James Griffin

James Griffin is a promising junior doctor of the York Lunatic Asylum. He features in The Lunatic, The Doctors, and The Daemonologist.

It was through his job as a doctor that he met Sarah Carter, who he distantly remembered meeting previously through his friend Peter Carter, when she was an inpatient. He became aware that her condition did not warrant admission and believed her tale of unjust imprisonment by her uncle. Between this and a sense of affection, he decided to break her own of the asylum. He has been concerned by some worrying psychological symptoms she has been having recently which he believes to be the result of the new drug from Papua New Guinea.

The new drug has been given to a number of the pauper patients to test it out. It has proved to be effective at relieving madnesses, but gives other concerning effects. Patients have been developing amnesia, bouts of strong emotion, sleepwalking, paralysis, dissociation from their actions and sometimes trance states. Some young men who have been on it longer have been reporting voices commanding their actions and telling them incomprehensible secrets. As a result of this, the trial will be ending at the end of the week.

James Griffin is now engaged to Sarah Carter.