# Robert Blake — Short Fiction character guide

> Robert Blake in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Blake

**First appearance:** 0071-the-haunter-of-the-dark

## Snapshot

A writer and painter drawn back to Providence by an old church, a black steeple, and a curiosity he cannot leave alone.

## Who they are

Blake returns to College Street in the winter of 1934, renting an upper floor with a view across the rooftops toward Federal Hill. He is a devotee of myth and terror who treats the abandoned church as material, until the diary entries begin to read less like notes and more like a man being watched. His slow obsession with the steeple's sealed window drives the story from idle research into something that follows him home.

## In the story

### [The Haunter of the Dark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-haunter-of-the-dark)

The protagonist, a writer and painter who returns to Providence and investigates the deserted church, ultimately encountering the Haunter of the Dark.

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