# The Necromancers — Character guide

> Key figures in The Necromancers by Robert Hugh Benson.

- [Maggie Deronnais](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/maggie_deronnais.md): A serene, competent young woman who manages everyone around her with quiet authority, and who alone sees the danger gathering around Laurie Baxter before it is too late.
- [Lady Laura Bethell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/lady_laura_bethell.md): A fashionable London hostess whose drawing room becomes the stage for a séance she cannot control, and whose polite skepticism is tested by an old man's warning.
- [Amy Nugent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/amy_nugent.md): A dead girl whose absence haunts the living, and whose grieving mother's matter-of-fact world is shattered by a terror that comes with the sound of trotting hooves.
- [Laurie Baxter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/laurie_baxter.md): A young, impetuous Catholic convert whose grief for a dead girl drives him into the arms of a medium who promises proof of the afterlife.
- [Mr. Vincent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mr_vincent.md): A solid, masterful medium whose quiet assurance and apparent power over the spirit world have made him the center of a young man's adoring faith.
- [Mr. James Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mr_james_morton.md): A competent, no-nonsense barrister whose friendship with Laurie Baxter is tested by the boy's growing obsession with Spiritualism, and who offers a skeptical counterweight.
- [Mr. Baxter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mr_baxter.md): A Catholic young man who comes to Mrs. Stapleton torn between contempt for spiritualism and a desperate hope of truly reaching the dead.
- [Mrs. Baxter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mrs_baxter.md): A placid, sleepy household matriarch whose comfortable domestic routines form the quiet backdrop against which the novel's spiritual terrors gather.
- [Mrs. Stapleton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mrs_stapleton.md): A forty-year-old spiritualist with kittenish charm and an iron will, she flatters young seekers while steering them toward the séance room.
- [Father Mahon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/father_mahon.md): The local priest whose sudden, convenient absences leave the faithful without the sacramental help they most need in a crisis.
- [Mr. Cathcart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/cathcart.md): A fierce old convert who storms out of Lady Laura's circle, warning that the medium Vincent is ruining a boy body and soul.
- [Mrs. Nugent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mrs_nugent.md): A practical, unsuperstitious housekeeper whose matter-of-fact errand in a dead girl's room becomes the novel's first brush with nameless terror.
- [Mr. Jamieson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mr_jamieson.md): A character with a limited but distinct role in the narrative.
- [Mr. Nugent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_necromancers_se/characters/mr_nugent.md): A character, likely a family member of Amy Nugent.

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