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Post by kooshmeister on Jan 25, 2019 7:19:16 GMT
THE THING IN THE CELLAR
by David H. Keller
Tommy Tucker - A young boy who fears what might be lurking in the cellar of his family's house. Dies under mysterious circumstances.
The Thing - An unknown (and possibly nonexistent) entity in the Tucker cellar.
Mr. Tucker - Tommy's stern father.
Mrs. Tucker - Tommy's mother.
Dr. Hawthorn - The family doctor who advises forcing Tommy to confront his fears.
Dr. Johnson - A psychiatrist colleague of Hawthorn's.
I AM LEGEND
by Richard Matheson
Robert Neville - Lone survivor of a vampire plague. Becomes a vampire slayer but is later captured and set to be executed as a murderer by the new society of vampires he didn't know existed.
Virginia Neville - Robert Neville's wife. Died of the plague and was buried, but returned to life as a vampire and was staked by her husband and reburied.
Kathy Neville - Robert and Virginia's daughter. Died of the plague and was burned by the government.
Ben Cortman - Robert's neighbor who became a vampire. Shot by the other, more civilized vampires who come for Robert.
Ruth - A member of the new society of more civilized vampires who is sent to spy on Robert.
HORNETS' NEST
by Michael Avallone
Captain Turner - Leader of an American demolition team flown into Nazi-occupied Italy to blow up the Della Norte Dam. Nicknamed "The Dambuster." Sole survivor of his team.
Arnie - One of Turner's men. Killed by German soldiers upon landing.
Yates - One of Turner's men. Killed by German soldiers upon landing.
Ricci - One of Turner's men. Killed by German soldiers upon landing.
Lombardi - One of Turner's men. Killed by German soldiers upon landing.
Santelli - One of Turner's men. Killed by German soldiers upon landing.
Major Darcy - American Army officer who trains Turner and his team.
Bernardo - An Italian Partisan fighter assigned to Turner's team. Killed by the Germans when they land.
General Arhill Lewis - An American Army general who coordinates Operation Dam.
Pilot - Flies the Air Corps Dakota cargo plane carrying Turner's team into enemy territory.
Jumpmaster Sergeant - Crewman abord the Dakota, in charge of making sure the paratroopers jump safely.
Scarpi - Italian Partisan leader. Killed by Hermann and Ehrlich in the doctor's office.
Julio - Partisan fighter serving under Scarpi. Killed by the Germans in the air drop ambush.
Captain Wilhelm von Hecht - Wehrmacht officer in charge of the Della Norte district. Ruthless but fair-minded and reasonable compared to his fellow Germans. Taken prisoner.
Sergeant Schwalberg - Von Hecht's right-hand man.
Sergeant Ehrlich - One of von Hecht's trusted subordinates.
Sergeant Hermann - One of von Hecht's trusted subordinates.
Partisan - A captured Partisan who betrays Scarpi and his men to von Hecht, leading to the ambush. Shot in revenge by Scarpi.
Aldo - The fierce and coldly sociopathic leader of the orphaned children from Reanoto. Burns for revenge against the Nazis for the murder of his family.
Guillermo - The oldest of the orphans at fourteen and Aldo's second in command. Often clashes with him.
Mario - Guillermo's younger brother.
Maria - Guillermo's younger sister.
Carlo - One of the youngest members of Aldo's group, who is overager and anxious to prove himself. Shot by Aldo at the dam when he rushes into Aldo's line of fire.
Tekko - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Silvio - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo. A little younger than him and Guillermo. Killed by Germans whilst protecting Mario, Maria and Bianca.
Giorgio - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Franco - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Romeo - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Mikko - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Paolo - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Arturo - One of the orphaned boys working with Aldo.
Corporal Gunther - An SS corporal assigned to keep an eye on von Hecht. Turner breaks his neck.
General Dohrmann - Head of the Wehrmacht General Staff.
Brigadier General von Kleber - Dohrmann's chief of staff, who is an old friend of von Hecht's father.
Colonel Jannings - The cold head of the SS. Clashes with von Hecht.
Lieutenant Colonel Weede - Wehrmacht explosives expert, who explains what Composition C is to the high-ranking generals.
General Rutke - A German Panzer general who von Kleber knows. He offers von Hecht a position in his staff, but von Hecht refuses.
Doctor - An Italian doctor sympathetic to the Partisans. Shot by Hermann and Ehrlich.
Dr. Bianca Freedling - A civilian German doctor who is kidnapped by Aldo and the other boys to tend to the injured Turner.
First Sentry - German soldier guarding von Hecht's headquarters. Trades cigarettes with Carlo and Tekko for their strawberries.
Second Sentry - Another German soldier at von Hecht's headquarters. Also trades cigarettes with Carlo and Tekko for their strawberries.
Corporal Merkel - Leader of a group of German soldiers hunting for Turner and the children in the woods. Turner fights him and kills him with a knife.
Radar Truck Soldier - The radio operator in a German radar truck. Shot by Turner.
Radar Truck Driver - The driver of the German radar truck. Shot by Turner.
Major Taussig - Commanding officer of the SS stationed in the village of Reanoto. Shot by von Hecht.
SS Lieutenant - An SS officer in Reanoto. Takes command after Taussig's death.
Fritz - Driver of an SS truck. Shot by Turner.
SS Officer - An SS officer in the truck with Fritz. Shot by Turner.
Commandant Krueger - The German officer in charge of security at the Della Norte Dam. Presumed dead when the dam blows.
Wydel - One of Krueger's soldiers. Presumed dead when the dam blows.
Colonel - An American Army officer leading a column of soldiers who meets Turner's ragtag group following the destruction of the dam.
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Post by kooshmeister on Jan 31, 2019 16:26:21 GMT
DR. CYCLOPS
by Henry Kuttner
Pedro Caruz - A Peruvian half-breed working as a servant for Dr. Thorkel. Thorkel shrinks him with the others. Later, he is shot and killed by Thorkel.
Dr. Bill Stockton - A former mineralogist turned beachcomber with a dark and troubled past. Hired to look into a microscope for Thorkel. Shrunken by Thorkel after they discover the truth of his work. Eventually returns to normal size.
Dr. Thorkel - A scientist with weak eyesight working on behalf of the Nazis to create miniature soldiers. He shrinks Stockton, Bulfinch, Mary, Baker and Pedro as test subjects after they discover the truth of his work. Dies when Stockton drops him down into his own uranium mine.
Dr. Hardy - The mineralogist originally requested by Thorkel. However, he takes ill and Stockton goes in his place.
Dr. Rupert Bulfinch - A biologist hired by Thorkel to look into a microscope for him. Shrunken by Thorkel, who later kills him.
Dr. Mary Phillips - Bulfinch's assistant, another biologist. Shrunken by Thorkel. Eventually returns to normal size.
Steve Baker - A guide hired by Bulfinch's party, who came along hoping to learn the fate of Mira. Shrunken by Thorkel. Eventually returns to normal size.
Satanus - Thorkel's cat.
Paco - Pedro's dog.
Pinto - Pedro's mule, shrunken by Thorkel in his second experiment.
Mira - Thorkel's Peruvian housekeeper and a former girlfriend of Baker's, who died after being shrunk in her employer's first experiment.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 30, 2020 18:24:22 GMT
Rodent Mutation (WIP)
by Bron Fane
Barney Colrayn - A crusading sanitation inspector. Takes his job very seriously.
Jasper Leroy - The greedy and amoral CEO of Jasper Leroy Inc.
Giant Beavers - A species of beaver in East Anglia mutated into giant telepathic monsters as a result of Jasper Leroy's shenanigans.
Ms. Johnson - Colrayn's secretary.
Edward Sinclair - A former politician turned private investigator. A former schoolmate of Colrayn's, he helps him out.
Ricky O'Jordon - A local boy who's gone missing. Turns out to be alive and held captive by the beavers.
Paddy O'Jordon - Ricky's father, an Irish laborer. A very practical-minded, down-to-earth man.
Lucy O'Jordon - Paddy's wife and Ricky's mother.
Police Sergeant - The local head of police searching for Ricky.
Constable Richards - One of the sergeant's men. Prone to hysterics.
Seth Barton - The local ne'er-do-well.
Valet - Leroy's valet. Fields his calls and admits or refuses visitors to his employer's mansion.
Footman - Leroy's footman. Assists the valet in admitting or refusing visitors.
Reverend Septimus Brown - The local vicar.
Mrs. Brown - Reverend Brown's wife.
Mrs. Bloggins - A member of Mrs. Brown's sewing circle.
Ms. Hambledon - A member of Mrs. Brown's sewing circle.
Terrier Captain - A British Army officer in command of a detachment of Territorials ("Terriers") sent to kill the beavers.
Professor Septimus Harbottle - A renowned zoologist.
Professor James Brogan - A colleague of Harbottle's.
MacTavish - A Scottish diving expert.
Ms. Williams - Brogan's secretary.
Hospital Superintendent - A doctor who treats Ricky.
Billy - Barge captain. Drowned when a beaver sinks his boat.
Lucy - Billy's wife. Drowned alongside her husband.
John - Billy's deckhand. Alternately referred to as "Tom." Drowned along with Billy and Lucy.
Lock-Keeper - The keeper of a lock in the river. Killed when the beaver that sank Billy's barge destroys his cottage.
Young Woman - A member of the lock-keeper's household, presumably his daughter. Sole survivor of the beaver attack.
Spawn of the Slime Beast
by Guy N. Smith
Brian Bromley - A wildfowling guide who was a child during the original Slime Beast's rampage.
Callum Bromley - Brian's son.
Sara Bromley - Brian's daughter.
Mary Bromley - Brian's wife.
Kenzie Thorpe - A wildfowling guide.
Sid Wright - A wildfowling guide.
Frank Harrison - A wildfowling guide.
Gavin Royle - Assistant museum curator who killed the original Slime Beast.
Liz Royle - Gavin's wife, the niece of Professor Lowson.
Amy Royle - Gavin and Liz's daughter.
Tim Tranter - Amy's boyfriend, a photographer and amateur crypto-zoologist.
Dr. Ramsey Keen - The doctor in Sutton. A previous victim of the original monster.
Professor Lowson - Liz's uncle, an archaeologist. A past victim of the original monster.
Dr. Manton Haywood - An ornithologist. A past victim of the original monster.
Mallard Glover - A wildfoweler. A past victim of the original monster.
Thomas Southgate - The landlord of the Bull, Sutton's local pub. A past victim of the original monster.
The Slime Beast - The offspring of the original monster. Electrocuted.
Tommy Turner - A young Sutton teen. Killed by the Slime Beast.
Laura Brindley - Tommy's girlfriend. Killed by the Slime Beast.
Sam Brindley - Laura's father, a construction worker. He disapproves of his daughter seeing Tommy because he's "a toff."
Barbara Brindley - Laura's mother.
Barbara Turner - Tommy's mother. She disapproves of her son seeing Laura because she's "common."
Mr. Turner - Tommy's father.
Inspector Gittings - Incompetent Sutton police inspector.
Chief Superintendent Waller - Gittings' more competent superior.
Frank Forman - A wildfowler. Killed by the Slime Beast.
George Scott - Another wildfowler. Killed by the Slime Beast.
Ted Fosdyke - A farmer. Eaten by the Slime Beast.
Ethel Fosdyke - Ted's wife. Eaten by the Slime Beast.
Billy - Mr. and Mrs. Fosdyke's dog.
Sergeant Weale - A police officer serving under Waller.
Frank Hardman - A squatter. Killed by the Slime Beast.
Jack Willets - Another squatter. Also killed by the Slime Beast.
Timpson - The owner of the houseboat Hardman and Willets break into.
Female Constable - A police officer who serves under Waller.
Chief Inspector Harborne - Sutton police office who was Waller's predecessor. He retired afterward.
Detective Inspector Borg - Another policeman who was around during the original Slime Beast's rampage. He has since retired.
Josh Bingham - A farmer. He's almost killed by the Slime Beast, but is rescued by Gavin and Bromley.
Daisy - Farmer Bingham's cow.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 12, 2020 22:38:25 GMT
Slime (WIP)
by William Essex
Cricket Mallory - An employee of the Upper Mississippi River Valley Chemical Corporation who illegally dumps rejected barrels of PCB.
Dave Lassiter - Mallory's partner.
Jake Seggit - A truck driver who helps Mallory and Lassiter illegally dump the PCB.
Greg Tusken - A farmer whose land is used as a dump site by Mallory and Lassiter.
The Slime - A living lake of green toxic waste created from illegally dumped PCB.
Elmer Hartline - A luckless farmer who raises buffalo.
Hilda Hartline - Elmer's wife, who doesn't support him.
Sheriff Fritz Sawyer - The county sheriff.
Charlie Maiden - A rival farmer of Elmer's. Eaten by the slime.
Jodean Maiden - Charlie's wife, who has the largest breasts in town. Eaten by the slime.
Tim Walker - A loan officer at the bank.
Alexander Walker - Tim's father, who owns the bank.
Nadine Benedict - Tim's fiancee.
Mike Roberts - A farmer. Eaten by the slime.
Mary Roberts - Mike's wife. Eaten by the slime.
Danny Bradshaw - A truck driver. Eaten by the slime behind the wheel of his truck and crashes.
Chief Wally Simpson - The local police chief who works closely with Tim Walker and Sheriff Sawyer.
Artie Cluteler - An abusive car salesman.
Carole Cluteler - Artie's wife who cheats on him. Eaten by the slime while having sex with her lover Rick.
Ricky Kelly - Carole's lover. Eaten by the slime while having sex with her.
Jack - Artie's friend who he once forced Carole to have sex with.
J.T. Silence - A rancher and the richest man in town.
Robbie MacFerguson - An EPA agent.
Betsy Rockton - An EPA agent.
Rose Wheeler - A local resident whose mother went missing. Eaten by the slime.
Mrs. Wheeler - Rose's missing mother. Presumably eaten by the slime.
Prissy Benedict - Nadine's daughter.
Bullets - Prissy's puppy. Eaten by the slime.
Officer Pete Gilder - A policeman serving under Chief Simpson.
Terry Ralston - A teenager.
Joe Turncock - A farmer.
Dr. Lee Russel - An EPA scientist.
Ben Oates - A pig farmer. Eaten by the slime.
Ellie Niggleston - Nadine's neighbor.
Brad Neyens - A dog breeder.
Jack Waylon - Brad's neighbor.
Killer Flies (WIP)
by Mark Kendall
Josh Gatlin - A truck driver. Eaten by the flies after crashing his truck.
Sánchez - Gatlin's employer.
Juanita - Gatlin's girlfriend in Santa Fe.
Pammy Quinn - A little girl. Eaten by the flies.
Skeets - The Quinn family dog.
Rosebud - Pammy's favorite pony. Eaten by the flies.
Sherry Quinn - Pammy's mother.
Hutch Engels - Sherry's sometime boyfriend.
Captain Ray Padilla - State Trooper captain. Doesn't like Sherry.
Dr. Meadows - ER doctor.
Kathy Littlebird - A family friend of the Quinns.
Tom Quinn - Sherry's late husband.
Debby Watkins - The cook at the Big Chief Truck Stop's diner. Eaten by the flies.
Ralph Tibbets - Debby's boyfriend, a truck driver. His CB handle is "Big Daddy." Eaten by the flies.
Manuel - A customer at the diner. Eaten by the flies.
The Intruders (WIP)
by Bron Fane
Captain Velos - Captain of the alien ship.
Aster - The ship's navigator.
Dr. Plumbus - The ship's medical officer, psychiatrist and biologist.
Schafft - The ship's mechanic.
Kramer - The ship's geologist, planetographer, photographer and recording expert.
Val Stearman - A reporter and former secret agent.
La Noire - Val's girlfriend.
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Post by kooshmeister on Aug 24, 2020 11:16:13 GMT
March of the Robots
by Leo Brett
Terry Kildaire - Chief of control at the Establishment. Mind-controlled by the evil robots and framed for murder.
Judge - The judge presiding over Kildaire's murder trial.
Prosecuting Counsel - The prosecutor in Kildaire's trial. Overbearing and arrogant.
Defending Counsel - Kildaire's ineffectual defense attorney.
Rawlinson - Assistant controller at the Establishment. Kildaire is accused of murdering him. He was killed by a robot by being force-fed a capsule of prussic acid.
Royston - A departmental chief at the Establishment. Another man Kildaire is accused of murdering. In actuality he was shot by a robot using Kildaire's gun.
Mrs. Bloggins - A charwoman who works at the Establishment and doesn't like Kildaire. Testifies for the prosecution.
Dr. Watson Smith - The doctor who attended to the poisoned Rawlinson. Testifies for the prosecution.
Blake - Royston's assistant. Testifies for the prosecution.
"Ticky" George - The village idiot. Nicknamed "Ticky" due to his obsession with watches.
Landlord - The owner and barkeep of a pub called the Blue Dragon.
Postman - The village postman, a regular at the Blue Dragon.
Dr. Len Williamson - The chief psychiatrist at Long Meadow.
Dr. Bill Coe - The chief physician at Long Meadow.
Tim Borrow - Long Meadow's electronics expert.
Colonel Henry Rothman - A military officer attacked to MI5.
Major Richard Bruce - Rothman's aide.
Professor Henry Blain - MI5's electronics expert.
Shopkeeper - A kindly woman whom Rothman purchases a watch from to give to George.
Robots - Evil robots from outer space who framed Kildaire for murder and want to invade Earth and kill all the humans. Shut down after Kildaire blows up their ship with gelignite, destroying the master control.
Freddy O'Flannagan - A drunken Irishman who witnesses the robots kill a constable.
Constable Dalrow - A constable who gets disintegrated by the robots.
Sergeant Richardson - Dalrow's superior.
Constable - Another officer serving under Richardson.
Duty Inspector - Richardson's superior at City Police Headquarters.
Sir Allen - A government minister who Rothman answers to.
Territorial Colonel - A Territorial military officer who assists Rothman and Bruce against the robots.
Chief Constable - A police official who assists Rothman and Bruce against the robots.
Announcer - A TV announcer who reports on the police's battle against the robots.
Police Superintendent - Head of the local law enforcement's efforts to battle the invaders in the city. Captured by the robots, he is later rescued by Kildaire.
Reverend Paul Smithson - A priest interviewed by the announcer on TV.
Chauffeur - A very taciturn MI5 driver who takes Kildaire to the city after he leaves Long Meadow.
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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 17, 2020 1:07:42 GMT
FLESHBAIT
by David Holman and Larry Pryce
Professor Mark Neilsen - A zoologist tasked with figuring out why fish are suddenly killing people.
Dr. Kathy Wilding - A doctor of science and Mark's love interest.
Mike Preston - Mark's lifelong friend who was found drowned. Although initially thought to be a victim of the fish, it later turned out he committed suicide.
Sir Charles Latimer - Mike's uncle, a successful lawyer.
Jack - A fisherman who catches one of the first killer fish in a river on Sir Charles' land.
Jennie Barret - A young woman who runs a fish farm with her father. She falls into a tank with the fish and gets eaten by them.
Bill Barrett - Jennie's father, who almost dies trying and failing to save her.
Dr. Bill Avenport - A scientist who examines the fish Jack caught.
Ben Hampton - The head of the Military Science Department at Pentheris Manor. Dies of a heart attack.
Mrs. Bunt - The housekeeper at Pentheris Manor.
Little Boy - A boy from Derbyshire who is killed by mackerel while swimming at Pencower.
Inspector Martyn - A police inspector who rules the boy's death an accident.
Man - A beachgoer who tried to save the boy.
Constable - A police officer who finds a dead mackerel.
Dr. Kalek - The Assistant County Pathologist.
Colonel Fairfax - The Chief Constable.
Goliath - A particularly large pike, nicknamed by Reverend Tiplady.
Reverend Joseph Tiplady - A vicar who is dragged into the water and killed by Goliath.
First Man - A crew member of the fishing boat Esmeralda which is sunk. He dies.
Second Man - Another crew member of the Esmeralda who gets killed.
Third Man - The third member of the Esmeralda's crew and the only survivor.
Captain Gregg Travannion - The captain of the Cornish Maid.
Milly Clemence - A crazy woman who believes the fish are taking revenge.
Pete Jago - The Cornish Maid's mate.
Chris Perkins - A managerial executive who goes on a fishing trip aboard the Cornish Maid.
Penny - Chris' girlfriend.
Percy Clemence - Milly's late husband.
Robinson - Hampton's chief physicist.
Lieutenant Rogers - The commander of the motor torpedo boat Orion, which is renamed the Octopus.
Delmas Waters - A fisherman from Cothemry who gets killed by conger eels.
Chief Petty Officer Max Strong - The Octopus' chief petty officer and leader of the sub-aqua team.
Ginger - A diver aboard the Octopus. Quits after his friend Scotty gets killed.
Scotty - A diver aboard the Octopus. Killed by a conger eel.
Derek Briars - A diver aboard the Octopus.
Carstairs - An aloof official from the Home Office.
Express Man - A reporter from the Express who asks Milly Clemmence how long she's campaigned against fishing.
Woman - A female reporter who also questions Milly.
Mr. Freshman - A reporter from the New Statesman.
Fresh-Faced Young Reporter - Asks Milly if she is on the side of the sea.
Girl - A reporter from the Courier.
Mr. McLoring - A particularly irritable reporter.
Fiona Hyam - A woman living in a small cottage in Porthewan.
John Hyam - Fiona's husband.
Lord Liscombe - John's boss.
Jasper Hyam - Fiona's son.
Mary Jane Hyam - Fiona's daughter.
Jim - A friend of the Hyamses'.
Greta - Jim's wife.
Graham - A friend of John's who runs a kiosk.
Ray - Another friend of the Hyamses.
Bobby - A friendly dolphin.
Lieutenant Jim Littlejohn - The commanding officer of the motor torpedo boat Ensign.
Sonar Operator - The Ensign's sonar officer.
Chief Sub Ian Smart - The Ensign's chief sub.
Radar Petty Officer - The Ensign's radar operator.
Captain Marriot - The captain of the Celeste, a yacht rescued by the Ensign.
Pilot - The pilot of the Sea King helicopter that flies Mark, Kathy and Hampton out to Porthewan.
Deaf Girl - A deaf child rescued by Bobby the dolphin.
Commander O'Brien - Naval officer in charge of the Sea Defence System aboard the Titan.
Lieutenant Charles Fairley - The Titan's commanding officer.
Nick Blake - A diver aboard the Titan.
Bob Trembarth - A diver aboard the Titan.
Nicky Salmon - A photographer who is killed underwater by the fish whilst attempting to take pictures of the Slab.
Jack Barnecut - A boat owner who takes Nicky and Tom out to the Slab.
Tom Blakeman - Nicky's colleague.
Lieutenant Commander Flynn - A naval officer who intercepts Jack's boat.
Lieutenant Commander Kennedy - Another naval officer who intercepts Jack.
Lieutenant Commander Bill Izzard - Commanding officer of the frigate Calpurnia.
Chief Officer - O'Brien's second in command on the Titan.
Lord Cotehele - Chancellor of the University.
Bill Quarry - A train engineer. His train is attacked by fish while going through a tunnel.
Neil Shaddock - A train fireman.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 12, 2021 13:51:01 GMT
THE FUNGUS (WIP)
by Harry Adam Knight
Dr. Jane Wilson - A mycologist employed by the Institute of Tropical Biology. She creates an enzyme called CT-UT-8471 to increase fungal growth and accidentally spreads it throughout London. After going insane, she starts a cult which believes the plague is the Earth Mother's vengeance. Husband Barry punches her head off.
Norman Layne - An unpleasant racist who bumps into Jane Wilson and gets CT-UT-8471 on him. He becomes infected by dry rot while woodworking.
Nora Layne - Norman's somewhat estranged wife. Presumably killed when her infected husband grabs her.
Barbara - A lesbian in an abusive relationship. She tries without success to hit on Jane at a movie theater. Dies with her girlfriend Shirley when the two of them are taken by the fungus in their bed.
Shirley - Barbara's somewhat abusive girlfriend. Dies with her in bed when the fungus gets them.
Naseem - A waiter at an Indian restaurant where Jane eats.
Derrick Lang - A customer at the Indian restaurant. Calls all Indians "Panjit." After getting CT-UT-8471 on him because he sat down at the same table as Jane, his body is overtaken by athlete's foot.
Philip Bell - Lang's long-suffering best friend.
Eric Gifford - The somewhat lecherous but nevertheless well-meaning landlord of the One Tun. CT-UT-8471 causes all the yeast in the beer in his stomach to grow out of control, causing him to "ferment" and explode.
Marianne Gifford - Eric's late wife.
Dinesh - Naseem's brother.
Makund - Naseem and Dinesh's uncle, who owns the restaurant the two men work at.
Rachel - One of Jane's lab assistants.
Tod - One of Jane's lab assistants.
Hilary Burne-Smith - One of Jane's lab assistants. She and Barry once had an affair. She gets turned into a fungus creature and is impaled and killed by Kimberley.
Dr. Barry Wilson - Jane's husband, a mycologist turned fiction writer. Drafted into service by the British Army to find his wife's notes.
Simon Wilson - Jane and Barry's son. Ends up used as a test subject by his mother, turned into moss and finally mercy-killed by his father.
Jessica Wilson - Jane and Barry's daughter. Turned into a fungus creature, she serves as one of her mother's guards and is killed by her father using a flamethrower.
Dr. Bruce Carter - A trouble consultant employed by the Home Office. He turns into a fungus monster but proves to be a valuable ally to Barry and Kimberley before finally succumbing to the infection and dying.
Duty Officer - An officer who calls Carter to alert him about the plague.
Receptionist - A receptionist at the hospital who thinks Carter's name is Dr. Bruce Cowper.
Nurse - A nurse Carter encounters on his way the Contagious Diseases Ward.
Dr. Mason - A doctor working in the Contagious Diseases Ward.
The First Victim - A man being treated by Mason who has been covered in yellow growths.
The Second Victim - A man whose entire head has been consumed by fungus, killing him. Mason is afraid to move the body for fear of spreading the plague.
The Third Victim - Another man in the Contagious Disease Ward. His entire body is covered in pulpy white growths.
The Fourth Victim - A woman being treated by Mason. Her entire body is riddled with fungus.
Flannery - A fictional character in Barry Wilson's novels.
Fiach Bresnihan - Another Flannery character, an IRA member.
Lieutenant Smythe-Robertson - A British Army officer sent by Major Peterson to retrieve Barry.
Corporal Feely - A British Army NCO accompanying Smythe-Robertson. Slocock's best friend.
Dermot Biggs - A man on vacation with his family. After being contaminated by the afflicted fungus, he becomes a mutated fungus creature.
Sally Biggs - Dermot's wife. She too becomes a fungus creature.
Sarah Biggs - Dermot and Sally's daughter. Becomes a fungus creature.
Robert Biggs - Dermot and Sally's son. Becomes a fungus creature.
Finnegan Biggs - Dermot and Sally's other son. Becomes a fungus creature.
Farmer - A farmer who befriends the Biggs family.
Sergeant Terence Slocock - A British Army sergeant assigned by Peterson to accompany Barry and Kimberley to get Jane's notes. Mutates into a fungus creature and ends up being torched by Barry, who doesn't recognize him.
Marge Slocock - Slocock's ex-wife.
Dr. Kimberley Fairchild - A South African scientist who accompanies Barry Wilson and Sergeant Slocock on their mission. Commits suicide by leaping off the roof after discovering she's infected.
Percy Hibbert - A British Army soldier who became infected and was executed with flamethrowers on Peterson's orders.
Baxter - A drunken soldier who hits on Kimberley and is beaten up by Slocock.
Major Peterson - A British Army officer who spearheads the mission to get Jane's notes.
Captain O'Connell - Peterson's aide. He had to kill his infested wife.
Ilya Nechvolodov - A Russian TU144 pilot. Absorbed by some fungus that mutates into a blob and takes over the entire plane.
Terenty - Illya's co-pilot. Killed by the fungus.
Alina Nechvolodov - Illya's wife.
Yaroslav - The TU144's flight engineer. Killed by the fungus.
Nina Tsvigun - A stewardess aboard the TU144. Killed by the fungus.
John Lurton - A BBC reporter.
Tom Southern - A BBC reporter.
Geoffrey Henderson - The leader of the Hastings Branch of the International Socialist League. A cowardly and selfish man. Killed by fungus that leeches its way into the group's cave sanctuary.
Sheena Blakey - A somewhat disaffected member of the Socialist League.
Horace Snell - Another Socialist League member. Gets killed by the same fungus that gets Henderson.
Captain Barclay - Royal Navy officer and captain of the hydrofoil HMS Speedy. He takes Barry, Kimberley and Slocock from Belfast to Holyhead.
Jim - A member of the Speedy's crew.
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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 4, 2021 15:04:31 GMT
RELIC (WIP)
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Dr. Julian Whittlesey - An American anthropologist who goes missing in the Amazon while searching for the Kothoga tribe. Turned into the physical manifestation of the monster Mbwun, he becomes the infamous Museum Beast and is killed by a shot through the eye by Pendergast.
Carlos - Whittlesey's assistant.
Hugo C. Montague - Whittlesey's student at the museum who goes missing. His corpse is later found in the Museum Beast's lair.
Dr. Thomas R. Crocker Jr. - A member of Whittlesey's expedition who goes missing. Whittlesey later finds him dead in the jungle, a victim of the original Mbwun.
Dr. Edward Maxwell - A hated rival of Whittlesey's. Dies in a plane crash.
Old Woman - An elderly Yanomamo tribeswoman who tries to warn Whittlesey and Carlos about the Mbwun.
Dr. Jörgensen - A botanist employed at the museum. He tells Margo and Smithback about Whittlesey and Maxwell's failed expedition.
Stevenson "Ven" Stevens - A smuggler operating in Brazil. Goes by the nickname Ven. Killed by the Mbwun while snooping in a dockside warehouse.
Dock Foreman - A Brazilian dock foreman in Belem who suspects Ven Stevens of being a smuggler.
Ricon - Junior assistant to the Belem harbormaster.
Juan - A museum guard.
William Howard Bridgeman - Nicknamed Billy. A little boy who gets lost in the museum along with his brother and gets killed by the Mbwun.
Billy's Brother - Billy's younger brother who also gets killed by the Mbwun.
Margo Green - A research assistant studying under Dr. Frock in the anthropology department. Nicknamed Midge. Using Kawakita's Extrapolator program, she is able to determine tbe existence of the Mbwun.
Curly - A museum guard.
Dr. Gregory Kawakita - Another student of Dr. Frock's who develops the Extrapolator program and serves as assistant curator of the biology department. He is a sometime friendy rival of Margo's. He ends up turning the Mbuan virus into a drug, which he calls "Glaze."
Jimmy - A museum guard.
Charlie Prine - A conservation expert who discovers the bodies of Billy and his brother and is left traumatized.
Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta - An NYPD detective assigned to solve the museum murders. Helps get the museum visitors out through the underground tunnels, actions for which he is promoted to captain.
Dr. Frank Freed - The cantankorous icthyology curator.
William Smithback Jr. - A reporter hired to write a book about the museum.
Dr. Ian Cuthbert - The museum's assistant director. Goes insane after encountering the Museum Beast.
Dr. Winston Wright - The museum director. Killed by the Mbwun.
Ippolito - The museum's security director. Killed by the Mbwun while trying to help D'Agosta and Bailey evacuate the guests.
Lavinia Rickman - The museum's head of public relations and Smithback's boss. The two regularly clash on what is and isn't appropriate to include in his book. Killed by the Museum Beast.
Conservator - A museum employee tasked with restoring masks who shares an office with Margo.
Dr. Frock - A paleontologist who serves as curator of the museum's biology department. He serves as a mentor to both Margo and Kawakita.
Dr. George Moriarty - An assistant curator tasked with handling the Superstition exhibit. He has unrequited feelings for Margo. Goes missing. Smithback later finds his body in the Mbwun's lair.
Jonathan Hamm - A dog handler hired to use his hounds to track the Mbwun.
Assistant Tracker - Hamm's assistant who helps him with the dogs.
Castor - One of Hamm's dogs. Killed by the Mbwun.
Pollux - One of Hamm's dogs. Accidentally shot by one of D'Agosta's men.
Dr. Mathilda Ziewicz - The medical examiner who autopsies the bodies of Billy and his brother as well as Jolley.
Dr. Fred Gross - Ziewicz's assistant.
Delbert Smith - A photographer working at the medical examiner's office.
Jan - A friend of Margo's.
Mr. Green - Margo's father, a businessman who recently passed away.
Mrs. Green - Margo's mother, who tries to pressure Margo into coming and taking over her father's company.
Fred Jolley - A museum guard. Killed by the Mbwun.
Gilborg - A man whose expedition ended disastrously.
Eric Norris - A musuem guard. He finds Jolley's body.
Special Agent Pendergast - A New Orleans FBI agent who comes to New York to investigate the grisly museum killings. Brilliant and crafty, he works closely with D'Agosta to solve the mystery. Ends up killing the Museum Beast with a shot through the eye.
Bailey Smith - The assistant curator of the musuem's herbarium.
Dr. Sloane - A scientist working in the animal behavior department. His cats are killed by the Mbwun.
Carl Conover - A worker in the museum's metal shop who claims to have seen the Mbwun.
Dr. Lewis Turow - A scientist tasked with identifying the DNA in the Mbwun's claw pulled from Billy's corpse.
Dr. Buchholtz - Turow's boss.
Elevator Man - The operator of the museum's freight elevator.
Jost von Oster - An Austrian scientist who runs the museum's osteological preparation department.
Dr. Huysmans - A scientist von Oster is preparing bat skeletons for.
Officer Fred Beauregard - One of D'Agosta's men. Assigned to guard the Superstition exhibition, he goes into it when he hears a noise. He's killed and his body stuffed into a mummy case. When it's discovered during the exhibition's opening, it causes a huge panic.
Boylan - The owner of a bar called the Blarney Stone, known to museum employees as the Bones.
Dispatcher - A police officer assigned to the museum's security control room.
Officer McNitt - An officer sent as backup for Beauregard when he reports strange noises. Killed when a column falls on him and several guests.
Officer Effinger - Beuregard's replacement.
Driver - Pendergast's driver.
Roger Thrumcamp - The shift supervisor in the museum's systems operations room.
"Bucktooth" - A computer programmer with buck teeth.
Officer Waters - A police officer assigned to guard the systems operations room. Causes a blackout when his panicky firing hits the power generator. Suffering a nervous breakdown, he hides in the control room with Garcia and others and is saved by Margo and Pendergast.
Librarian - The woman in charge of the museum's in-house library.
B. Depardieu - A museum employee who checked out Whittlesey's journal with Cuthbert's permission.
Antony Anastasia - A New Orleans reporter who wrote an article about the Strella de Venezuela.
Henry La Plage - A New Orleans helicopter pilot who flew over the Strella de Venezuela and said he saw many corpses littering the deck.
Nick Lea - A spokesman for the New Orleans police.
Guard - A musuem guard assigned to the secure storage area. Smithback distracts him while Margo sneaks in.
Ridley A. Davis - The museum's founder.
Executive Secretary - Wright's executive secretary.
Special Agent Spencer Coffey - An FBI agent from the New York field office who dislikes Pendergast. Turns out to be colossally stupid and makes decisions that get several people killed, including an entire SWAT team. He's relieved of command and reassigned to desk duty to Waco following the monster's death.
Special Agent Slade - An FBI agent who accompanies Coffey. Takes over from him after the governor relieves him of operational command.
Chief Horlocker - NYPD chief.
Mayor Harper - The Mayor of New York City. Survives the attack by accompanying D'Agosta and others through the old museum tunnels.
Martini - A museum guard. Killed during the stampede following the discovery of Beauregard's corpse.
Technician - A computer technician in the systems operations room. Waters doesn't know his name and just calls him "the geek." After the blackout, he hides in the security control room with Waters, Garcia and others and survives thanks to Margo and Pendergast.
Officer John Bailey - A police officer who survives the initial attack and accompanies D'Agosta and Mayor Harper through the tunnels, and dies heroically fending the pursuing monster off.
SWAT Team Commander - The leader of an NYPD SWAT team sent in to kill the Museum Beast and rescue survivors. He fails at both and he and almost all of his men are slaughtered by the beast.
Woman - A guest who drowns in the sewer. She's the only member of D'Agosta and Harper's party to get killed besides Bailey.
Officer Garcia - A police officer assigned to the security control room. Gets saved from the Mbwun by Margo and Pendergast.
Nesbitt - A museum guard who hides in the control room with Waters, Garcia, the "geek" and others and survives.
Tom Alan - The designer of the museum's security system. Hides in the control room with Waters, Garcia and the others and survives.
Tony - A drug addict who buys "Glaze" from Greg.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 4, 2021 19:14:26 GMT
Relic is an entertaining novel, much better than the movie. I always entertained the idea to read more of the Pendergast novels, but I gathered that they went fast to the serial killer theme coupled with complicated family plots which I am not very interested in.
But Relic at least paints a fascinating picture of the behind the scenes work of the museum. For anybody interested in such things it is a wonderful story, while the sf or weird mystery scenes are low key enough to not make everything too far out. And it manages to take full advantage of its setting.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 4, 2021 19:28:51 GMT
I always entertained the idea to read more of the Pendergast novels, but I gathered that they went fast to the serial killer theme coupled with complicated family plots which I am not very interested in. This is not quite correct. I just read the latest one, BLOODLESS, which involves the famous unsolved mystery of "D B Cooper," time travel, and monsters from other dimensions. I am not saying the Pendergast novels are good, necessarily, but I can think of only one that features a serial killer. The best Pendergast novel is BRIMSTONE, and might be a good place for you to pick up the series again, should you nevertheless decide to do so. |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 4, 2021 22:29:58 GMT
I always entertained the idea to read more of the Pendergast novels, but I gathered that they went fast to the serial killer theme coupled with complicated family plots which I am not very interested in. This is not quite correct. I just read the latest one, BLOODLESS, which involves the famous unsolved mystery of "D B Cooper," time travel, and monsters from other dimensions. I am not saying the Pendergast novels are good, necessarily, but I can think of only one that features a serial killer. The best Pendergast novel is BRIMSTONE, and might be a good place for you to pick up the series again, should you nevertheless decide to do so. Thanks for the info.
"D. B. Cooper"? Really? I don't get the fascination with this case. I have seen quite a few crime shows which used the story and I never thought this mystery terribly interesting.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Sept 4, 2021 23:24:18 GMT
"D. B. Cooper"? Really? I don't get the fascination with this case. I have seen quite a few crime shows which used the story and I never thought this mystery terribly interesting. [/div][/quote] I suppose it's because he was never caught or identified. Like Jack the Ripper people like the mystery. Also it's a strange crime and so unlikely, it's a daredevil thing to do, or crazy if you want to be more honest. Jack the Ripper has some mad theories as to who did it, such as royals; Walter Sickert the painter, because he painted women naked on beds with men nearby, and was interested in the killings; and a noble man like Doctor Barnardo, because he talked to prostitutes in the area where the killings occurred. Some woman even said it was her ancestor, as if you'd want to be proud of that, because he had a milk round there, and moved house around the times the killings stopped. |
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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 8, 2021 2:01:25 GMT
Relicis an entertaining novel, much better than the movie. I agree, although I still enjoyed the movie. Even if it made a lot of pointless changes (a lot of character omissions and name changes, including what the monster is called). I love Tom Sizemore as D'Agosta. He makes a great monster-hunting detective. And the scene of the SWAT team getting slaughtered is the stuff of nightmares and one of the few improvements over the book (where their deaths aren't explicitly described), even if the one guy's melodramatic scream to the heavens is hilariously over the top. The final guy to die screaming desperately to be pulled to safety as the Kothoga slowly climbs the wall towards him is super suspenseful and I really felt his terror, which more than made up for the aforementioned goofy anguished scream of his comrades when they only pull out his upper half. Speaking of the attack scene in the exhibit, everyone who is in that room is accounted for except the Blaisedales. Parkinson, McNally and that asshole Greg all get, followed by almost the entire SWAT team. The last two guys we know survive because the Kothoga for some reason refuses to leave the museum even to get them on the roof. But Mr. and Mrs. Blaisedale just vanish into the ether between when McNally and Greg get killed. I get the feeling that a lot got cut from The Relic (including the entire original ending, which caused the movie to be delayed until the following year because they had to film an entirely new ending) and I'm assuming they figured seeing an elderly couple get killed would've pushing the envelope too far. There's also the dead guard who drops from the ceiling in the Superstition exhibit much like Fred Beauregard in the novel... except whereas the novel establishes Beauregard as missing, I don't remember the movie ever establishing that a guard had disappeared prior to the exhibit scene where he drops in. And although I saw the movie first and liked it, I have to say the absence of certain characters is really felt, Pendergast in particular. To say nothing of Wright. We see the museum's public relations manager (Ian Cuthbert and Lavinia Rickman combined into one character) and chief of security (Ippolito pointlessly renamed to Tom Parkinson), but never the director(s). And although there's a Coffey equivalent in the (as far as I know) unnamed guy in the trenchcoat who takes command of the police situation outside the museum, nothing is ever done with the character, even though in the novel the disastrous idea to send the SWAT team in completely unprepared was entirely the result of Coffey refusing to listen to Pendergast and D'Agosta and believing simple machine pistols and assault rifles would hurt the monster. And although the way the story was adapted made him superfluous, I definitely missed Smithback, the king of snark. I always entertained the idea to read more of the Pendergast novels, but I gathered that they went fast to the serial killer theme coupled with complicated family plots which I am not very interested in. Yeah... I've heard that, too. I've ordered a copy of the sequel, Reliquary, because it seems like it'll still involve a monster or monsters, but I'm not really interested in any of the further novels. As much as I like Pendergast and D'Agosta as a crime-solving team, I'm not terribly interested in serial killers. At least not in a book series who first installments got the ball rolling with honest-to-goodness monsters. This is not quite correct. I just read the latest one, BLOODLESS, which involves the famous unsolved mystery of "D B Cooper," time travel, and monsters from other dimensions. I am not saying the Pendergast novels are good, necessarily, but I can think of only one that features a serial killer. The best Pendergast novel is BRIMSTONE, and might be a good place for you to pick up the series again, should you nevertheless decide to do so. Hmm, it appears I was misinformed. Perhaps I will give some of the later Pendergast adventures, Bloodless and Brimstone in particular, a look sometime. |
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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 9, 2021 12:25:35 GMT
PHANTOMS
(WIP)
by Dean Koontz
Deputy Paul Henderson - A sheriff's deputy in Snowfield. Killed during the Ancient Enemy's initial appearance. Jenny and Lisa find him dead in the sheriff's substation.
Dr. Jennifer Paige - A doctor living in Snowfield. She and her sister Lisa return to town to find it having been entirely depopulated mysteriously.
Lisa Paige - Jenny's younger sister.
Hilda Beck - Jenny's housekeeper. Jenny and Lisa find her dead in the kitchen, a victim of the Ancient Enemy.
Mrs. Paige - Jenny and Lisa's mother, who was found dead in a manner similar to Hilda.
Lieutenant Talbert Whitman - A lieutenant with the Santa Mira sheriff's office and Bryce Hammond's best friend.
Sheriff Bryce Hammond - The sheriff of Santa Mira County. He ends up being in charge of the police response to the mass disappearance in Snowfield.
Ellen Hammond - Bryce's wife. She was killed in a violent car crash.
Timmy Hammond - Bryce's son. He was in the same car crash as Ellen but survived and lingers in a coma.
Fletcher Kale - A real estate agent who murdered his wife and son. Worships the Ancient Enemy as a god, believing it to be Satan. Dies of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Joanna Kale - Kale's wife. He killed her to frame her for their son's murder.
Danny Kale - Kale's son. He killed him for his life insurance money.
Jakob Liebermann - A baker. He was killed by the Ancient Enemy who left his severed hands behind and put his and his wife's heads in the oven.
Eida Liebermann - Jakob's wife. She was beheaded along with her husband and their heads put in the oven.
LIGHTNING
(WIP)
by Dean Koontz
Laura Shane - The daughter of Bob and Janet Shane. Her rough life is made easier by outside help from a mysterious man named Stefan.
Dr. Paul Markwell - A doctor with a drinking problem. He is prevented from helping Janet give birth to Laura at gunpoint by Stefan for fear that he would botch the procedure and kill the baby.
Lenny Markwell - Dr. Markwell's son, who died of polio.
Dr. Henry Yamatta - A doctor at County Medical.
Dr. Herb Carlson - The doctor who delivers Laura instead of Markwell.
Stefan Krieger - A mysterious man who keeps appearing throughout Laura's life in an effort to make it better.
Bob Shane - Laura's father. He dies of a heart attack when she is a young child.
Janet Shane - Laura's mother. She dies giving birth to her.
Nurse Ella Hanlow - A nurse at County Medical who assists in Laura's birth.
Nurse Virginia Keene - Another nurse at County Medical.
Anna Markwell - Dr. Markwell's wife who divorced him due to his drinking.
Heinrich Kokoschka - A mysterious man who is always shadowing Stefan.
Sir Thomas Toad - A character Bob makes up to entertain his daughter.
Junkie - A criminal who tries to rob the Shanes' grocery store and rape Laura. Shot in the head by Stefan.
Viktor - A guard at the Institute.
Cora Lance - A woman who runs a beauty parlor near the Shanes' grocery. She attends Bob's funeral and comforts Laura.
Anita Passadopolis - Another family friend of the Shanes'. She also attends Bob's funeral.
Minister - The priest who performs the service at Bob's funeral.
Tom Lance - Cora's husband.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 17, 2022 19:32:25 GMT
I always entertained the idea to read more of the Pendergast novels, but I gathered that they went fast to the serial killer theme coupled with complicated family plots which I am not very interested in. This is not quite correct. I just read the latest one, BLOODLESS, which involves the famous unsolved mystery of "D B Cooper," time travel, and monsters from other dimensions. I am not saying the Pendergast novels are good, necessarily, but I can think of only one that features a serial killer. The best Pendergast novel is BRIMSTONE, and might be a good place for you to pick up the series again, should you nevertheless decide to do so. The latest Preston and Child novel (not in the Pendergast series), DIABLO MESA, has this dedication: To Montague Rhodes James, O.M., in appreciation QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT? |
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