# Nightmare Abbey — Character guide

> Key figures in Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock.

- [Scythrop Glowry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/scythrop_glowry.md): Scythrop returns from university a well-threshed ear of corn, his head emptied of learning but filled with romantic dreams and schemes for reforming society. Jilted once by Emily Girouette, he becomes easy prey to his co
- [Mr. Glowry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_glowry.md): Mr. Glowry presides over Nightmare Abbey as a connoisseur of melancholy, gathering moody guests and toasting sad partings with a bumper of wine. Widowed and bitter, he insists that women's minds are locked up by vanity a
- [Marionetta Celestina O'Carroll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/marionetta_celestina_ocaroll.md): Marionetta arrives at the Abbey a compound of O'Carroll vivacity and Glowry dolor, sparkling with music and light conversation but little moral sympathy. She lures Scythrop deliberately, then alters her tactics to coldne
- [Mr. Flosky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_flosky.md): Mr. Flosky haunts Nightmare Abbey as its resident metaphysician, dispensing obscurities about pure reason and the pleasures of unattainable abstraction. When Marionetta begs a plain answer about Scythrop's melancholy, he
- [Mr. Toobad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_toobad.md): Mr. Toobad belongs to Mr. Glowry's circle of gloom-enthusiasts, convinced that the world is a theatre of evil and merriment fit only for baboons. He urges Scythrop's match with his daughter Stella, then rushes into the l
- [Honourable Mr. Listless](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/honourable_mr_listless.md): The Honourable Mr. Listless drifts through the Abbey as a specimen of fashionable ennui, too languid even to go abroad, since the most eccentric Englishman is the one who stays home. He submits to Marionetta's coquetry a
- [Mr. Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_hilary.md): Mr. Hilary is the elastic, good-humoured counterweight to his melancholic brother-in-law: his London house is filled with the gayest of the gay, and it is under his roof that Scythrop first falls in love with the beautif
- [Stella](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/stella.md): Stella enters the abbey as an enigma, her face hidden and her history withheld, and immediately becomes the object of Scythrop's most fervent and speculative affections. Her secrecy generates the tension that drives the 
- [Raven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/raven.md): The lugubrious butler of Nightmare Abbey, fond of funereal pronouncements.
- [Mr. Asterias](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_asterias.md): A scientific enthusiast obsessed with catching a mermaid.
- [Reverend Mr. Larynx](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/reverend_mr_larynx.md): A clergyman who enjoys good food and company, often at Mr. Hilary's table.
- [Fatout](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/fatout.md): Mr. Listless's French valet, who assists with his master's indolence.
- [Celinda Flosky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/celinda_flosky.md): Mr. Flosky's neglected wife, briefly mentioned in the household.
- [Crow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/crow.md): A servant at Nightmare Abbey, often delivering messages.
- [Mr. Cypress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_cypress.md): A Byronic poet who visits the abbey and spouts cynical verses.

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