Characters in Ninth House

Alex Stern

Also in Hell Bent, Dead Beat

Daniel 'Darlington' Arlington

Alex's exacting mentor in the ways of Yale's occult underworld.

Also in Hell Bent

Pamela Dawes

Lethe House's Oculus — a graduate student and researcher who keeps the society running and backs Alex's investigation.

Also in Hell Bent, Dead Beat

Abel Turner

A New Haven police detective who serves as Lethe's Centurion, the society's liaison with the department.

Also in Hell Bent, Dead Beat

Tara Hutchins

A young New Haven woman whose murder near campus Alex refuses to let the university write off.

Elliot Sandow

Dean of Yale College and Lethe's faculty liaison, preoccupied with securing the society's funding.

Bertram Boyce North

A nineteenth-century ghost known around campus as the Bridegroom, drawn to Alex because she can see him.

Marguerite Belbalm

An admired Yale professor and society hostess who takes an unusual interest in Alex.