The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Characters in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Herbert West
A brilliant, morally compromised medical student in Arkham whose obsession with reanimating the dead drives him to escalating and horrifying experiments in "Herbert West—Reanimator."
Antagonists
Cthulhu
An ancient, monstrous cosmic entity imprisoned beneath the ocean near R'lyeh, whose awakening would bring chaos and madness to humanity.
Supporting characters
Inspector John Raymond Legrasse
A New Orleans police inspector who, seventeen years before the story's main events, led a raid on a swamp cult worshipping Cthulhu and testified about it to the American Archaeological Society.
William Channing Webb
A Princeton anthropology professor whose account of a Cthulhu-worshipping tribe in Greenland corroborates Legrasse's report of the same cult in Louisiana.
Francis Wayland Thurston
The narrator of "The Call of Cthulhu," a Boston antiquarian who assembles his late granduncle's papers and other testimonies into an account of the worldwide Cthulhu cult.
George Gammell Angell
Thurston's granduncle, a retired Brown University professor of Semitic languages whose research notes on a strange cult and its idol set the story's investigation in motion.
Gustaf Johansen
A Norwegian sailor and first mate whose ship encounters the sunken city of R'lyeh; his posthumous manuscript forms the story's climactic account.