Short Fiction · Character
Stephen Elliott
A boy sent to stay with his scholarly cousin, whose nights in the cathedral close are troubled by a figure in the bathroom that no one else has seen.
supporting
Also known as Stephen
First appearance: the stalls of barchester cathedral
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Orphan boy, twelve years old, who comes to live with his cousin Mr.
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Stephen Elliott is a schoolboy boarded with his cousin Mr. Abney in a house beside the cathedral, where he sleeps alone and tries to be no trouble. He is brave enough to walk to the bathroom door after a nightmare and…
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- Romantic
- Other
Character groups
- Dark Experiments & Cathedral Hauntings
- Supernatural Investigators & Victims
- Protagonist
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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romantic · positive
- Mrs. Simpson
romantic · positive
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