List of Friday the 13th characters

***Friday the 13th*** is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books. The main antagonist in the series is Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence of the teenage counselors. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, either as the killer or as the motivation for the killings. Each entry in the series features a different cast of characters, including a final girl who defeats the killer in the end. Recurring characters in the series include Jason's vengeful mother Pamela Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis, Alice Hardy and Crazy Ralph.

## Recurring cast and characters

**Note:** A gray cell indicates the character did not appear in that film.
**Note:** \* indicates the character appeared in a flashback.
**Note:** (h) indicates the character appeared as a hallucination.

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### Abel

**Abel** is portrayed in *Friday the 13th Part III* who picks up where Crazy Ralph left off by warning off teenagers who venture into the area of Camp Crystal Lake. He is met briefly as Chris Higgins nearly runs him over with her van as he is laying in the middle of the road. He thanks the teens for their compassion and kindness, then claims that "he" (Jason) had given him a token to warn off any who venture into the area. He reveals the gift as a disembodied eyeball which suddenly frightens the kids who drive off and leave him behind as he continues to proclaim his warning. He is never seen again.

### Alice Hardy

**Alice L. Hardy** is the protagonist of the film *Friday the 13th*, played by Adrienne King. She is one of seven camp counselors hired by Steve Christy, with whom she is in a romantic relationship, to reopen and work at Camp Crystal Lake. On Friday the 13th, the counselors are murdered one-by-one by a prowler. Alice is eventually left alone, the sole survivor, and is discovered by Pamela Voorhees. Mrs. Voorhees explains to Alice how her young son Jason drowned at the camp several years ago, and reveals herself to be the killer. After a long chase and a brief struggle, Alice is finally able to decapitate Mrs. Voorhees with a machete, before passing out in a canoe on the lake. There, she suffers a nightmare in which Jason's decayed corpse drags her underwater. When the police arrive and she tells them her story, they explain that they did not find a boy, to which she replies "Then he's still there..." Alice makes a brief reappearance in the opening scene of *Friday the 13th Part 2*, where she is stabbed in the temple in her apartment by an adult Jason Voorhees, who evidently survived his childhood drowning and had tracked her down. Later in the movie, Paul explains how Alice went missing and blood was found in her apartment. Her decomposed body is later seen in Jason's shack. Alice also appears in a flashback in *Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter,* and in the beginning of the 2009 remake of the original film when she beheads Pamela Voorhees.

Alice's backstory is expanded upon in the novelization of *Friday the 13th*, which reveals she has a boyfriend named John in California and that her father was neglectful workaholic who, due to stress, died of a heart attack while at his office. This backstory is contradicted in the novelization of the second film, which states Alice's father is still alive, also mentioning that Jason had tracked Alice down to her apartment by memorizing what her car looked like when she had made a visit to the camp. In the novel *Friday the 13th: The Jason Strain*, Jason witnesses a holographic projection of Pamela being attacked by a soldier and suffers a hallucination which causes him to perceive the soldier as Alice, while the novel *Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs* adapts Alice's battle with Pamela as its prologue, and also features an appearance by her corpse which is found in Jason's shack by Glo and her friends and later, the police. Alice makes a cameo appearance in the sixth and final issue of Wildstorm's *Friday the 13th* comic series, in a flashback depicting Jason's attack on her from the first film. The second issue of the comic miniseries *Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale* by Wildstorm also features a cameo appearance by Alice, depicting the scene from the first film when she first meets Mrs. Voorhees.

Although always the heroine, Alice was originally scripted as a slightly less sympathetic character than seen in the final cut of the first film. In early drafts, she was having an affair with a married man on the West Coast, which was the reason her relationship with Steve Christy is deteriorating and she wants to leave Crystal Lake. Adrienne King claims she played the character as a traditional horror movie character, stating "I think that Alice is a great scream queen heroine. You got the feeling that Alice could handle anything which, in a way, she could". She also expresses regret that, due to the nature of horror movies, audiences never got to see more of Alice's relationship with Steve, or what could have happened between her and fellow counsellor, Bill. Rather than viewing the character as a victim, King describes the role as an "empowering position" due to her survival in the film. Steve Miner, director of *Part 2*, says "Alice was a very special character: she was the hero of the first film and indestructible in a way. It was important that she be killed off in a dramatic way because this is Jason's film and avenging the death of his mother is what motivates him." Because the character displayed an artistic side in the first film, production designer Virginia Field included various sketches in her apartment in order to show that Alice was a "real person". She says, "It didn't seem like a big deal at the time we were filming, but I knew that Alice liked to draw and I wanted to show evidence of that." Adrienne King felt that killing her character was somewhat unusual since she had survived so much in the original film. She claims Alice's death was done in such a way to leave the door open for a possible return, but does not know how she could have survived an icepick through the head.

Alice's decayed corpse appears as a part of the model of Jason's shrine to his mother NECA has released. Mezco Toyz has also released a screen grab statuette of Alice, which depicts the hallucination of Jason attacking her from the ending of *Friday the 13th*. Alice Hardy was Jason Voorhees's first murder victim, yet he murdered her in her house, not at the Crystal Lake Campground.

### Alice Jane Witney

**Alice Jane Witney** is a character in the novel *Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs*. The daughter of George Arthur Witney, the owner of a traveling carnival called Doktor Geistmann's Carnival of Terror, Alice loathes her life, believing the carnival has ruined any chance she has for a better life. After the carnival is run out of Crystal Lake by the superstitious locals, Alice, while driving an RV drunk, runs over Jason Voorhees. Jason, weakened due to his battle with Freddy Krueger, is knocked out after being hit and is collected by Alice and the other carnival workers, who decide to use him as the newest sideshow attraction. While setting up the Jason display in a town, Alice learns from fellow carnival worker Kenton Freely that her mother had hated the carnival and that her father had lied to her - Alice's mother did not die in a carnival accident, she had actually died when George stabbed her to death after finding her and Kenton together; Kenton had been blackmailing George with this information, so he could embezzle from the carnival and eventually take it over. Devastated by this news, Alice, becoming drunk, steals a laptop from one of the carnies and uses it to put Jason up for sale on an internet auction site called ZingBid. Passing out after putting Jason up for auction, Alice awakens to find Jason rampaging through the carnival, having woken after a teenage girl named Glo, who had been possessed by Pamela Voorhees, came in proximity to him. After he kills the Pamela-possessed Glo, Jason falls comatose again and is taken by Alice, who drives away from the ruined carnival. Despite losing her laptop and being attacked by FBI agents and Jason when he briefly revives, Alice manages to reach a computer and successfully sells Jason to a shock rocker named Ross Feratu for five million dollars. *Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs* ends with Alice relaxing in a resort in the Caribbean, enjoying her new wealth.

### Andy

* Appears in *Friday the 13th Part III*

**Andy** is Chris Higgins Friend as well as Chuck, Chilli, Vera, and Shelly and boyfriend of Debbie. At Higgins Haven Andy gets into a juggling challenge with Shelly and Debbie walks up to him and tells him there are better things he could be doing with his hands. Andy forfeits and leaves Shelly to his juggling while he and Debbie go upstairs. They have sex in Chris' old room for some time until Debbie gets up to take a shower. Andy handstands his way into the bathroom, asking if she wants a beer, to which she accepts. Andy is soon killed when Jason walks up to him while he handstands, and slices him in half with his machete. His halves are soon wedged in the rafters of Chris' room.

### Annie

Is a character that appeared in the original *Friday the 13th* film. **Annie** is a young woman who hitch hikes her way to Camp Crystal Lake because she was hired to work as the camp cook. At some point, she stops in a diner and one of the locals known as Enos, agrees to drive her part of the way to the camp and offers her some warning. He informs her about the two counselors, Barry and Claudette, who were murdered in 1958 as well as about fires and water contamination that occurred after the deaths of the two counselors. Despite all of the warnings, Annie refuses to believe them. Eventually Annie is picked up by someone else whose identity is not revealed. During the second car ride, Annie tells the driver that she really likes children when she suddenly notices that they drove past the camp. Annie then opens the passenger door and jumps out of the car. However, the unknown driver stops alongside the road and pursues Annie in the woods. After a brief chase scene, the unknown driver of the car finds Annie and slits her throat. Later in the film, Annie's corpse is discovered by Alice Hardy inside the car of Pamela Voorhees.

### Ash Williams

*Main article: Ash Williams*
**Ashley J. Williams** is the main character of the *Evil Dead* series, played by Bruce Campbell. An employee of the supermarket S-Mart, he discovers his destiny as the "Chosen One" while vacationing at a cabin in the woods, where he and his friends raise the demonic "deadites" after reading from the *Necronomicon*. Ash's friends are killed, and he loses his right hand to the deadites, which he replaces with a chainsaw. Ash's first appearance in the *Friday the 13th* series is the crossover comic *Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash*, in which he arrives at Crystal Lake to work at the town's S-Mart. Learning the legend of Jason Voorhees, he becomes convinced that Jason is some kind of deadite and travels to the Voorhees house to find and destroy the *Necronomicon*.

Ash faces Jason again in the comic miniseries, *Freddy vs Jason vs Ash: The Nightmare Warriors*.

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### Barry

**Barry** (Willie Adams) is a character in the original film. He was a camp counselor at Camp Crystal Lake during the summer of 1958 and was the boyfriend of Claudette, a fellow counselor. After singing with the other counselors around a campfire, he and his girlfriend snuck away and secretly entered a cabin used for storage to have sex. Unbeknownst to the two teens, Pamela Voorhees was lurking and watching them. Eventually Pamela Voorhees came out of hiding and interrupted the teens. Barry attempted to convince her that they were just horsing around, but Pamela Voorhees stabbed him in the abdomen and he died shortly thereafter. Little information is given about this character, but he is notable for being the first murder victim of the entire series.

### Big Red Gleason

**Big Red Gleason** is a character in the novel *Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse*. An inhabitant of the Crystal Lake area, Big Red, due to abuse suffered at the hands of his family has several mental and physical handicaps, such as a missing eye and leg. While fishing in Crystal Lake, Big Red discovers the hockey mask of Jason Voorhees and puts it on, which places him under the influence of Jason's soul. Setting out to kill all those he perceives as having hurt him, Big Red kills various members of his family before beginning to murder a group of teenagers who have come to Camp Crystal Lake in search of Jason. After all her friends are murdered, Kelly Boone, despite being severally injured, manages to kill Big Red, shooting and impaling him before managing to hack him apart with an axe. Unlike the other characters influenced by Jason, Big Red retains some level of his humanity, showing hesitation and unease about his actions several times.

Eric Morse, the author of *Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse*, has stated that Big Red "came about because I wanted to explore the world of the abused child getting revenge on those who hurt him". He also views Big Red as the opposite of Jason; whereas Jason grew up with loving parents, Big Red was raised by abusive and apathetic ones.

### Butch Mahan

**Butch "The Butcher" Mahan** is a character in the novel *Friday the 13th: The Jason Strain*. A champion ultimate cage fighter, Butch, after being framed for a double homicide, is put on death row and disowned by his mentor and adoptive father. While in prison, Butch is approached by media mogul Caleb Carson, who convinces him to compete as one of twelve contestants on his death sport reality show *Extreme Elimination 2*, promising Butch that if he wins the game Caleb will help him prove he was innocent of the murders he was imprisoned for. While on the Costa Rican island where *Extreme Elimination 2* is set, Butch befriends fellow contestants Alexandra Coyle and Valkyrie Randall and together, the trio escape the island with a group of soldiers after a zombie plague spread by Jason Voorhees, a "special guest" on *Extreme Elimination 2* who, after being exposed to an artificial virus, begins to emit a reanimating plague that causes his victims to come back as the undead. After Valkyrie and the soldiers are killed either by zombies or Jason, who had reached mainland, Butch and Alex reach the compound of the soldiers' boss, Dr. Helen Cain, the person who accidentally created the "Jason Strain" virus while trying to artificially recreate Jason's apparent immortality. Using holographic technology developed by Dr. Cain, Butch and Alex manage to capture Jason by making him believe Alex is Pamela Voorhees and take him to Dr. Cain's compound, where a cure for the Jason Strain (which will not affect Jason, but will kill the infected and immunize the living) is being released into the air. Upon reaching the compound, Butch and Alex find Dr. Cain dying, having been shot repeatedly by soldiers working for Caleb Carson, who still believes he can salvage what is left of *Extreme Elimination 2*. Before being captured by Caleb's soldiers, Butch manages to obtain the dosage of the Jason Strain cure meant to rid Jason of his plague spreading abilities from Dr. Cain. Put on a plane set for America, Butch, after Jason breaks free of his restraints and begins to kill everyone on the plane, learns from Caleb that he was the one who actually ordered the double homicide Butch was imprisoned for. Giving Alex a recording of Caleb's confession, Butch has her jump out of the plane with a parachute while he stabs Jason in the eye with the syringe containing the cure for the Jason Strain before the plane crashes, removing Jason's ability to reanimate his victims. With Butch dead, Alex honors his last request, giving the tape containing Caleb's confession to Butch's adoptive father.

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### Carly McDonnell

**Carly McDonnell** is a character in the novel *Friday the 13th: Mother's Day*. After the death of her father when she was a toddler, Carly is left alone with her overprotective mother, who shelters her constantly. Going on a trip with her friends and her boyfriend Billy Boone to Camp Crystal Lake on a Friday the 13th, Carly and her friends are at first oblivious to the legends surrounding the place, only being told about the Voorhees family en route to the camp. It is there that Carly encounters Joe Travers, a hunter who kills all her friends while under the influence of Jason Voorhees' hockey mask and the reanimated head of Pamela Voorhees. After several attempts to flee from Joe and Pamela fail, Carly fights back, stabbing Joe to death before using his own shotgun to blast Pamela's head apart. After killing Joe and Pamela, Carly tears Jason's mask from his face and tosses it into a stream.

A minor mention of Carly is made in the novel *Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse*, which reveals that after her experience at Camp Crystal Lake, she has managed to get her life back on track, having gotten into Harvard University.

### Caroline

**Caroline** is a character in the six-issue comic miniseries *Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash* by Wildstorm. A resident of Crystal Lake and employee in the town's new Super Mega Ultra Warehouse Sized S-Mart, Caroline wishes to leave Crystal Lake, believing the town to be too boring and uneventful. When Ash Williams is transferred to the S-Mart, Caroline (who Ash refers to as "Carrie"), unlike her fellow employees, believes the stories he tells about having fought evil entities. After Ash tells Caroline about his various adventures, Caroline tells him about Jason Voorhees, who Ash surmises is a Deadite, an old enemy of his. When citizens of Crystal Lake begin to be murdered by Jason, who has been sent out by Freddy Krueger to find the *Necronomicon Ex-Mortis*, Ash travels to the old Voorhees house, believing the *Necronomicon* could be there, not knowing Caroline is following him. When Ash, who finds the *Necronomicon* in the Voorhees's basement, and girl named Bree are attacked by Jason, Caroline saves the two, ramming Jason with her car and taking Ash and Bree to the S-Mart. Shortly after reaching the S-Mart, Jason, who had followed the trio, enters the store and, after killing several shoppers and store employees, knocks Ash unconscious and murders Bree, taking the *Necronomicon* from her; Jason brings the book to Freddy, who uses it not only to free himself from Jason's mind and increase Jason's intelligence, but also give himself reality warping powers. After Ash regains consciousness, Caroline helps him reclaim the *Necronomicon*, after narrowly escaping both Freddy and Jason on several occasions. Together, Ash and Caroline open a portal to the Deadites' dimension and send both Freddy and the *Necronomicon* there, also trapping Jason under the ice of Crystal Lake.

In *Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors*, set six months after the events of the first miniseries, Caroline has gone steady with Ash and the two have lived together in Franklin, Michigan ever since defeating Freddy and Jason. While preparing for a backyard barbecue in June with family and friends Caroline is killed by Jason while Ash is at the store getting refreshments. When Ash returns home he finds Caroline's body pinned to the wall and her severed head burning on the grill.

### Charles McCulloch

**Charles McCulloch** is a character in *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan* portrayed by Peter Mark Richman. A Biology teacher at Lakeview High School, McCulloch is a chaperone aboard the S.S. Lazarus; a ship bound for New York City for a senior class trip. Much to his chagrin, his coworker Colleen Van Deusen brings his niece Rennie along, who has a strong fear of the water. He spends most of his time focusing on delinquent popular girl Tamara Mason, who has shrugged off his final report and threatens that she will not graduate or visit New York without a proper report. She uses the report as an excuse to trap him in a compromising position recorded by Wayne Webber, though he is disgusted by the fact he realizes he can't do anything as the evidence can still be construed that he is guilty. He ignores a deckhand's warning that Jason Voorhees is on board killing his students stating that "Walking Corpses don't Exist" and he thinks the deckhand is responsible for the murders until he discovers him dead from an axe to his back. McCulloch, Van Deusen, Rennie, Seah Robertson and Julius Gaw escape the Lazarus before it sinks into the sea. Finding their way to New York by sexton, the group is shortly thereafter mugged by a pair of punks who kidnap Rennie and he advises they split up. McCulloch gets the police and shortly after reunites with Sean, Rennie and Van Deusen before discovering Julius' disembodied head in the police patrol car. After the policeman is taken, Rennie gets into the front seat and tries to drive, smashing the car into a light post. Van Deusen is immolated in the car when it explodes, but the fire makes Rennie remember that McCulloch was responsible for her fear of the water, by forcing her into deep water to learn how to swim. Disgusted, Sean and Rennie leave him behind and Jason recovers from being hit by the police car. Still not believing Jason to be real, McCulloch runs from him, he is thrown from a window then cornered by Jason who then stuffs McCulloch in a slime and water filled barrel, and he is drowned.

### Chelsea

**Chelsea** is a character in *Friday the 13th* (2009), played by Willa Ford. She joins Trent and the others for a fun filled weekend at Trent's parent's summer home on Crystal Lake. After passing the time playing some games and drinking, she along with Nolan decide to go down to the lake and do some wakeboarding. As Nolan drives the boat, a topless Chelsea loses her balance while performing a jump and falls into the lake. As Nolan turns the boat around to go and pick her up, he is suddenly shot in the head with an arrow, causing his body to fall forward onto the throttle, increasing the boats speed. Chelsea (who is oblivious to what just happened), watches as the boat comes towards her, realizing too late as the boat runs over her, Chelsea suffering a head injury. As she comes to, a panic stricken Chelsea calls out to Nolan, scanning the lake for any sign of him or the boat. Suddenly her eyes find Jason standing in the woods on the banks of the lake, watching her. A terrified Chelsea begins to swim away from him towards shore, screaming out for help as she goes. She finally emerges from under the water, finding herself under the dock at the shoreline but before she can get out, Jason appears and walks out onto the dock. Chelsea half submerges herself in the water to keep Jason from hearing her, and it appears to work as Jason is shown walking off the dock and out of Chelsea's sight. She starts to relax when suddenly a machete bursts through the dock and directly into the top of Chelsea's head. Her body is lifted slightly out of the water as Jason pulls out his machete, and Chelsea's body falling back into the water. Her body is never shown after.

In an interview, the writers revealed that they had actually written a different scene involving Willa Ford's character. Originally after spotting Jason on the shoreline, her character would end up treading water for hours and hours, afraid of heading to shore. She eventually would tire and drown, which was something that the writers had not seen in this genre of movie. Ultimately they decided to make the death more quick and "visceral".

### Chewie

**Chewie** is a character in *Friday the 13th* (2009), played by Aaron Yoo. He joins Trent and others for a fun filled weekend at Trent's parent's summer home on Crystal Lake. After reaching the Sutton's summer home, Chewie passes the time getting stoned and playing games with Trent, Bree, and his best friend Lawrence. When night falls he tries to impress Bree with a flaming shot, but ends up burning his lip and breaking a chair. Apologizing profusely and claiming he can fix the chair with some tools Chewie is directed to the tool shed alone by the seething Trent. Upon seeing the size of the shed, instead of getting to work goofs off, drinking from Mr. Sutton's private beer stock and playing with some sports equipment left lying around. After accidentally breaking a light fixture with a hockey stick Chewie bumps into Jason. Knocked around by Jason the frantic Chewie tries to defend himself with a screwdriver he grabs off the wall, only for it to be turned against him by Jason, who stabs Chewie under the chin with it. Killing Chewie by driving the screwdriver deeper and deeper into his skull Jason afterward hangs Chewie's body from the ceiling, with it later swinging down and hitting Lawrence when he goes looking for his friend.

### Chris Higgins

**Chris Higgins** is a character in *Friday the 13th Part III*, played by Dana Kimmell. A teenage girl who lives in the Crystal Lake area, she returns to her home three years after a traumatic event occurred there. It is later revealed through flashback that Chris survived an attack by a disfigured man who turns out to be Jason Voorhees. Jason, who is still living in the forest, attacks her again at her summer home and murders her friends. Chris manages to hit Jason in the head with an axe, before suffering a hallucination of Mrs. Voorhees dragging her into the lake, similar to the ending of the first *Friday the 13th*. She is then taken away by the police, severely traumatized.

In the opening sequence of Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (which takes place the day after Part 3), a mother is seen consoling her daughter in a hospital waiting room. Since the daughter is only seen from behind, the probable implication is that she is Chris.

In an alternate ending of *Friday the 13th Part III*, Chris' fate is changed; after hearing her boyfriend Rick's voice while canoeing to safety, Chris follows it to a cabin, only to be dismembered by Jason, who is waiting inside.

In the 1982 novelization of the film, Chris, instead of striking Jason with an axe, decapitates him with a sickle, later falling unconscious and awakening in her own bed, with it being implicated by an attending doctor and police officer that the events of the previous night were simply delusions. Sneaking out of her room and to her barn after being left alone, Chris discovers both the place completely cleaned up and the bodies of her friends and the trio of bikers Jason had killed. After discovering the bodies, Chris is killed by Jason. The scene then shifts to the police officer who was guarding Chris who, after waking from a nap, enters Chris's room and finds her sleeping peacefully; after checking in on Chris, the officer listens to a radio broadcast that mentions the shopkeepers Jason had murdered earlier in the book, but makes no reference to any events having transpired at Higgins Haven.

Dana Kimmell has said that she only took the role of Chris due to the paycheck, stating she felt uncomfortable working on the movie, persuading executive producer Frank Mancuso to alter or remove several scenes involving gratuitous sexual or violent material. Her reason for taking the role is similar to that of Ted White taking the role of Jason in *Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter*.

### Claudette

**Claudette** (Debra S. Hayes) is a character in the original **Friday the 13th** film. She was a counselor working at Camp Crystal Lake during the summer of 1958 and was Barry's girlfriend. After having sung a camp fire song with the other counselors, she snuck away with her boyfriend to have sex privately in a cabin that was used for storage. Unbeknownst to them at the time, Pamela Voorhees was lurking and watching. She eventually interrupted the two teens and killed Barry first. Claudette was left alone, screaming and pleading for her life. Despite attempts to defend herself and run past her assailant, she was ultimately cornered and killed off-screen by Pamela. Little else is known about her, except that she is the second murder victim of the entire series.

### Clay Miller

**Clay Miller** is the male protagonist in *Friday the 13th* (2009), played by Jared Padalecki. Clay comes to Crystal Lake searching for his missing sister, Whitney, who is attacked by Jason Voorhees early in the movie. The Crystal Lake locals have given up searching for Whitney, who has not been seen for six weeks, and advise Clay to look for her somewhere else. Undeterred, Clay eventually meets a group of college students vacationing in the woods, and befriends one of them, a girl named Jenna. Jenna decides to aid Clay in his investigation of Camp Crystal Lake, but while searching the camp grounds, they witness Jason Voorhees hauling a dead body. The pair escape to warn Jenna's friends, but Jason follows them and kills the other students. Clay and Jenna eventually wind up back at the camp, where they discover Whitney alive in Jason's underground lair. As the three make their way through the tunnels, Jason murders Jenna, leaving only Clay and his sister alive. The siblings take refuge in a barn, where Jason catches up with them. Whitney uses her resemblance to Jason's mother to distract the killer long enough to stab him with his own machete. She and Clay then dispose of his body in the lake, only to be attacked once more.

Jared Padalecki describes his character as a real hero, because when his sister goes missing he sets out "to do the right thing", and tends to go about it as this "lone wolf" who wants to take on this responsibility of finding his sister himself.

### Crazy Ralph

**Crazy Ralph** is a character from both *Friday the 13th* and *Friday the 13th Part 2*, played by Walt Gorney. A man who lives in the Crystal Lake area, Ralph rides around on his bicycle telling people to stay away from Camp Crystal Lake (which he refers to as Camp Blood) or they will be killed, claiming he was a messenger sent by God to warn people of the campground's "death curse", always saying "Doomed. You're all doomed!" Ralph is murdered in *Friday the 13th Part 2* by Jason Voorhees, who strangles him with a length of barbed wire and stuffs his body in a pantry, where Ginny Field discovers him.

Two other characters have had a Crazy Ralph-type role. In *Friday the 13th Part III*, the main characters encounter an old drifter named Abel (David Wiley) while travelling to Higgins Haven. Abel carries around an eyeball which he views as an "omen" and warns the group to "Go back from whence ye came!" In *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*, an unnamed deck hand (Alex Diakun) of the *Lazarus*, having seen Jason climb aboard, attempts to warn the crew and passengers of the ship about him (stating "This voyage is doomed! Doomed!") but is dismissed as insane and later, when people aboard the ship are found dead, is accused of being the killer. The deck hand is later killed by Jason with a fire axe to the back.

In the novel *Jason X: Death Moon*, a character named Tobe Cunningham is hired to portray Ralph on Moon Camp Americana, a job which entails warning new arrivals to the Moon Camp about Jason and telling them to stay away from the woods and lake. Tobe is murdered by Jason in a manner almost identical to Ralph's death, being strangled with barbed wire, which is later used to decapitate him. In the later novel *Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat* a farmer named Jack Flanahan recalls an encounter he had with Ralph on a stormy night, nearly shooting him by accident when he found Ralph skulking about his property, ranting about how he "knew what was going on under the lake". Ralph also makes a cameo appearance in the two-issue comic series *Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale* by Wildstorm, which features the scene, from the first film, of him warning Annie and Enos not to go Camp Crystal Lake.

Victor Miller claims that "the function of Crazy Ralph is to set the tone for this horrible geographic area." Miller also states that in the original screenplay for *Friday the 13th*, Ralph was known as "Ralphie the Rat Boy" and describes the character as "one of those crazies you see in *Deliverance*, a demented person who knows the truth, a character who gives you the sense that the world you're in is not what it seems, a soothsayer right out of Shakespeare. Most people think people like Ralphie are nuts, but they are closer to reality in some ways than the 'normies'."

Ralph is featured in the third installment of IGN's Obscure Character of the Day feature, which has him referred to as the "unsung hero of the slasher movie genre".

### Creighton Duke

**Creighton Duke** is a character in *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday*, played by Steven Williams. An anti-heroic bounty hunter who styles himself like a cowboy, Creighton witnesses Jason Voorhees being blown apart by the FBI, but remains unconvinced that Jason is truly dead. After several murders are committed in a style similar to Jason's, Creighton is hired by talk show host Robert Campbell to hunt down and kill Jason. Before going to search for Jason, Creighton attempts to warn Jason's half-sister Diana that Jason will be searching for her, but is arrested by Diana's boyfriend, the sheriff, for harassing her. While in jail, Creighton meets Steven Freeman, the ex-boyfriend of Diana's daughter Jessica who has been blamed for Jason's murder of Diana. Creighton tells Steven that Jason will be looking for Jessica because; if he manages to possess her he can recreate his body. Creighton later escapes his jail cell when a Jason-possessed Robert Campbell goes on a rampage at the police station while looking for Jessica. Going to the diner where Diana worked, Creighton abducts Stephanie, Steven and Jessica's infant daughter, and brings her to Pamela Voorhees's old house, leaving a note for Steven and Jessica telling them to meet him there. When Jessica and Steven arrive, Creighton gives Jessica a dagger, which he claims can kill Jason if it is used against him by someone of Voorhees descent. When Jason (who has possessed a local deputy) arrives at the Voorhees house, he finds and possesses Diana's body, which had earlier been moved to the house by Robert Campbell. Attempting to fight the newly resurrected Jason, Creighton dies when Jason breaks his back in a bear hug.

Creighton makes a cameo appearance in the 2003 novelization of *Freddy vs. Jason*. While in Hell, Jason, after impaling a girl to a tree with his machete, watches as she shifts into several mocking former victims of his, Creighton among them.

Creighton's original name was Anderson Duke. Additionally, cut dialogue was to reveal that Creighton's obsession with Jason stemmed from him witnessing Jason kill his girlfriend while the two were out boating on Crystal Lake. Adam Marcus, the director of *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday*, has said that he believes Creighton to be, after Jason, the best character in the *Friday the 13th* series, also stating Creighton "is the flip side of the Jason coin. A sadistic psychotic who happens to be sort of a hero or at least an enemy of Jason".

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### Davie Falkner

**Davie Falkner** is a character in the two-issue comic miniseries *Friday the 13th: How I Spent My Summer Vacation* by Wildstorm. A 13-year-old boy suffering from a disfiguring bone disorder called craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, Davie is sent to the Camp Crystal Lake adjacent Camp Piney Woods by his mother, despite his objections, in an attempt to have him interact with other children. While at the camp, Davie is relentlessly bullied by the other children who, one night, after telling him about Jason Voorhees, throw Davie in the lake. As Davie struggles to swim, Jason appears and proceeds to kill the other children, before spotting Davie. Instead of attacking Davie, Jason simply stares at him, only reacting when Davie flees from him along with two counselors. As Jason chases Davie and the counselors, the group runs into the local sheriff, Elroy P. Tanneyhill. Sheriff Tanneyhill, in a deranged state due having just used meth, opens fire on Davie and the counselors, killing the two counselors. As the sheriff approaches him, planning on killing him as well, Davie is grabbed by Jason, who leaves the scene and the sheriff. Unable to get away from Jason, Davie can only watch as he murders a group of police officers the two encounter before moving on, Davie slung over Jason's shoulder.

While held captive by Jason for nine days, Davie befriends him, after realizing Jason has not once tried to injure him and has provided him with such things as food and shelter; Davie grows to admire Jason, relating to him due to their similar childhood and deformities. After following Jason into the woods and aiding him in killing a pair of soldiers sent to look for him, Davie attacked by Sheriff Tanneyhill from a helicopter, the sheriff having tracked Davie down with the intent of killing him, Davie being the only witness to the sheriff murdering of the two camp counselors. Davie and Jason escape the sheriff and hide in a cave after Jason causes Tanneyhill's helicopter to crash. Spending the night in the cave, Davie wakes up and finds Jason leaving and attempts to stop him, only to be ignored by him. When Jason exits the cave, Davie is grabbed by Sheriff Tanneyhill, who tries to slash Davie's throat with a switchblade, only to be knocked backwards into a hole by Davie, who stabs the sheriff in the leg with a knife he had earlier taken from one of Jason's victims. Rushing outside the cave, Davie witnesses Jason being shot by soldiers and knocked to the ground, seemingly dead. As Davie mourns for Jason, Sheriff Tanneyhill, having climbed out of the pit Davie knocked him into, grabs the boy and yells his intent to kill him in front of all the soldiers present. As Sheriff Tanneyhill yells at the soldiers to drop their weapons, he is attacked by a recovered Jason. Despite Davie telling him to be careful, Jason falls off a cliff while fighting with the sheriff, who also falls.

With Sheriff Tanneyhill dead due to the fall and Jason having disappeared, Davie is taken by two soldiers back home, stating to himself that his time with Jason was exciting and taught him a lot, also saying that all the people Jason had killed during their time together were "assholes" and deserved to die, rationalizing that Jason was defending him and himself and simply doing what he had to in order to survive.

### Debbie

**Debbie** is a character in *Friday the 13th Part III*. She is Andy's girlfriend and a good friend of Chris Higgins in the summer of 1984 she goes along with her friends to Higgins Haven with Andy's roommate Shelly and his blind date Vera Sanchez. At Higgins Haven she watches Andy and Shelly have a juggling contest and walks over to Andy telling him he can do better things with his hands. She and Andy go upstairs to have sex. She then goes to take a shower and Andy walks in doing a Handstand asking her if she wants a beer. At first she says yes, but later changes her mind and calls out to Andy to tell him, but there is no answer. When she dries herself off, she calls out to Andy again...still no answer. Disregarding it, she lays down on the hammock to read a Fangoria magazine, presumably one of Andy's. Debbie soon notices blood dripping down on the magazine. She looks up and sees Andy's mutilated corpse wedged in the rafters. Unfortunately for Debbie, Jason grabs her head before she can react and stabs her through the chest, killing her and her unborn baby.

### Diane Cavanaugh

**Diane Cavanaugh** is a character in the two-issue comic miniseries *Friday the 13th: Bad Land* by Wildstorm. An experienced camper and hiker, Diane, while out hiking with friends Phil and Jeremy in early April, becomes stuck in a blizzard. Seeking shelter, the trio discovers an abandoned cabin located in Camp Crystal Lake and, breaking in, proceed to make themselves at home. While waiting out the blizzard, Diane and Jeremy have sex. While with Jeremy, Diane notices Jason Voorhees glaring in a window at her. Shocked by the sight of Jason, Diane accidentally wakes Phil up, who walks in on her and Jeremy together. Angered and hurt at the sight of Jeremy and Diane, the latter who he has a crush on, Phil storms off outside, dismissing Diane's sighting of someone out there as a trick of the snow. Worried that Phil could freeze to death in the blizzard, Diane convinces Jeremy to go look for him.

While Diane waits for Jeremy to return, Phil enters the cabin, telling Diana to barricade the entrances, as he had just found Jeremy in the woods, decapitated. While Phil pushes a couch in front of the cabin door, he is killed when Jason forces a ski pole through the door and his head. Despite Diane's attempts to keep him out, Jason bursts into the cabin and knocks her to the floor. Before Jason can attack her, Diane, tearing the ski pole out of Phil's head, impales Jason with it before fleeing outside. While running from the cabin, Diane trips on a rock, allowing Jason to catch up with her. As Jason readies himself to kill her, Diane begins to beg for her life and ask why he is doing this, before falling into a rant about how she should not have come her and how it’s "a bad place". As Diane mumbles this over and over again, Jason strikes her in the head with his machete, killing her instantly, and proceeds to drag her body to Crystal Lake.

### Doctor Armando Castillo

**Doctor Armando Castillo** is a character in the novel *Jason X: Death Moon*. An infamous scientist, Dr. Castillo has little regard for human life, his experiments often resulting in the mutilation and death of his subjects; a necrophile, cyborg and sadomasochist, Dr. Castillo is a lifelong admirer of Dr. Wimmer (a minor character in *Jason X*). After Jason is captured by the government, he is in the custody of Dr. Castillo, who has the government convert one of their bases on the moon into a laboratory; to cover up the unexpected reopening of the Moon Base, the government rechristens it Moon Camp Americana, a camp for delinquent girls and the set for reality TV show hosted by pornographic and exploitation film maker Roger Bordeaux. Wanting to replicate Jason, Dr. Castillo keeps him in suspended animation, as he begins to murder the campers in Moon Camp Americana to use as test subjects for his experiments. After Jason escapes and goes on a rampage, Dr. Castillo, after armed soldiers prove unable to defeat Jason, resorts to blasting Jason apart with a weapon referred to as The Berzerker. With Jason apparently dead, Dr. Castillo begins the process of rebuilding him. After Jason is reconstructed, he once more break free and goes on a rampage. Tracking down Dr. Castillo, who had just finished having a session with his robotic mistress, Jason murders him, stabbing his face with shards of a mirror before tearing him apart and stomping his head into the ground.

Despite Dr. Castillo stating in *Jason X: Death Moon* that he does not have a family, the novel *Jason X: To The Third Power* (in which Dr. Castillo's name is changed from Armando Castillo to Arthur J. Castillo) reveals he has a wife and three daughters - Luna, Terra and Skye Fellows. *Jason X: To The Third Power* also states that after the events of *Jason X: Death Moon* almost all evidence of Dr. Castillo's existence was wiped out.

### Doctor Hyacinth Stein

**Doctor Hyacinth Stein** is a character in the novel *Jason X: The Experiment*. A well-known scientist working for the government, Dr. Stein is strict and has little regard for human life, traits which have caused some of her employees to privately refer to her as "Dr. Bitchenstein". When Jason Voorhees is captured by the military after going on a rampage at the Three Mile Island Power Plant, he is placed in the custody of Dr. Stein, who makes plans to replicate Jason's abilities to create an army of supersoldiers. After having four staff members at her research facility killed for breaking into her office, Dr. Stein begins experimenting with their corpses, hoping to somehow imbue them with Jason's powers. After several failed experiments, Dr. Stein's attempts at replicating Jason bear fruit, as a clone of Jason, one formed when some of Jason's nano ants (which Dr. Stein had been keeping immobilized, thus paralyzing Jason) manage to migrate from Jason's body to the cadavers of three of the staff members she had killed. Shortly after her discovery of the clone, Dr. Stein is killed by it and Jason (who grows immune to the devices Dr. Stein had been keeping him captive with) when the two tear her arms off, though not before Dr. Stein has a chance to press the panic button in her lab, signaling the military to come and "sterilize" the research facility. The Jason clone, after Dr. Stein is disposed of, absorbs her body into itself, the clone being in a constant state of needing to absorb living tissue to survive.

Later on the novel, when two interns named Lynne and Fredo encounter Jason's clone, they discover it now has Dr. Stein's mind and voice. Before the clone can attack, Lynne and Fredo blast it apart with laser weaponry, only to notice moments later, while leaving the scene, that it has begun to regenerate. The book ends with it being stated that the clone, as well another research facility member who was mutated by exposure to Jason's cells, have been captured by government.

Dr. Stein and her work with Jason are mentioned frequently by Professor Bardox in novel *Jason X: Planet of the Beast*; Bardox holds the opinion that Dr. Stein's (who for an unknown reason is referred to being male) work was both "extremely brilliant, and primitive".

### Doug

**Doug** is a character in *The Final Chapter*. He goes upstairs to have sex with his girlfriend Sara in the shower who then leaves to go blow dry her hair. While Doug is in the shower singing, Jason walks in, and Doug mistakes him for Sara, thinking she had changed her mind on sex, but is then killed by Jason who crushes his head on the shower tile. He is later seen again with his corpse being impaled to the wall through the back of the neck when discovered by Sara and Trish.

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### Elias Voorhees

**Elias Voorhees** (or simply **Mr. Voorhees**) is the husband of Pamela Voorhees, and the father of Jason Voorhees and Diana Kimble and father-in-law of Jeanette Johnson.

Virtually nothing is known about the character, making him one of few mysteries surrounding Jason in the series. The nature of Elias is much debated among fans largely due to what little information is given in *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*, which is the first installment to touch upon the character in any way. Though the scenes involving and mentioning Elias were edited out of the theatrical cut (but preserved in the novelization) it nevertheless is, to date, the most information given on the character.

According to Tom McLoughlin's treatment, the red-haired Elias is depicted as being silent, but quite intimidating. The caretaker of Jason's grave makes sure not to touch Elias' hand when taking his payment and is careful not to look into his eyes. There is a general belief that Elias is quite aware of what Jason is. This evidence stems from the fact that Elias paid for burials of Jason and Pamela rather than a cremation, which would have prevented Jason's resurrection. Additionally, at the end of the film and novel, Elias is seemingly aware of the fact that Jason's body is no longer in his grave (in the deleted scene, he peers into the camera; in the novel, he looks in the direction of the lake where he was left defeated in the film).

The reason for abandoning his family also remains unknown and left up to fan speculation, but the closest thing to an answer is given in and with the writer of the first film, Victor Miller. When he was asked about the background of the father, Miller says that there was no time allowed for a proper back-story when they made the film, including that of Jason's father. The only idea Miller had was that Mr. Voorhees simply ran off at least in part because he could not handle Mrs. Voorhees' slightly unbalanced obsession with their child. Miller's wording does not make it clear if it was due to how Jason came out, though it is of note that Miller did not envision Jason with deformities. However, as this is only Miller's admitted assumption, the issue of discrepancies is moot.

Because the information regarding Elias does not derive from what made it to film, its canonicity is unknown. However, the ninth film *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday* does briefly mention Elias as the father of Jason, securing the name, at least, as canon. Elias himself is present in an early screenplay of *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday* written by Dean Lorey, which portrays him as the film's main antagonist and Jason's brother, instead of his father. The film's director, Adam Marcus, has stated that the version of Elias present in this early screenplay is "far more evil than Jason".

In the *Jason vs. Leatherface* comic miniseries by Topps Comics, Elias (never referred to by name and seen only in flashbacks caused by Jason witnessing Hitchiker's abuse of his brother Leatherface) is depicted as stereotypical "white trash" and is highly abusive towards a young Jason, beating him and calling him a freak and monster; Elias is killed by his wife, Doris (a renamed Pamela) with a machete while trying to beat Jason once again.

Elias is mentioned in the novel *Jason X: Death Moon* by Black Flame. Here, Elias is described as being little more than a hillbilly, whose great-great-great-grandfather Jebediah Voorhees was a warlock who lived in Salem, Massachusetts and possessed the *Necronomicon*. In the year 1667 on Samhain, the townsfolk living near Jebediah, believing him to be responsible for the disappearance of several local girls, burned his mansion to the ground with him inside, though after the fire no body was ever found. After Jebediah was supposedly killed the *Necronomicon* was passed down to Elias, who uncovered it one day while searching for kindling. After accidentally using the *Necronomicon* to summon a demon, which proceeded to possess the then unborn Jason, Elias attempted to use the book to become a warlock himself, with minimal success. The authenticity of this story remains in doubt, as the character who tells the story admits that "that's just one version of what happened".

A version of Elias similar to the one presented in *Jason vs. Leatherface*, both in appearance and demeanor, appears in the two-issue comic miniseries *Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale* by Wildstorm. Here, Elias is shown to be a worker in a mine and abusive towards Pamela. After a particularly brutal beating (and possible sexual assault) at Elias' hands, Pamela, driven by a voice she believes to be the unborn Jason, murders Elias with an axe blow to the head before entering a manic state and proceeding to hack his body to pieces. Afterwards, Pamela disposes of Elias's remains by dumping them in Crystal Lake, after blowing up the trailer the two of them lived in using gasoline.

### Enos

**Enos** is the nice gentleman who agrees to drive Annie part of the way to Camp Crystal Lake. During the drive, he informs Annie about the 1958 murders of the camp counselors Barry and Claudette as well as about mysterious fires and water contamination. However, his warnings are dismissed by Annie. He is played the late Rex Everhart (who later became known for the voice of Belle's father, Maurice, from Disney's *Beauty and the Beast*).

### Ethan

**Ethan** is a character in the two-issue comic miniseries *Friday the 13th: Bad Land* by Wildstorm. A fur trapper living in the 19th century, Ethan, while hunting with fellow fur trappers Ben and Joseph, becomes stranded in a blizzard near Crystal Lake. While searching for shelter, the trio of fur trappers discover a hut belonging to a Native family and break in. While Ethan is content to simply wait out the storm and leave the occupants of the hut, a woman and her child, alone, Ben grows restless and, with help from Joseph, rapes the woman, threatening Ethan with violence if he interferes. After raping the woman, Joseph and Ben rest, while Ethan voices his disgust at what they have done. As Ethan talks, Joseph notices the woman reaching for something and, believing it to be a weapon, shoots her and her baby dead, only to learn to afterwards that what she was reaching for was a rattle. Enraged by what Joseph has done, Ethan begins to yell at him, only to be interrupted in his speech when the husband of the dead woman enters, having been out fishing. Seeing his family dead, the man lunges at Ethan, only to be shot in the face by Ben and sent running.

Soon after the woman's husband is shot, Joseph begins acting erratic before fleeing from the hut, manically claiming that this is "a bad place". Believing Joseph could freeze to death outside; Ethan prepares to go after him, attempting to convince Ben to do so as well. When Ben refuses to go outside, not caring about what happens to Joseph; Ethan threatens him, but gives up on attempting to convince him to go searching and leaves, cursing Ben as he does so. While searching, Ethan, unaware that Ben has been killed by the Native from earlier, finds Joseph impaled on a tree, barely alive. With his last breaths, Joseph continues his rant to Ethan about how the surrounding land is cursed before dying. Convinced that Joseph is right, Ethan is about to run when he is attacked by the Native man with a tomahawk, getting an ear chopped off and being knocked to the ground. Attempting to fight back, Ethan tries to shoot the Native with his gun, but misses and hits a nearby tree, and resorts to clubbing the Native in the face with his gun. After doing this, Ethan tries to run away, only to be tripped by the Native. As the Native readies to kill him with a rock, Ethan mutters "I am so sorry..." before having his head crushed.

Centuries later, in the year 2008, Diane Cavanaugh, while fleeing from Jason Voorhees, unknowingly passes the tree accidentally shot by Ethan, which still has the bullet lodged in it; she also trips on the very rock used to kill him.

### Eva Watanabe

**Eva Watanabe** is a character in *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*, portrayed by Kelly Hu. Eva is a female student of Ms. Van Deusen's first shown on the SS Lazarus. She is shown to be friends with Tamara Mason, and tries her best to emulate Tamara in small ways. When Eva & Tamara are about to do some cocaine, they are almost caught by Mr. McCulloch, which scares Eva into getting herself away from Tamara. When the announcement goes out that all students need to meet, Eva goes in search of Tamara, not knowing she had been killed minutes before by Jason. Upon discovering Tamara's body, Eva runs out of the room only to come face to face with Jason. She flees and ends up on the dance floor, which Jason follows her onto. Eva becomes almost disoriented, between the flashing lights and loud music, she begins to see Jason on different parts of the dance floor at once. Jason suddenly grabs Eva around the neck and lifts her into the air, strangling her to death.

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### Freddy Krueger

*Main article: Freddy Krueger*
**Freddy Krueger** is a horror icon and main antagonist of the *Nightmare on Elm Street* franchise. Played by Robert Englund, he appears in several crossovers with the *Friday the 13th* series. Freddy Krueger was a child murderer who was burnt to death in the boiler room where he worked by the vengeful parents of the children he murdered; he later returned to haunt the dreams of his killers' children in which he used his supernatural powers to execute them in their sleep. His clawed glove cameoed in *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday* and he appeared fully in *Freddy vs. Jason*. In that film, Freddy has grown weak, as people in Springwood, his home, have suppressed their fear of him. Freddy, by impersonating Pamela Voorhees, sends Jason (Ken Kirzinger) to Springwood to cause panic and fear. Jason accomplishes this, but refuses to stop killing. A battle ensues in both the dream-world and Crystal Lake. The winner is left ambiguous, as Jason surfaces from the lake holding Freddy's severed head, which winks and laughs.

References to Freddy and his battle with Jason are occasionally made in novels, such as *Jason X: Death Moon*, *Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath* and *Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs*.

Freddy and Jason reunited in the comic book miniseries *Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash*, which reveals that since his death in *Freddy vs. Jason*, Freddy has been trapped in Jason's mind for five years. After searching the bowels of Jason's mind, Freddy discovers the existence of the *Necronomicon Ex-Mortis* and has Jason seek it out, having Pamela Voorhees tell him in dream that the book can be used to turn him into "a real boy". Despite the interference of Ash Williams and several local teenagers, Jason does gain the *Necronomicon* and brings it Freddy's severed head, which is in his shack. Reading the magic words in the *Necronomcon*, Freddy resurrects himself, gains reality warping powers and also increases Jason's intelligence as a reward for his aid. Despite his newfound abilities, Freddy is defeated when Jason turns on him and Ash, having taken the *Necronomicon* from Freddy, uses it send him to the Deadites' dimension. The comic miniseries ends with it being stated that the *Necronomicon*, having foreseen that Freddy would want to harness its powers, had manipulated events so that Ash came to Crystal Lake, with the book realizing that Freddy having access to all its secrets would end disastrously.