# Mr. Garrett — Short Fiction character guide

> Mr. Garrett in Short Fiction by M. R. James.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Garrett

**First appearance:** 0014-casting-the-runes

## Snapshot

A cheerful young library reader whose errand for a book leaves him white, shaking, and keeping one eye fixed on the door.

## Who they are

Garrett is a pleasant, ordinary young man who happens to be in the library class where a certain book is kept, and who does a stranger a small kindness. Whatever he saw there has left him propped by a fire, shivering, unable to describe it without distress. His collapse is the first hard evidence that the threat is real and spreading, and his halting account gives the investigation its crucial early clue.

## In the story

### [A School Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_35_se/chapters/a-school-story)

Narrator of the main story; a former pupil at the school; recalls the events involving Sampson and McLeod.

### [The Tractate Middoth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_35_se/chapters/the-tractate-middoth)

A young library assistant who helps Mr. Eldred and later investigates the mystery of the book.

### [A Warning to the Curious](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_35_se/chapters/a-warning-to-the-curious)

The narrator's friend who accompanies him to Seaburgh and helps decide how to handle the inquest.

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