# The Man — Short Fiction character guide

> The Man in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the man

**First appearance:** 0003-dagon

## Who they are

A generic male figure appearing in various stories.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_psychological_

The Unknown Narrator is deeply obsessed with The Man, who represents a mysterious and possibly supernatural figure central to the narrator's investigations.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_psychological_

The Unknown Narrator is deeply obsessed with The Man, who represents a mysterious and possibly supernatural figure central to the narrator's investigations.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_psychological_

The Unknown Narrator is deeply obsessed with The Man, who represents a mysterious and possibly supernatural figure central to the narrator's investigations.

## In the story

### [The Picture in the House](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-picture-in-the-house)

The elderly, ragged inhabitant of the farmhouse, who speaks in an archaic Yankee dialect and owns the rare book.

### [Hypnos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/hypnos)

The narrator's only friend, a beautiful, godlike man who leads him into dangerous dream-explorations and suffers a terrible fate after passing beyond a barrier.

### [The Festival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-festival)

The old man who leads the narrator through the underground and performs the ritual, later revealed to be a masked figure.

### [The Temple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-temple)

The dead sailor who brought the ivory image from the sea, linking the temple's carvings to the artifact.

### [He](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/he)

An ancient, ice-cold necromancer who lives in a hidden Greenwich courtyard. He can manipulate time and space, showing visions of the past, and ultimately transforms into a blackened, malevolent head.

### [The Horror at Red Hook](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-horror-at-red-hook)

An enigmatic presence associated with the cult and its sinister practices.

### [The Silver Key](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-silver-key)

The terrible scholar of the South who vanished in a graveyard; Carter studied with him.

## Links

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