Sentence:  His name is Praisegod Piepsam , and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister <WSD>type</WSD> in the author 's repertory - he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death in Venice '' , for example , who represent some combination of cadaver , exotic , and psychopomp . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)