Mahlke's Cap

The so-called Talisman belonging to Stanley. The latter saw the image of this item intermixed with other phantasmogoria in his sleep, months before it appeared on his doorstep. He can't let go of it because it belonged to the vengeful spirit Mahlke in his living days, who just so happens to be a parasite on Stan's consciousness. Thus, Stanley is obliged to carry it around wherever he goes; but avoids wearing it like the plague. That is, until those occassions in which Mahlke tries to take him over.