# The Haunted Bookshop — Character guide

> Key figures in The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley.

- [Aubrey Gilbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/aubrey_gilbert.md): Aubrey Gilbert reads the Help Wanted columns the way other men read adventure serials, and when a bruised head and a stray Carlyle cover point toward the Haunted Bookshop, he packs his .22 and a tube of toothpaste like a
- [Roger Mifflin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/roger_mifflin.md): Roger Mifflin presides over his Brooklyn shop like a priest over a reliquary, hand-selling O. Henry and Samuel Butler to anyone who wanders in and treating the lending of a book as a sacred trust. He is suspicious of the
- [Titania Chapman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/titania_chapman.md): Titania Chapman arrives at the bookshop as a novice bookseller, cheerfully confusing Blasé Tales with The Blazed Trail and delighting in her first salary. She is the daughter of a wealthy man who cannot quite approve of 
- [Mr. Weintraub](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/weintraub.md): Mr. Weintraub runs the pharmacy down the street and drifts in and out of the Haunted Bookshop with the easy familiarity of a regular, leaving a locked suitcase of old books to be called for by a friend. He writes his lab
- [Helen Mifflin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/helen_mifflin.md): Helen Mifflin runs the practical side of the Haunted Bookshop while Roger lectures customers and rearranges the shelves according to his latest theory of book morality. She is amused by his schemes, including his campaig
- [Mr. Chapman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/mr_chapman.md): Mr. Chapman is a man of business who has entrusted his daughter to the Mifflins' care and is not entirely sure the arrangement was wise. He is gruff, protective, and a little baffled by Roger's refusal to advertise, but 
- [Bock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/bock.md): A German operative whose shadowy errands around Gissing Street give Aubrey's self-appointed surveillance its first real shiver of danger.
- [Mr. Metzger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/metzger.md): One of Weintraub's German confederates, a quiet cog in the machinery of intrigue turning beneath the bookshop's cheerful Christmas block.
- [Mr. Oldham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/mr_oldham.md): A local businessman and acquaintance of the Chapmans.
- [Jerry Gladfist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/jerry_gladfist.md): A friend of Aubrey's who appears briefly in the story.
- [Mrs. Schiller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_haunted_bookshop_se/characters/mrs_schiller.md): A neighbor or local character mentioned in passing.

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