# Harringay — Short Fiction character guide

> Harringay in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** R. M. Harringay

**First appearance:** 0014-the-temptation-of-harringay

## Snapshot

A man whose restless mind, worn thin by old quarrels, becomes the devil's easiest and most willing recruit.

## Who they are

Harringay is a man of intellectual habits and unsettled temper, the sort who cannot let a grievance lie and whose imagination turns readily toward the forbidden. When temptation arrives in a form suited to his particular weaknesses, he does not recoil so much as lean in, and the story watches him bargain. His willingness matters because it makes the supernatural feel less like an intrusion than a natural extension of what he already was.

## In the story

### [The Temptation of Harringay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-temptation-of-harringay)

The artist protagonist who struggles with his painting and confronts a demonic figure that emerges from his canvas.

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