Short Fiction · Character
Horrocks
The wronged husband whose jealousy curdles into something far stranger, he turns a literary man's romantic folly into a quiet, domestic nightmare.
supporting
Also known as Mrs. Horrocks
First appearance: The Cone
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Horrocks is the ironmaster and husband of Mrs.
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Horrocks is the husband standing between Aubrey Vair and the girl Vair has decided to love, a man whose presence transforms a drawing-room flirtation into a moral trap. His jealousy is not theatrical but methodical, and…
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- Other
Character groups
- Strange cures and obsessions
- Protagonist
- Miracles and misunderstandings
- Jilted and obliterated
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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See Horrocks in The Cone