List of minor characters

This is a list of minor characters in the InCryptid and Ghost Roads series, organized by which books they appear in. Unnamed characters may be excluded, unless they are essential to the plot. Characters who are only mentioned and do not appear directly are in *italics*.

## InCryptid characters

### Discount Armageddon

#### *Antonio De Luca*

Antonio De Luca was Dominic De Luca's father. An agent of the Covenant, he died when Dominic was very young.

#### Daisy

Daisy is a bartender at Dave's Fish and Strips, the strip club where Verity Price works.

#### Piyusha

Piyusha (d. 2012) is a Madhura and co-owns a bakery called Gingerbread Pudding with her brothers. She is killed by servitors attempting to wake a dragon underneath Manhattan.

#### James Garcia

James Garcia is a chupacabra who dances competitively with Verity Price. After the Covenant comes through New York City, Verity recommends James find a new dance partner because she is finally committing to her role as a full-time cryptozoologist. James is gay and his partner is named Dennis (not to be confused with Dennis the ghost from Sparrow Hill Road).

#### Priscilla

Priscilla is a dragon princess and member of the Manhattan Dragon Nest.

#### "Evil Santa"

The leader of the snake cult is an unnamed man dubbed "Evil Santa" by Verity for his large beard.

### Half-Off Ragnarok

#### Nelson

Nelson is a minor character that appears in Half-Off Ragnarok. He works at the reptile house at the West Columbus Zoo and covers during Alex Price's lunch shift.

#### Frank Rodriguez

Franklin "Frank" Javier Lusczando de Rodriguez is a minor character in Half-Off Ragnarok. He is the husband of Dee de Rodriguez and the father of Megan Rodriguez. Like all male Pliny's gorgons, Frank is much taller than the female members of his species, between seven and eight feet tall. He is the doctor of the Columbus gorgon community and is currently training an apprentice.

#### Paul

Paul is a minor character who appears in Half-Off Ragnarok. He is a Pliny's Gorgon living in the community outside Columbus, Ohio and is suspicious of human outsiders.

### Tricks for Free

#### Sophie Vargas-Jackson

Sophia "Sophie" Vargas-Jackson (born c. 1993) was Antimony Price's cheerleading captain in high school and becomes a hiring resources manager for Lowryland after graduation. She puts high value on equity and inclusion.

#### David Wilson

David Wilson is a minor character mentioned in Tricks for Free. He is a general employee of Lowryland who is killed in the park by bad luck. Antimony Price and Fern Conway find his body in a bush after the park closes.

#### Eddie

Eddie is a minor character mentioned in Tricks for Free. He works security at Lowryland and allows Antimony Price and her friends to hang out in the park after hours.

#### Marissa

Marissa is a minor character mentioned in Tricks for Free. She is a face character at Lowryland, playing Princess Lizzie. She was injured when her parade float exploded, breaking her arm. Antimony pulled her away from the burning float.

### That Ain't Witchcraft

#### Norbert

Norbert is a minor character who appears in That Ain't Witchcraft. He is James Smith's cousin and Chief Smith's nephew, and he rents his house to Cylia Mackie so that he can spend the season traveling Europe.

### Calculated Risks

#### Kenneth

Kenneth is an inhabitant of the "Giant Bug Dimension" who seems to occupy a leadership or spokesperson role, as he is the one who interacts with Sarah and her allies the most. He is one-quarter incubus.

#### Terrence

Terrence is a petty thief who was on the University of Iowa campus to rob it at the time Sarah transported it to another dimension. Antimony disarms him and he runs off, later getting eaten by a giant spider.

### Spelunking Through Hell

#### Lybie

Lybie is a Johrlac from Johrlar, in the employ of Naga. She takes away the pain during Alice's tattooing procedures, but that's not the only thing she takes away.

#### Helen

Helen is a satyr from Ithaca, and a friend of Alice. She and her wife Phoebe come to rescue her and the inhabitants of Lemure after they escape that dimension.

#### Phoebe

Phoebe is Helen's wife, also a satyr and a Sorcerer (or whatever the equivalent is) with expertise in healing magic. Disapproves of Alice in general.

#### Rubina

Rubina is a resident of the dead bottle world Lemure, allied with Thomas.

#### Aadya

Aadya is a resident of the dead bottle world Lemure, allied with Thomas.

### Backpacking Through Bedlam

#### Ciferol

Ciferol is a resident of Pteracercus (the Giant Bug Dimension), who rides a giant praying mantis. He gives Alice, Thomas, and Sally a ride to the place they need to be to exit the dimension.

#### Darius

Darius is a routewitch sent by Apple and the Ocean Lady to drive Alice, Thomas, and Sally from Buckley to New York. He drives a customized car that is implied to run off his own body or life force, and can bend distance to make journeys hundreds of times faster.

#### Cara

Cara is a dragon princess and caretaker of the young dragons who is captured and imprisoned by the Covenant. Alice frees her and the children.

### Jonathan and Frances Shorts

#### Clark

Clark is a Pliny's gorgon and conductor on the train that Frances Brown and Jonathan Healy take on their first journey together.

#### Francesco Russo

Francesco Russo is a Chicago gangster and wine smuggler, who tries to take over Arturo Gucciard's smuggling business and feed him to river hags. Jonathan, Frances, and Arturo track down the stolen gorgon wine, and leave Russo and his men to be eaten by the hags.

#### Hector Kalakos

Hector Kalakos is the patriarch of the Kalakos Family of gorgons in the 1930s.

#### Asta Kalakos

Asta Kalakos is one of Hector and Layna's daughters.

#### Chruse Kalakos

Chruse Kalakos is one of Hector and Layna's daughters.

### Antimony Shorts

#### Elmira Street

Elmira, known in the roller derby community as Elmira Street, is Antimony Price's team captain on the Slasher Chicks. She is human, and is at first kept in the dark about the cryptid world.

### Verity and Dominic Shorts

#### Benjamin Georges

Benjamin Georges is a New Orleans ghost who appears in The Ghosts of Bourbon Street. Verity, Dominic, and Rose get him to stop destroying Mardi Gras floats.

#### Angelo Kalakos

Angelo Kalakos is the head of the Kalakos family in the 2010s.

#### Vaisa Kalakos

Vaisa Kalakos is Angelo and Lydia's daughter. She is arranged to marry Manos, but does not love him

#### Dina Kalakos

Dina Kalakos is Angelo and Lydia's daughter. Unlike her sister, she is actually attracted to Manos, and marries him.

#### Manos

Manos is a gorgon and the fiance of Dina Kalakos.

### Other Shorts

#### Siluk

Siluk is Istas's oldest brother (still younger than her).

#### Miali

Miali is Istas's aunt. She is comfortable around humans and much less wild than other waheela, and runs a small bar.

#### Chiyako Yukimura

Chiyako Yukimura is a Tanuki and Ryan Yukimura's mother. She is not pleased to learn that her son is in love with a waheela.

#### Paul Yukimura

Paul Yukimura is Ryan's father. He is a human witch.

#### Michael Yukimura

Michael Yukimura is Ryan's brother. He is gay, but has promised to father children with a female tanuki to preserve their species.

## Ghost Roads Characters

### Sparrow Hill Road

#### Amy O'Malley

Amy O'Malley (c. 1950-2008) is a girl whom Rose Marshall is drawn to rescue several times before her eventual death. Emma was the Beán Sidhe of the O'Malleys, and was freed with the death of Amy, the last of her family line.

#### Dennis

Dennis was a hitchhiker who was murdered near Daly, Maine, and haunted the stretch of Route 14 where he was killed. In 1981, Mary Dunlavy enlisted Rose Marshall's help in exorcising a haunted stretch of Route 14. Rose dove into the road and discovered Dennis's bones. The two of them were able to finally put his spirit to rest.

#### Dinah

Dinah is a server at the Starbright Diner. After her death, she becomes a server at the Last Dance Diner. In Last Call at the Last Chance, Bobby Cross frightens her so much that she fades out of existence.

#### *Eloise*

Eloise (d. before 2013) was a routewitch who met Rose Marshall at some point, and told her how to find the Ocean Lady and the Queen of the Routewitches if she ever needs to. Some time before Rose met with Apple, Eloise died and became a phantom rider, driving the length of California.

#### Irene Jackson

Irene Jackson was Rose's high school teacher. Her husband is David Jackson.

#### Josh

Josh is a trucker who gives Rose Marshall a ride to the Starbright Diner in 2010.

#### Josie

Josie is a server at the Starbright Diner.

#### Kyle

Kyle (c. 1980/1984–1998) is a student killed in a school bus accident. He is Mackenzie's boyfriend.

#### Arthur Marshall

Arthur Marshall is Rose Marshall's brother and Bethany's grandfather.

#### Morty Marshall

Morty Marshall is one of Rose's brothers.

#### Robert Marshall

Robert Marshall was Rose Marshall's father. He left the family when she was a young girl.

#### Matthew

Matthew is a routewitch in Apple's court.

#### Mikey

Mikey is a routewitch in Apple's court. He is the one who gives Rose her tattoo carrying Persephone's blessing.

#### Michael

Michael is a busboy in the Starbright Diner.

#### Ohio State Ghost Hunters

Angela, Jamie, Katherine, Marla, and Tom are a group of ghost hunters working for Laura Moorhead. They invite Rose Marshall to join them in attempting to summon the Phantom Prom Date.

#### Tom

Tom is the owner of the Starbright Diner.

#### Larry Vibber

Larry Vibber is a trucker who gives Rose Marshall a ride in 1973, and is later quoted about the experience in Laura Moorhead's research.

### The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

#### Dana

Dana (d. 2016) is a young routewitch who Bobby Cross talks into killing herself for a ritual to counteract Rose's Blessing of Persephone.

#### Corletta

Corletta is a young Homesteader who Rose meets and promises to send some ever-laster playmates to.

### Angel of the Overpass

#### Timothy

Timothy is a young umbramancer (though he may not know it yet) living in Warsaw, Indiana. He takes Rose to his aunt Daisy's diner, which Rose realizes is a ghost trap.

#### Daisy (umbramancer)

Daisy (d. ca. 2007) is an umbramancer who died inside a mesmer cage, trapping her there. She uses the cage built into her diner to trap other ghosts, until Rose comes along and breaks it. Despite being dead, she is Timothy's guardian.

#### Nate

Nate (d. 1977) is a cartographer and friend of Rose. At some point in the past, Bobby Cross approached him and demanded Nate contact him with information on Rose. He was trapped in Daisy's Eats for eight years until Rose freed the ghosts there.