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said... on 05-13-2020 8:19:27 |
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Human looking creature from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" story. A dark demented woman hailing from Innsmouth, who was also the former wife of Edward Derby and the daughter of Ephraim Waite, she is now the leader of that entire city of half human and full blooded fish-like creatures, She is described as "dark, smallish and very good looking except for over-protuberant eyes" -- a look common to people from Asenath's hometown of Innsmouth. Combined with the fact that her mother was Ephraim's "unknown wife who always went veiled", there is a strong suggestion that Asenath is a Deep One hybrid of the sort described in Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". In the Bible, Asenath is the wife of Joseph and the mother of Ephraim. S.T. Joshi claims that her name translates as "she belongs to her father", and that "in the tale Asenath is literally 'possessed' by her father." Peter Cannon writes that Asenath Derby makes "The Thing on the Doorstep" "the only Lovecraft story with a strong or important female character" -- although the question is complicated by the tale's "gender-swapping situation".
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