Henry West, PhD.

Dr. Henry West is an Egyptologist and fellow at Miskatonic University in Arkham. He mastered in ancient history, with an emphasis on languages. Although never having visited Egypt, he wrote his doctorate on discovery of several new mastaba tombs in the Nile Valley dating to the Early Dynastic Period.

A noted scholar of the earlier periods of Egyptian civilisation, Dr West has written various articles on obscure references in temple and tomb decorations referring to the presence or influence of a pre-dynastic culture, most noted of which is Out of Darkness to Light: a treaty on the origins of Early Dynastic Architecture.

West's great interest in the work of Nicola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi have led him to attend many of Professor Eric Wood's lectures. Over the course of several of these seances on the Wood's new discoveries in electromagnetism and radio transmission West befriended the renowned MIT physicist. Henry West is presently engaged to wed Vivian Wood, Eric Wood's daughter.

Currently, Henry West is working on a book about the global presence of "his" ancient Egyptian culture, with references in Europe, the Indus Valley and South-East Asia.

In his spare time, West investigates curious cases with some of his former fellow students.

Lieutenant Thomas M. Poole

Thomas Poole is a long-standing member of the New York Police Department and has been in Homicide for the past 20 years.

He is a dour man, marked by his long term on the force, and highly sceptical of everything. He is loyal to his men and goes to great length to protect them. A faint hint of pineapple always seems to surround him.

Only a few months from his retirement, Poole is looking forward to spending some quiet time with his English wife Joan Higgins. All he has to do is solve a series of strange cult killings and he'll be able to retire with a clear mind and try to be at peace with life as a civilian.

Distrustful of the Police Department's post-mortem physician, Poole has frequently turned to the expertise of his long-time friend and poker buddy, William Reich, to help him out in particularly tricky investigations.

Professor Anthony D. Cowles

Professor Anthony Cowles is a visiting lecturer at Miskatonic University. He is an anthropologist with a specialisation in Polynesian Esoteria.

He is an exceedingly friendly man with a boisterous attitude and thunderous voice. Being provoked to tell about one of his interests he can talk for hours on end.

After having done extensive fieldwork in the Australian outback and the islands of the Pacific, Cowles took the chair for Anthropology and Ethnography at Sydney University.

Despite his need for scientific proof and analytic discourse he is a believer in the supernatural and takes little to no effort to hide this. A fact often lamented by his superiors.

Cowles came to Miskatonic University in 1922, with the intention of touring the main US universities with his lecture on The Cults of Darkness in Polynesia and the South-Pacific and along with him he brought his daughter Eva. The latter much to the delight of the male population of Arkham..

Jonah Kensington

Jonah Kensington is the owner and Editor-in-Chief for Prospero House, an independent publisher of books with occult and fantastic themes.

He is a generous and just man, with a great appreciation for self-made and ambitious people.

Kensington was born in Montpelier, Vermont, and spent most of his childhood touring the saw mills of his fathers concern K.L.P., Kensington Lumber and Paper.

An only child, Jonah's father disapproved his involvement with a lumberjack's daughter and the two split, never to see each other alive again. Rosie Ketchum and Jonah moved to New York, where he began as an editor and columnist  for the New York Pillar. Upon his father's death in a saw mill accident, Jonah inherited his fortune and started Prospero House.

Jackson Elias

Jackson Elias is a writer and adventurer of some repute. A friendly man with a great appetite for life, Elias is outgoing and daring, not afraid to get into trouble and seldom backing down from a fight.

Although he seldom stays in one place very long, he frequently returns to the East Coast, mainly Connecticut and Massachusetts to catch up with his old archaeology student buddies for a hand of whist or some outdoor sports.

Elias specialises in researching the occult, specialising in death cults. His best know book, Sons of Death, exposes a Thuggee cult in modern-day India and he has a long list of similar books covering cults around the globe. The mostly emphasize the use of fear as the cultists most potent weapon, attributing the slaughter of innocents as a compensation for feelings of inadequacy and insanity.

Researching Masters of the Black Arts he spent some time in Africa with fellow Arkhamite Robert Pickwick, who was at the time investigating sources for his renowned Dark Mysteries of Middle Africa.

Jackson Elias has no living relates, nor does he have a permanent address. Any mail or communications directed to him are best left with his publisher at Prospero House.

General Manfred George Taylor

General Manfred George Taylor is a renowned US army officer. He is one of the founding members of the American Rifle Association and an outspoken Republican, publicly supporting President Coolidge's actions during the Boston Police Strike, despite his obvious dislike for the man.

Born and bred in Manhattan, Taylor was instrumental in moving the Yankees to the New York borough and issued forth liberal financial support to help in the construction of Yankee Stadium and refreshment of the team.
Buying Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox proved an invaluable move in his personal haranguing of the President and it is rumoured that Taylor paid Ruth a $1000 reward for hitting the first home run in Yankee Stadium.

General Taylor's wife, MaryBeth Lowes, died giving birth to their only son, Joseph, in 1910, leaving in his care their two daughters, Margareth (°1895) and Ruth (°1897).

He is a stern and commanding man, having grown even more so after the death of his wife. Unyieldingly stubborn, it is virtually impossible to change the General's mind, except for his children whom he loves without bound and whom he can't say no to.

Manfred Taylor has recently taken to seldom travelling far from his Manhattan manor, being severely hampered by a sudden onset of gout.