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Book cover of My Best Friend's Exorcism
My Best Friend's ExorcismGrady Hendrix

Characters in My Best Friend's Exorcism

9 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Abby Rivers

    A loyal teenager in 1988 South Carolina who fights to save her possessed best friend.

Supporting characters

  • Gretchen Lang

    Abby's best friend, who returns from a night in the woods possessed by a demon.

  • Christian Lemon

    A member of a Christian bodybuilding act who agrees to help Abby attempt an exorcism.

  • Margaret Chisholm

    One of the four friends present at the lake house the night the group takes LSD; her family owns the lake house where the possession begins.

  • Glee Tanaka

    One of the four friends present at the lake house the night Gretchen is changed, part of Abby and Gretchen's tight-knit teenage friend group.

  • Wallace Stoney

    Margaret's boyfriend, who supplies the LSD the friend group takes on the night that sets the story's events in motion.

  • Margaret Middleton

  • Glee Wanamaker