Characters in American Gods

Shadow Moon

A newly released ex-convict recruited as bodyguard to the mysterious Mr. Wednesday.

Also in Cose fragili, The Monarch of the Glen, Black Dog

Technical Boy

A new god embodying the internet and technology, one of the aggressive faces of the new gods opposing the old.

Laura Moon

Shadow's wife, whose death sets the story in motion.

Mr. Nancy

Mr. Nancy is the human guise of Anansi, the West African trickster spider-god, one of the old gods Shadow encounters on the journey.

Also in Anansi Boys

Czernobog

A Slavic god of night and death living in Chicago with the Zorya sisters; agrees to join Wednesday's cause on the condition of a favor from Shadow.

Dr. Easter

The old goddess Ēostre, now living quietly in San Francisco, whose spring holiday has been absorbed by Christianity and consumerism.

Whiskey Jack

A Native American trickster spirit (Wisakedjak) who gives Shadow guidance and a lynx-skin coat during his time in a reservation town.

Mad Sweeney

A brawling Irish leprechaun-god who loses a golden coin to Shadow in a bar fight, a coin that later revives Laura.

Spider (Anansi Boys)

Also in Anansi Boys

Hinzelmann

Loki

Mr. Ibis

Samantha Black Crow

Bilquis

Media

Mr. Jacquel

Chad Mulligan

Margaret Black Crow

Mr. Town

Odin