A poor, seventeen year old pianist who marries a Marquis. She narrates the story many years later having escaped teh murderer and remarried
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The Marquis
A French Nobleman who takes pleasure in challenging his wives to disobey him and then murdering them. His favourite room is his "bloody chamber" which is where he keeps their corpses.
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Jean-Yves
A kindly blind piano tuner who helps the heroine escape the Marquis and then later marries her.
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Heroine's mother
A brave women who grew up in Indo-China and then married a man who was poorer than her. When he died at war she was left penniless with her daughter
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The Opera Singer
The Marquis' first wife, whom he strangled to death,and whose body lies on a Catafalque in the forbidden room.
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The Evening Star Walking on the rim of night
The Marquis' second wife, whse skull hangs suspended by chords in his forbidden room.
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The Romanian Countess
The Marquis' latest wife beforre the heroine, whom he murdered in the iron maiden. The narrator drops the key to the forbidden room into her pooling blood.
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