Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1920 and first published in the journal The Wolverine in March and June of 1921.

The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife.