Ghost Stories · Character
Mr. Urcombe
A seasoned paranormal investigator who has grown weary of hackneyed screams and skeletons, he longs for the vague, childish terror that once truly frightened him.
supporting
Also known as Urcombe
First appearance: Mrs. Amworth
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Urcombe identifies the vampire threat, plans the exhumation, and confronts Mrs.
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Urcombe moves through drawing-room circles where ghost stories are traded like currency, and he has heard too many of them to be impressed by the usual apparatus of blood and bone. What unsettles him is not the tangible…
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- Paranormal investigators
- Recurring central figures
- Protagonist
- Haunting and horror victims
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