Baron Ernst Kant is a fictional character created by Brian Lumley as a recurring background element in his Cthulhu Mythos stories. He is first mentioned in Lumley's story "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971).
Kant is described as a "witch-hunter"[1] or "the witch-hunting Baron."[2] He was the putative owner of a silver-plated revolver accompanied by silver bullets, later sold to occultist Henri-Laurent de Marigny; there is an "ornately inscribed 'K' on the weapon’s butt," but de Marigny acknowledges that there is not "a single shred of evidence" that the pistol actually belonged to Kant.[2] Nevertheless, he describes the "rather odd and ornate pistol" as "a favorite fetish of mine," one that he has carried as a precaution against Mythos threats.[3]
Kant is said to be the father of occultist Joachim Feery--though Feery was "illegitimate,"[1] and thus not eligible to inherit Kant's title.
Kant suffered a "hideous and inexplicable death in a Westphalian[4] Bedlam." According to "a comparatively modern work on singular foreign mental cases," Kant believed that "his every insane action [was] controlled by a creature he called Yibb-Tstll," which he described as “huge and black with writhing breasts and an anus within its forehead, a black-blooded thing whose brains feed upon its own wastes….”[5]
Appearances[]
- "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971)
- The Burrowers Beneath (1974)
- "Aunt Hester" (1975)
- "The Horror at Oakdeene" (1977)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lumley, "Aunt Hester."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brian Lumley, "The Mirror of Nitocris."
- ↑ Lumley, The Burrowers Beneath.
- ↑ Wikipedia, "Westphalia."
- ↑ Lumley, "The Horror at Oakdeene."