# Mr. Asterias — Nightmare Abbey character guide

> Mr. Asterias in Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mr. Asterias Filling

**First appearance:** 0008-vii

## Who they are

A scientific enthusiast obsessed with catching a mermaid.

## In the story

### [Nightmare Abbey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/nightmare-abbey)

An eccentric ichthyologist who arrives at the abbey obsessed with catching a mermaid.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/vii)

Arrives at the Abbey as a new visitor, an ichthyologist obsessed with discovering a triton or mermaid; he believes he sees a mermaid near the shore.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned briefly as having glimpsed a female figure on the seashore, which he mistook for a mermaid.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xii)

On watch for a mermaid, he and his son net Mr. Toobad from the moat.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/endnotes)

His speech is noted as a paraphrase from Montfort's natural history.

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