Dr. Robert Huston

A fashionable Jungian analyst in New York.
Background Info Dug Up:

• No police record; no military service.
• The youngest of three sons, his father was a Chicago M.D. who, as a young man, was reputed to have belonged to several deviant sects.
• Robert Huston graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins. After three years he threw over his circulatory ailments practice (and his wife), and went to Vienna to study first under Freud and then under Jung. Huston was among the first Americans to undertake this esoteric and controversial study of the mind, which dealt so much with sexual behavior that no respectable person could talk about it.
• Huston’s seemingly salacious and dangerous past, along with his elegant manners and sardonic wit, made him much in demand when he returned to New York City. There he established a practice in psychoanalysis, catering to the very wealthy.
• Huston enjoyed fame and notoriety. His fees were whispered to be $50–$60 dollars per visit, at a time when a college professor might make $4,000 a year. Women found him suave, handsome, sensitive, perceptive, and sexy.
• Among his patients was Roger Carlyle. Though Huston supposedly went on the expedition with Carlyle in order to continue treatment, Huston had just broken off an affair with a Miss Imelda Bosch, who had then committed suicide. Carlyle helped hush up the scandal, perhaps in return for Huston’s company on the expedition.
• There were also rumors that Carlyle did not want Huston at large while he was far away in Egypt. Carlyle may have believed that Huston’s ethics were not strong enough to resist revealing explosive material about his young patient.
• After Huston was declared dead, his records were turned over to the Medical Affairs Board of the State of New York. Controversy about this reached the newspapers. If the investigators ask, they will learn that the records have not been destroyed, because nobody got around to authorizing the destruction. In those records are all of Huston’s notes concerning Roger Carlyle (The Carlyle Records, box nearby).

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Personal history

(Australia) Once a fashionable Jungian analyst in New York, Huston became the eager thrall of Nyarlathotep and now leads cultists in Australia, where he has revived the Cult of Sand Bat.