumea"
Jack Wilson

**Jack Wilson** was a resident of Pleasant Green, having moved to the village in 2005.

Wilson and his family had lived in London when he was working in the financial sector. However, with his son and daughter both nearly adults, he and his wife decided they wanted to move out to the countryside desiring a greater sense of community. It's unclear how successful this move was for Jack, but his wife struggled to establish a new social network in the village and, after their son left home to go to university, she started to be prescribed antidepressants by their local GP, Dr. Mortimer.

Despite having moved out of the city, Wilson continued to be busy with work. By 2007, he'd taken on a large project at work which led to him and his wife usually seeing each other only first thing in the morning or last thing at night. Wilson's absence was also noticed by Mortimer, suggesting he may have been a member of the local golf club, like the doctor.
Innsmouth Historical Society

The **Innsmouth Historical Society** is a small, possibly one-man society run by Zadok Allen out of a tiny one-room building on the docks that had likely been a customs office of some sort when Innsmouth Harbour had been a busier port of trade. When Kennedy Fisher visited the town to investigate her own family history, Casey suggested she might try the historical society. However, Fisher struggled to get much useful information out of Allen on account of his magic mushroom drug habit.

1. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Melusine"
Devil's Reef

The **Devil's Reef** is a shallow area of water just off the coast of Innsmouth, Massachusetts.

The reef is a rock formation that, at low tide once a month, will breach the surface of the water. The first settlers to Innsmouth believed the reef to be home to dark forces and evil spirits and thus they called it the devil's reef.

In the 19th century, Obed Marsh moved supernatural beings known as the Deep Ones from Rub’ al Khali to Innsmouth. He relocated them to below the reef and then converted the town to reject their Christian beliefs and instead worship these sea creatures. A result of this was that the town ceased to bury their dead on land and instead offer the bodies to the Deep Ones by disposing of them out on the Devil's Reef.

## Notes

This location is based on the Devil Reef in H. P. Lovecraft's original story, The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: "Harlequin"
2. ↑ TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Chapter Four: The Spirit of the Age

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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
* Jana Carpenter as Jane and Catherine Underwood
* Steven Mackintosh as Conrad Spijker
* Louise Brealey as Margot Benoit
* Ben Crowe as Uncle Dave and Sir Christopher
* James Joyce as McGarry and Nurse

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 memory machine described in this episode, Kaleidoscope, is named after an unmade TV pilot written by Julian Simpson.
* The private club that Nakesha Kemp meets Sir Christopher in is Blades. This is a fictional gentlemen's club from Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

## References

1. ↑ Julian Simpson interview with SFB
Edward Kelley

**Edward Kelley** (1555 - 1597/8) was an English occultist.

Kelley was a practitioner of Enochian magic and along with his associates, John Dee and Quentin Fisher, they performed Enochian rituals and translated Abdul Alhazred’s Necronomicon into English.

## References

1. ↑ Dates from Kelley's Wikipedia entry
2. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 4”
3. ↑ TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Blades

**Blades** is an elite private members' club in London. The club hosts gambling, such as games of Chemin de fer, and also has a kitchen that provides high-end dishes and a range of top-quality drinks.

In 2022, Nakesha Kemp met with Sir Christopher at the club. While talking in the Iceni suite, Sir Christopher arranged for one of the concierges, McGarry, to drug Kemp's drink when it was obvious that the Themis Group had uncovered Sir Christopher's business ties with Conrad Spijker.

## Notes

Blades is named after **the fictional gentlemen's club** from Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

1. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
Evening Standard

The London **Evening Standard** is a daily newspaper published in Britain.

Diane Netley worked as a secretary at the newspaper in the early 1980s. One of her informal roles was to keep the story pitches of Robert Blake away from the desk of her boss. This led to a telephone friendship between the two that ended when Blake died during the Great Storm of 1987.

## External Links

* Evening Standard at Wikipedia

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
British Museum

The **British Museum** is a public museum in London.

In 1851, Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam's conducted excavations in Mosul that uncovered the Royal Library of Ashurnbanipal. Many artefacts from their excavations were shipped directly to the British Museum, but some are said to have got lost in transit.

The museum currently holds original copies of two pieces composed by the Comte de Saint Germain.

## External Links

* British Museum at Wikipedia
* The British Museum (official website)

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 7"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
Demon's Alley, New Jersey

**Demon's Alley** was a town in New Jersey, USA built by the city of Newark to house workers of the water and reservoir plant. At some point in the 1980s, it was reported that a cult leader moved into the town and took control of the townspeople by bringing them under his spell. In 1992, everyone in the town vanished without a trace leaving no sign of conflict and simply a lot of empty houses.

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

1. ↑ TSoI: “Saint Germain”
2. ↑ TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Istanbul, Turkey

**Istanbul** is the largest city in Turkey. The city exists on both sides of the Bosporus strait that links the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.

In 1945, a former vessel for Ipqu-Aya, Rudolf von Sebottendorf was working as a somewhat ineffective double agent for the British in Istanbul. He ended his life on May 8th (the same day the Germans surrendered) by jumping into the Bosporus.

In 1985, Aldrich and Nakesha Kemp were travelling to Istanbul from Mozambique with their parents when their private plane crashed due to sabotage leaving them orphaned.

Around 1986, Barbara Sayers is as known to have visited the city during her search for the *Necronomicon*.

Around the start of 2023, a commercial airliner flying from Aden, Yemen to Istanbul crashed early in its flight. This was considered to be a suspicious event as one of the passengers was the ex-head of Yemeni intelligence, Nadir Abdulrahman.

## External Links

Istanbul at Wikipedia

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 7"
2. ↑ WiAK: "Themis House"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 5"
4. ↑ WKAK: "The Murder Clowns"
Sacred Heart Hospital

**Sacred Heart** is a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Kennedy Fisher was a patient at the hospital in 2019 after being found unconscious by Ezra Weeden at the Devil's Reef Trailer Park. She was an overnight patient being treated for minor cuts and bruises and a mild concussion.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 8"
Cobalt India

***Cobalt India*** is a Department security classification. It was applied to all materials relating to the disappearance of Pleasant Green in 2016.

This classification made the phrase "pleasant green" an ECHELON trigger word. In addition, according to Johnson, *Cobalt India* also provided the Department with the authority to kill people who become aware of Pleasant Green without appropriate authorisation, as was almost the case with Jonathan Hicks.

## References

1. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 4"
2. ↑ WiAK: "The Black Windmill"
3. ↑ Mythos: "Mythos"
Eliza Tillinghast

**Eliza Tillinghast** (1940 - ?) was an occultist, a follower of the cult of Ipqu-Aya, and a member of the influential Tillinghast family.

## Early Life

Eliza was born in 1940 to Lord Ambrose Tillinghast and Lady Beatrice Tillinghast. She was the younger sister of Godfrey Tillinghast. It’s speculated that the Tillinghast who was involved in the failed summoning ritual at Melusine with Obed Marsh and Edward Landsdale was Eliza’s grandfather. Thus, the family’s generations-long involvement in the cult of Ipqu-Aya and the Esoteric Order of Dagon means that, like her brother, Eliza was likely taught about their beliefs and rituals from an early age.

Eliza went to finishing school in Switzerland and it was here that she met Caroline Hughes, who she later introduced to her brother and would eventually become her sister-in-law.

## The New Forest Coven

In 1962, Eliza, Godfrey and Caroline joined Joseph Curwen’s New Forest Coven. All three of them engaged in sex magic rituals with Curwen, who was the living vessel of Ipqu-Aya at the time. However, both Eliza and Hughes sought to become pregnant by Curwen and thus take control of the Ipqu-Aya bloodline. They were successful in this, but a falling out between them and Curwen resulted in the cult leader physically beating one of the women (it’s not clear which one). This led Godfrey to take them away from the coven and use his government contacts to have Curwen driven out of the New Forest and separated from his coven.

## Family

While Caroline was able to marry Godfrey quickly and avoid any sort of scandal around being pregnant out-of-wedlock, no such option was available to Eliza. As a result, her father paid for her emigration to America where she settled in Providence, Rhode Island, an area to which her family had strong historic ties.

She successfully gave birth to a baby daughter, Sarah, in 1963. When filling out the birth certificate, she acknowledged Joseph Curwen as the father of her child. Sarah’s own marriage to Howard Philip Ward in 1991, a man descended from the first cunning man to travel to the New World on the Mayflower, suggests that Eliza taught her daughter about the occult and about her own heritage as a Tillinghast.

However, Sarah appears not to have felt the same way about her occult background as her mother and tried to hide this from her son, Charles. In 2010, Sarah Ward was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident but it’s not clear whether she was survived by her mother or not.

It's not clear exactly when Eliza Tillinghast passed away but her brother, Godfrey, alluded to her passing when speaking with Matthew Heawood.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 3”
2. ↑ TSoI: "Melusine"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 4”
4. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 1”
5. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 9"
Chelmsford, Essex

**Chelmsford** is a city in the centre of Essex.

Temperance Fisher, who would go on to establish the Fisher shipping company in Innsmouth, Massachusetts, was born just outside Chelmsford in 1601. She and her son, Matthew, left the area for the Americas shortly before 1645, when Matthew Hopkins conducted the Chelmsford Assizes when he accused 29 women of being witches.

In 1985, Destiny Fenner married Phillip Gibson in the city but divorced six years later.

## References

1. ↑ See East Anglia Map
2. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 10"
Jana Carpenter

### Series

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

## External Links

**Jana Carpenter** (born 26 January 1971) is an American actress, singer and musician who has played a variety of characters within the Pleasant Green Universe. Her most notable character is Kennedy Fisher from *The Lovecraft Investigations*. She is married to Julian Simpson.

## Performances

* “Bad Memories” (as Imogen Blake)
* *Mythos*
	+ “Glamis” (as Libby Ward)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations* (as Kennedy Fisher)
	+ All episodes except "Episode 7" of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and “Episode 9” of The Whisperer in Darkness
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- "Footsteps" (as Daisy Marsh)
		- "Pleasant Green"
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
	+ “Themis House”, “The Spirit of the Age” and “Kholat Syakhl” (as Catherine and Jane Underwood)
	+ “Themis House” and “The Black Windmill” (as Kennedy Fisher)
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
	+ All episodes except “Liberty Flights” (as The Underwood Sisters)
	+ “The Man Who Sold the World”, “The Murder Clowns” and “Bogota” (as Forsaken McTeague)
	+ “Liberty Flights” (as Nurse)
Justin

**Justin** was member of the crew at Red Hook Stories.

When Kennedy Fisher got George Shepley to read out a letter from Charles Dexter Ward to Dr. Jonathan Willett, she suggested that if Matthew Heawood didn't like Shepley's voice, he could get Justin to redo it. Ultimately, Shepley's reading was left in the episode as Heawood, who had just been beaten up, was not in a position to do any post-production work.

## References

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 4"
2. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 5"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 7"
Catherine Kanter

## External Links

**Catherine Kanter** is a British actress who played Victoria Ness and Laura Gibson in The Haunter of The Dark. She also played the minor role of Police Officer in "Episode 8" of the same series.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Haunter of The Dark
		- "Episode 1" (as Laura Gibson)
		- "Episode 5" (as Victoria Ness)
		- "Episode 8" (as Victoria Ness and Police Officer)
		- "Episode 9" (as Victoria Ness)
		- "Episode 10"
Episode Guide

The list below provides the sequential order of the episodes of *The Pleasant Green Universe*.

## Standalones

There are several audio plays that are not part of The Lovecraft Investigations but are mentioned in that series and are linked to the events therein.

## Mythos

Mythos is a series of three episodes focusing on the Department of Works. The main characters are Mary Lairre, Parker, and Johnson.

## The Lovecraft Investigations

These four series are linked under the Header The Lovecraft Investigations. They revolve around the podcast *The Mystery Machine*, made by Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.

## Aldrich Kemp

We are back in Julian Simpson's imagination - this time following the adventures of Aldrich Kemp and Clara Page on journeys which takes us to glamourous and sometimes improbable locations, encountering Euro-villains and murderous housekeepers.
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Michael Maloney

## External Links

**Michael Maloney** (born 19 June 1957) is a British actor who played Aramis Levesque in "Melusine" and "Episode 4" of The Haunter of The Dark, and also Ian Bartram in "Episode 5" of The Haunter of The Dark.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- "Melusine" (as Aramis Levesque)
	+ The Haunter of The Dark
		- "Episode 4" (as Aramis Levesque)
		- "Episode 5" (as Ian Bartram)
Alice

**Alice** (d. 2020) was an administrator at the records office in Providence, Rhode Island.

## Helping in Providence

Alice first became involved in the Mystery Machine investigations during The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. She aided Kennedy Fisher when the investigator was trying to identify who owned 23 Olney St. Alice’s knowledge of the City Hall’s archives meant that, with a little work, the connection between this property and Barbara Sayers could be established.

Later on, Alice was able to progress Fisher’s investigations again when she uncovered records of Charles Dexter Ward’s ownership of a trailer in the Devil's Reef Trailer Park.

## Assisting in Innsmouth

After her interactions with Kennedy Fisher, Alice became a big fan of the Mystery Machine podcast and she began to conduct her own research into the Niagara Falls carriage accident uncovered during the events in The Whisperer in Darkness. This led her, like it did Fisher, to Innsmouth. Alice’s enthusiasm for historical archives got the better of her and she decided to take some time off from her job and travel to Innsmouth to continue her own investigations.

When she encountered Fisher, who had also travelled to the small town for the same reasons, the podcaster was initially weary of Alice. However, Alice’s efficient and thorough investigation of the Innsmouth records ended up saving Fisher a lot of time.

Alice’s enthusiasm led her to uncover her own little mystery in Innsmouth - that no one had apparently been buried in the town since 1897. This initially led her to suspect that no one had died in the town for over a century but this was later found not to be the case. Alice was keen to continue investigating this odd quirk of the town but Fisher chose instead to focus on her own family history.

## Death

Alice’s investigations in Innsmouth with Kennedy eventually led to her looking directly into the Marsh family and it appears that this crossed a line. It’s unclear whether she went to the Marsh house overlooking Innsmouth Harbour of her own accord or whether she was taken there, but Fisher and Parker found Alice’s remains while searching through the derelict property. Her body had been ripped into small pieces and her face had been peeled from the skull and nailed to the wall.

## Appearances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- "Episode 2"
		- "Episode 5" (mentioned)
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- "Haumea"
		- "Apartment 6"
		- "Melusine"
		- "Saint Germain"

## References

1. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 2”
2. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 5”
3. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 5”
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 TSoI: "Haumea"
5. ↑ TSoI: "Melusine"
6. ↑ TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Blake Hornsby

**Blake Hornsby** (d. 2016) was an astrophysicist who worked for the Department of Works.

Hornsby's scientific background made him the best person for Mr. Johnson to deploy when a numbers station started transmitting out from Pleasant Green and aerial reconnaissance was either blocked or showed no signs of movement anywhere in the village. The numbers station message was relaying the aphelion and perihelion coordinates of the dwarf planet, Haumea. After being briefed, Hornsby travelled to the edge of the village by helicopter under the cover of being a location scout for a film company. His investigations led him to a barn that was particularly suspicious because no one in the village could remember exactly where it was. One of the supposed residents, Polly, directly warned him against approaching the barn.

Hornsby was later recovered by medical teams posted outside the village perimeter. He walked out towards them in a daze and then collapsed. Johnson brought in Dr. Fallon, a specialist in neurological conditions, and she quickly determined that Hornsby was in a fugue state - being aware and able to listen and process stimuli, but completely unable to respond. In the hospital, Fallon and her colleague, Simon, tried to help Hornsby process his experiences by using audio prompts to get him to relive his experience in the village.

This ultimately led to a particular part of the numbers station message, a heavily garbled quote from Michelangelo, "*I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.*" to push Hornsby (and later Simon and Dr. Fallon) deeper into this fugue state to the point where they were met by Polly in the Mindscape.

Polly explained that Hornsby and some others in the village had evolved, prompted by the numbers station message. Hornsby initially struggled to comprehend the transformation he was experiencing, being reluctant to let go of his corporeal, three-dimensional thinking. Further interaction with Polly, and then with Simon, helped Hornsby to let go of his incapacitated, physical body.

## References

1. ↑ Not technically dead but evolved into a non-corporeal consciousness.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Fugue State"
Aubrey Dawson

**Aubrey Dawson** was a character brought into existence by the 2017 Hadleigh Fracture Event.

Not a real person, he and others encountered by Department agents, Mary Lairre and Jonathan Hicks, were more like ghosts or memories of people who had once existed - in this case, the memories of Seth Taylor.

When Lairre and Hicks encountered Sergeant Dawson and his subordinate, a corporal named Ted, they were initially suspected of being Germans. Dawson and Ted were members of the Home Guard protecting the village of Hadleigh from potential German invasions in 1943. Dawson was convinced by Lairre, who played into their reality, that she was a government agent whose odd colleague was suffering from shellshock. He subsequently directed the agents to the Murrell house.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Mythos"
Canewdon, Essex

**Canewdon** is a village in the south-east of Essex.

The village has strong ties to folk magic. In around 1785, the last cunning man of England, James Murrell was said by Mary Lairre to be born in the village of Canewdon. Murrell was said to have have released the spirit of Ipqu-Aya near the end of his life and, in 1860, placed it into the body of his apprentice, George Pickingill was similarly born in Canewdon and also died there, supposedly at the age of 103.

During the Second World War, the military base RAF Canewdon was involved in the early Chain Home Radar system of the 1930s. It was speculated by Marcus Byron that the proximity of the radar system might have been a contributing factor in Mary Marston's slaughter of her family in 1935 in Capel St. Andrew. The base was decommissioned after the war and by the 2000s the buildings had been turned into a self-storage facility.

In the early 1960s, Phillip Gibson was born in the village. He kept a unit in the storage facility on the old RAF Canewdon site. Byron and Kennedy Fisher visited the unit to search for Robert Blake's notebook in 2023.

## External Links

* Canewdon at Wikipedia

1. ↑ See East Anglia Map
2. ↑ James Murrell at Wikipedia
3. ↑ Mythos: "Mythos"
4. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 7"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 THoTD: "Episode 1"
6. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 2"
Borley Rectory

**Borley Rectory** was a house in Borley, Essex that was known as the most haunted house in England.

According to legend, the ghost mainly responsible for the hauntings was Marie Lairre, a 17th-century French nun who was murdered and then her body was hidden in the basement of the house. Lairre's hauntings were documented by multiple witnesses during the early 20th century. Borley Rectory was demolished in 1944 but the story of Lairre's hauntings has become an established part of English occult folklore.

At some point after the rectory's demolition, Lairre was found by the Department of Works and, through a complex casting of Enochian wards, she is returned to solid form again.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Mythos"
2. ↑ Mythos: "Glamis"
Julian Simpson

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## Portrayal

### Series

Standalones, Mythos, 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

**Julian Simpson** (born 6 March 1972) is a British writer and director and the main creative force behind the Pleasant Green Universe.

He grew up in Felsted, Essex.

Audio is his favourite medium to work in.

He is married to Jana Carpenter and is the father of Edie Simpson. His website can be found at https://www.cartoongravity.com/

## Simpson's Crew

Over the years, Julian Simpson has accrued a troupe of cast and crew that he likes to work with. There are a number of people he has frequently collaborated with.

## External Links

* Cartoon Gravity (Julian Simpson's website)
* Julian Simpson on Soundcloud
* Julian Simpson at Wikipedia
* Julian Simpson on IMDb
* Julian Simpson on Threads
* Julian Simpson on Twitter
* Julian Simpson on Substack

1. ↑ BBC News: BBC HP Lovecraft trilogy: Suffolk location of mystery village revealed
Charlotte Davenport

**Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Davenport** is an audio technician who works at the Cambridge University Audio Lab (CUAL).

Davenport’s services are employed by Kennedy Fisher when Fisher’s associate, ‘Slide’, recommends the technician to clean up the audio recorded from Henry Akeley’s doorbell speaker. With some work, Davenport was able to establish that Akeley was calling from a location with a church and railway station that had a train arriving at 3pm. Fisher also got Davenport to look at the Babalon recording and establish that the distortions in Akeley’s doorbell message and the Babalon transmission were identical.

Davenport’s expertise was used again by Fisher after a mysterious extra episode was released at the end of The Whisperer in Darkness. Davenport was able to identify that the file, which at first appeared to be random static noise, was, in fact, a repeat of the Michelangelo audio illusion. It was Davenport that identified the noise was in fact saying "*I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free.*"

Davenport replaced Rachel Weir at CUAL after Weir inexplicably went missing. She tried to pique Fisher’s interest in investigating the story but to no avail.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
2. ↑ TWiD: "Urgent Update"
3. ↑ "Bad Memories"
Gibson (surname)

## Notable people with the surname

* Christopher Gibson (legal father of Phillip Gibson)
* David Gibson (alias for operative at SD1, also known as 'Martin Willis')
* Laura Gibson (daughter of Phillip Gibson and aunt of Theo Martin)
* Phillip Gibson (occultist and member of the Fisher family)
* Samantha Gibson (daughter of Phillip Gibson and mother of Theo Martin)
Fressingfield, Suffolk

**Fressingfield** is a small town in the north of Suffolk. It is about 20 miles away from Rendlesham Forest.

The town, like many others in the area, was subject to the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins' reign of terror in the early to mid 17th century. In 1645, a young dairy maid named Faith Mills fled Fressingfield despite the local magistrate finding no evidence of witchcraft against her. However, her actions, likely from a fear of vigilante justice, may well have brought about the fate she was trying to escape. Hopkins caught up with Mills in Rendlesham Forest and, after obtaining a false confession, executed her.

## References

1. ↑ See East Anglia Map
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
3. ↑ “The Blake House Mystery”
Emily Fisher

**Emily Fisher** was a member of the influential Fisher family who lived in Innsmouth, Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. She was married to Samuel Fisher and together they ran a shipping company that worked in partnership with the Marsh Refining Company to export gold, Dagon iconography around the world.

On September 24th 1869, Fisher was travelling in a horse-drawn carriage from Buffalo to Providence with Mr Tillinghast, Mahala Smith, Mary Ann Ballou, and a fourth woman who may have been Annabelle Marsh. Around Niagara Falls, the driver lost control of the horses and the carriage plummeted into a precipice near Clifton House. While Smith and Ballou died of their injuries, Fisher and Marsh escaped the accident badly bruised but otherwise unharmed. The incident was significant enough to have been reported in the Times newspaper in London the following month.

It's possible that one of Fisher's descendants, Abigail Fisher, named one of her daughters after Emily Fisher.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: "Haumea"
2. ↑ TWiD: “Episode 5"
3. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 2"