List of Haunted Hotel characters

This page lists all the significant characters from the *Haunted Hotel* series.

### Protagonists

The *Haunted Hotel* games produced by Elephant have multiple protagonists. Of some little is known, but this is a compilation of everything which has been learned.

#### The first player character

No identity is known for the player character of the first three games from Elephant. *Eclipse, Ancient Bane*, and *Death Sentence* all have the same protagonist, a late Victorian or Edwardian-era woman who is a close friend of James. They work together in a Sherlock Holmes/Doctor Watson type of partnership to solve supernatural mysteries. She is never given a name and nothing of her is seen onscreen except occasionally her arms and hands. After the games shift to more modern settings beginning with *Eternity*, she is not seen again and nothing further is known of her. She is voiced during the opening cinematics of *Eclipse*; the credits of that game identify her voice actress as Charlotte Ann.

#### The second player character

There is also no identity known for the player character of *Eternity* and *Phoenix.* It's strongly implied that this is the same person, as both games take place in the late 1970s and have a male professional detective as the protagonist. The Mystery Trackers make his acquaintance at the end of *Eternity*, and then *Phoenix* opens with them contacting him saying that they're always glad to assist a friend, which is the chief indicator that the same man solves both cases. Apart from occasional glimpses of his hands, he is seen onscreen in a miniature form during one puzzle in *Phoenix,* which shows him to wear a pale yellow raincoat and matching hat. Evidence found in the later games suggest that the same character is also the protagonist of *The X* and *The Axiom Butcher*, and possibly *Beyond the Page* as well, although this is not confirmed. In any case, the detective ceases to be the player character after these installments, and nothing more is known of him. He is voiced in *Phoenix*, but his actor is not identified.

#### Jim

Jim is the player character of *Silent Waters*. As far as we are able to tell, he is not the same detective from the previous games; in fact, there's no indication that he is a detective at all. His name is not given until the bonus chapter, and his surname is not revealed. In the main game, he accidentally drives off of the road as the result of having a psychic vision of the past argument between Lucien and Maurice, the brothers whose father owned the Silent Waters Hotel. He wakes up in the hotel and must vanquish the ghost of the evil Maurice, with the help of the ghost of the benign Lucien, in order to save the lives of the college students Clark, Bobby, and Maggie. In the bonus chapter, Jim has acquired a girlfriend named Sarah, but is murdered while protecting her from a group of muggers. He then spends the remainder of the chapter trying to keep the thugs from silencing her as a witness. Once he knows Sarah is safe, Jim is able to move on to the afterlife. Jim is voiced by Kiba Walker.

#### Dave and Matt Barlow

Dave is the protagonist of *The Thirteenth*. While driving with his young son Matt, he stops to help someone who seems to be broken down on the side of the road. But no good deed goes unpunished and he's murdered instead; Matt is kidnapped, and Dave finds himself a ghost. He chases his son to the Baker's Hotel, where another ghost tells him about their mutual assailants, a group called the Sons of Dusk. This is the same organization that killed Dave's own parents years earlier. Dave and Matt are descendants of another group called the Sons of Dawn, and the Sons of Dusk are out to destroy them. With the help of his grandfather, Dave is able to save Matt from being the last murder victim and reverse the effects of his own killing. Dave is voiced by Kurt Frohlich.

Matt is the protagonist of the bonus chapter of *The Thirteenth.* Twenty years after the traumatic events of the main game, Dave still has nightmares about it, and they decide to return to the Baker's Hotel and confront their demons once and for all. The adult Matt is voiced by Patrick Seymour.

#### James Blackthorne

James Blackthorne is the player character in *The Evil Inside,* the bonus chapter of *Room 18, Lost Time,* and *A Past Redeemed.* He also appears as the player's companion in *Eclipse, Ancient Bane, Death Sentence, Phoenix, The Axiom Butcher, Personal Nightmare,* and *Beyond the Page,* and accompanies his brother John in *Room 18*. More details are found on his character page.

#### Rachel Collins

Rachel Collins is James's cousin, and the player character of the bonus chapter of *The Evil Inside*. More details are found on her character page.

#### Mark Stuart

Mark is the player character in *Lost Dreams.* He's a young man happily married to a lovely woman named Jane. The pair are on a train heading to their vacation destination in the Alps when the train abruptly crashes; when Mark regains consciousness, he finds himself alone in a strange room and must find out what happened to his wife. Gradually he discovers that he's at Schneider's Hotel and Spa, and Dr. John Schneider engineered the train crash in order to find test subjects to help him save the lives of his children. Mark has no choice but to help the doctor save Tony and Alice in order to be reunited with Jane and leave the hotel. They successfully revive Jane and the children, but a subconscious creature called the Faceless Strider breaks into the waking world and abducts all three of them. Schneider and Mark give chase, and Schneider sacrifices himself to save the others. Mark and Jane return in the bonus chapter, helping to rescue Tony Schneider from an otherworldly being which tries to claim his soul. Nothing further is known of the Stuarts. Mark is voiced by Duffy Weber.

#### Stephen Blake

Stephen is the player character of *Personal Nightmare,* and a friend of James Blackthorne. When he was a boy, his sister Kate was very sick, and their mother took her away one night to get help. He heard nothing of them for twenty years; then he receives a letter in the mail from his mother, with her locket taped to the paper, begging him to come to the Freedom Hotel and rescue her. He finds that the hotel is the home of Thomas Coldwell, who has been gathering power for years to become immortal, and traps people inside their own nightmares in order to sap their life energy. Among those he's captured are not only Stephen's mother and sister, but also his friend James and James's cousin Mary. By conquering all of the nightmares and restoring Kate's lost memories, Stephen banishes the spirit of Coldwell and causes the hotel to crumble to the ground, releasing its prisoners. He returns in the bonus chapter to learn what caused Coldwell to become such a monster, and how it related to the death of Stephen's father George. Stephen is not seen in any other Elephant Games property. He is voiced by Maya Tuttle as a child and Matthew Curtis as an adult.

#### John Blackthorne

John is James's brother, and the player character of *Room 18*. He and James appear to share a close and affectionate relationship, if the game's events are any indication. He doesn't seem to have as strong an affinity for ghosts as James, nor is he as much of a natural medium, though he is good at problem-solving and clearly shares his brother's courage and sense of right and wrong. Little else is known about him, and he is never seen onscreen to show whether there is a resemblance between the brothers. John is voiced by Adrian Petriw.

#### The ghost

The final player character of the series is the ghost of a young man, in the bonus chapter of *A Past Redeemed*. His identity is never revealed. He is one of the spirits who should have been released through James's ritual in the main game, but for some reason it didn't work, and he must travel to James and Jessica's home in California to ask the paranormal researcher for help. James is able to free the young man's ghost and help him pass into the afterlife.

### Notable antagonists

#### Sons of Dusk

The Sons of Dusk are the antagonists of *The Thirteenth*. They were once allied with the Sons of Dawn through their interest in the secrets held by a magic book known as the Necronix, but had a falling out over how to use the knowledge therein. Ultimately, the Sons of Dawn eradicated the Sons of Dusk and entrusted the keeping of the book to one of their own members, Christopher Barlow. However, a single individual was spared among the Sons of Dusk because he was a baby at the time, and he grew up to exact revenge on the entire Barlow family in his search for the Necronix. He orders the murder of the game's protagonist, Dave Barlow, and kidnaps Dave's son Matt, whom he believes knows the location of the Necronix. Christopher, who is Dave's grandfather, comes forward to help his grandson's ghost; together they rescue Matt and end the Sons of Dusk once and for all.

#### Alexander Valentine

Alexander is initially the antagonist of *The Evil Inside*, and has been responsible for the disappearance and death of countless hotel visitors in the decades since his own death. He turns out to be a sympathetic character, who in life was deeply in love with his wife Bella, and was unable to recover after her shocking murder. All he wants is to be reunited with her again, and James is able to help him.

Alexander returns in *A Past Redeemed*, though again he's presented with relative sympathy. James is the only one who is capable of releasing a large number of spirits trapped on earth; for reasons that are not made clear, Alexander is among them, even though (as James points out) he should have been freed after the events of his previous appearance. Due to their prior interactions, Alexander appeals to James for help. Unfortunately, the timing isn't good because James is about to get married, so he's reluctant to get involved; to ensure his cooperation, Alexander takes the bride hostage. When James succeeds in completing the necessary steps, Alexander gratefully returns Jessica unharmed before departing into the afterlife. Alexander is voiced by Andrew Hindle in both of his appearances.