# The Doctor — Ghost Stories character guide

> The Doctor in Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson.

**Role:** minor

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

## Who they are

A medical professional who appears in supernatural contexts.

## Relationships

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

_professional_

The Doctor is a medical professional who interacts with the narrator in a clinical or advisory role.

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

_professional_

The Doctor is a medical professional who interacts with the narrator in a clinical or advisory role.

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

_professional_

The Doctor is a medical professional who interacts with the narrator in a clinical or advisory role.

## In the story

### [The Confession of Charles Linkworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-confession-of-charles-linkworth)

Dr. Teesdale, the prison doctor who attends Linkworth before execution and experiences supernatural phenomena afterward, including a telephone call from the spirit.

### [The Thing in the Hall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ghost_stories_se/chapters/the-thing-in-the-hall)

The narrator himself is a medical doctor, as indicated by his references to his practice and his medical observations of Louis's dilated pupils.

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