Peter Steele

Peter Steele was an extravagant professor of psychology with a passion for music, who founded a small private detective agency in Boston with his friends Karen Ballion and Frank Jones.

Following the Case of Corbitt's House and the death of Frank Jones, they were forced to flee from Boston to Arkham, which had set in motion a long chain of events, involving an encounter with the Eater of Sins, a murder mystery that revolved around the death of his acquaintance, Professor Charles Leiter and stolen Arkham Witch Trials papers.

In January 1925 he was among the friends of Jackson Elias, who arrived to New York on his behest and witnessed his brutal murder in room 410 of Chelsea Hotel. He took part in dismantling the Cult of the Bloody Tongue and made a profitable acquaintance with Erica Carlisle before traveling to London, following the trail of Carlysle Expedition.

Soon after setting his foot in the Old Albion, he had a risky romantic encounter with Zara Shafiq - a captivating Egyptian spice merchant and the High Priestess of The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. Escaping her shop alive, but, alas, not unscathed, he met up with his fellow investigators and accompanied them on their detour to the house of Miles Shipley, a deranged painter with somewhat of an otherworldly perspective.

Along with Karen Ballion and Ivan Zygzytsia, he was captured by the The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh and taken to Misr House to be sacrificed in their big monthly ritual. In the nick of time, he was saved from this gruesome fate by Yaleesha Essam, Jack Barrington and Mickey Mahoney.

In a short period of safety, after escaping the Misr House and before traveling to Derbyshire, Peter and Yaleesha developed a close (if tragically brief) and romantic relationship, fueled by passion, danger and common musical taste.

Peter suffered his demise in Henson Manufacturing factory in Derbyshire, by the hand of Frank Marshall, the foreman and another high-ranking member of The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh.