Derby, Asenath (nee: Waite)

The dark, small, attractive woman with oddly protruberant eyes who studied medieval metaphysics at Miskatonic University. She was a native of Innsmouth and daughter of the purported wizard Ephraim Waite and his unknown veiled wife. She received her preparatory education at the Hall School of Kingsport. At age twenty-three, she seduced and married Edward Pickman Derby (fifteen years her senior). After the marriage broke up and Asenath disappeared, she was found decayed and long dead on the doorstep of Edward Derby's life-long friend, architect Daniel Upton.

("The Thing on the Doorstep")