Characters in Locke & Key

Tyler Locke

Rendell and Nina's eldest son, a former golden-boy athlete who blames himself for his father's death and becomes the family's reluctant protector at Keyhouse.

Also in Locke & Key, Vol. 2, Locke & Key, Vol. 3, Locke & Key, Vol. 4, Locke & Key, Vol. 5

Kinsey Locke

The middle Locke sibling, withdrawn and guarded after witnessing her father's murder, who is the first to sense that Keyhouse itself is not ordinary.

Also in Locke & Key, Vol. 2, Locke & Key, Vol. 3, Locke & Key, Vol. 4, Locke & Key, Vol. 5

Bode Locke

The youngest Locke child, whose fearless curiosity leads him to find the first of Keyhouse's magical keys and hear the voice calling from the wellhouse.

Also in Locke & Key, Vol. 2, Locke & Key, Vol. 3, Locke & Key, Vol. 4, Locke & Key, Vol. 5

Sam Lesser

A troubled teenager manipulated by a hidden voice into murdering Rendell Locke, who later escapes custody to hunt the Locke family down at Keyhouse.

Nina Locke

The Locke children's mother, drinking heavily to cope with her husband's murder and too consumed by grief to notice what is stirring in her new home.

Rendell Locke

The Locke family patriarch, killed in the book's opening home invasion in California, whose death sends his widow and children to his childhood home of Keyhouse.

Duncan Locke

Rendell's brother and the Keyhouse caretaker, who reunites with the grieving family when they move in but keeps his own knowledge of the house's secrets to himself.