This is rather likely, considering that Lavinia Whateley mated with Yog-Sothoth, and that in The Lurker at the Threshold (posthumously published and co-written with August Derleth) there is a quote that reads: ''She affirm'd, and her good neighbours likewise, that it had been borne to her, and took oath that she did not know by what manner it had come upon her, for it was neither Beast nor Man but like to a monstrous Bat with human face.'' Another theory, proposed by Weird Tales columnist Kenneth Hite, is that Brown Jenkin was a higher dimensional servitor of Nyarlathotep who was rewarded as being a familiar. Perhaps the most popular theory is that he is the child of Keziah and Nyarlathotep, the Lovecraftian deity she presumably serves. The origins of Brown Jenkin are subject to debate. When Walter Gilman managed to kill Mason, Jenkin replied in kind by burrowing though his chest and eating his heart.īrown Jenkin's bones were later found with those of Mason and a small child by workers tearing out a slanting wall. ~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft, ' The Dreams in the Witch-House' Its voice was a kind of loathsome titter, and it could speak all languages. It took messages betwixt old Keziah and the devil, and was nursed on the witch’s blood-which it sucked like a vampire. Witnesses said it had long hair and the shape of a rat, but that its sharp-toothed, bearded face was evilly human while its paws were like tiny human hands. Brown Jenkin is 'a small white-fanged furry thing', 'no larger than a good-sized rat', whom for years haunted the witch house and the town of Arkham in general, 'nuzzl people curiously in the black hours before dawn'.

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