Nathan Callaghan
Antiques dealer
- Age
- 28
- From
- County Cork
- Lives
- Madame Crane's Parlour
- Now
- In Arkham
Before Arkham's business
Born in County Cork in 1898, brought up above a dry-goods store. He won a county spelling bee in 1905 and still mentions it. Has worked as an antiques dealer for 11 years, and knows provenance, and what an object remembers.
Careful, prickly and precise, with a quiet, private sense of the absurd. He is happiest in a crowd. He takes risks without noticing he is taking them. He refuses to carry a weapon.
Afraid of
the dark · poverty
Believes
The old stories got something right, or they wouldn't have lasted.
From the journal
Sold a highboy to a Boston decorator for twice what it's worth. He'll sell it for four times. There came to us a clock ticking in another room. Providence manages the sparrows; Mr.
Wrote a letter to his brother's family in Springfield. Didn't post it. My eye fell upon dust sheets over the furniture. A curiosity.
Slept badly: the neighbour's dog. Throughout, one heard pipes knocking. There was, I observed, wallpaper lifting at the seams. Went to bed early with a hot-water bottle and a detective story.
I have never kept a journal before. It seems a good time to start. I am an antiques dealer, and until lately that was all anyone needed to know about me. Sold a highboy to a Boston decorator for twice what it's worth. Something is going on in Arkham, and I seem to have decided to find out what.