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Maebelle Wompsnard developed the "Goat With a Thousand Young" hairdo that was very popular in the late 1800s. It was considered especially appropriate for wear by brides. |
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Mildred Bimble was the Chief Organist for the Temple of H***** in the early 1900s, until she took to playing cheerful tunes. This so incensed the congregation that they immediately tore her to pieces. |
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Hattie Windgong became world-renowned for her erudite and encyclopaedic knowledge, and for her wonderful lectures on the Chautauqa circuit. Always accompanied by her cat, Ralph, she was wined and dined all over the Eastern USA. She was exposed as a fraud, however, when it was discovered that she was actually mute, and the cat was a ventriloquist. |
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Mr. and Mr. Jones founded the Center for the Terminally Bewildered here in Arkham in the early 1900s. This facility has proved invaluble for those of our population who find themselves a bit confused at times. |
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The Capplipp family decided that Julia (on the left) was just too perky, so they killed and ate her one summer afternoon in 1899. They decided that she tasted much like a very good grade of snake. |
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Jefferson Wilson went everywhere with his teddy bear. Most people thought it a toy, until Mr. Wilson had occasion to use his Pooper-Scooper. |
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Albert Sprocket was the cause of 67 fatal accidents on the streets of Arkham. After he ran over an entire class of 3rd graders, his license was revoked, and he had to content himself with being wheeled about in a wheelbarrow by his handyman. |
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Penelope Smythe-Waddle never smiled, until she witnessed Albert Sprocket's demolishment of the 3rd grade class. She found that alarmingly funny, and would laugh out loud whenever it was mentioned. Aside from that, she never smiled. |
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The Lubiÿanka Brothers were descendants of exiled Jacobite royalty. They spent their time in cooking up elaborate plots against Queen Victoria of England, but finally gave up and moved to Venezuela, where they opened a mail-order haggis shop. |
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James Winston was never the same after the Accident of 1928. He spent his time wandering around Arkham in a daze, wearing an old raincoat and preaching on street corners. When he finally died, it was found that his entire body had been thinly plated with tin by the Accident. |
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Willard T. Farrington-Jones, nephew of Alvin T. Farrington-Jones, with his bicycle maker. The Farrington-Jones family proved to be quite expert tap-dancers and bicycle racers, winning many meets with their custom-designed bicycles. |
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Olive Tinselbum was famous around the Arkham waterfront in the late 1920s for her version of the "Hootchie-Cootchie" dance. It grew to be quite the cultural institution, though she was turned down when she applied to perform at the World's Fair. |
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