There is, however, another state police force operating in Massachusetts in the 1920s, although none of its units are based in Lovecraft Country. The Metropolitan Park Commission Police was established in 1893 to police the state-run Metropolitan Park System established the same year. In 1919, with the formation of the Metropolitan District Commission (by the merger of the Metropolitan Park Commission, Metropolitan Sewer Board and Metropolitan Water Board) it was renamed the Metropolitan District Police (MDP). It existed under this name until 1992, when it was merged into the Massachusetts State Police. There's a good unofficial website on the force.
The MDP is actually considerably larger than the MSP in the 1920s. While it is primarily concerned with policing the state parks, its officers are armed, have full state police powers, and are sometimes drafted in to assist with general policing in emergencies. It has used Indian motorcycles since 1905, and now has considerable numbers of them. It also has a few cars and in addition uses horses and launches. It has police boxes installed for communications throughout the areas it polices. The MDP has a detective element (detective officers being known as inspectors) and some female patrol officers were appointed in the 1920s.
The MDP is organised into divisions, each policing a specific state park area and with its own police station, which is also usually the headquarters of that park division. The divisional superintendent is also the captain of police and is assisted by a lieutenant, 2 or more sergeants and a force of patrolmen (usually 20-30).
Blue Hills Division Station: Situated at 685 Hillside Street, Milton, it is responsible for policing the Blue Hills Reservation and is also responsible for the Stony Brook Station, which polices the Stony Brook Reservation. It is now the Milton MSP station. Contemporary photos and a modern photo.
Charles River Lower Basin Division Station: Opened in 1910. The former station is now adjacent to the current Boston MSP station, situated at 250 Leverett Circle, Boston. Contemporary photos.
Charles River Upper Basin Division Station: Opened as the Charles River Speedway (Upper Basin) District Station in 1899. Renamed in 1910. Situated at 1400 Soldiers Field Road, Brighton. It is also responsible for the Beaver Brook Station in Waltham, which polices the Beaver Brook Reservation, and the Riverside Station, which opened in Norumbega Park, Auburndale in 1904. The Brighton MSP station is now adjacent to the former divisional station. Contemporary photos.
Middlesex Fells Division Station: Located in the Roosevelt Circle area of Medford and covers the Middlesex Fells, Alewife Brook and Mystic River Reservations. It was relocated in the 1950s and is now Medford MSP station. Contemporary photo.
Nantasket Beach Division Station: Opened in 1904 at Hull. Contemporary photos.
Revere Beach Division Station: The first MDP station, opened in 1899. Situated on Revere Beach Boulevard, just across from Revere Beach (designated a public beach in 1895 and the USA's oldest), it has a distinctive tower. The lieutenant actually answers to the superintendent of the Charles River Lower Basin Division, although Revere Beach has more policemen. It is also responsible for the Nahant Beach Station, situated in the beach bathhouse. It is now Revere MSP station. Contemporary photos and a modern photo.
MDP uniforms are a distinctive light grey, with thigh-length (or longer), closed-collared jackets and the strangely small peaked caps beloved of many American police forces in that era (and still beloved of American fire departments) - they only changed from helmets at the end of the 1910s.
Contemporary photos of police launches and a police ambulance.
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Law Enforcement in Lovecraft Country: Part 2
The Massachusetts State Constabulary was formed in 1865, making it the oldest state law enforcement agency in the United States. Initially it was a small force charged only with investigations, and over the subsequent years it was renamed first the Massachusetts Detective Force and then the Massachusetts District Police. In 1921, it was reorganised, expanded and renamed the Massachusetts State Police Patrol, and its remit was expanded to patrolling rural areas of the state which were poorly served by the municipal police departments (Massachusetts, as previously stated, having no county police presence). Initially it had only fifty officers, but its strength probably increased considerably throughout the decade.
MSPP officers have the power to enforce state and federal laws throughout Massachusetts. Their primary mode of transport in the 1920s is still the horse (since many rural roads are still unsuitable for motor vehicles), but they increasingly also use motorcycles, particularly as patrolling major highways is added to their brief. Some cars are also acquired. Investigators could well encounter a motorcycle-borne MSPP officer while driving on the Aylesbury Pike.
The organisation of the MSPP in the 1920s is not easy to establish. A couple of histories of the agency have been written, but they are out of print and don't seem to be available in libraries outside Massachusetts. Some information can be gleaned from the MSP website, but it's not particularly good on history.
Troop A
Covers the northeastern part of the state, including Essex County. Established in 1921.
Andover Barracks: The current colonial-style barracks was built in the late 1920s and opened by 1928, but there was probably a barracks in the Andover area before this, as it was designated A-1. Situated on Route 125, near the junction with Route 28, and responsible for policing both highways, as well as the local rural area. Still occupied by the MSP today.
Concord Barracks: Situated on Route 2 in West Concord and responsible for patrolling that, as well as the local area. Another barracks in identical colonial style to Andover, apparently built in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. Still occupied by the MSP. Just across the road from the Massachusetts State Reformatory and provided support to the warders there during prison riots.
Framingham Barracks: Troop A Headquarters. Situated at 450 Worcester Road (Route 9) and a typical early 1930s colonial-style building.
Topsfield Barracks: Situated on Route 1. Identical in appearance to other colonial-style barracks, so probably also opened in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Now used as the headquarters of Topsfield Police Department, having been replaced by the new MSP Barracks in Newbury in 1987. This barracks almost certainly covers the Lovecraft Country part of Essex County in the 1920s. Despite it being mentioned by Chaosium that the nearest State Police Barracks to Arkham is Danvers, the Danvers Barracks didn't actually open until 1994 to house a unit not established (at Lynnfield, later moving to Peabody) until 1956. The Topsfield Barracks are about 9 miles from Arkham, 12 miles from Kingsport, 6½ miles from Bolton, and 11½ miles from Innsmouth.
Troop B
Covers the western part of the state. Established in 1921.
Cheshire Barracks: Established in the mid-1920s, but replaced by Pittsfield Barracks in 1937 (although it moved back to a brand-new building on Route 8 in Cheshire in 1987).
Lee Barracks: Troop B's first barracks, established in 1921. The present colonial-style barracks, situated on Route 20 (215 Laurel Street), were built in 1931 and are still used by the MSP. The original barracks was a barn in East Lee (also probably on Route 20), with the horses housed on the ground floor and the troopers in the loft.
Leeds Barracks: Troop B Headquarters. Situated in a converted barn and residence. It was replaced by a new colonial-style barracks in Northampton (555 King Street on Routes 5 and 10), still used by the MSP, in 1931.
Monson Barracks: Established in the early 1920s and issued with at least one patrol car. Replaced by Springfield Barracks in 1987. Probably situated on Route 32. See also the Hampden Police Department website.
Russell Barracks: Housed in a wooden building known as Fort Apache, about a mile to the west of the present barracks on Route 20 built in 1959.
Shelburne Falls Barracks: Another colonial-style building which looks to have been constructed in the 1930s. No hard evidence it existed in the 1920s. Situated at 289 Mohawk Trail (Route 2).
Troop C
Covers the central area of the state. Presumably established in 1921 or 1922.
Brookfield Barracks: Another colonial-style building erected in 1930 on High Street and still used by the MSP. Situated on Route 9, the main road between Boston and New York.
Charlton Barracks: There is a current Charlton Barracks built in 1957 on the Massachusetts Turnpike, but it appears there may have been another which has now been replaced by the Sturbridge Barracks.
Grafton Barracks: A colonial-style building dating from 1931 at 44 Worcester Street (Route 140). Replaced by a new barracks in Millbury in 2006, it now houses the MSP Museum.
Holden Barracks: Troop C Headquarters. A colonial-style building at 612 Main Street (Route 122A) dating from 1930
Petersham Barracks: Moved to Westminster at some time in the 1920s or early 1930s, then to the present colonial-style building on Route 2 in Athol in 1934. This is the barracks that covers Winchendon, the site of the fictional Aylesbury, so could probably be replaced by Aylesbury Barracks in a Lovecraft Country setting.
Troop D
Covers the southeastern area of the state. Established in 1922.
Middleboro Barracks: Troop D Headquarters. Replaced by a new building elsewhere in Middleboro in 1956.
Nantucket Barracks: Situated at 83 North Liberty Street and covers Nantucket Island.
North Dartmouth Barracks: Situated at 262 State Road (US Route 6). Replaced by a brand-new building in 2006, although the old building still exists
Norwell Barracks: A colonial-style building presumably dating from the early 1930s at 6 West Street.
Oak Bluffs Barracks: Situated on Temahigan Road and covers Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands.
South Yarmouth Barracks: Another colonial-style building presumably dating from the early 1930s at 1171 State Road (Route 28).
West Bridgewater Barracks: Closed in 1956.
Photographs on the website of the Massachusetts State Police Museum show that the uniform in the 1920s and 1930s was surprisingly modern, with a peaked cap, riding breeches, knee boots, and a thigh-length leather coat for cold-weather wear. Since the photos are black-and-white, the uniform colours are difficult to determine (I believe the current "French and Electric Blue" of the MSP wasn't adopted until the 1930s). A 1931 Ford Model A Cruiser is shown on another page. It does appear to be in colours very close to the modern colours: mainly dark blue, with light blue (not quite the modern electric blue, but close) doors, roof and bonnet (hood) top, with "STATE POLICE" written down the sides of the bonnet and the MSP badge on the doors.
It seems reasonable to assume, given the force's small size in the 1920s, that each MSP barracks was staffed by only a handful of men (probably a sergeant and 3-4 troopers).
MSPP officers have the power to enforce state and federal laws throughout Massachusetts. Their primary mode of transport in the 1920s is still the horse (since many rural roads are still unsuitable for motor vehicles), but they increasingly also use motorcycles, particularly as patrolling major highways is added to their brief. Some cars are also acquired. Investigators could well encounter a motorcycle-borne MSPP officer while driving on the Aylesbury Pike.
The organisation of the MSPP in the 1920s is not easy to establish. A couple of histories of the agency have been written, but they are out of print and don't seem to be available in libraries outside Massachusetts. Some information can be gleaned from the MSP website, but it's not particularly good on history.
Troop A
Covers the northeastern part of the state, including Essex County. Established in 1921.
Andover Barracks: The current colonial-style barracks was built in the late 1920s and opened by 1928, but there was probably a barracks in the Andover area before this, as it was designated A-1. Situated on Route 125, near the junction with Route 28, and responsible for policing both highways, as well as the local rural area. Still occupied by the MSP today.
Concord Barracks: Situated on Route 2 in West Concord and responsible for patrolling that, as well as the local area. Another barracks in identical colonial style to Andover, apparently built in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. Still occupied by the MSP. Just across the road from the Massachusetts State Reformatory and provided support to the warders there during prison riots.
Framingham Barracks: Troop A Headquarters. Situated at 450 Worcester Road (Route 9) and a typical early 1930s colonial-style building.
Topsfield Barracks: Situated on Route 1. Identical in appearance to other colonial-style barracks, so probably also opened in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Now used as the headquarters of Topsfield Police Department, having been replaced by the new MSP Barracks in Newbury in 1987. This barracks almost certainly covers the Lovecraft Country part of Essex County in the 1920s. Despite it being mentioned by Chaosium that the nearest State Police Barracks to Arkham is Danvers, the Danvers Barracks didn't actually open until 1994 to house a unit not established (at Lynnfield, later moving to Peabody) until 1956. The Topsfield Barracks are about 9 miles from Arkham, 12 miles from Kingsport, 6½ miles from Bolton, and 11½ miles from Innsmouth.
Troop B
Covers the western part of the state. Established in 1921.
Cheshire Barracks: Established in the mid-1920s, but replaced by Pittsfield Barracks in 1937 (although it moved back to a brand-new building on Route 8 in Cheshire in 1987).
Lee Barracks: Troop B's first barracks, established in 1921. The present colonial-style barracks, situated on Route 20 (215 Laurel Street), were built in 1931 and are still used by the MSP. The original barracks was a barn in East Lee (also probably on Route 20), with the horses housed on the ground floor and the troopers in the loft.
Leeds Barracks: Troop B Headquarters. Situated in a converted barn and residence. It was replaced by a new colonial-style barracks in Northampton (555 King Street on Routes 5 and 10), still used by the MSP, in 1931.
Monson Barracks: Established in the early 1920s and issued with at least one patrol car. Replaced by Springfield Barracks in 1987. Probably situated on Route 32. See also the Hampden Police Department website.
Russell Barracks: Housed in a wooden building known as Fort Apache, about a mile to the west of the present barracks on Route 20 built in 1959.
Shelburne Falls Barracks: Another colonial-style building which looks to have been constructed in the 1930s. No hard evidence it existed in the 1920s. Situated at 289 Mohawk Trail (Route 2).
Troop C
Covers the central area of the state. Presumably established in 1921 or 1922.
Brookfield Barracks: Another colonial-style building erected in 1930 on High Street and still used by the MSP. Situated on Route 9, the main road between Boston and New York.
Charlton Barracks: There is a current Charlton Barracks built in 1957 on the Massachusetts Turnpike, but it appears there may have been another which has now been replaced by the Sturbridge Barracks.
Grafton Barracks: A colonial-style building dating from 1931 at 44 Worcester Street (Route 140). Replaced by a new barracks in Millbury in 2006, it now houses the MSP Museum.
Holden Barracks: Troop C Headquarters. A colonial-style building at 612 Main Street (Route 122A) dating from 1930
Petersham Barracks: Moved to Westminster at some time in the 1920s or early 1930s, then to the present colonial-style building on Route 2 in Athol in 1934. This is the barracks that covers Winchendon, the site of the fictional Aylesbury, so could probably be replaced by Aylesbury Barracks in a Lovecraft Country setting.
Troop D
Covers the southeastern area of the state. Established in 1922.
Middleboro Barracks: Troop D Headquarters. Replaced by a new building elsewhere in Middleboro in 1956.
Nantucket Barracks: Situated at 83 North Liberty Street and covers Nantucket Island.
North Dartmouth Barracks: Situated at 262 State Road (US Route 6). Replaced by a brand-new building in 2006, although the old building still exists
Norwell Barracks: A colonial-style building presumably dating from the early 1930s at 6 West Street.
Oak Bluffs Barracks: Situated on Temahigan Road and covers Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands.
South Yarmouth Barracks: Another colonial-style building presumably dating from the early 1930s at 1171 State Road (Route 28).
West Bridgewater Barracks: Closed in 1956.
Photographs on the website of the Massachusetts State Police Museum show that the uniform in the 1920s and 1930s was surprisingly modern, with a peaked cap, riding breeches, knee boots, and a thigh-length leather coat for cold-weather wear. Since the photos are black-and-white, the uniform colours are difficult to determine (I believe the current "French and Electric Blue" of the MSP wasn't adopted until the 1930s). A 1931 Ford Model A Cruiser is shown on another page. It does appear to be in colours very close to the modern colours: mainly dark blue, with light blue (not quite the modern electric blue, but close) doors, roof and bonnet (hood) top, with "STATE POLICE" written down the sides of the bonnet and the MSP badge on the doors.
It seems reasonable to assume, given the force's small size in the 1920s, that each MSP barracks was staffed by only a handful of men (probably a sergeant and 3-4 troopers).
Law Enforcement in Lovecraft Country: Part 1
There are several references in Chaosium publications to Essex County sheriff's deputies performing policing duties in rural areas of Essex County. However, like other New England states, Massachusetts subscribes to the town system. What this means is that, unlike most American states, the entire state is divided into municipalities, with no unincorporated areas. While in the 1920s the counties in Massachusetts did have more administrative responsibilities than they do today, it appears that they never did have responsibility for policing. They did have sheriffs, but they were responsible only for the legal aspects of sheriffs' work (serving summonses etc) and for operating the county jails.
Policing in the rural areas of Lovecraft Country therefore would be carried out either by the police department of the local town or city within whose boundaries the area fell or by the Massachusetts State Police Patrol. Founded in 1865 as the Massachusetts State Constabulary, the MSPP only had a handful of officers until 1921, when it was renamed and expanded to a grand total of fifty officers. In an era before major highways, its main responsibility was to police the rural areas of the state, which its officers mainly still did on horseback in the 1920s (although they did have a few motor vehicles). Given the small size of both most urban police departments and of the MSPP, it is likely that rural communities would be hard-pressed to get hold of any policeman for anything less than a major crime. A motorised policeman harassing motorists in a rural area as described in the copy of The Arkham Advertiser included with Arkham Unveiled seems a very unlikely occurrence.
This, of course, is one of the problems with writing scenarios for roleplaying games set in the historical real world - there is a tendency to assume that everyday things then were much like they are now and, in the case of law enforcement, that a phone call will summon a police officer in a fast car within a few minutes to deal with your problem. That, of course, was simply not the case in any country in the 1920s, outside the major cities. It was particularly not the case in the United States, with its highly decentralised local government. The image, garnered from decades of Hollywood films, of every county being patrolled by deputy sheriffs in police cruisers is simply fantasy in the pre-war period, when many American counties had no real law enforcement at all. The sheriff served process and possibly operated the county jail, but rarely did he do much real policing, even in states where he was theoretically supposed to. Ironically, the best rural policing was probably in the Old West frontier states, formerly known for their lawless reputations, where the sheriffs' departments had far more experience of real police work. Most eastern sheriffs were predominantly legal officers and not policemen. In the majority of rural areas in America, if you had a real problem you might call the state police (if there was a state police - most states didn't have one), but in minor cases the only recourse was likely to be a local constable, probably part-time and likely unpaid, with few powers, no training and little experience. In European countries you'd have a little more luck, as policing was more centralised, but even there the first responder would likely be a single local officer on a bicycle with no real experience of serious crime.
Initially, I thought the Arkham Police Department, as described in Arkham Unveiled, with a chief, a captain, a detective lieutenant, three sergeants, two detectives and 15-20 patrolmen, seemed to be surprisingly large for a smallish town in 1920s America. However, a bit of research suggests that it is not beyond the realms of possibility. A photograph of the Andover Police Department in the early 1920s on their website suggests the department had fourteen officers at that time and Andover is probably somewhat smaller than Arkham.
A comparison of the real-world towns in Essex County could be interesting. The following table shows the 1920s and modern population of each of these towns and the full-time strength of its police department today.
Other than revealing a huge disparity between the numbers of officers compared to the population throughout the county and an even larger disparity in the usage of police ranks in different towns, it also shows that on average an Essex County police department had one officer for every 551.6 inhabitants. Assuming that 1920s police departments had about half the officers per head that they do now (a purely random assumption based on informed guesswork), then Arkham, with a population of 22,562 (according to the list at the back of Tales of the Miskatonic Valley) should have about twenty police officers, which makes the Arkham Unveiled figures about right. Kingsport, with a population of 7,834, should have about seven. Chaosium's Kingsport says that it has four, and then goes on later in the same paragraph to suggest it has more, so maybe we should add a couple. Bolton, with a population of 15,539 (and appearing to correspond almost exactly to Hamilton on the TotMV map), should have about fourteen.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if a 1920s police department outside a major city like Boston would have any detectives. That's just my gut feeling, however, based on a knowledge of police history in other countries, and I may be wrong about the situation in the United States. By and large, detectives were few and far between in the 1920s. Major cities may have had reasonably large and efficient detective forces, but many police forces, even quite large ones in developed countries, had few detectives or none at all, especially in rural areas. Most police work in all countries was carried out by uniformed officers with no knowledge of criminal investigation whatsoever. Even in countries with national or large regional police forces, the specialist detectives rarely operated outside the major cities. For gaming purposes I can see why keepers would want there to be a couple, though, and my version of Arkham will probably retain them.
I was also initially surprised to read in Chaosium's books that Arkham has three police cars and two motorcycles and Kingsport has two police cars. Most world police forces had few or no motor vehicles in the 1920s. With a few exceptions, the British police didn't really start adopting them until the 1930s at the earliest. However, my research does show that quite a number of small town police departments in Essex County were operating cars and motorcycles by the 1920s, so the descriptions in the sourcebooks are probably reasonable. The United States embraced the motor car with far more enthusiasm than anywhere else in the world, and this appears to have also applied to the police.
Innsmouth has three, probably part-time, constables who function more or less as a police force elsewhere, as constables often did at the time. Innsmouth, being a very weird place, has no real reason to conform to historical reality in any case.
Arkham appears to be situated more or less at the location of the real-life Centerville, a neighbourhood (i.e. village) in Beverly, and its territory therefore probably occupies part of what in the real world is the northeastern part of the City of Beverly ("city" or "town" in Massachusetts, of course, referring to the whole area and not just the built-up area of the municipality) and possibly the eastern part of the Town of Wenham as well (note that Wenham does not appear on the Chaosium map, although there's probably no particular reason it shouldn't exist in Lovecraft Country). Kingsport seems to be more or less Beverly Farms, another neighbourhood, and thus occupies the southeastern part of the City of Beverly. Bolton seems to be Hamilton, and can thus entirely replace the Town of Hamilton (poor Hamilton!). Innsmouth appears to more or less correspond to Little Neck in Ipswich, and its territory is therefore the northeastern part of the real-world Town of Ipswich.
Outside Essex County, we have Aylesbury, Dunwich and Foxfield. Aylesbury appears to more or less correspond with Winchendon, a town in Worcester County. Since Aylesbury is referred to as being the seat of the fictitious Aylesbury County, we can probably assume that Aylesbury County occupies the northern half of the real Worcester County. Dunwich is described as a township and unincorporated community in Return to Dunwich, but neither of these terms are used in Massachusetts. It is tempting, given its small size and isolated location, to look on Dunwich as a village within the Town of Aylesbury, but the fact it appears to have its own town government, with selectmen, a justice of the peace and a constable, mitigates against this (since villages in Massachusetts have no official existence as local government entities). Dunwich is probably therefore best seen as a town in its own right, small, rural and almost-forgotten, in the woods between Aylesbury and Ashburnham. Foxfield, created by Miskatonic River Press, is in Middlesex County, north of Tewksbury.
Policing in the rural areas of Lovecraft Country therefore would be carried out either by the police department of the local town or city within whose boundaries the area fell or by the Massachusetts State Police Patrol. Founded in 1865 as the Massachusetts State Constabulary, the MSPP only had a handful of officers until 1921, when it was renamed and expanded to a grand total of fifty officers. In an era before major highways, its main responsibility was to police the rural areas of the state, which its officers mainly still did on horseback in the 1920s (although they did have a few motor vehicles). Given the small size of both most urban police departments and of the MSPP, it is likely that rural communities would be hard-pressed to get hold of any policeman for anything less than a major crime. A motorised policeman harassing motorists in a rural area as described in the copy of The Arkham Advertiser included with Arkham Unveiled seems a very unlikely occurrence.
This, of course, is one of the problems with writing scenarios for roleplaying games set in the historical real world - there is a tendency to assume that everyday things then were much like they are now and, in the case of law enforcement, that a phone call will summon a police officer in a fast car within a few minutes to deal with your problem. That, of course, was simply not the case in any country in the 1920s, outside the major cities. It was particularly not the case in the United States, with its highly decentralised local government. The image, garnered from decades of Hollywood films, of every county being patrolled by deputy sheriffs in police cruisers is simply fantasy in the pre-war period, when many American counties had no real law enforcement at all. The sheriff served process and possibly operated the county jail, but rarely did he do much real policing, even in states where he was theoretically supposed to. Ironically, the best rural policing was probably in the Old West frontier states, formerly known for their lawless reputations, where the sheriffs' departments had far more experience of real police work. Most eastern sheriffs were predominantly legal officers and not policemen. In the majority of rural areas in America, if you had a real problem you might call the state police (if there was a state police - most states didn't have one), but in minor cases the only recourse was likely to be a local constable, probably part-time and likely unpaid, with few powers, no training and little experience. In European countries you'd have a little more luck, as policing was more centralised, but even there the first responder would likely be a single local officer on a bicycle with no real experience of serious crime.
Initially, I thought the Arkham Police Department, as described in Arkham Unveiled, with a chief, a captain, a detective lieutenant, three sergeants, two detectives and 15-20 patrolmen, seemed to be surprisingly large for a smallish town in 1920s America. However, a bit of research suggests that it is not beyond the realms of possibility. A photograph of the Andover Police Department in the early 1920s on their website suggests the department had fourteen officers at that time and Andover is probably somewhat smaller than Arkham.
A comparison of the real-world towns in Essex County could be interesting. The following table shows the 1920s and modern population of each of these towns and the full-time strength of its police department today.
| Town | 1920 Population | 2000 Population | Chief | Deputy Chief | Detective Captain | Captain | Detective Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Detective Sergeant | Sergeant | Detective | Officer | Total | Inhabitants per police officer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amesbury | 9,894 | 16,429 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | ? | -- | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? |
| Andover | ? | 31,247 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 52 | 600.9 |
| Beverly | 27,478 | 39,862 | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 45 | 64 | 622.8 |
| Boxford | ? | 7,921 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 10 | 13 | 609.3 |
| Danvers | 11,893 | 25,212 | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 51 | 494.3 |
| Essex | 1,654 | 3,267 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 272.2 |
| Georgetown | ? | 7,377 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 670.6 |
| Gloucester | 25,101 | 30,273 | 1 | ? | ? | ? | 1 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Groveland | ? | 6,038 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 754.7 |
| Hamilton | ? | 8,315 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 639.6 |
| Haverhill | 55,884 | 58,969 | 1 | 1 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Ipswich | 6,098 | 12,987 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 5 | 2 | 16 | 25 | 519.5 |
| Lawrence | 96,723 | 72,043 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4+ | 3 | 9+ | 23 | ? | ? | ? |
| Lynn | 106,081 | 89,050 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ? | 15 | ? | 18 | ? | 128 | 168 | 530.0 |
| Lynnfield | ? | 11,542 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 18 | 641.2 |
| Manchester | 2,599 | 5,228 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 348.5 |
| Marblehead | 8,414 | 20,377 | 1 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Merrimac | ? | 6,504 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 5 | 7 | 929.1 |
| Methuen | 21,377 | 43,789 | 1 | 1 | -- | 2 | 1 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Middleton | ? | 7,744 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | -- | 8 | 12 | 645.3 |
| Nahant | ? | 3,632 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 7 | 12 | 302.7 |
| Newbury | ? | 6,717 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 3 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 419.8 |
| Newburyport | 16,618 | 17,189 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 5 | 2 | 21 | 31 | 554.5 |
| North Andover | ? | 27,202 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | 7 | 4 | 20 | 34 | 800.0 |
| Peabody | 21,677 | 48,129 | 1 | 2 | -- | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 59 | 94 | 512.0 |
| Rockport | 2,345 | 7,767 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | -- | 10 | 15 | 517.8 |
| Rowley | 2,152 | 5,500 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 8 | 12 | 458.3 |
| Salem | 44,688 | 40,922 | 1 | -- | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 47 | 79 | 518.0 |
| Salisbury | ? | 7,827 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 652.2 |
| Saugus | ? | 26,078 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | 1 | ? | 6 | ? | ? | ? |
| Swampscott | ? | 14,412 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 32 | 450.4 |
| Topsfield | 2,121 | 6,141 | 1 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 10 | 614.1 |
| Wenham | ? | 4,440 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 20 | 222 |
| West Newbury | ? | 4,149 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 4 | 7 | 592.7 |
Other than revealing a huge disparity between the numbers of officers compared to the population throughout the county and an even larger disparity in the usage of police ranks in different towns, it also shows that on average an Essex County police department had one officer for every 551.6 inhabitants. Assuming that 1920s police departments had about half the officers per head that they do now (a purely random assumption based on informed guesswork), then Arkham, with a population of 22,562 (according to the list at the back of Tales of the Miskatonic Valley) should have about twenty police officers, which makes the Arkham Unveiled figures about right. Kingsport, with a population of 7,834, should have about seven. Chaosium's Kingsport says that it has four, and then goes on later in the same paragraph to suggest it has more, so maybe we should add a couple. Bolton, with a population of 15,539 (and appearing to correspond almost exactly to Hamilton on the TotMV map), should have about fourteen.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if a 1920s police department outside a major city like Boston would have any detectives. That's just my gut feeling, however, based on a knowledge of police history in other countries, and I may be wrong about the situation in the United States. By and large, detectives were few and far between in the 1920s. Major cities may have had reasonably large and efficient detective forces, but many police forces, even quite large ones in developed countries, had few detectives or none at all, especially in rural areas. Most police work in all countries was carried out by uniformed officers with no knowledge of criminal investigation whatsoever. Even in countries with national or large regional police forces, the specialist detectives rarely operated outside the major cities. For gaming purposes I can see why keepers would want there to be a couple, though, and my version of Arkham will probably retain them.
I was also initially surprised to read in Chaosium's books that Arkham has three police cars and two motorcycles and Kingsport has two police cars. Most world police forces had few or no motor vehicles in the 1920s. With a few exceptions, the British police didn't really start adopting them until the 1930s at the earliest. However, my research does show that quite a number of small town police departments in Essex County were operating cars and motorcycles by the 1920s, so the descriptions in the sourcebooks are probably reasonable. The United States embraced the motor car with far more enthusiasm than anywhere else in the world, and this appears to have also applied to the police.
Innsmouth has three, probably part-time, constables who function more or less as a police force elsewhere, as constables often did at the time. Innsmouth, being a very weird place, has no real reason to conform to historical reality in any case.
Arkham appears to be situated more or less at the location of the real-life Centerville, a neighbourhood (i.e. village) in Beverly, and its territory therefore probably occupies part of what in the real world is the northeastern part of the City of Beverly ("city" or "town" in Massachusetts, of course, referring to the whole area and not just the built-up area of the municipality) and possibly the eastern part of the Town of Wenham as well (note that Wenham does not appear on the Chaosium map, although there's probably no particular reason it shouldn't exist in Lovecraft Country). Kingsport seems to be more or less Beverly Farms, another neighbourhood, and thus occupies the southeastern part of the City of Beverly. Bolton seems to be Hamilton, and can thus entirely replace the Town of Hamilton (poor Hamilton!). Innsmouth appears to more or less correspond to Little Neck in Ipswich, and its territory is therefore the northeastern part of the real-world Town of Ipswich.
Outside Essex County, we have Aylesbury, Dunwich and Foxfield. Aylesbury appears to more or less correspond with Winchendon, a town in Worcester County. Since Aylesbury is referred to as being the seat of the fictitious Aylesbury County, we can probably assume that Aylesbury County occupies the northern half of the real Worcester County. Dunwich is described as a township and unincorporated community in Return to Dunwich, but neither of these terms are used in Massachusetts. It is tempting, given its small size and isolated location, to look on Dunwich as a village within the Town of Aylesbury, but the fact it appears to have its own town government, with selectmen, a justice of the peace and a constable, mitigates against this (since villages in Massachusetts have no official existence as local government entities). Dunwich is probably therefore best seen as a town in its own right, small, rural and almost-forgotten, in the woods between Aylesbury and Ashburnham. Foxfield, created by Miskatonic River Press, is in Middlesex County, north of Tewksbury.
Monday 4 October 2010
List of Addresses in Arkham
This is a list of all buildings, establishments and sites mentioned in Call of Cthulhu books as being in Arkham in the 1920s. It is a work in progress and will be added to as and when I have time.
Note that there are spoilers in this table.
Abbreviations for Sources
Note that I've been playing and collecting CoC books a long time. The books listed will generally be the first edition unless otherwise noted. H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham, for example, has changed many of the addresses of businesses in the town, but those on my list are the old addresses.
Note that there are spoilers in this table.
| Street | Number | Neighbourhood | Establishment | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armitage St | 139 E | Downtown | Art's Billiards | 215 |
| Armitage St | 148 E | Downtown | Dennison's Ice Cream Emporium | 227 |
| Armitage St | 235 E | Downtown | Arkham Gas Co | 222 |
| Armitage St | 302 E | Downtown | Arkham Police Station | 232, AU |
| Armitage St | 345 E | Downtown | Arkham Bell Telephone Co | 223 |
| Armitage St | 404 E | Downtown | Arkham Trolley Co | 224 |
| Armitage St | 418 E | Downtown | Arkham Fire Department | 236 |
| Armitage St | 650 E | Easttown | Anderson's Chemical Supply | 307 |
| Armitage St | 750 E | Easttown | Arkham Worsted Mills | 309 |
| Armitage St | 179 W | Northside | Tilden Arms Hotel | 134, TAA |
| Armitage St | 237 W | Northside | Aunt Lucy's | 133 |
| Armitage St | 297 W | Northside | Commercial House | 131 |
| Armitage St | 350 W | Northside | Tower Professional Building | 118 |
| Armitage St | 387 W | Northside | The Desolate Highway Café | 129, D&F |
| Armitage St | 389 W | Northside | Arkham Advertiser | 128 |
| Armitage St | 523 W | Northside | Arkham Baler Co | 126 |
| Armitage St & Garrison St | SW | Northside | Ernie Trout, Newsstand | 135 |
| Aylesbury Pike | -- | Outskirts | Bowen Woods | TC |
| Aylesbury Pike & Ravine Lane | -- | Outskirts | Billington's Woods & Mansion | 1001, TC |
| Off Aylesbury St | -- | Outskirts | University Athletic Field | 1004 |
| Off Aylesbury St & Sutton Rd | -- | Outskirts | Phillips Woods | TC |
| Off Boston Turnpike | -- | Outskirts | Goody Fowler's Cottage | 1009 |
| Off Boston Turnpike | -- | Outskirts | Old Carter Mansion | 1003 |
| Off Boston Turnpike | -- | Outskirts | Snake's Den Cave | 1002 |
| Boundary St | 188 N | Merchant | The Unnamable House | 403, AU |
| Boundary St | 113 S | Merchant | Elijah Potts, Stonecutter | 405 |
| Boundary St | 224 S | Campus | Miskatonic Valley Veterans' Home | 601 |
| Boundary St | 322 S | Campus | Southwest Transformer Station | 602 |
| Boundary St | -- | Merchant | Old Wooded Graveyard & Hangman's Hill | 401, 402 |
| Bowen Road | -- | Outskirts | Bishop's Bridge | TC |
| Brown St | 511 | Northside | Taranowski's Bakery | 116 |
| Brown St | 561 | Northside | Harding House | 115, TAA |
| Brown St | 622 | Northside | Guardian Apartments | 106, TAA |
| Brown St | 623 | Northside | Mail advertising firm, former Checkley Institute for Psychic Research | DON |
| Brown St | 679 | Northside | Masonic Lodge | 107 |
| Church St | 135 E | Merchant | Bryant's Apothecary | 445 |
| Church St | 146 E | French Hill | Campus Bicycle Shop | 702, TAA |
| Church St | 157 E | Merchant | Taranowski's Bakery (Campus Branch) | 446 |
| Church St | 195 E | Merchant | Arkham Gift Shop | 447 |
| Church St | 211 E | Merchant | Stewart's Caravan | 454 |
| Church St | 233 E | Merchant | F&M Trains & Toys | 455 |
| Church St | 250 E | French Hill | Old Arkham Graveyard | 712 |
| Church St | 267 E | Merchant | Chelsea House Apartments | 456, TAA |
| Church St | 540 E | French Hill | Bayfriar's Church | 714 |
| Church St | 110 W | Merchant | Woolworth's 5 & 10 | 438 |
| Church St | 168 W | Merchant | Sears-Roebuck Catalog Store | 458 |
| Church St | 172 W | Merchant | Marsh's Confectionery | 436 |
| Church St | 224 W | Merchant | The University Shop | 435, TAA |
| Church St | 2-- W | Merchant | Jaywil's Book Store | 434 |
| Church St | 268 W | Merchant | University Shoe Store | 433 |
| Church St | 288 W | Merchant | Miss Jenny's Beauty Parlor | 432 |
| Church St | 298 W | Merchant | Gilman's Office Supplies | 431 |
| Church St | 310 W | Merchant | Gleason's Department Store | 457, TAA |
| Church St | 338 W | Merchant | Pike's Haberdashery | 430 |
| Church St | 388 W | Merchant | Caselius's Fine Jewelers | 429 |
| Church St | 428 W | Merchant | Hattie's Boutique | 428 |
| Church St | 478 W | Merchant | E Waite, Goldsmith | 427 |
| Church St | 581 W | Campus | Whitechapel Mortuary | 604 |
| Church St | 622 W | Merchant | Hubbard Public School | 407 |
| Church St | 665 W | Campus | Arkham Public High School | 603 |
| Church St | -- | -- | Former Doc Howard's Bar (fl.1873) | AU |
| Church St & Garrison St | NE | Merchant | Church Street Cafeteria | 444 |
| College St | 152 E | French Hill | Keenan's Laundry | 709 |
| College St | 181 E | French Hill | Lewiston House | 708, TAA |
| College St | 297 E | French Hill | School of Positive Thinking | 717 |
| College St | 111 W | Campus | Arkham Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | 627 |
| College St | 200 W | Campus | Hotel Miskatonic | 626 |
| College St | 333 W | Campus | Hoyt Administration Building | 625 |
| College St | 611 W | Campus | Miskatonic University Laundry & Steam Plant | 610 |
| College St | 676 W | Campus | Miskatonic University School of Medicine | 609, ALK |
| College St | 687 W | Campus | Miskatonic University Exhibit Museum | 624 |
| Crane St | 588 | Campus | Peaslee House | 606 |
| Crane St | 602 | Campus | Miskatonic Athletic Association | 605 |
| Curwen St | 115 E | Noyes House | TC | |
| Curwen St | 136 E | Downtown | Kenneth Heath, Private Investigator | 204, TAA |
| Curwen St | 332 E | Downtown | Bee's Diner | 209 |
| Curwen St | 374 W | Hope House | TC | |
| Curwen St | 498 W | Northside | Shrewsbury House | 103, TAA |
| Derby St | 225 E | Downtown | Arkham Sanitarium | 201 |
| Derby St | 560 W | Northside | Pump House & Water Tower | 101 |
| Derby St | W | Thurber House | TAA | |
| Dyer St | 705 | Downtown | Innsmouth Bus Stop | 203 |
| Dyer St | 715 | Downtown | Fleetwood Diner | 202, TAA |
| East St | 211 N | Rivertown | Hiram the Junkman | 512 |
| East St & River St | SW | Rivertown | Jacob Asker, Blacksmith | 511 |
| Federal St | 648 | Pierce House | TC | |
| Federal St | 656 | Easttown | First Unitarian Church of Arkham | 302 |
| Federal St | 698 | Easttown | Pickering House | 301 |
| Federal St | -- | Outskirts | Harper's Woods | DON |
| Fish St | 411 | Downtown | Sheehan Contractor Supply | 239 |
| Fish St | 443 | Downtown | Pin Liou, Tattoos | 238 |
| French Hill St | 191 N | Rivertown | Gregor Weilder, Glassblower | 506 |
| French Hill St | N end | Rivertown | Arley's Boat & Bait | 505 |
| French Hill St | 471 S | French Hill | French Hill Transformer Station | 723 |
| French Hill St | 549 S | Lower Southside | Eleazar's Funeral Home | 910 |
| French Hill St | 554 S | Lower Southside | Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church | 909 |
| French Hill St | 615 S | Lower Southside | Tenement Building | 914, TAA |
| French Hill St | 620 S | Lower Southside | Unione Italiano | 913 |
| French Hill St | 708 S | Lower Southside | Petrucci's Barbershop | 916 |
| Garrison St | 422 N | Downtown | First National Grocery Store | 243 |
| Garrison St | 443 N | Northside | Sander's Wax Museum | 136, TAA |
| Garrison St | 480 N | Downtown | Amherst Theater | 225, TAA |
| Garrison St | 552 N | Downtown | Telenews Cinema | 212, TAA |
| Garrison St | 650 N | Downtown | Rotary Club | 205 |
| Garrison St | 721 N | Northside | The Speakeasy | 104 |
| Garrison St | 945 N | Northside | Potter's Field | 102 |
| Garrison St | 259 S | French Hill | Almen's Flowers | 703 |
| Garrison St | 271 S | French Hill | College Barbershop | 704 |
| Garrison St | 311 S | French Hill | University Spa | 706 |
| Garrison St | 531 S | Lower Southside | Arkham Historical Society | 901, TC |
| Garrison St | 5-- | -- | Billinger's Auction House | DON |
| Garrison St | -- | Outskirts | Fenner's Road House | 1015 |
| Garrison St & Armitage St | NE | Downtown | Crawford's Restaurant | 213, TAA |
| Garrison St & Church St | SE | Walgreen's Drugs | 701 | |
| Garrison St & Ravine Lane | -- | Outskirts | Meadow Hill | 1007 |
| Gedney St | 511 | Northside | E E Saltonstall & Associates, Attorneys-at-Law | 123, TAA |
| Gedney St | 520 | Northside | Arkham Chamber of Commerce | 125 |
| Gedney St | 565 | Northside | Uptown Laundry | 121 |
| Gedney St | 588 | Northside | Edwin Tillinghast, Rare Books & Maps | 124, TAA |
| Gedney St | 611 | Northside | Terrace Building | 111, TAA |
| Gedney St | 621 | Northside | Arkham Loan Agency | 112, TAA |
| Gedney St | 670 | Northside | Manley Theatre | 109 |
| Halsey St | 571 | Easttown | Temple Baptist Church | 306 |
| Halsey St | -- | Easttown | Thorne HOuse | 310 |
| High Lane | 106 W | Northside | Grafton Diner | 137 |
| High Lane | 298 W | Northside | B&M Train Station | 132 |
| High Lane | 488 W | Northside | Borden Arms | 130, TAA |
| High Lane | 562 | Northside | Arkham Fuel & Coal Co | 113 |
| High Lane | 916 | Northside | Bladesell House | TAA |
| High Lane & Garrison St | NE | Downtown | Penny Arcade | 226 |
| High Lane & Marsh St | NW | Downtown | Phillips 66 Station | 235 |
| High Lane & Peabody Ave | NW | Downtown | Ballard's Auto Lot | 229 |
| High St | 109 E | Lower Southside | Miss Andrews' Social Parlour | 903 |
| High St | 132 E | Crane House | TC | |
| High St | 122 W | Uptown | May Ladies Beauty Salon | 811 |
| High St | 288 W | Estheridge Mansion | DON | |
| High St | 411 W | Uptown | Miskatonic Club | 812 |
| High St | 602 W | Uptown | Daniel Shay Public School | 802 |
| High St | -- | Nichols House | 232 | |
| High St | E end | Outskirts | Crowninshield Manor | 1012 |
| Hill St | -- | Bishop House | TC | |
| Hyde St | 150 E | Downtown | Arkham First National Bank | 214 |
| Hyde St | 350 W | Northside | Arkham Gazette | 108, AU |
| Hyde St | 488 W | Northside | Jenkin Public School | 105 |
| Independence Square | -- | Downtown | -- | 211 |
| Jenkin St | 520 | Northside | Worldwide Clipping Service | 122, TAA |
| Jenkin St | 562 | Northside | Hardwicke's Stamps & Coins | 120, TAA |
| Jenkin St | 577 | Northside | Miss Christian's School for Modern Women | 117 |
| Jenkin St | 588 | Northside | J J Abbott, Taxidermist | 119 |
| Jenkin St | 622 | Northside | Jedediah Marsh & Associates, Attorneys-at-Law | 110 |
| Lich St | 171 | French Hill | Mehler's Funeral Parlor | 705 |
| Lich St | 214 | French Hill | First Baptist Church of Arkham | 715 |
| Lich St | 288 | French Hill | Smith's Boarding House | 716, TAA |
| Lich St | 432 | French Hill | St Michael's Catholic Church | 718, TAA |
| Main St | 101-399 E | Merchant | Easterly Warehouses | 439, 440 |
| Main St | 132 E | Merchant | Bell Café | 442 |
| Main St | 148 E | Merchant | Markwil's Theatrical Supply | 443 |
| Main St | 206 E | Merchant | Caleb Markham, Locksmith | 449 |
| Main St | 226 E | Merchant | Harden's Used Books | 450 |
| Main St | 244 E | Merchant | B F Jones, Hardware | 451 |
| Main St | 276 E | Merchant | Benson's Market | 452, TAA |
| Main St | 390 E | Merchant | Bargain House Clothiers | 453 |
| Main St | 421 E | Rivertown | Arkham General Store | 502 |
| Main St | 444 E | Rivertown | East Church | 503 |
| Main St | 550 E | Rivertown | East Public High School | 508 |
| Main St | 100-498 W | Merchant | Old Warehouses | 411, 440, DON |
| Main St | 131 W | Merchant | Walters' Optics & Fancy Toys | 426 |
| Main St | 185 W | Merchant | Fenner Avery, Tobacconist | 425 |
| Main St | 197 W | Merchant | The Radio Center | 424 |
| Main St | 200 W | Merchant | Lucky Clover Cartage Co | 412, DON |
| Main St | 205 W | Merchant | Malloy's Timepieces | 423 |
| Main St | 237 W | Merchant | Bernard Evans, Optometrist | 422 |
| Main St | 261 W | Merchant | George Tillinghast, Curios & Antiques | 421 |
| Main St | 2-- W | Merchant | Gleason's Department Store Warehouse | DON |
| Main St | 307 W | Merchant | Manelli's Music Store | 420 |
| Main St | 321 W | Merchant | Albert Cunningham, Pet Shop | 419 |
| Main St | 333 W | Merchant | Arthur Murray School of Dance | 418, TAA |
| Main St | 353 W | Merchant | Anderson's Furniture & Carpets | 417 |
| Main St | 417 W | Merchant | Parrington's Gun Shop | 416, TAA |
| Main St | 433 W | Merchant | Ace Alarms & Lock-Safes | 415 |
| Main St | 451 W | Merchant | Arkham Gallery of Art | 414 |
| Main St | 4-- W | Merchant | Anderson's Furniture & Carpets Warehouses | DON |
| Main St | 561 W | Merchant | Old West Church | 408 |
| Main St | 601 W | Merchant | Public Schools Building | 406 |
| Main St | 6-- W | Merchant | Old Russel House | TC |
| Main St & Garrison St | NE | Merchant | Esso Service Station | 413 |
| Main St & Garrison St | SW | Merchant | Kroger's | 437 |
| Main St & Garrison St | SE | Merchant | Newsstand | 441 |
| Main St & Garrison St | Merchant | Cab stand | TAA | |
| Marsh St | 420 | Downtown | Miskatonic Valley Savings Bank | 231 |
| Marsh St | 467 | Downtown | Northside Market | 228 |
| Marsh St | 470 | Downtown | Arkham Edison Co | 230 |
| Marsh St | 555 | Downtown | Heinrich T Muelhig, MD | 219 |
| Marsh St | 560 | Downtown | Massachusetts National Guard Armory | 244 |
| Marsh St | 567 | Downtown | Garrison Sinderwald, MD | 218 |
| Marsh St | 589 | Downtown | Bertrand Chambers, Attorney-at-Law | 216 |
| Marsh St | 589½ | Downtown | Federal Bond Agency | 217, TAA |
| Marsh St | 630 | Downtown | Arkham Public Library | 208 |
| Marsh St | 640 | Downtown | Asbury Methodist-Episcopal Church | 206 |
| Marsh St | 682 | Downtown | Diamond Credit Agency | 207 |
| Marsh St & Armitage St | NW | Downtown | Demolition Site | 220 |
| Miskatonic Ave | 391 E | Lower Southside | Halsey Public School | 915 |
| Miskatonic Ave | 406 W | Ames House | TC | |
| Miskatonic Ave | 417 W | Uptown | Armitage House | 808 |
| Miskatonic Ave | 507 W | Uptown | Morton Haswell, MD | 807 |
| Miskatonic Ave | 680 W | Uptown | Shear House | 816 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Charles Tyner Science Annex | 613 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Copley Memorial Bell Tower | 614 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Dorothy Upman Hall | 620 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | East Dormitory | 619 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Faculty & Graduate Residence | 621 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Liberal Arts Building | 615 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Locksley Hall | 617, TAA |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Orne Library | 623 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | President's House | 622 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Science Hall | 612 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | Statue of Dean Halsey | 616 |
| Miskatonic University Campus | -- | Campus | West Dormitory | 618 |
| Noyes St | 217 | Cottage for sale | TAA | |
| Noyes St | 511 | Easttown | Martin Public School | 305 |
| Noyes St | 633 | Easttown | Checkley Manor | DON |
| Noyes St | 753 | Easttown | Crawford House | 303 |
| Orne's Gangway | -- | French Hill | -- | 722 |
| Parsonage St | 150 S | Merchant | Christchurch Episcopal | 448 |
| Parsonage St | 233 S | Apartment Building | TC | |
| Parsonage St | 334 S | French Hill | Miskatonic University Garage | 707 |
| Peabody Ave | 420 N | Downtown | Bunden's Bindery | 237 |
| Peabody Ave | 433 N | Downtown | Arkham Cab Co | 234, TAA |
| Peabody Ave | 487 N | Downtown | Arkham Post Office | 233 |
| Peabody Ave | 551 N | Downtown | Arkham Town Hall | 221 |
| Peabody Ave | 666 N | Downtown | Arkham Courthouse & Jail | 210 |
| Peabody Ave | 209 S | French Hill | Southside Bathhouse | 713 |
| Pickman St | 103 E | French Hill | New England School of Bookkeeping | 710, TAA |
| Pickman St | 166 E | Lower Southside | Larkin Institute | 902 |
| Pickman St | 197 E | French Hill | The Witch House | 711, TAA |
| Pickman St | 111 W | Uptown | Timbleton Arms | 810, TAA |
| Pickman St | 122 W | Campus | Harriet Botsford Hotel for Women | 628 |
| Pickman St | 299 W | Uptown | Portman House | 809 |
| Pickman St | 587 W | Uptown | The Franklin Place | 801, TAA |
| Powder Mill St | 106 N | Rivertown | Arkham Printing | 507 |
| Powder Mill St | 174 S | Rivertown | Eleanor Peabody Charity Home | 504 |
| Powder Mill St | 373 S | French Hill | Eben S Draper Public School | 719 |
| Powder Mill St | 477 S | French Hill | YMCA | 721, TAA |
| Powder Mill St | 552 S | Lower Southside | Taran Hall | 908 |
| Powder Mill St | 689 S | Lower Southside | Anton's Restaurant | 912 |
| Off Ravine Lane | -- | Outskirts | Chapman Farm | 1006, ALK |
| Off Ravine Lane | -- | Outskirts | Town Dump | 1005 |
| River St | 500 E | Rivertown | Dunham's Brickyard | 513 |
| River St | 608 E | Rivertown | Beacon of Hope Settlement House | 509 |
| River St | 559 W | Merchant | Arkham Dairy | 404 |
| River St | W | Merchant | Wharves | DON |
| River St & Blair Rd | -- | Outskirts | Parson's Point | TC |
| Saltonstall St | 131 E | Lower Southside | Eye of Amara Society | 904 |
| Saltonstall St | 184 E | Lower Southside | William Pinter, DVM | 905 |
| Saltonstall St | 118 W | Uptown | Wilmarth House | 815 |
| Saltonstall St | 276 W | Uptown | Clark's Residential Accommodations | 814, TAA |
| Saltonstall St | 432 W | Uptown | Daughters of the American Revolution | 813 |
| Saltonstall St | 522 W | Uptown | Horton Wilson, MD | 805 |
| Saltonstall St | 602 W | Uptown | Whitechapel Nursing Home | 804 |
| Saltonstall St | 651 W | Uptown | First Presbyterian Church of Arkham | 806 |
| Saltonstall St | 662 W | Uptown | Daniel Upton, Consulting Architect | 803 |
| Saltonstall St | -- | Uptown | Appley House | 139 |
| Sentinel St | 137 N | Rivertown | G Schmidt, Glazier | 510 |
| Sentinel St | 348 S | French Hill | Southside Gym | 720 |
| Sutton Rd | -- | Outskirts | Phillips Farm | TC |
| Walnut St | 522 | Lower Southside | St Stanislaus Catholic Church | 906 |
| Walnut St | 574 | Lower Southside | Szymanski's Boarding House | 907, TAA |
| Walnut St | 648 | Lower Southside | Simpson Apartments | 911, TAA |
| Washington St | E | Lower Southside | Christchurch Cemetery | 917, DON |
| Washington St | 651 W | Uptown | Arkham Reserved Congregational Church | 817 |
| Water St | 315 E | Downtown | Adams Lumber Yard | 240 |
| Water St | 400 E | Downtown | Slaughterhouse | 241 |
| Water St | 600 E | Easttown | Ice House | 308 |
| West St | 411 N | Northside | Arkham Bus Line | 127 |
| West St | 570 N | Northside | Construction Site (Apartment Building) | 114 |
| West St | 270 S | Campus | Jonathan Edwards Hall | 607, TAA |
| West St | 378 S | Campus | Axton Field House | 608 |
| West St | 450 S | Campus | St Mary's Teaching Hospital | 611 |
| Whately St | 606 | Easttown | Northside Transformer Station | 304 |
| -- | -- | Rivertown | The Shore | 501 |
| -- | -- | Miskatonic River | The Unvisited Island | 409 |
| -- | -- | Outskirts | Clark's Corners | 1008 |
| -- | -- | Outskirts | Blasted Heath | 1010 |
| -- | -- | Outskirts | Gardner Farm | 1010 |
| -- | -- | Outskirts | Pierce Farm | 1010 |
| -- | -- | Outskirts | Arkham Airfield | 1013 |
Abbreviations for Sources
Note that I've been playing and collecting CoC books a long time. The books listed will generally be the first edition unless otherwise noted. H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham, for example, has changed many of the addresses of businesses in the town, but those on my list are the old addresses.
| Abbreviation | Scenario etc | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 101-1015 | Gazetteer | Arkham Unveiled |
| ALK | "A Little Knowledge" | Arkham Unveiled |
| AU | Introductory chapters | Arkham Unveiled |
| D&F | Dreams & Fancies | Kingsport: The City in the Mists |
| DON | "Dead of Night" | Arkham Unveiled |
| TAA | The Arkham Advertiser (insert) | Arkham Unveiled |
| TC | "The Condemned" | Arkham Unveiled |
Thursday 23 September 2010
List of Former Arkham Inhabitants
This is a list of all individuals mentioned in Call of Cthulhu books as living in Arkham at one time, but no longer living there in the 1920s. It is a work in progress and will be added to as and when I have time.
Note that there are spoilers in this table.
1 D = Deceased (year of death uncertain)
Abbreviations for Sources
Note that I've been playing and collecting CoC books a long time. The books listed will generally be the first edition unless otherwise noted.
Note that there are spoilers in this table.
| Surname | First Name(s) | Description | Current Residence/Death1 | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -- | Marsella | Haitian housekeeper, voodoo priestess | 1905 | DON |
| Addleson | Dr -- | President of Miskatonic University | -- | 625 |
| Ames | Peter | Entomber of Sermon Bishop | fl.1752 | TC |
| Armitage | Abigail | Buried in Old Wooded Graveyard | 1694 | 401 |
| Armitage | Jeremiah | Early settler | 1600s | AU |
| Axton | Peter "Dump" | Miskatonic University football coach | 1918 | 608 |
| Baldwin | George | Journalist, historian | fl.1844 | TC |
| Billington | Alijah | Opponent of Ward Phillips | 1700s | TAA |
| Botsford | Harriet | Benefactor of the Harriet Botsford Hotel for Women | D | 628 |
| Carter | Christopher | Great-uncle of Randolph Carter | 190x | 1003 |
| Carter | Randolph | Dreamer, writer | -- | 401, 403, 1002, 1003, AU, TAA |
| Checkley | Mrs Rose | Wife of Jason Checkley | 1903 | DON |
| Copley | -- | Three sons lost in the Civil War | 186x | 614 |
| Crane | Jeremiah | Entomber of Sermon Bishop | fl.1752 | TC |
| Curwen | Tristram | Early settler | 1600s | AU |
| Derby | Capt Francis | Sea captain, executor of Jeremiah Orne | fl.1761-1765 | AU |
| Derby | Nathaniel Pickman | Foundation founder | -- | AU |
| Dunham | Philip | Husband of Emily Dunham | D | TAA |
| Estheridge | Andrew | Mill-owner | D | DON |
| Fowler | Goody -- | Witch | 1704 | 402, 1009, AU |
| Gardner | Nahum | Farmer | -- | 1010 |
| Goddard | Trisham | Possible sorcerer & revenant | 1810 | 408 |
| Halden | John | Benefactor [?], Arkham Historical Society | -- | TC |
| Halsey | Dr Allan | Dean of Medicine, Miskatonic University | 1905 | 616, AU, TAA |
| Helmsley | Maryanne Thurber, Lady | Daughter of Howard Thurber | 1915 | TAA |
| Johnson | Mrs Abigail Thurber | Daughter of Howard Thurber | Hanover, In | TAA |
| Locksley | George | Executor of Jeremiah Orne | fl.1765 | AU |
| Noyes | Jebel | Entomber of Sermon Bishop | fl.1752 | TC |
| Olney | Eliot | Lost part of house to cannonball | fl.1866 | 502 |
| Orne | Capt Jeremiah | Sea captain, founder of Miskatonic University | 1765 | AU |
| Orne | Mrs Sophia Harris | Sister of Emily Dunham | D | TAA |
| Peabody | Abel | Early settler | 1600s | AU |
| Peabody | Eleanor | Benefactor of the Eleanor Peabody Charity Home | D | 504 |
| Phillips | Elihu | Farmer, entomber of Sermon Bishop | fl.1752 | TC |
| Phillips | Rev Ward | Minister, First Baptist Church of Arkham | 1700s | 715, TAA, TC |
| Pickering | Mrs Ethel | Sea captain's wife | fl.1828 | 301 |
| Pickering | John Adams | First President of Miskatonic Liberal College | fl.1760s | AU |
| Pickering | Capt Thomas | Sea captain | fl.1828 | 301 |
| Pickering | Col Timothy | Revolutionary War hero | D | TAA |
| Pierce | Capt James | Entomber of Sermon Bishop | fl.1752 | TC |
| Pingree | Mrs Ethel | Co-founder of the Arkham Historical Society | 1906 | TC |
| Pingree | Capt James | Sea captain | fl.1761 | TC |
| Piper | Dr Amos | Department of Anthropology, Miskatonic University | -- | 902 |
| Quamis | -- | Indian compatriot of Alijah Billington | 1700s | TAA |
| Russel | Richard | Wizard | D | TC |
| Saltonstall | Capt Eli | Sea captain, founder of Arkham's first textile mill | fl.1796 | AU |
| Svlatsov | Mrs Gina Czeklov | Daughter of Peter Czeklov | Bolton, Ma | TAA |
| Thurber | Mrs Abigail Pierce | Wife of Howard Thurber | 1905 | TAA |
| Thurber | Mrs Grace Howard | -- | 1800s | TAA |
| Thurber | Marion Powell | -- | 1800s | TAA |
| Tyner | Dr Charles | Scientist, MU graduate | Unknown | 613 |
| Upham | Dorothy Grace | Benefactor of Miskatonic University | 1875 | 620 |
| West | Dr Herbert | Physician, reanimator, MU graduate | 1922 | 1006, ALK, TAA |
| Wharton | Mrs Mary Elliot | Benefactor of St Mary's Hospital | 1892 | 611 |
| Wharton | Mrs Rota Czeklov | Daughter of Peter Czeklov | Salem, Ma | TAA |
| Whately | Jebel | Early settler | 1600s | AU |
| White | Allen | Entomber of Sermon Bishop | fl.1752 | TC |
| Williams | Ethan | Entomber of Sermon Bishop | 1814 | TC |
1 D = Deceased (year of death uncertain)
Abbreviations for Sources
Note that I've been playing and collecting CoC books a long time. The books listed will generally be the first edition unless otherwise noted.
| Abbreviation | Scenario etc | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 101-1015 | Gazetteer | Arkham Unveiled |
| ALK | "A Little Knowledge" | Arkham Unveiled |
| AU | Introductory chapters | Arkham Unveiled |
| DON | "Dead of Night" | Arkham Unveiled |
| TAA | The Arkham Advertiser (insert) | Arkham Unveiled |
| TC | "The Condemned" | Arkham Unveiled |
List of Arkham Inhabitants
This is a list of all individuals mentioned in Call of Cthulhu books as living in Arkham in the 1920s. It is a work in progress and will be added to as and when I have time.
Note that there are spoilers in this table.
1 (f) = frequents, (h) = home, (w) = work
2 See Abbreviations for Sources below
Abbreviations for Sources
Note that I've been playing and collecting CoC books a long time. The books listed will generally be the first edition unless otherwise noted. H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham, for example, has changed many of the addresses of businesses in the town, but those on my list are the old addresses.
Note that there are spoilers in this table.
| Surname | First Name(s) | Address1 | Description | Source(s)2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -- | -- | 201 E Derby St (h) | Unidentified inmate of Arkham Sanitarium, narrator of "The Festival" | 201 |
| -- | Art | 139 E Armitage St (w) | Proprietor of Art's Billiards | 215 |
| -- | Dan | 721 N Garrison St (w) | Speakeasy bartender | 104 |
| -- | Greg "the Monster" | Rivershore (h) | Vagrant, cannibal | 501 |
| -- | Hiram | 211 N East St (h/w) | Junkman | 512 |
| -- | Josh | 387 W Armitage St (w) | Co-proprietor of The Desolate Highway Café | 129 |
| -- | Mona | 615 S French Hill St (h) | Prostitute, petty thief | 914 |
| -- | Sam | 721 N Garrison St (w) | Speakeasy doorman | 104 |
| -- | Virgilio "Big Red" | 620 S French Hill St (w) | Manager of the Unione Italiano | 913 |
| Abbott | J. J. | 588 Jenkin St (w) | Taxidermist | 119 |
| Abbott | Dr Lawrence | Charles Tyner Science Annex (w) | Department of Engineering, Dean of Applied Sciences, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Aberstrom | Miss Jenny | 288 W Church St (w) | Beautician, hairdresser | 432 |
| Ace | Richard Henry | 433 W Main St (w) | Locksmith, proprietor of Ace Alarms & Lock-Safes | 415 |
| Adams | Chief Benijah | 418 E Armitage St (w) | Fire Chief | 236 |
| Adams | Rider | 421 E Main St (w) | Proprietor of Arkham General Store | 502 |
| Adams | -- | 315 E Water St (w) | Proprietor of Adams Lumber Yard | 240 |
| Alewife | Anthony | 670 Gedney St (f) | Miskatonic University student, amateur actor | TAA |
| Allen | Miss Beatrice | 753 Noyes St (h) | Madwoman | 303 |
| Ambrose | Joe | 750 E Armitage St (w) | Maintenance man at Arkham Worsted Mills, coven member | 1007 |
| Ames | Enod | 406 W Miskatonic Ave (h) | House painter, handyman | TC |
| Ames | Dr SWanson | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of English, Miskatonic University, Director of Miskatonic University Press | 615 |
| Anderson | Arthur | 422 N Garrison St (w) | Manager of the First National Grocery Store | 243, K402 |
| Anderson | Ben | 353 W Main St | Proprietor of Anderson's Furniture & Carpets | 417 |
| Anderson | -- | 650 Armitage St (w) | Proprietor of Anderson's Chemical Supply | 307 |
| Andrews | Miss -- | 109 E High St (h/w) | Proprietor of Miss Andrews' Social Parlour | 903 |
| Angley | Dr Robert | Science Hall (w) | Department of Botany, Miskatonic University | 612, TAA |
| Appley | Bartholomew, IV | W Saltonstall St (h) | Dilettante, car thief | 139 |
| Arley | Bert | French Hill St (h/w) | Proprietor of Arley's Boat & Bait | 505 |
| Armbruster | Rev Wharton | 651 W Washington St (w) | Minister of the Arkham Reserved Congegational Church | 817 |
| Armitage | Mrs Eleanor | 417 W Miskatonic Ave (h) | Wife of Henry Armitage | 623, 808 |
| Armitage | Dr Henry | 417 W Miskatonic Ave (h) Orne Library (w) | Director of the Orne Library, Miskatonic University | 623, 808 |
| Armwright | Dr Chester | 676 W College St (w) | Dean of Medicine, Miskatonic University | 609 |
| Arthur | Douglas | 378 S West St (w) | Miskatonic University track & field coach | 608 |
| Ashbourne | Master Bobby | 298 W High Lane (w) | Western Union telegram messenger | 132 |
| Ashley | Dr Ferdinand C | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of Ancient History, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Asker | Jacob | East St & River St (w) | Blacksmith, livery stable proprietor | 511, TAA |
| Atwater | Henry | 259 S Garrison St (w) | Botany student at Miskatonic University, sales assistant at Almen's Flowers | TC |
| Atwood | Prof Donald | Science Hall (w) | Department of Physics, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Avery | Fenner | 185 W Main St (w) | Tobacconist | 425 |
| Babson | Miss Eunice | Crowninshield Manor (h/w) | Housemaid | 1012 |
| Bacon | Everett | -- | Bootlegger | DITW |
| Ballard | Harvey | High Lane & Peabody Ave (w) | Car salesman, driving instructor | 229 |
| Beckworth | Robert "Little Bob", Jr | 350 W Armitage St (w) 411 W High St (f) | Financier, property developer, proprietor of the Beckworth Development Co | 812, DON |
| Beemis | Harold | Itinerant | Tramp, coven member | 1007 |
| Benito | Lou | 620 S French Hill St (f) | Gang lieutenant | 913 |
| Benson | Jasper | 276 E Main St (w) | Grocer | 452 |
| Bethnell | Dr Abram | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Anthropology, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Billings | Dr Morris | Science Hall (w) | Department of Astronomy, Miskatonic University | 612, TAA, THRW |
| Bishop | Fr Archibald | 150 S Parsonage St (w) | Parish Priest of Christchurch Episcopal | 448, TAA |
| Bishop | Sermon | Bishop's Bridge (f) | Ancient wizard | TC |
| Bladesell | Jermyn Horton | 916 High Lane (h) | -- | TAA |
| Bradbury | Robert "Bob" | 378 S West St (w) | Director of Facilities & Grounds, Miskatonic University | 608 |
| Bridgeton | Lt Col Aubrey | 560 Marsh St (f) | XO, Co B, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers | 244 |
| Brown | Gordon | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Stockbroker | 118 |
| Bryant | Mather | 135 E Church St (w) | Pharmacist | 445 |
| Bunker | -- | 602 W Saltonstall St (w) | Whitechapel Nursing Home | TAA |
| Bunden | Malcolm | 420 N Peabody Ave (w) | Bookbinder, publisher | 237 |
| Cameron | Dr W E | Science Hall (w) | Dean of Physical Sciences, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Cardigan | Richard | -- | Botany student at Miskatonic University | TC |
| Cartwright | Henry | 378 S West St (w) | Miskatonic University gymnastics & fencing coach | 608 |
| Caselius | Lazlo | 388 W Church St (w) | Jeweller, gemcutter | 429, 427 |
| Cassidy | Edwin "Ed" | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Attorney | 118 |
| Chambers | Bertrand | 589 Marsh St (w) | Attorney, mob employee | 216 |
| Chanson | "Dr" Delbert | 297 E College St (w) | Proprietor of the School of Positive Thinking | 717 |
| Charlton | Frank | West Dormitory (h) | Philosophy student at Miskatonic University | ALK |
| Chase | Dr Aaron | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Classical Languages, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Checkley | Master Adam | -- | Son of Jason Checkley | DON |
| Checkley | Jason | 633 Noyes St (h) | Former director of the Checkley Institute | DON |
| Checkley | Miss Jessica | -- | Daughter of Jason Checkley | DON |
| Checkley | Miss Rosemary | -- | Daughter of Jason Checkley | DON |
| Christian | Miss -- | 577 Jenkin St (h/w) | Elocution teacher | 117 |
| Clark | Miss Elizabeth | 276 W Saltonstall St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 814 |
| Cochran | Jack | -- | Bootlegger | DITW |
| Corey | Dr Nathaniel | 166 E Pickman St (h) | Physician, inmate of the Larkin Institute | 902 |
| Corey | Mrs -- | -- | Nathaniel Corey's wife | 902 |
| Couzon | Alain | 288 Lich St (h) | Hypnotist | 716, TAA |
| Craig | Lee E | 666 N Peabody Ave (w) | Municipal Attorney | 210 |
| Crane | Benson | 132 E High St (h) | -- | TC |
| Crane | Michael | 350 W Hyde St (w) 411 W High St (f) | Owner & managing editor of the Arkham Gazette | 108, TAA |
| Crane | Mrs -- | 132 E High St (h) | Wife of Benson Crane | TC |
| Crawford | Mrs Ellen | 753 Noyes St (h) | Widow | 303 |
| Crossman | Willard | -- | Retired financier | DON |
| Crownin | Prof Peter | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of English, Dean of Languages, Literature & the Arts, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Cunningham | Albert | 321 W Main St (w) | Pet shop proprietor | 419, TAA |
| Czeklov | Arno | -- | Son of Peter Czeklov | TAA |
| Czeklov | Peter | 679 Brown St (f) | -- | TAA |
| Czeklov | Richard | -- | Son of Peter Czeklov | TAA |
| Czeklov | Mrs Rosa | -- | Wife of Peter Czeklov | TAA |
| Czyenck | Robert | 467 Marsh St (w) | Proprietor of the Northside Market, coven member | 228, 1007 |
| Dahlberg | Gregory | 433 N Peabody Ave (w) | Manager of the Arkham Cab Co | 234 |
| Delworth | August | -- | Miskatonic University student, playwright | TAA |
| Dennison | -- | 148 E Armitage St (w) | Proprietor of Dennison's Ice Cream Emporium | 227 |
| Derby | Mrs Asenath Waite | Crowninshield Manor (h) | Miskatonic University student | 1012, ALK |
| Derby | Edward Pickman | Crowninshield Manor (h) | Poet | 803, 1012 |
| Diddlebock | Harold | 551 N Peabody Ave (w) | Assistant Town Manager | TAA |
| Dombrowski | -- | 197 E Pickman St (h) | Landlord of the Witch House | 711 |
| Dombrowski | Mrs -- | 197 E Pickman St (h) | Landlady of the Witch House | 711 |
| Donnelly | Doyle | -- | Bootlegger | DITW |
| Dulagi | "Madame" -- | 648 Walnut St (h/w) | Fortune teller | 911, TAA |
| Dunham | Miss Elizabeth | -- | Daughter of Emily Dunham | TAA |
| Dunham | Mrs Emily Harris | -- | Widow | TAA |
| Dunlap | Ed | 179 W Armitage St (w) | Vacuum cleaner salesman, Mi-Go agent | 134 |
| Dyer | Dr William | Science Hall (w) | Department of Geology, Dean of Natural Sciences, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Eastman | Dr P G | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Acting Chairman of the Department of English, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Edmund | Dr David | 333 W College St (w) | Vice-President of Miskatonic University | 625 |
| Eleazar | Jasper | 549 S French Hill St (w) | Undertaker | 910 |
| Ellery | Dr Dewart | Charles Tyner Science Annex (w) | Department of Metallurgy, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Elwood | Frank | 197 E Pickman St (h) Science Hall (w) | Mathematics student at Miskatonic University | 711 |
| Endicott | Melvin Mowry | -- | -- | TAA |
| Estheridge | Mrs Mildred | 288 W High St (h) | Former co-directress of the Checkley Institute | DON |
| Evans | Bernard | 237 W Main St | Optometrist | 422 |
| Feldman | Dr G R | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Dentist, oral surgeon | 118 |
| Fen | Dr Martin | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of History, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Fenner | Mel | Fenner's Road House (h/w) | Proprietor of Fenner's Road House | 1015 |
| Flaherty | Will | -- | Bootlegger | DITW |
| Flint | Abigail | 122 W Pickman St (h/w) | Manageress of the Harriet Botsford Hotel for Women | 628 |
| Flint | Clell | 233 E Church St (w) | Co-proprietor of F&M Trains & Toys | 455 |
| Fosworth | Brian | 276 E Main St (w) | Delivery driver for Benson's Market | DON |
| Fowler | Goody -- | Old Wooded Graveyard (f) | Evil ghost | 402, 1009, AU |
| Franklin | -- | 587 W Pickman St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 801 |
| Franklin | Mrs -- | 587 W Pickman St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 801 |
| Freeborn | Dr Tyler M | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of Anthropology, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Freen | "St Looey" Larry | 721 N Garrison St (f) | Bunko artist | 104 |
| Gammell | Miss Harriet | -- | Daughter of Ruby Gammell | TAA |
| Gammell | Herbert | -- | Son of Ruby Gammell | TAA |
| Gammell | Hezekiah | -- | Son of Ruby Gammell | TAA |
| Gammell | Mrs Ruby Dunham | -- | Daughter of Emily Dunham | TAA |
| Gaspard | Jason | 131 E Saltonstall St (h) | Occultist, leader of the Eye of Amara Society | 904 |
| Gedney | Harvey | 389 W Armitage St (w) | Owner & managing editor of the Arkham Advertiser | 128 |
| Gedney | James | 35 W Armitage St (w) | Stockbroker | 118 |
| Gianelli | Miss Catarina | -- | Daughter of Giuseppe Gianelli | TAA |
| Gianelli | Mrs Elena | -- | Wife of Giuseppe Gianelli | TAA |
| Gianelli | Master Francesco | -- | Son of Giuseppe Gianelli | TAA |
| Gianelli | Giuseppe | -- | -- | TAA |
| Gianelli | Miss Maria | -- | Daughter of Giuseppe Gianelli | TAA |
| Gianelli | Master Roberto | -- | Son of Giuseppe Gianelli | TAA |
| Gianelli | Master Vincenzo | -- | Son of Giuseppe Gianelli | TAA |
| Gilman | Walter | 197 E Pickman St (h) Science Hall (w) | Mathematics student at Miskatonic University | 612, 711, AU |
| Gilman | -- | 298 W Church St (w) | Proprietor of Gilman's Office Supplies | 431 |
| Goddard | Dr Arthur | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Golditz | Meyer | 276 W Saltonstall St (h) >200 W Main St (w) | Mob accountant, Lucky Clover Cartage Co bookkeeper | 412, 814 |
| Gordon | Herb | 334 S Parsonage St (w) | Mechanic at Miskatonic University Garage | 707 |
| Greely | Dr Archibald | Science Hall (w) | School of Physical Sciences, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Groat | Sgt -- | 560 Marsh St (f) | Motor Pool Sergeant, Co B, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers | 244 |
| Harden | Herbert | 226 E Main St (w) | Used bookseller | 450 |
| Harden | Det Luther | 302 E Armitage St (w) | Chief of Detectives | 232 |
| Harding | Mrs Grace | 561 Brown St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 115 |
| Harding | William "Bill" | 561 Brown St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 115, TAA |
| Hardstrom | Dr Eric | 225 E Derby St (w) | Director of Arkham Sanitarium | 201 |
| Hardwicke | Morton | 562 Jenkin St (w) | Proprietor of Hardwicke's Stamps & Coins | 120, TAA |
| Harrigan | Det Mickey | 302 E Armitage St (w) | Police detective | 232 |
| Harrington | Stanley "Stan" | Arkham Airfield (w) | Proprietor of Arkham Airfield, flying instructor | 1013, TAA |
| Harris | Lester | -- | Brother of Ruby Dunham | TAA |
| Harris | Roy | -- | Brother of Ruby Dunham | TAA |
| Harrison | Miss Henrietta | 168 W Church St (w) | Manageress of the Sears-Roebuck Catalog Store | 458 |
| Hart | Maj Charles | 560 Marsh St (f) | Quartermaster, Co B, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers | 244 |
| Hartwell | Dr Morton | 507 W Miskatonic Ave (h/w) | Physician | 807 |
| Haskett | Corey Derby | -- | -- | TAA |
| Haskett | Miss Melissa Susanna | -- | Daughter of Corey Derby Haskett | TAA |
| Haskett | Mrs -- | -- | Wife of Corey Derby Haskett | TAA |
| Hathorne | Col William | 560 Marsh St (f) | CO, Co B, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers | 244 |
| Hayes | Dr Hamlin | Charles Tyner Science Annex (w) Kingsport Head (w) | Department of Electrical Engineering, Miskatonic University | 612, KH |
| Hearne | Alex | 488 W High Lane (h) | Mugger | 130 |
| Heath | Kenneth | 136 E Curwen St (h/w) | Private investigator | 204 |
| Heingrapper | "Bucky" | Arkham Airfield (w) | Aircraft & motor mechanic | 1013 |
| Helcimer | Danté | 587 W Pickman St (h) | Mythos scholar | 801 |
| Henderson | Mrs Emily | 551 N Peabody Ave (f) | Selectwoman for Easttown Ward | TAA |
| Henry | Miss Roberta | 389 W Armitage St (w) | Reporter on the Arkham Advertiser | 128, TAA |
| Hope | Mrs Nina Williams | 374 W Curwen St (h) | -- | TC |
| Hopkins | Adam | 378 S West St (w) | Miskatonic University basketball coach | 608 |
| Iwanicki | Fr Casimir | 522 Walnut St (w) | Parish Priest of St Stanislaus Catholic Church | 906 |
| Jaywil | Malvina | W Church St (w) | Bookseller | 434 |
| Jenkin | Eldon | 550 E Main St (w) | Principal of the East Public High School | 508 |
| Johnston | William Danvers | 150 E Hyde St (w) 411 W High St (f) | Vice-President of Arkham First National Bank, coven member | 1007 |
| Jones | B F | 244 E Main St (w) | Ironmonger | 451 |
| Kanum | Donald | 378 S WEst St (w) | Director of Physical Education, Miskatonic University | 608 |
| Keats | Capt William | 302 E Armitage St (w) | Police executive officer | 232 |
| Keenan | -- | 152 E College St (w) | Laundry proprietor | 709 |
| Kilbraith | Dr George | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Lake | Dr Percy | Science Hall (w) | School of Biology, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Larkin | Janet | 551 N Peabody Ave (w) | Town Clerk | 221 |
| Larkin | Dr Parker | 166 E Pickman St (w) | Psychiatrist, Director & proprietor of the Larkin Institute | 902 |
| LaRue | Abigail | W Miskatonic Ave (h/w) | Housemaid, coven member | 1007 |
| Leary | Eddie | 200 W Main St (w) | Mob enforcer, Lucky Clover Cartage Co foreman | 412, DITW |
| Lillibridge | George | 561 Brown St (h) | Surveyor | 115 |
| Liou | Pin | 443 Fish St (h/w) | Tattooist | 238 |
| Llanfer | Dr Wilfred | Orne Library (w) | Assistant Director of the Orne Library, Miskatonic University | 623 |
| Logan | Off Robert E | 302 E Armitage St (w) | POlice officer | DON |
| Lyman | Sawyer | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Tower Building nightwatchman | 118 |
| Mackey | Mrs Catherine Marsh | -- | Daughter of Joshua Marsh | TAA |
| McNeely | Mike | 433 N Peabody Ave (w) | Cab driver | TC |
| Malkowski | Dr Stanley | 574 Walnut St (h) | Physician | 907 |
| Malloy | John | 205 W Main St (w) | Clock dealer & repairer | 423 |
| Manelli | Alberto | 307 W Main St (w) | Music store proprietor, baritone, singing teacher | 420 |
| Manton | Joel | 180 W Lich St (h) 601 W Main St (w) | Superintendent of Public Schools | 403, 406, 508 |
| Manton | -- | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Realtor | 118, TAA |
| Markham | Caleb | 206 E Main St (w) | Locksmith | 449 |
| Marsh | Becknell | -- | Son of Joshua Marsh | TAA |
| Marsh | Master Charles | -- | Son of Perkins Marsh | TAA |
| Marsh | Mrs Ida May | -- | Wife of Joshua Marsh | TAA |
| Marsh | Jedediah | 622 Jenkin St (w) | Attorney | 110 |
| Marsh | Jeremiah | -- | At sea, son of Joshua Marsh | TAA |
| Marsh | Joshua | -- | -- | TAA |
| Marsh | Matthew Dana | -- | Son of Joshua Marsh | TAA |
| Marsh | Perkins | -- | Son of Jedediah Marsh | TAA |
| Marsh | -- | 172 W Church St (w) | Proprietor of Marsh's Confectionery | 436 |
| Marsh | Mrs -- | -- | Wife of Perkins Marsh | TAA |
| Martelle | Dean | 233 E Church St (w) | Co-proprietor of F&M Trains & Toys | 455 |
| Maruzzo | Luca | 348 S Sentinel St (w) | Proprietor of the Southside Gym, boxing trainer | 720 |
| Mason | Keziah | 197 E Pickman St (f) Orne's Gangway (f) Unvisited Island (f) | Ancient witch | 409, 711, 722, 1007, AU |
| Mehler | -- | 171 Lich St (w) | Undertaker | 705 |
| Merton | Richard | 6-- W Main St (h) | -- | TC |
| Merton | Mrs -- | 6-- W Main St (h) | -- | TC |
| Miller | Dr Conrad | Science Hall (w) | Dean of Biology, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Miro | Mrs Bettina Czeklov | -- | Daughter of Peter Czeklov | TAA |
| Morency | Fr Anthony | 554 S French Hill St (w) | Parish Priest of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church | 909 |
| Morgan | Dr Francis | Liberal Arts Building (w) Chapman Farm (f) Arkham Airfield (f) | Chairman of the Department of Archaeology, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Muelhig | Dr Heinrich T | 555 Marsh St (h/w) | Psychoanalyst | 219 |
| Murray | Arthur | 333 W Main St (w) | Dance teacher | 418 |
| Nangelo | Miss Vittoria | -- | Student at Miskatonic University | ALK |
| Neeley | -- | W Miskatonic Ave (h) | -- | 1007 |
| Neeley | Mrs -- | W Miskatonic Ave (h) | -- | 1007 |
| Nichols | Chief Asa | High St (h) 302 E Armitage St (w) 679 Brown St (f) 650 N Garrison St (f) Chapman Farm (f) | Chief of Police | 232, 416 |
| Nichols | Mrs Orrette | High St (h) | Chief's wife | 232 |
| Noyes | Abbot | 520 Jenkin St (w) | Co-proprietor of the Worldwide Clipping Service | TAA |
| Noyes | Bradbury | 520 Jenkin St (w) | Co-proprietor of the Worldwide Clipping Service | TAA |
| Noyes | Rev Charles | 214 Lich St (w) | Minister of the First Baptist Church of Arkham | 715 |
| Noyes | Jeffery | 115 E Curwen St (h) | -- | TC |
| O'Bannion | Daniel "Danny" | 111 W Pickman St (h) 200 W Main St (w) | Mobster, Lucky Clover Cartage Co proprietor | 412, 718, 810, AU, K113, TAA |
| O'Brian | Miss Hattie | 276 W Saltonstall St (h) 428 W Church St (w) | Boutique proprietor, seamstress | 428, 814, TAA |
| O'Brien | Thom | -- | Bootlegger | DITW |
| Owen | Claude | West Dormitory (h) 676 W College St (w) | Medical student at Miskatonic University | ALK |
| Pabodie | Dr Frank H | 587 W Pickman St (h) Charles Tyner Science Annex (w) | Department of Engineering, Miskatonic University | 612, 801 |
| Parkinson | Elihu "Flip" | 378 S West St (w) | Miskatonic University football coach | 608, TAA |
| Parrington | Edward | 417 W Main St (w) Chapman Farm (f) | Gunsmith | 416 |
| Peabody | Dr Allen | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Peabody | E Lapham | 531 S Garrison St (w) | Curator of the Arkham Historical Society | 901 |
| Peabody | Miss Elizabeth | 670 Gedney St (f) | Mayor's daughter, amateur actress | 109 |
| Peabody | Joseph | 551 N Peabody Ave (f) 411 W High St (f) | Mayor of Arkham | 221, TAA |
| Peabody | Miss Wilma | 111 W College St (f) | President of Arkham SPCA, Mayor's sister | 627 |
| Peaslee | Prof Nathaniel Wingate | 588 Crane St (h) Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of Economics & Sociometrics, Miskatonic University | 606, 615, 805, AU |
| Peaslee | Dr Wingate | 588 Crane St (h) Science Hall (w) Arkham Airfield (f) | Department of Psychology, Miskatonic University | 606, 612, 1013 |
| Peck | Willard | 350 W Hyde St (w) | Chief reporter of the Arkham Gazette | 108 |
| Penobscott | Howard | 333 W College St (w) | Miskatonic University student, managing editor of The Miskatonic University Cryer | 625 |
| Perkins | Edwin White, III | 131 E Saltonstall St (f) | Dilettante, coven member | 1007 |
| Petrucci | Aldo | 708 French Hill St (w) | Barber | 916 |
| Phelps | Howard Whipple | -- | -- | TAA |
| Phelps | Miss Lucy | -- | Daughter of Howard Whipple Phelps | TAA |
| Phelps | Mrs -- | -- | Wife of Howard Whipple Phelps | TAA |
| Phillips | Retribution "Grampa" | Phillips Farm (h) | Pensioner | TC |
| Pickering | Alexander | -- | -- | TAA |
| Pierce | Alexander | 648 Federal St (h) | Antiquarian | TC |
| Pierce | Ammi | Pierce Farm (h/w) | Farmer | 1011 |
| Pierce | Miss Anita | 665 W Church St (w) | Principal of Arkham Public High School | 603 |
| Pike | -- | 338 W Church St (w) | Gentlemen's outfitter, tailor | 430 |
| Pinter | Dr Bill | 184 E Saltonstall St (h/w) | Veterinarian | 905 |
| Portman | Stewart | 299 W Pickman St (h) | Dilettante, book collector, rapist | 809 |
| Potrello | Giuseppe "Joe" | 620 S French Hill St (f) | Gangster | 913, AU |
| Potts | Elijah | 113 S Boundary St (h/w) | Monumental mason | 405 |
| Putnam | Janice | 531 S Garrison St (w) | Receptionist at the Arkham Historical Society | TC |
| Randall | Keezar | 666 N Peabody Ave (w) 411 W High St (f) | Municipal Judge | 210, 812 |
| Rankowitz | Ruby | 488 W High Lane (w) | Chambermaid at the Borden Arms | DON |
| Rice | Prof Warren | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Acting Chairman of the Department of Classical Languages, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Rodney | Miss -- | 511 Gedney St (w) | Clerk at E. E. Saltonstall & Associates | TAA |
| Ropes | Lester | 531 S Garrison St (w) | Librarian of the Arkham Historical Society | TC |
| Rosen | David | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Artist-in-residence at Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Saltonstall | E. E. | 511 Gedney St (w) | Attorney | 123, TAA |
| Sander | Pete | 443 N Garrison St (w) | Proprietor of Sander's Wax Museum, portrait photographer, signpainter | 136 |
| Sargent | Mrs Abigail | Crowninshield Manor (h/w) | Servant | 1012 |
| Sargent | Moses | Crowninshield Manor (h/w) | Servant | 1012 |
| Schmidt | Gunther | 137 N Sentinel St (h/w) | Glazier | 510, TAA |
| Shalad | Dr Moamar | 622 Brown St (h) Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies, Miskatonic University | 106, 615 |
| Shear | Prof Harold | 680 W Miskatonic Ave (h) Science Hall (w) | Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Miskatonic University | 612, 816 |
| Shear | Master Jonathan | 680 W Miskatonic Ave (h) | Harold Shear's son, arsonist | 816 |
| Shear | Mrs -- | 680 W Miskatonic Ave (h) | Harold Shear's wife | 816 |
| Sheehan | -- | 411 Fish St (w) | Proprietor of Sheehan Contractor Supply | 239 |
| Sheene | Fr Paul | 432 Lich St (w) | Parish Priest of St Michael's Catholic Church | 718 |
| Shepley | Ritter | 715 Dyer St (w) | Manager or proprietor of the Fleetwood Diner | TAA |
| Shrewsbury | Dr Laban | 498 W Curwen St (h) | Anthropologist | 103, AU, TAA |
| Sills | Bobby | 267 E Church St (h) 200 W Main St (w) | Mob lieutenant | 412, 456, DITW |
| Sinderwald | Dr Garrison | 567 Marsh St (w) | Physician, cosmetic surgeon | 218 |
| Skinner | Bert | -- | -- | TAA |
| Slocum | Darrell | 551 N Peabody Ave (w) | Town Manager | 221, 1007 |
| Slocum | Mrs Marla | 428 W Church St (w) | Saleslady at Hattie's Boutique, coven member | 1007 |
| Smith | Mrs Ellen Whipple | 450 S West St (w) | Nurse at St Mary's Hospital, coven member | 1007 |
| Smith | Miss Georgia | 374 W Curwen St (w) | Housemaid | TC |
| Smith | Mrs Harriet | 288 Lich St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 716 |
| Smith | Phineas | 288 Lich St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 716 |
| Spaulding | George | 551 N Peabody Ave (f) | Selectman for Uptown Ward | TAA |
| Spencer | Rev Dr Willet | 656 Federal St (w) | Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Arkham | 303 |
| Sprague | Dr Ephraim | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Physician, Essex County Medical Examiner | 118, K301 |
| Stewart | Gerald | 211 E Church St (w) | Proprietor, Stewart's Caravan | 454 |
| Stieglitz | Elliot | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Insurance broker | 118 |
| Stieglitz | Michael | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Insurance broker | 118 |
| Stoll | Donald | Kingsport Head (w) | Graduate student, Department of Electrical Engineering, Miskatonic University | KH |
| Stuckey | Det Ray | 302 E Armitage St (w) | Police detective, mob employee | 232 |
| Sutton | Rev Dr Eben | 651 W Saltonstall St (w) | Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Arkham | 806 |
| Swain | Daniel | 665 W Church St (w) | Teacher at Arkham Public High School, coven member | 1007 |
| Sykes | Abel | High Lane & Peabody Ave (w) | Proprietor, Phillips 66 Station | 235 |
| Szymanski | Mrs -- | 574 Walnut St (h/w) | Boarding house proprietor | 907 |
| Taranowski | -- | 511 Brown St (w) 157 E Church St (w) | Baker | 116, 446 |
| Thorne | Mrs Melissa | Halsey St (h/w) | Prostitute | 310 |
| Thurber | Howard Atchison | W Derby St (h) 679 Brown St (f) 650 N Garrison St (f) | Retired associate professor of engineering, Miskatonic University | TAA |
| Tillinghast | Edwin "Ed" | 588 Gedney St (w) | Rare bookseller, historian | 124, DON, TAA |
| Tillinghast | George | 261 W Main St (w) | Antique dealer, historian | 421 |
| Tilstrom | Miss Jennifer | -- | Coven member | 1007 |
| Torsten | Miss Sheila | 157 E Church St (w) | Assistant at Taranowski's Bakery, coven member | 446, 1007 |
| Trout | Ernie | Armitage St & Garrison St (w) | Newsvendor, information broker | 135 |
| Turner | Mrs Alice | Liberal Arts Building (w) 670 Gedney St (f) | Director of Theater, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Turner | Dr Allen | 350 W Armitage St (w) | Physician, psychoanalyst | 118 |
| Updike | Bob | 224 W Church St (w) | Co-proprietor of The University Shop | TAA |
| Updike | Jerry | 224 W Church St (w) | Co-proprietor of The University Shop | TAA |
| Upham | Dr Hiram | Science Hall (w) | Chairman of the Astor Department of Mathematics, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Upton | Daniel | 662 W Saltonstall St (h) | Architect | 803 |
| Upton | Mrs -- | 662 W Saltonstall St (h) | Daniel Upton's wife | 803 |
| Upton | Master -- | 662 W Saltonstall St (h) | Daniel Upton's son | 803 |
| Valencia | Robert | 197 W Main St (w) | Proprietor of The Radio Center, radio repairer, radio ham, record saleman | 424 |
| Vandervelden | Reid | 387 W Armitage St | Co-proprietor of The Desolate Highway Café | 129 |
| Ver Hoven | Andreas | 451 W Main St (w) | Art gallery owner, restorer | 414 |
| Wade | Randle | 682 Marsh St (w) | Proprietor of the Diamond Credit Agency, pawnbroker, fence | 207 |
| Wainscott | Dr Harvey | 333 W College St (w) | President of Miskatonic University | 625, TAA |
| Waite | Elisha | 288 Lich St (h) 478 W Church St (w) | Gold & silversmith | 427, 716 |
| Walden | Mike | -- | Bootlegger | DITW |
| Waldron | Dr Cecil | Science Hall (w) | Miskatonic University Campus Physician | 612 |
| Waldron | Dr Morton | 676 W College St (w) | School of Medicine, Miskatonic University | ALK |
| Wallace | Rev Dr Ezekiel | 640 Marsh St (w) | Pastor of the Asbury ME Church | 206 |
| Walters | Timothy "Tim" | 131 W Main St (w) | Proprietor of Walters' Optics & Fancy Toys, astronomer | 426, TAA |
| Warden | Dr Alex | Science Hall (w) 131 E Saltonstall St (f) | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Weilder | Gregor | 191 N French Hill St (h/w) | Glassblower | 506 |
| Westgate | Dr Anthony | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Chairman of the Department of Economics & Sociometrics, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Whitby | Miss Ruth Ellen | 333 W College St (w) | Registrar of Miskatonic University | 625 |
| White | Humphrey | 233 S Parsonage St | -- | TC |
| White | James Allen | 511 Gedney St (w) | Attorney, coven member | 1007 |
| White | Mrs -- | 233 S Parsonage St (h) | Wife of Humphrey White | TC |
| Whitman | Dr Stanley | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of English, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Whitmarsh | Miss Ellen | 630 Marsh St (w) | Librarian of Arkham Public Library | 208 |
| Whittaker | Eli | 487 N Peabody Ave (w) | Postmaster | 233 |
| Wilcox | Dr Harvey | Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of History, Dean of History & the Social Sciences, Miskatonic University | 615 |
| Williams | "Biff" | West Dormitory (h) | Student at Miskatonic University | ALK |
| Willoughby | Ed | 270 S West St (w) | Foreman on Jonathan Edwards Hall | TAA |
| Wilmarth | Prof Albert N | 118 W Saltonstall St (h) Liberal Arts Building (w) | Department of English, Miskatonic University | 615, 815, AU |
| Wilson | Hagan | 615 S French St (h) 131 E Saltonstall St (f) | Artist | 914 |
| Wilson | Dr Horton | 522 W Saltonstall St (h/w) | Physician | 805 |
| Winkler | Mrs Edith | 195 E Church St (h/w) | Proprietor of the Arkham Gift Shop | 447 |
| Winside | Dr Homer | 259 S Garrison St (w) | Proprietor of Almen's Flowers, botanist | 703 |
| Woodbridge | Dr Gammell | Charles Tyner Science Annex (w) | Department of Engineering, Miskatonic University | 612 |
| Woodward | Ben | 148 E Main St (w) | Proprietor of Markwil's Theatrical Supply | 443 |
| Wvinch | Gerrhardt | 611 Gedney St (h) | Medium | 111, TAA |
1 (f) = frequents, (h) = home, (w) = work
2 See Abbreviations for Sources below
Abbreviations for Sources
Note that I've been playing and collecting CoC books a long time. The books listed will generally be the first edition unless otherwise noted. H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham, for example, has changed many of the addresses of businesses in the town, but those on my list are the old addresses.
| Abbreviation | Scenario etc | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 101-1015 | Gazetteer | Arkham Unveiled |
| ALK | "A Little Knowledge" | Arkham Unveiled |
| AU | Introductory chapters | Arkham Unveiled |
| DITW | Dead in the Water | Kingsport: The City in the Mists |
| DON | "Dead of Night" | Arkham Unveiled |
| K | Gazetteer | Kingsport: The City in the Mists |
| KH | Kingsport Head | Kingsport: The City in the Mists |
| TAA | The Arkham Advertiser (insert) | Arkham Unveiled |
| TC | "The Condemned" | Arkham Unveiled |
| THRW | "The Hills Rise Wild" | Arkham Unveiled |
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