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First Appearance:  ''[[Dunwich Horror (fiction)|The Dunwich Horror]]''(?), by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]
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Short Description:  A large Miskatonic Region family, with a large population in the decadent hills of [[Dunwich]]; there are, according to Lovecraft in ''The Dunwich Horror'' "...innumerable Whateleys, decayed and undecayed, of the upper Miskatonic valley...."  Among the "decayed" Whateleys are a broken, feeble-minded, mad, and twisted branch deep in the hills of Dunwich who shun civilization so that they may practice their "black magic" in solitude and isolation....
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Revision as of 23:33, 6 August 2018

Name(s):

First Appearance: The Dunwich Horror(?), by H.P. Lovecraft

Short Description: A large Miskatonic Region family, with a large population in the decadent hills of Dunwich; there are, according to Lovecraft in The Dunwich Horror "...innumerable Whateleys, decayed and undecayed, of the upper Miskatonic valley...." Among the "decayed" Whateleys are a broken, feeble-minded, mad, and twisted branch deep in the hills of Dunwich who shun civilization so that they may practice their "black magic" in solitude and isolation....


History and Scope

Identification, Psychology and Behavior

The Dunwich Horror

"...innumerable Whateleys, decayed and undecayed, of the upper Miskatonic valley...."

"decayed"

  • Old Wizard Whateley (no name given) ?-1924 (heart failure)
    Mrs. Whateley, wife (no name given) ?-1890? (died when Lavinia was 12)
    • Lavinia Whateley, unmarried daughter 1878?-1926 (apparently sacrificed on Sentinel Hill by her sons)
      • Wilbur Whateley, son 1913-1928 (killed by dogs, actually a Son of Yog-Sothoth)
      • "baby" Whateley, son? (nameless) 1913-1913 (officially died in childbirth, or actually died in 1928 in a lightning strike and house explosion, if Prof. Armitage is to be believed)

"a branch that hovered about half way between soundness and decadence"

  • Zebulon Whateley ("Old" Zebulon; can be counted on to remember ancient rumours about Dunwich and the Whateleys)


"sound" and "undecayed"

  • Zechariah Whateley (farmer and chairman of the Dunwich draft board)
    ? Whateley, wife (no name given)
    • Curtis Whateley, son (farmer)


The Shuttered Room

Decayed:

  • Sarey Whateley (deep one hybrid, offspring of Ralsa Marsh).
  • Ralsa Whateley

Semi-decayed(?):

Undecayed:

  • Abner Whateley
  • Luther Whateley


Resources

Tomes, Artifacts, Sites

Allies, Creatures and Deities


Heresies and Controversies

Keeper Comments

Quotes

Appearances

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