# The Place Called Dagon — Character guide

> Key figures in The Place Called Dagon by Herbert Gorman.

- [Doctor Dreeme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/doctor_dreeme.md): Dreeme arrives in Marlborough as an outsider, and his medical curiosity hardens into obsession once a body, a goat's-head scrap, and a brooch begin to rhyme. He is impatient with the town's evasions and reckless in his p
- [Humphrey Lathrop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/humphrey_lathrop.md): Lathrop is the elder physician whose bulk, three chins, and wheedling manner mask a long and deliberate silence about the town's history. He warns Dreeme away from the subject, then capitulates, pulling down a dusty Cott
- [Walden Slater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/walden_slater.md): Walden Slater is the still center of the town's taciturn surface, a man whose opaque eyes and mild 'Umph' deflect every inquiry Dreeme makes. Yet he is the one who wakes Dreeme in a downpour and leads him into the storm,
- [Jeffrey Westcott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/jeffrey_westcott.md): Westcott occupies the farm at the end of the path, a man whose property and person are bound up with the town's older, uglier business. Dreeme's approach to his land is shadowed by an ominous recognition, and the farmhou
- [Deborah Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/deborah_morton.md): Deborah is the childlike, trusting figure Dreeme meets and kisses within a day, whose helplessness stirs his protective instinct and his sentimentality. Her cameo, an heirloom passed down through the Morton family, is th
- [Martha Westcott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/martha_westcott.md): Martha Westcott is the woman Dreeme suspects wears an invisible chain of complicity, and whose rendezvous at the burned mill he cannot quite resist. She offers to tell him 'a great many things,' and the word Dagon spring
- [Reverend George Burroughs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/george_burroughs.md): Burroughs haunts the margins of the Slater household as a man of God whose hollow eyes and withered frame resist Dreeme's clinical curiosity. His silence and his habit of fixing people with horribly still stares mark him
- [Mrs. Slater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/mrs_slater.md): Mrs. Slater runs the boardinghouse where Dreeme takes his meals and where Deborah, her New England niece, has come to stay. Her bustling, matter-of-fact presence frames the ordinary life against which the story's strange
- [Peleg Carrier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/peleg_carrier.md): A character with the Carrier surname, possibly related to Uriah, appears in the narrative.
- [Simon Barnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/simon_barnson.md): A younger character, possibly a local or servant, with a limited but distinct role.
- [Bidwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/bidwell.md): A character mentioned with some frequency, possibly a local or minor figure.
- [Corey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/corey.md): A minor character with a handful of mentions, possibly a servant or acquaintance.
- [Miles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/miles.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or local, with limited appearances.
- [Lucinda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/lucinda.md): A female character with a modest number of mentions, possibly a servant or relative.
- [Wagner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/wagner.md): A character referenced multiple times, possibly a historical or local figure.
- [Marlborough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/marlborough.md): A name that appears, possibly a historical reference or a character's title.
- [Thomas Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_place_called_dagon_se/characters/thomas_morton.md): A historical figure referenced, possibly in connection to the setting or backstory.

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