Short Fiction · Character
Signor Borrhomeo
An old astrologer whose bargains with fate are recounted by a narrator who has spent thirty-five years avoiding pistols and trouble.
supporting
Also known as Signor, Borrhomeo, old Borrhomeo
First appearance: Borrhomeo the Astrologer
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Signor Borrhomeo is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The old man who lures the narrator into the haunted mansion and presides over the demonic festivities.
Signor Borrhomeo belongs to a remembered world of early adventure, one of the forms and faces that rise before the narrator's firelit gaze on long winter evenings. An astrologer by trade, he moves among the lighthearted and the ruined, the loved and the worthless, in a past the narrator insists on keeping anonymous. His dark bargain gives the collection its sense of old sins ripening quietly into consequence.
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- Other
Character groups
- Dark bargains and omens
- Protagonist
- Haunting family histories
- Supernatural encounters
- Diverse ghostly witnesses
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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See Signor Borrhomeo in Borrhomeo the Astrologer