Characters from the various stories (in case it's appropriate to recycle them). Not to be confused with The Cast Of Objects.

• Anastasia, called "Annis" - A young mixed-race woman who sees things in black and white until the key is found.
• Charlotte, called "Char" - A young woman whose cancer-ridden mother died in a hospital fire. Loves candles.
• Crazy Toddler Eater (currently unnamed) - I ate a baby! Get in my belly! Toddlers A La Mode
• Elmira Smith - A young girl who witnessed a bank robbery.
• Enid - A woman (presumably) who Sam (the male one) failed to save. Flip
• Jerome - A king who died saving his people from the clockwork wolves... or, a crazy homeless man who died of a heart attack on the streets of New York. (Wolves And Madmen) Also, The Writer who buys a dreamcatcher and still owns some old toys.
• Joey (McGillicutty) - a daydreaming palooka who ran afoul of Rose Delaney in Six Ways To Sunday. Has a solid silver 'quarter' from his old man (and presumably from further back down the family line.)
• Masked Man - A former stockbroker-turned-priest in New York. Leaves of the Wreath
• Matthew - A privileged young boy, 13 when we meet him, who learns to play chess by listening, in The Snows of the Street. Also: A friend of Jerome's, presumably also homeless, and much older than the boy we first met.
• Melissa - The writer (and the king's) daughter. Only a child?, or is she?
• Olaf Jonson - A Swedish bank robber of the Old West. Had a skeleton key of intersting properties, as well as a treasure map. Presumably a bit crazy. Killed, possibly by Randall Davis.
• Randall Davis - A bank robber of the Old West. Known as the Mad Wolf. Fate unknown.
• Rick Paneta - An eight year old boy whose mother was killed. He retrieved a chess knight from her hand.
• Robert - who tells the tale of a snowy knight. Had a brother named Matthew. See also: Bobby, a friend of the protagonist in Invisibility, who fails to show up for the Halloween party the protagonist attends. See also: Bobby, in Mad Tom Of Bedlam.
• Sally - Vince's girlfriend in Six Ways To Sunday.
• Sam (female) - a friend of the protagonist in Bearings. Retrieves the Compass from the top of a casket, where it was left by the deceased's son. See also: Sam, in Mad Tom Of Bedlam
• Sam (male) - a man who committed a dirty dead in order to save his beloved Enid. Flip
• Sarah - Jerome's wife, and mother to Melissa
• Tom - Mad Tom Of Bedlam
• Troy - a young fellow who brings colour to someone's world, by unlocking the door.
• Vince - a hardworking joe just trying to take care of his friend in Six Ways To Sunday.
• Wade McGillicutty - A bank robber of the Old West. Wealthy for a time, but eventually caught and hung.