Splendors and Glooms Characters

Spoiled Little Rich Girl Clara Wintermute is a little girl living in London who is fortunate to have a very wealthy family—her father is a doctor, while her mother is a fancy lady who stays at ho...

The Evil Magician Gaspare Grisini, or Professor Grisini (as he calls himself), is quite the seedy character. He's basically the embodiment of an evil magician—someone who is power-hungry and will...

Making the Best of Things Lizzie Rose, a girl who has been taken in by Grisini and plays music for his puppet show, has lived through some pretty awful things in her life. Both of her parents died,...

Street Urchin Parsefall Hooke is Grisini's other apprentice, but he appears to have the exact opposite of Lizzie Rose's kind, compassionate temperament. Because he's grown up in poverty his entire...

The Witch When we first meet Cassandra, we learn right away that she's a powerful witch who can do all sorts of crazy things, like read peoples' minds and call them to her using magical spells. Who...

Dr. Wintermute is the kind of man who keeps his feelings under wrap—especially when it comes to his family. He's dealt with the death of four of his children, and now his wife is pretty much hyst...

Mrs. Wintermute is obviously a woman haunted by the death of her four children. After the children die of cholera, she becomes withdrawn and obsessed with remembering them, forcing Clara to go to t...

Mrs. Pinchbeck, Grisini's landlady, is a very dramatic woman who likes to be the center of attention all the time. She's always telling long-winded stories in which she's the heroine or the victim...

Mrs. Pinchbeck's detestable stepson Fitzmorris comes to stay at her house after Grisini goes missing, and he immediately makes things very uncomfortable for poor Lizzie Rose. He's always trying to...

Mr. and Mrs. Fettle are two of Cassandra's servants at Strachan's Ghyll. They're kept there by enchantment, and when the phoenix-stone is destroyed, they realize that they no longer want to be ther...