# Charles Alington — Ghost Stories character guide

> Charles Alington in Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sir Charles Alington

**First appearance:** 0000-the-room-in-the-tower

## Snapshot

A wealthy baronet and tireless dilettante of the unproven, he chases automatic script, reincarnation, and Anglo-Israelite theories with a schoolboy's glee.

## Who they are

Charles Alington is the happiest man the narrator has ever met, a rich eccentric who fears nothing, hopes for nothing, and wants only to know. The moment a mystery becomes practical science — as wireless did after Marconi — he drops it cold, which makes the supernatural his permanent playground. His insatiable inquisitiveness and cheerful indifference to moral judgment make him both an ideal companion for strange investigations and a man whose curiosity may lead him somewhere he cannot explain away.

## In the story

### [The Outcast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-outcast)

Charles Alington accompanies the narrator to the cemetery after the disinterment and provides a medieval treatise on reincarnation.

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