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| name = William Dyer
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| born = 1875
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| occupation = Professor of geology at [[Miskatonic University]]
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| race = Human
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| first = ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]''
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| last = ''At the Mountains of Madness''
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| created by = [[H. P. Lovecraft]]
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'''William Dyer''' is a fictional character created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]''. He is a professor of geology at [[Miskatonic University]] and a leader of the disastrous [[Pabodie Expedition]] to Antarctica in 1930–31. Only his last name is mentioned in the text of ''Mountains'', though he is fully identified in Lovecraft's ''[[The Shadow Out of Time]]'', where he accompanies an expedition to Australia's Great Sandy Desert.
 
'''William Dyer''' is a fictional character created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]''. He is a professor of geology at [[Miskatonic University]] and a leader of the disastrous [[Pabodie Expedition]] to Antarctica in 1930–31. Only his last name is mentioned in the text of ''Mountains'', though he is fully identified in Lovecraft's ''[[The Shadow Out of Time]]'', where he accompanies an expedition to Australia's Great Sandy Desert.
   

Revision as of 16:50, 14 February 2009

William Dyer is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft, who makes his first appearance in the 1936 novel At the Mountains of Madness. He is a professor of geology at Miskatonic University and a leader of the disastrous Pabodie Expedition to Antarctica in 1930–31. Only his last name is mentioned in the text of Mountains, though he is fully identified in Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, where he accompanies an expedition to Australia's Great Sandy Desert.