Short Fiction · Character
Tom Ludlow
A man whose tale of a ghostly white cat carries the reader into Le Fanu's quieter, more domestic register of the supernatural.
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Also known as Tom, Ludlow
First appearance: the white cat of drumgunniol
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The narrator's friend and housemate, initially skeptical of the supernatural but later terrified by his own haunting experience.
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Ludlow belongs to the circle of narrators through whom Le Fanu filters his strange cases, a voice grounded in ordinary life until the uncanny slips in. His story of the white cat is the kind of account that begins in a…
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See Tom Ludlow in the white cat of drumgunniol