# Sir James Horton — Ghost Stories character guide

> Sir James Horton in Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Horton

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

## Who they are

A baronet drawn into eerie occurrences, his rational bearing tested by events that resist every sensible explanation he can muster.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

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Sir James Horton is a colleague or authority figure who interacts with the narrator in a formal capacity.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

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Sir James Horton is a colleague or authority figure who interacts with the narrator in a formal capacity.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

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Sir James Horton is a colleague or authority figure who interacts with the narrator in a formal capacity.

## In the story

### [And the Dead Spake—](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/and-the-dead-spake)

A lean, wiry middle-aged man living at the upper end of Newsome Terrace. He is a brilliant surgeon and experimental scientist, obsessed with the idea of using a 'brain-gramophone' to recapture the last words of the dead. He has hired Mrs. Gabriel, an acquitted murderess, as his housekeeper.

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