Historical personalities...

[D@rth J@ymZ]

I see enough Laurier on a $5 

Sir Robert Borden or Arthur Meighen would make good Canadian PM-type historical characters too 

[archangel1]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned old Herbert George at all.  Mr.Wells was definitely active during this period and a couple of his stories have a Lovecraftian touch.  See In the Avu Observatory or The Moth.

Arthur Machen (author of supernatural horror stories)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Byrd and Peary?

[PushStudios]

Since there is a dearth of women being suggested; Mary Shelley, technically she died in 1851 but... if there is one historical character with a good reason to survive after death the writer of Frankenstein surely qualifies.

[Uncle Mike]

Thanx Archangel1, never read either of those before. Pretty good...especially "In The Avu Observatory'...now to get a giant bat...

[ushistoryprof]

Chairman Mao for the Long March with Chang Kei Shek to chase him and maybe Tojo to chase both of them.

[Lupus]

Carter,Howard (1874-1939)
Carnarvon, George, Earlof(1866-1923)

Price, Harry (1881-1948)  Well known member of a Uk Secret sociry SPR..

I posted buckets of rubbish here for people in the UK..

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=17564.0

[Scorpio]

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

Ooh. And he could look like Jurgen Prochnow from "In the Mouth of Madness"!

[Uncle Mike]

I'm not quite as handsome as Jurgen...

[fairoaks024]

how about a new pack of threshold agents,

miss marple, hercule poirot and charlie chan?

regards

jim

[UncleRhino]

E. Hoffman Price would be one I would recommend.  A pulp writer who found success in many different genres of pulp, his greatest bit of interest would be that he is the ONLY contemporary of Lovecraft, Smith and Howard to have met all three in person.

Nobody has mentioned Robert E. Howard?  Lovecraft had this to say about him "for stark, living fear what other writer is even in the same league".  "Pigeons From Hell" is one of the best bits of short horror fiction of that century.  For that matter, all three of Howard's piney woods tales, "Black Canaan" and "The Shadow of the Beast", being the other two are excellent examples of regional horror NOT set in New England from the Weird Tales era.  "The Black Stone" is one the best horror stories related to the Cthulhu Mythos(if you believe in that sort of thing and do not dismiss it as mere Yog Sothothery on the part of contemporaries attempts to have a bit of fun with their friend's work.  I don't subscribe to the whole business of the Cthulhu Mythos) not written by Lovecraft.  "The Worms of the Earth" is about as close to Shakespeare as you will find from the period.  Enough of my Howard grandstanding.

A neat idea would be to put out a blister containing an author and one of his characters.  Lovecraft and Armitage or Randolph Carter, for example.  Howard and Kathulos, maybe.

Ryan

[Bako]

Hitler in armored suit with miniguns

I second this, though for different reasons.