# Felix Pender — John Silence Stories character guide

> Felix Pender in John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Pender, Pender, Mr. Felix Pender

**First appearance:** 0002-case-i-a-psychical-invasion

## Snapshot

A once-successful humorist whose gift has inverted into something dreadful that writes in his place, leaving him too proud and frightened to see a doctor.

## Who they are

Pender is a hardworking young author who married on the strength of his comic talent and now produces pages he can neither use nor sell, supporting himself by book-reviewing and odd jobs. His wife is devoted but laughs at the wrong places, and the clergymen he consulted offered little intelligent sympathy, so his case reaches Silence sideways through a mutual friend. He matters because his vanished sense of humour is the collection's most human stake — a man's livelihood, marriage, and sanity hanging on whether a doctor of the soul will take him seriously.

## In the story

### [Case I: A Psychical Invasion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/john_silence_stories_se/chapters/case-i-a-psychical-invasion)

The afflicted author who took hashish to enhance his humor, only to experience a terrifying psychical invasion and distortion of his writing.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/john_silence_stories_se/chapters/i)

An author suffering from the effects of hashish, which has opened him to malign spiritual forces.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/john_silence_stories_se/chapters/ii)

His case is reviewed by Dr. Silence during the night; the experiment is part of investigating Pender's extraordinary story.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/john_silence_stories_se/chapters/iii)

Recovered from the haunting, expresses gratitude and curiosity about the house's history.

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