# Tom Teukesbury — Short Fiction character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Tom, honest Tom, Thomas Teukesbury, Thomas

**First appearance:** 0096-the-dead-sexton

## Snapshot

Honest Tom Teukesbury, a plain dealer whose ghostly sexton story is offered up as testimony rather than entertainment.

## Who they are

Tom Teukesbury belongs to the circle of men who trade supernatural accounts as if they were legal depositions, each one vouching for the last. He is the sort of narrator Le Fanu trusts — unpolished, unliterary, and therefore hard to dismiss. His tale of a ghostly sexton anchors the collection's method: horror delivered in the flat voice of a witness who has no reason to lie.

## In the story

### [II: My Aunt Margaret on the Road](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/ii-my-aunt-margaret-on-the-road)

The driver from the 'Bull' who arrives late and deflects blame with a complicated excuse about the horse's harness and a raw spot, then later misleads Aunt Margaret about the distance to Winderbrooke.

### [III: The Moon Rises](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/iii-the-moon-rises)

Driving the carriage, becomes lost on the moor.

### [IV: Perturbation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/iv-perturbation)

Tom is the driver, lost and defensive, walking by the tired horse and making 'disrespectful remarks' under his breath.

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