Short Fiction · Character
Mrs. Porter
A character who experiences a haunting in a country house.
minor
First appearance: an evening s entertainment
Mrs. Porter shows up with force in I. The page is where that presence becomes real.
The keeper's wife at Brockstone Court, daughter of the old man on the train, who greets the visitors at the back door.
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In I: The keeper's wife at Brockstone Court, daughter of the old man on the train, who greets the visitors at the back door. Later, in Chapter II: The housekeeper who repeatedly finds the Prayer Books open at Psalm 109…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Cathedral & Country House Anomalies
- Cursed Estates & Hauntings
- Supernatural Investigators & Victims
- Occult Battles & Library Hauntings
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This letter marks the story’s dramatic climax because it delivers the emotional and psychological peak of unre…
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