You Like It Darker
You Like It DarkerStephen King
Characters in You Like It Darker
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Danny Coughlin
A man whose sudden, vivid dream sets off a chain of unnerving consequences for everyone around him.
Vic Trenton
A grieving widower who returns to Florida decades after the events of Cujo and inherits a dangerous legacy from a troubled neighbor.
Laird Carmody
A retired author from Harlow, Maine, whose sudden mid-life literary success is tied to a lifelong secret shared with his friend Butch LaVerdiere.
Supporting characters
Allie Bell
An elderly widow on Rattlesnake Key who lost her twin sons to snakebites decades earlier and still speaks to their spirits.
Butch LaVerdiere
Laird Carmody's lifelong friend, a visual artist who experienced his own sudden creative breakthrough in his mid-forties.
Minor characters
Cujo
The rabid dog from King's novel Cujo, invoked as the source of Vic Trenton's decades-old grief.