# Mr. Pyecraft — Short Fiction character guide

> Mr. Pyecraft in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** The Truth About Pyecraft, Poor old Pyecraft, Pyecraft

**First appearance:** 0080-the-truth-about-pyecraft

## Snapshot

The fattest clubman in London, a wheezing, tea-cake-devouring bore who corners a reluctant fellow member with endless schemes to shed his bulk.

## Who they are

Pyecraft haunts the smoking-room of his club, rolling from table to table, fixated on his own obesity and convinced that diet and drugs must hold the answer. He fastens onto the narrator with a clinging, suspicious neediness, forever hinting that his secret must be kept. His obsession with a cure and his refusal to let his helper alone drive the story's central predicament, making him both pitiable and impossible to escape.

## In the story

### [The Truth About Pyecraft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-truth-about-pyecraft)

The extremely obese clubman who takes a weight-loss remedy and becomes weightless, floating to the ceiling.

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