# Tom Ludlow — Short Fiction character guide

> Tom Ludlow in Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Tom, Ludlow

**First appearance:** 0069-the-white-cat-of-drumgunniol

## Snapshot

A man whose tale of a ghostly white cat carries the reader into Le Fanu's quieter, more domestic register of the supernatural.

## Who they are

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 comfortable room and ends somewhere the listener did not expect to go. He matters as a reminder that in these tales the supernatural often arrives through the testimony of sensible men.

## In the story

### [An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/an-account-of-some-strange-disturbances-in-aungier-street)

The narrator's friend and housemate, initially skeptical of the supernatural but later terrified by his own haunting experience.

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