Characters / Entities

• Alisha Richards (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Young homeless prostitute who lived under the I-10 overpass; one of the six reported missing.
• Bernie (Bernard Latour) (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Intellectually disabled handyman at Saint Christina’s, raised by Father Duncan; whittler of meticulous animal figurines, falsely arrested for the homeless murders. (First named “Bernard” in Burke Foundation; surname Latour appears later in Interrogation/Killer.)
• Daniels (Ms.) (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Florist Bernie counts among his “five friends.”
• David Gilroy (The Betrayed, Teens) — Jamie Gilroy’s construction-worker father, suspected of past physical abuse but cleared by alibi.
• Detective Stephenson (The Betrayed, Teens) — Dim white NOPD homicide detective who coins the moniker “Homeless Snatcher” and later browbeats Bernie in interrogation.
• Detective White (The Betrayed, The Scene) — Stephenson’s smarter partner who recognizes the Japanese chef’s knife as a special-order piece.
• Duncan (Father) (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Father Kelly’s predecessor at Saint Christina’s; raised the abandoned Bernie almost from infancy.
• Fanny Gareau (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Forty-six-year-old recovering-alcoholic homeless woman at the Gravier Street shelter, fast-tracked for housing before disappearing.
• Father James Kelly (The Betrayed, Saints) — Middle-aged Irish-brogued priest of Saint Christina’s, Oxford-trained psychologist and senior member of the Order of the Hidden Eye; hires Rev to find the missing homeless.
• Fitzgerald (The Betrayed, Saints) — Late-forties black-haired ex-mob figure running the Arúnsearc Irish pub; funds the search through Father Kelly because community members frightened of the disappearances came to him for help (notably the parents of Jamie Gilroy and Shane MacQuillan). (Named in Saints; first met on-page in Arúnsearc.)
• Freddy Guidry (The Betrayed, Candidates) — Captain of NOPD fourth district, Rev’s mentor and best friend.
• Graybeard / Jack (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Old Vietnam-vet homeless man in surplus fatigues at the I-10 tent city; Alisha’s protector who refuses Rev’s bribe for her photo.
• Grimes (Valerie) (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Stern, weeble-shaped white outreach manager for the Burke Foundation; Bernie’s lifelong de facto guardian.
• James (The Betrayed, Burke’s Place) — Burke’s wooden-faced black-suited manservant.
• Jamie Gilroy (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Thirteen-year-old McDonough boy who vanished biking with Shane; recovered alive but mutilated (arms and legs amputated) in Burke’s basement cell. (First named in Bernie chapter, around line 1799.)
• Jerome (The Betrayed, Saints) — Ten-year-old homeless boy at the Poydras shelter, Marcus’s protector and Rev’s first informant.
• Kurt (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Big intimidating partner of Lewis Porter; the gay couple camped at Washington Square, both vanished.
• Lewis Porter (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Kind, well-liked half of the gay couple at Washington Square; the police-reported missing victim Rev asks Jerome about by name.
• Marcus (The Betrayed, Saints) — Young runaway homeless boy who beds down inside Jackson Square’s hedges; Burke’s “pet kid.” (The Disturbed gives his age as eight; The Betrayed does not specify an age — original “seven-year-old” was fabricated.)
• Mary (The Betrayed, Fanny) — Plexiglass-window receptionist at the Gravier Street shelter.
• Mr. Peters (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Older black Burke Foundation volunteer handing out water at the I-10 tent city.
• Mr. Pritchard (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Candy-shop proprietor on Bernie’s “five friends” list.
• Old Tom (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Elderly homeless man who lived at the Poydras shelter; one of the six reported missing.
• Pheobe Durst (the creature) / Sarah Burke (The Betrayed, Saints) — Centuries-old Homo anthropophagi (ghoul) wearing the glamour of a beautiful blond philanthropist; runs the Burke Foundation as a feeding-and-recruitment mechanism. (Manuscript spells the given name “Pheobe.”)
• Rae (Rachel) Gordon (The Betrayed, Candidates) — Thirty-something Russian-Jewish PI from Newark via LA; ex-actress with a facial scar, Ju-Jitsu/Escrima trained, drives a black 280Z.
• Rev (Revel) Parata (The Betrayed, Saints) — Pensacola PI brought into the case by Father Kelly; protagonist.
• Sarah Burke (The Betrayed, Saints) — See Pheobe Durst.
• Saint Christina the Astonishing (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Saint depicted in Saint Christina’s nave fresco, resurrected and floating to the church ceiling unable to bear the stench of sin upon those attending.
• Shane MacQuillan (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Fourteen-year-old McDonough boy who vanished with Jamie; remains identified by dental records at the riverside dump.
• Saints jersey gang (The Betrayed, Saints) — Gang Marcus ran errands for; the loud point man wears a #38 George Rogers Saints jersey (called “Football Jersey” in narration), but the actual leader who steps forward to deal with Rev is a compact, gym-fit man in a white T-shirt, jeans, and gold chain. (No proper name “Shopper” appears in the manuscript.)
• Theresa Collins (The Betrayed, Fanny) — Director of the Gravier Street shelter; LSU hospitality grad who tips Rev about Fanny’s discarded belongings.
• Wilson (Ms.) (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Sunday pie-baker on Bernie’s “friends” list.

Places

• Arúnsearc (The Betrayed, Arúnsearc) — Fitzgerald’s Irish pub in the French Quarter.
• Burke Foundation HQ (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Suite 200 in a high-rise at 707 Perdido Street.
• Burke residence (The Betrayed, Burke’s Place) — Dim-yellow Greek-revival historic home on Chartres Street, with a basement butchering room (autopsy table, butcher-block counter, walk-in freezer-style door, iron cell-cage) and a trapdoor concealed under heavy boxes leading down into the under-city tunnels.
• Dookie Chase’s (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Famous black-owned Creole restaurant in New Orleans.
• Gravier Street shelter (The Betrayed, Fanny) — City-run shelter near Tulane School of Medicine where Fanny lived.
• Jackson Square (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Iron-fenced French Quarter park where Marcus snuck behind the Andrew Jackson statue.
• McDonough Playground (The Betrayed, Teens) — Vacant city-block park off Brooklyn Avenue where Shane and Jamie were last seen.
• Napoleon House (The Betrayed, Arúnsearc) — French-Quarter restaurant where Rev introduces Rae to muffulettas and a Pimm’s.
• Poydras Street shelter (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Shelter where Jerome bunks and stores Marcus’s belongings.
• Riverside dump site (The Betrayed, The Scene) — Bowl-shaped pool below the Crescent City Connection bridge, fed by a three-foot drainage pipe; bones of at least six victims found among the bushes.
• Saint Christina’s Catholic Church (The Betrayed, Saints) — Gothic church in the Faubourg, twelve-story bell tower under restoration; Father Kelly’s parish.
• The Court (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Cheap themed-room motel in New Orleans where Rev habitually stays.
• The under-city tunnels (The Betrayed, Underground) — Two-mile network of brick passages and abandoned steel pipes running from the riverside factories under the Mississippi to the French Quarter, used by Burke to move and feed.
• Tulane School of Medicine (The Betrayed, Fanny) — New Orleans landmark; the Gravier Street shelter sits near it.
• Washington Square Park (The Betrayed, Jerome) — City-block park where Kurt and Lewis camped beneath two clumped trees.

Organizations

• Big Time Investigations (The Betrayed, Candidates) — Los Angeles PI firm where Rae trained.
• Burke Foundation (The Betrayed, Saints) — Sixty-year-old homelessness-eradication non-profit; Burke’s covert apparatus for cataloging and harvesting homeless victims.
• Order of the Hidden Eye (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Ancient secret order Father Kelly belongs to; researches occult texts, tracks supernatural threats, and dispatches kill teams.
• NOPD fourth district (The Betrayed, Saints) — Captain Guidry’s command.

Mythos / Concepts / Rituals

• Crab spider mimicry / Aphantochilus (The Betrayed, Chartres) — Burke’s pet allegory: the ant-mimic crab spider in her formicarium that lives among its prey unseen, mirroring her own predation.
• Glamour / illusion (The Betrayed, Lair) — Ghoul ability to mold human perception into seeing them as beautiful; the disguise affects perception of the creature but not of its environment, so it can be defeated by indirect tells (e.g., the over-sized true shadow). Mirrors are speculated as another counter.
• Homo anthropophagi (ghoul) (The Betrayed, The Revelation) — Once-human predators turned through perversion and ritual; gain skills and longevity by consuming victims, identifiable by their over-sized true shadow.
• Key of Solomon protective glyph (The Betrayed, The Plan) — Diagram from The Key of Solomon Father Kelly draws over the doorways of his and Rev’s offices to keep ghouls out. (The amulet pendants instead bear the Nyarlathotep glyph and rely on Kelly’s incantation, not the Solomon ward.)
• Long pig (The Betrayed, Charnel) — Burke’s “Arapawa pork” served at her dinner; revealed by the police pantry photos to be human meat.
• Nyarlathotep glyph (asymmetric pentagram) (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Crooked five-pointed star painted in faint gray spray paint near each abduction site as Burke’s calling card.
• Anti-ghoul pendant / amulet (The Betrayed, The Plan / The Pact) — Cheap silver pendant bearing the Nyarlathotep glyph, sourced by Rae from a Bourbon Street voodoo shop and ritually charged by Father Kelly as a ward against Burke. (No proper name like “Pendant of the Hidden Eye” appears in the manuscript.)
• Saint Christina the Astonishing’s resurrection (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Patron saint’s miracle, depicted on the church ceiling fresco.
• Shadow tell (The Betrayed, The Revelation) — A ghoul’s true form is given away by a shadow too large for its glamoured body; Rev first notices Burke’s outsized shadow in Saint Christina’s garden.

Texts and artifacts

• De praestigiis daemonum (On the Tricks of Demons) (The Betrayed, The Revelation) — Old witch-hunting manual in Father Kelly’s office whose appendix illustrates ghouls.
• Father Kelly’s grimoire shelf (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Glass-locked case in his office holding The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer, Le Dragon Rouge, Grimoir of Pope Honorius, Malleus Maleficarum, and other tomes.
• Japanese chef’s knife (Burke’s) (The Betrayed, Lair) — One of a pair of identical chef’s knives with Japanese characters etched on the blade in Burke’s basement; a matching knife is given to Bernie and recovered with him at the dump site, the kerf-mark match used to frame him.
• The Burke Foundation lollipop (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Wrapped candy with the open-hand-in-blue-circle logo, handed out to homeless contacts; the wrappers Marcus folds into origami animals.
• The Key of Solomon (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Grimoire Father Kelly uses to draw the protective ward over doorways.

Events

• The McDonough disappearances (The Betrayed, Saints) — Joint vanishing of Jamie Gilroy and Shane MacQuillan on September 25, the case Fitzgerald has been quietly funding.
• The riverside dump discovery (The Betrayed, The Scene) — Rev and Rae find Jamie’s Huffy and a bone pit in the bushes off Madison Street, breaking the case open.
• The Bernie frame-up (The Betrayed, Killer) — Burke compels Bernie via the chef’s knife to walk to the dump site, where police arrest him with the murder weapon in hand.
• Burke’s basement showdown (The Betrayed, Showdown) — Rev (hung upside down over a drain) and Rae (caged with the mutilated Jamie) survive Burke’s butchery; Father Kelly’s late arrival distracts Burke long enough for her to flee through the basement trapdoor into the tunnels.
• The Catacombs standoff (The Betrayed, Catacombs) — Wounded Burke holds Marcus hostage in a tunnel chamber near the Claiborne overpass while Rev and Rae confront her; chapter ends mid-standoff before a decision is forced.
• The Mississippi escape (The Betrayed, The Chase) — Burke loses her tail in the steel river-crossing pipe by exiting through a hidden manhole at the World’s Fair shoreline.
• The Marcus-and-Miller-parents reunion (The Betrayed, Reunion) — Marcus is returned to his parents under social-worker supervision after a week in hospital, with Jerome saying goodbye in front of the Poydras shelter.
• The Pact (Order recruitment) (The Betrayed, The Pact) — At Rev’s Pensacola office, Father Kelly chalks the Solomon ward over the door and recruits Rev and Rae into the Order of the Hidden Eye.
• Burke’s epilogue feeding (The Betrayed, Epilogue) — Wounded Phoebe Durst lures and consumes a young man in an alley, beginning her long game of revenge against Rev.