The Dreams in the Witch House characters

Appears from the start

A Miskatonic University student whose interests combine advanced mathematics, physics, and old traditions of magic. He rents an attic room in Arkham's notorious Witch House because its strange angles and history seem relevant to his theories about movement beyond ordinary space.

Appears from the start

An accused witch who occupied the house in the seventeenth century. Before vanishing from jail, she reportedly drew baffling curves and angles for her interrogators. Local tradition claims that she and her familiar still return to the attic room.

Appears from the start

Keziah Mason's legendary familiar, described in Arkham tales as a ratlike creature with disturbingly human features and tiny hands. Residents of the Witch House blame sounds inside the walls on it, while Gilman's feverish perceptions make the old stories feel immediate.

Appears from the start

Gilman's fellow student and roommate in the Witch House. He notices Gilman's worsening sleep, fever, and unexplained nighttime behavior, and becomes an important witness to the effects of the room upon him.

Appears from the start

A professor of mathematics at Miskatonic University. Gilman brings him increasingly radical ideas about dimensions and unusual geometries, leaving Upham concerned by both the substance of the work and his student's declining health.

First appears in chapter 2

A religious loom fixer who lives in the Witch House and takes its supernatural reputation seriously. Disturbed by what he hears and observes around Gilman, he offers warnings and a protective crucifix.

First appears in chapter 4

A dark, imposing figure who appears in Gilman's otherworldly experiences alongside Keziah Mason and demands a formal pledge. He presents himself as an authority within the forces the witch serves.