Stone man

Jack and his friend Ben Hayden set off in search of the missing sculptor Arthur Wheeler. Henry Jackson informed them of strange statues in the Adirondack Mountains near Mountain Top Village. There are rumors among the locals that Arthur settled in the Lunatic Dan hut and was kidnapping his wife, and so he went missing. The path led to a hut, next to which was Allen's Cave, and at the entrance stood a realistic statue of a dog. Inside the cave, they found a statue of petrified Arthur. Friends run away fearing the effects of natural gases or chemical fumes.

In a hut by the fireplace, an elderly man of stone, with an evil physiognomy, was sitting tied to the back of a chair. On the floor lay a statue of a graceful woman, with a young beautiful face, on which a stinging and contented expression froze. Nearby stood a bucket of dark liquid, and in plain sight lay a diary where their message was recorded.

Arthur came here for a stone for statues and rented a room from Dan. Arthur fell in love with his wife Rose, for which Dan decided to poison them. Dan was a terrible sorcerer who killed many people in the mountains. Dan owned the Book of Ebon and performed the rituals of Shub-Nigguratu and Tstathoggua . The sorcerer wondered whether to send them to death in the emanation of the city ​​of Jott or to undergo Green rot, but the choice fell on the Petrification Potion, since they consider him deaf-deaf. First, he tested the Petrification Potion on his wife’s favorite dog, and then lured Arthur into the cave, where he offered a flask of wine. Dan told his wife that Arthur had left on an urgent telegram, and he himself had brought her poisoned food. Rose guessed everything, but Dan locked her in the attic and beat her with rods.

The last entry was made by the wife. Rose was half paralyzed by the potion, but she was able to open the door and add sleeping pills to her husband. Rosa was never happy with him and four times tried to escape due to blasphemous rituals. Den hypnosis forced her father to marry her daughter. Dan immediately realized that he was dead and tried to howl magic spells, but Rose gagged his mouth. Rosa expressed to him everything sore and made him drink his own potion. Rose was almost killed by a potion and being unable to live like this, she drinks his remains.

• Jack

Jack is the Storyteller who follows his friend Ben Hayden to assist in the search for Arthur Wheeler.

Ben hayden

• Ben Hayden - Jack's faithful friend, incredibly stubborn and adventurous.

• Arthur Wheeler

Arthur Wheeler is a sculptor whose work for realism was called "three-dimensional photographs." Settled in the Adirondack mountains to mine a stone in the house of “Mad Dan”, but he was to kill him for an affair with his wife.

• Henry Jackson

Henry Jackson is a friend of Jack and Ben, who discovered strange statues during treatment outside Lake Placid.

• Daniel Morris "Lunatic Dan"

Daniel Morris “Lunatic Dan” - An occultist from the Van Kauran family and the reason for the fear of the inhabitants of the local village, committed a series of killings in the mountains. He received the nickname because he performed a rite of persons on Thunder Mountain. Forced his wife to participate in the Rites at the Rudm. Sacrificed black goats to Shub-Nigguratu on May Eve or on the eve of All Saints Day . A great ceremony was needed to open the Gate. It is interesting that he also served Tstathoggua.

• Rosa S. Morris

Rosa S. Morris - The wife of Mad Dan and the oldest daughter of Osborne Chandler. After many years of being forced to participate in occult rituals, she found solace in relations with Arthur Wheeler. When Dan tried to kill her for this, she mixed his own poison with him. Half committed to stone, she committed suicide.

• Nicholas Van Cowran

Nicholas Van Kauran is a sorcerer who made a deal with The Black Man before he was hanged at Wiitgaart in 1587. The original owner of the Book of Ebon , which could not be found during the search. He was hanged for making a deal with the Devil.

• William Van Cowran

William Van Kauran is the grandson of Nicholas Van Kauran, who kept the Book of Ebon when he settled in Renslerwick and later moved to Esopus, the river. He and his family have gained a reputation in Kingsport as dangerous people.

• Bareut Picters Van Cowran

Bareut Pikers Van Kauran - Great-grandfather of “Mad Dan” and participant in the Great Sabbath on Sugarloaf Mountain in Katskhili. At one point, the custodian of the family Book of Ebon , who added on page 667 a tab on the petrification potion, which he killed in 1834 with Justice of the Peace Hasbrook in New Finger. He disappeared from the same city 5 years later in 1839.

The story " Deafblind " describes an effect similar to petrification, although this word is used here casually.

In “ Daydreaming in a Witch's House ”, the “Black Man” is mentioned, which is actually the avatar of Nyarlathotep , and he was served by the ancestor of “Lunatic Dan” - Nicholas Van Kauran.

The "Kurgan" describes the tragic city of Yott in the underworld of Kanean, where "Lunatic Dan" intended to open an emanation (portal).

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Joshi, ST; Schultz, David E. (2001). An HP Lovecraft Encyclopedia . Greenwood. p. 166. ISBN 0313315787 .

Callaghan, Gavin (2013). HP Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction . McFarland p. 217. ISBN 0786470798 .