# Ezra Weeden — The Case of Charles Dexter Ward character guide

> Ezra Weeden in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** young Ezra Weeden, Weeden

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-a-mutation-and-a-madness

## Snapshot

A young Pawtuxet man caught up in the disturbances around Curwen's old lands, whose family grave becomes one of the case's most grisly landmarks.

## Who they are

Ezra Weeden belongs to a Pawtuxet family with a colonial-era legend attached to its name, and his grave is rifled with deliberate, splintering malice during the worst of the disturbances. The nocturnal howling near the river and the vampirism reports cluster around the same ground his family has occupied for generations. He is the link between the eighteenth-century conspiracy against Curwen and the twentieth-century horrors unfolding in the same place.

## Relationships

### [Joseph Curwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_of_charles_dexter_ward_se/characters/joseph_curwen)

_rivalry_

Ezra Weeden was a local farmer who opposed Curwen's sinister activities and participated in the raid against him.

### [Eleazar Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_of_charles_dexter_ward_se/characters/eleazar_smith)

_friendship_

Eleazar Smith and Ezra Weeden were fellow townsmen who together opposed Joseph Curwen's dark practices.

### [Captain Abraham Whipple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_of_charles_dexter_ward_se/characters/captain_abraham_whipple)

_friendship_

Captain Whipple and Ezra Weeden were allies in the 18th-century effort to stop Joseph Curwen's necromantic experiments.

## In the story

### [II: An Antecedent and a Horror](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_of_charles_dexter_ward_se/chapters/ii-an-antecedent-and-a-horror)

Copied parts of Jedediah Orne's letter to Curwen, providing a clue to the abnormality of Curwen's end.

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