Characters in What Stalks the Deep

Alex Easton

Retired non-binary soldier and narrator, veteran of prior Sworn Soldier novellas.

Also in What Moves the Dead, What Feasts at Night

Dr. James Denton

American physician and old friend of Easton's who asks for help finding his missing cousin.

Also in What Moves the Dead

Fragment

A humanoid being found in the abandoned mine, cut off from a larger hive mind that lives beneath it and wanting only to be left alone.

Angus (Sworn Soldier)

Alex Easton's loyal companion and former batman, who travels with them to West Virginia.

Also in What Feasts at Night

John Ingold

A chemist and close companion of Dr. Denton who joins the party going down into the mine.

Oscar (Sworn Soldier)

Denton's cousin, who vanishes while exploring an abandoned coal mine after writing strange letters about a red light.

Roger (Sworn Soldier)

Oscar's hard-drinking companion at the mine, who knows more about what has been happening there than he first lets on.