Short Fiction · Character
Dennistoun
A scholarly antiquary touring French churches who follows a nervous sacristan home in hope of old books, and finds his collector's instincts leading him somewhere far stranger.
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First appearance: the treasure of abbot thomas
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The protagonist who acquires the scrapbook and is deeply impressed by the drawing.
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Dennistoun is an amateur of old manuscripts and church antiquities, patient with crumbling choir-books and half-legible paintings, and quietly delighted by the prospect of unransacked corners of France. Yet the…
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Character groups
- Antiquaries & Treasure Seekers
- Occult Battles & Library Hauntings
- Supernatural Investigators & Victims
- Cursed Estates & Hauntings
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