Horace is a peculiar living at Miss Peregrine’s. His peculiar talent is that he has prophetic nightmares. When Miss Avocet arrives at Miss Peregrine’s, he has one of these nightmares, babbling about an apocalyptic event. Jacob later concludes that Horace’s dream reveals what will happen if the hollowgast and wights carry out their plan to try and become immortal.
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Horace Character Timeline in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
The timeline below shows where the character Horace appears in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
...go swimming. They have to walk straight through town, and a formally dressed boy named Horace gives Jacob clothes to better blend in. Jacob asks what makes Horace peculiar, and Emma...
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Chapter 10
...But being confined to the house makes them apathetic and unhappy. One night, Jacob experiences Horace’s peculiar talent for the first time—Horace is caught in a waking nightmare, screaming terribly and...
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...all the ymbrynes working together to get their experiment right and live forever. Jacob remembers Horace’s prophetic dream of the apocalypse and realizes what might happen if the wights and hollows...
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Chapter 11
...best course of action is to figure out where the wights are taking the ymbrynes. Horace starts to draw a scene from his dreams with the soot: a dark forest, snow...
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