Short Fiction · Character
Inspector John R. Legrasse
A New Orleans police inspector who raids a swamp cult and carries away a stone idol no scholar can explain.
supporting
Also known as Inspector Legrasse, Legrasse
First appearance: the call of cthulhu
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Mentioned in the notes as providing a narrative about the Cthulhu cult from a 1908 meeting.
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Legrasse arrives at the American Archaeological Society with a captured bas-relief and a story of bayou rites that sober men cannot dismiss. He is methodical, skeptical by trade, and visibly unsettled by what he saw in…
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- Cthulhu cult investigators
- Diverse Lovecraftian characters
- Cosmic horror explorers
- Protagonist
- Supernatural victims and agents
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