| After suffering a shoulder injury in Afghanistan in 1881, the unnamed narrator is sent home to recover. The narrator meets a potential flatmate in London through a mutual friend, the two meet in the chemical lab of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The flatmate is a strange man who surprises the narrator by figuring out that the narrator is a soldier recently returned from Afghanistan. The narrator then warns the man. |
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 | "I must warn you, i scream in my sleep." | |
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| The man replied humorously. |
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| "I also snores in my sleep, I am easily bored, selfish, and sometimes uses the mantle for target practice." | |
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| The two move into an apartment in Baker Street, where the narrator is fascinated by his flatmate's constant stream of strange visitors |
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