Short Fiction · Character
William Harris
A man involved in the strange events at the shunned house.
minor
Also known as Harris, William
First appearance: the shunned house
William Harris shows up with force in II. The page is where that presence becomes real.
The first inhabitant of the shunned house, a substantial merchant and seaman who built the house in 1763; he died in 1766, enfeebled by the climate of Martinique.
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See William Harris in the shunned house