Short Fiction · Character
Sir Wade Jermyn
An eighteenth-century explorer whose African journals describe a lost jungle city and a white ape tribe, and whose unseen Portuguese wife haunted his family's name.
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Also known as old Sir Wade, Sir Wade, Wade Jermyn, Jermyn
First appearance: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
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Great-great-great-grandfather of Arthur, an early explorer of the Congo whose bizarre tales and madness led to his confinement in a madhouse.
Sir Wade is the scandalous ancestor whose strange collection of African antiquities and wilder notes become the obsession of his descendant Arthur. His tales of a prehistoric civilization and a degenerate white ape race were dismissed as madness, yet his family's odd cast of face and long arms kept the rumors alive. The shadow he throws across the Jermyn line is the story's engine, turning a genealogical curiosity into a slow horror.
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See Sir Wade Jermyn in Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family