# Sir Wade Jermyn — Short Fiction character guide

> Sir Wade Jermyn in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** old Sir Wade, Sir Wade, Wade Jermyn, Jermyn

**First appearance:** 0009-facts-concerning-the-late-arthur-jermyn-and-his-family

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/facts-concerning-the-late-arthur-jermyn-and-his-family)

Great-great-great-grandfather of Arthur, an early explorer of the Congo whose bizarre tales and madness led to his confinement in a madhouse.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/ii)

Mentioned indirectly through the narrator's reflections on Egypt's ancient secrets and the hybrid dead.

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