Historical personalities...

[Uncle Mike]

Will be including various historical personalities in Strange Aeons (...in a while...) but thought I should start a thread for more ideas from you fellows.

So far my list of 'must haves' is:

H.P.Lovecraft (obviously!)
Charles Fort
Edward Drinker Cope (yes, he would be dead...or very old...but I have a plan...)
Edgar Cayce...

any more you would like to see?

[LidlessEye]

For the early years of the agency, Harry Houdini would be a good fit.  Through the 20's (up to his death in 1926) his primary focus was exposing fraudulent psychics, which is pretty easy to twist into seeking out potential agents or rooting out cultists.  It was also widely thought at many stages during his career that he was involved in some form of espionage or clandestine activity.

[Sinewgrab]

August Derleth should surely be involved somehow - after all, he was almost as significant to the Mythos as H.P. himself.

[Malebolgia]

Albert Einstein
Hitler in armored suit with miniguns
Nikolas Tezla
Matahari
Charles Lindbergh
Al Capone
Jack Dempsey
Babe Ruth
Charlie Chaplin

[Red Orc]

Theda Bara.

And Micky Spillane.

[Sterling Moose]

Aleister Crowley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

[jnr]

Here is a link to Winston & Adolf.
http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=317

[gauntman]

I'll 2nd a few nominations from ....

H.P.Lovecraft - of course....prophet of the real dangers.

Aleister Crowley (premier real world infamous cultist, inspiration of the literary & cinema figure Julian Karswell)

Harry Houdini - magician, debunker, escape artist....

Theda Bara - great famous figure for a fem fatal or a damsel in deistress

Edgar Cayce - psychic

Jack Dempsey- toughguy /boxer

August Derleth-kinda agree with the idea of making him a significant figure his public personona sounded white-lace  (In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized a Ranger's Club for young people, served as clerk and president of the local school board, served as a parole officer, organized a local men's club and a parent-teacher association. He also lectured in American regional literature at the University of Wisconsin and was a contributing editor of Outdoors Magazine.)  of course this could all have been his cover.....


Mike are are you considering some literary figures as well... for example:

Henry Armitage

Charles Curwen

Dr. Marinus Willett

John Raymond Legrasse

[LidlessEye]

Based on the opinion Mike and I share of August Derleth, his most likely form of appearance would be as a Godling snack

I think major "occult" figures like Cayce and Crowley are a no brainer - we'd need an excuse not to have them around!  Charles Fort is another we're quite fond of, and a prime source of quality ideas.

[fairoaks024]

i second the derleth snack idea, could we have a model of him between 2 enormous pieces of white bread?

regards

jim

[Chairface]

How about William Lyon Mackenzie King? Prime Minister of Canada for two periods between 1921 and 1948.

Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except one named Bob. He also claimed to commune with the spirit of the late President Roosevelt. He sought personal reassurance from the spirit world, rather than seeking political advice. Indeed, after his death, one of his mediums said that she had not realized that he was a politician. King asked whether his party would win the 1935 election, one of the few times politics came up during his seances. His occult interests were kept secret during his years in office, and only became publicized later, and have seen in his occult activities a penchant for forging unities from antitheses, thus having latent political import. In 1953 Time Magazine stated that he owned — and used — both a Ouija board and a crystal ball.

[Uncle Mike]

Nice one Chairface! Some really great ideas everyone! Will have to get serious on this now.

...Derleth...Derleth...Derleth...what to do with you...

[LidlessEye]

Based on the description of his activities at the time, perhaps a scenario where agents must save a troop of scouts from unspeakable horror, buying time by throwing their hapless leader to the pursuing beasts... 

Now what to do with a politician that stuffed his dog and took advice from his dead mother?  This presents a greater challenge.

[ushistoryprof]

FDR in his wheelchair and the battle configuration where it converts into an AFW (Armored Fighting Wheelchair) of Doom! 

[thebinmann]

New lurker: Uncle Mike, or is that just too scary to even think...