# Professor Angell — Short Fiction character guide

> Professor Angell in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0045-the-call-of-cthulhu

## Who they are

A professor who studied the Cthulhu cult.

## In the story

### [The Horror in Clay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/i-the-horror-in-clay)

Professor Emeritus of Semitic languages at Brown University, whose death and locked box of notes initiate the mystery.

### [II: The Tale of Inspector Legrasse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/ii-the-tale-of-inspector-legrasse)

The narrator's uncle who had previously encountered the Cthulhu cult through Inspector Legrasse in 1908; his death is suspected to be unnatural.

### [III: The Madness from the Sea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/iii-the-madness-from-the-sea)

Mentioned as the uncle whose research on the Cthulhu Cult the narrator had largely given over; his papers are stored with the bas-relief.

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