Sheriff Engle is a character who features in Fantasy Flight Games' Arkham Horror Files series of games and fiction. He is the head of the Arkham Police Department.
Origin[]
Engle made his first appearance as a Blight card for the Arkham Horror Second Edition expansion The King in Yellow.
History[]
When unwilling cultist Diana Stanley attempted to break her ties with the Silver Twilight Lodge, she went to see Sheriff Engle in an attempt to blow the whistle on the cult's activities. At first, Engle seemed to believe her story, but soon mysteriously abandoned the case, and in doing so hinted that he may have in fact been in the pocket of Carl Sanford, the Lodge's high priest. (EXP: Feeders from Within)
After Professor Norman Withers told Engle the story of how his colleague Claus Schmidt had been abducted by Hounds of Tindalos, Engle agreed to launch an investigation, but only under the condition that Withers change his statement to something more mundane. Engle further hinted that he knew about the strange goings-on in Arkham, but was unwilling to write about these occurrences in a report. (EXP: Ire of the Void)
Sheriff Engle briefed Agent Roland Banks on an unsolved Arkham case to which Banks had been assigned: the mystery of an orchestra who had been murdered in an apparent bombing. Although the pair at first had something of a strained relationship, Engle was more than happy to have the problematic case taken out of his hands, and once again hinted that he knew the town played host to more than its fair share of inexplicable events (EXP: The Dirge of Reason)