Hoadley, Reverend Abijah

(f.) The Congregationalist minister of Dunwich Village who, in 1747, arrived to preach a warning about the close presence of Satan and his demons: Azazal and Buzazel, of Beelzebub and Belial.  He disappeared shortly after this sermon.  While this Hoadley is fictional al, there was an Archbishop of Armagh and Chaplain in Ordinance to King George I named John Hoadley (1678-1746) who published his sermons.

[The Dunwich Horror - H.P.L.]