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This is the cast for the London Horror Festival show.
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Narrator
This strange figure commented on the events of 1928, when the Dunwich horror came and went. He displayed a knowledge that would suggest - if not direct, first hand experience of an occurrence - then certainly the insights from someone else who was present at all stages in these twisted events.
Speculation, confirmed by certain observations, agrees that he was a scholar of some description, who inhabited the village itself at some point in his life. Curiously, his understanding of the area seems to extend to very old times. Dunwich is indeed ridiculously old - older by far than any of the communities within thirty miles of it.
Lavinia Whateley
Samantha Spurgin
Born circa 1878, the daughter of Old Whateley and a mother who met an unexplained death by violence when Lavinia was 12 years old. A most unfortunate creature, a twisted albino, given to wandering amidst thunderstorms in the hills and trying to read the great odorous books which her father had inherited through two centuries of Whateleys. She was filled with disjointed scraps of ancient lore. Isolated among strange influences, Lavinia was fond of wild and grandiose day-dreams and singular occupations.
Local gossip painted her (fairly or not) as slatternly and unkempt of hair. There were other, less kind, remarks whispered about her strange marriage and pregnancy.
Wizard Whateley
Joseph Browder
Lavinia Whateley's aged and half-insane father, about whom the most frightful tales of magic had been whispered in his youth. Dunwich gossips recall that "the hills once shook when he shrieked the dreadful names of bizarre elder gods in the midst of a circle of stones with a great book open in his arms before him." He had a large collection of rotting ancient books and parts of books which he used to instruct and catechise his grandson Wilbur.
He had no certain first name, lost by his own erratic memory, and in the convoluted pairings of his decayed family line. Everyone just called him the Old Wizard.
Wilbur Whateley
Rosco Brittin
Born February 2, 1913 to Lavinia Whateley and an unknown father. He was described as a "dark, looking infant" Neighbors referred to him as "Lavinny's black brat", though often with additional comments about his dark, almost Latin eyes that gave him an air of quasi-adulthood and well-nigh preternatural intelligence. His remarkably swift development was much commented upon, as was the aversion shown towards him by many of the hounds in the district. Not a popular character around the village, he kept himself very much to himself, and studied extensively at his father's knee from many old books of strange lore.
Mamie Bishop
Harrie Hayes
The common-law wife of Earl Sawyer, a cattle rancher with extensive and often furtive dealings across several towns, Mamie was a very proper, upright citizen of a very unproper village. In her youth, the family regularly travelled to Arkham to attend the church there. Her only real vice was an insufferable curiosity, and the tendency to share the fruits of her prying with anyone and everyone who would listen. That, and the drinking.
She lived with several children and a small, extended family, in the large Bishop household, located some small distance from the village, at one end of Cold Spring Glen. The family was often referred to as "The Bishops" in spite of her marriage.
Osborne
Rob Lyndon
The slovenly, mercantile establishment, of which Osborne was the sole, and unmarried, proprietor, was once the small town's only church, steeple now broken, bell silent. Though careful and unassuming, Osborne was a man who enjoyed language and its proper use, thus making Osborne's shabby store, as is so often the case, the centre of the village's gossip and activities.
Much of the later, horrific misfortunes that struck Osborne and his establishment, have been attributed to the events of 1928. However, no direct evidence has ever been found of any tangible connection.
Zechariah Whateley
Chris Paddon
From the same Whateley stock, Zechariah was the father to many cattle farmers and breeders in the region. Of uncertain upbringing and education, there are references to a Zechariah Whateley from as far afield as Boston. He came from a branch of the Whateleys that hovered about halfway between soundness and decadence. There were dark, wild suggestions about rites practised by his grandfather on the hill-tops. Tradition ran strong in his youth, and his memories of chantings in the great stone circles were not altogether connected with the Old Wizard.
Henry Armitage
Peter Adams
(1855
- 1939/1946?)
The head librarian at
Miskatonic University. Brought up in the middle of the American Civil
War, his childhood was troubled by the same violence and uncertainty
that troubled the entire nation. When the war was over, his family
found
themselves in
the state of Massachusetts. As a young man, he graduated from
Miskatonic University
in 1881 and went on to obtain his doctorate from Princeton University
and his Doctor of Letters degree at Johns Hopkins University.
Although very much an academic by nature, Dr Armitage was a keen horseman until his middle age, and had been actively involved in many of the sporting and outdoors clubs within the University and surrounding area.
Frances Morgan
Janna Fox
Raised on an extensive ranch by progressive parents, Professor Morgan graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1916. She went on to help lay the groundwork for the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, where she obtained her doctorate. Tenured as an Associate Professor at Miskatonic University, she was befriended almost immediately by Professor Armitage because of their mutual academic respect, and many shared interests including ancient languages, crossword puzzles, shooting and horse-riding. To this day a plaque at Miskatonic commemorates her excellent work in extensively updating the University's sanitation and waterworks.