Characters / Entities

• Antebellum Books proprietor (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Wispy-haired liver-spotted old bookseller in Covington who sells Kelly the rare 1914 Whispers from the Nile for an extravagant cashier’s check.
• Augustin Terry, M.D. (The Disturbed, Kelly) — Brown-haired hazel-eyed director-psychiatrist of New Orleans Mental Hospital; secret cultist who sets the asylum loose, lures Kelly to be flayed by Burke, and is later scaphismed to death by Rev at Kayrevla.
• Bald Man (The Disturbed, Bald Man) — Huge bald asylum patient (strongly implied to be Victor Devereaux, “the Bayou Butcher” — only fourth-floor patient Terry names; never explicitly tagged on page) Burke uses to murder Jerome by twisting his head around; Rev tears off his testicles and finishes him with a hollow-point round to the face in Jerome’s cell.
• Cohen (Detective Mr. Clean) (The Disturbed, Custody) — Bald NOPD homicide detective working the asylum scene; tries to pin everything on Rev.
• Crew Cut / Ian (The Disturbed, Release) — Fitzgerald’s Irish-accented IRA bodyguard with a “tiocfaidh ár lá” neck tattoo and a Desert Eagle.
• David Blake (The Disturbed, Blake) — Flamboyant narcissist cultist Terry names under torture; tracked across sixty-plus possibles into a final shortlist of three.
• Detective Hines (Toupée) (The Disturbed, Interview) — Brown-toupéed NOPD detective partnered with Cohen. (Nickname “Toupée” used in Custody; surname Hines first appears in Interview.)
• Dr. Copeland (The Disturbed, Recovery) — Hospital physician who confirms Rae’s retrograde amnesia and clears her for rehabilitation.
• Émile Durand (The Disturbed, Delivery) — French expedition founder who unearthed the Black Pharaoh tomb in 1912 and died in “tragic circumstances” in 1913.
• Father James Kelly (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Saint Christina’s priest, found crucified and flayed in the asylum chapel by Burke as Terry’s bait; leaves Rev a sealed letter with instructions about the Jar.
• Fitzgerald (The Disturbed, Release) — Irish ex-mob boss and Order member who bails Rev out and warns him about the Jar’s pull.
• Fred Sr. (Freddy Guidry) (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Rev’s NOPD captain and best friend; tied to a chair with his family and killed by Burke’s gas-can booby trap at his own dining table.
• Frederick “little Fred” Guidry (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Freddy and Janet’s son; killed in the kitchen explosion.
• Janet Guidry (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Freddy’s wife; killed in the kitchen explosion.
• Jerome (The Disturbed, Freddy) — Ten-year-old homeless boy framed for the Miller murders; later murdered in his fourth-floor cell with his head twisted backward, wearing Kelly’s protective pendant.
• Jerry (J. Whitmer) (The Disturbed, Threads) — Pensacola tailor on Palafox who custom-tailors Rev’s gabardine sawed-off-shotgun trench coat.
• Marcus Miller (The Disturbed, Freddy) — Boy returned to abusive parents and chained nightly in the backyard shed; vanishes after Burke uses his identity to murder his parents. (Miller parents appear in Prologue, but Marcus is first named in Freddy.)
• Miss LeBlanc (The Disturbed, Explanations) — Social worker who escorts Marcus to the Poydras shelter farewell with Jerome.
• Mr. and Mrs. Miller (The Disturbed, Prologue) — Marcus’s abusive parents, slaughtered in their kitchen by Burke wearing Marcus’s face.
• Parks (Robinson) (The Disturbed, Council) — Tall thin high-end criminal defense attorney in a thousand-dollar suit, hired to spring Rev from the asylum case (turns out to be Fitzgerald’s hire).
• Burke (The Great Mother) (The Disturbed, Freddy) — The undead ghoul of book 2; orchestrates the Miller murders, Kelly’s flaying, the Guidry execution, and the asylum carnage; finally devoured by ants from the Jar at the swamp warehouse. (Referred to throughout the manuscript only as “Burke”; the given name “Phoebe/Pheobe Durst” does not appear in The Disturbed.)
• Rae (Rachel) Gordon (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Rev’s PI partner; concussed into a long coma by Burke at the asylum, eventually wakes with retrograde amnesia and persistent migraines.
• Rev (Revel) Parata (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Pensacola PI, Order operative, and reluctant guardian of the Jar; protagonist.
• Richard Meyers (The Disturbed, Body) — Name written on the New Orleans Railway Maintenance card stuffed in the alley homeless victim’s jacket; one of Burke’s planted clues.
• Rudolph and Scarecrow detectives (The Disturbed, Lies) — Bloodshot-eyed lush and his thin stenographer partner who interview Rev at the Guidry fire.
• The alley homeless victim (The Disturbed, Body) — Anonymous green-skinned corpse Rev finds in the abandoned industrial-park alley as Burke’s first message after returning.
• The Order’s grandmaster (The Disturbed, Fitzgerald) — Compartmentalized leader of the Order; even Fitzgerald does not know who that is.
• William (The Disturbed, Exploration) — Knocked-out asylum orderly Rev finds shoved into a closet on the first floor.

Places

• Antebellum Books (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Drab brick antiquarian bookshop in Covington.
• Arúnsearc (The Disturbed, Arúnsearc) — Fitzgerald’s French-Quarter Irish pub.
• Boutte barn (The Disturbed, Isolation) — Old wooden barn off an unmarked Boutte dirt road where Terry conducts his solitary ritual on the full moon.
• Hibernia National Bank (The Disturbed, The Court) — Bank where Father Kelly stashes Rev’s letter and the safe-deposit-box key in box 10407. (Box address introduced on Kelly’s note in The Court; Rev visits in the same chapter.)
• Jefferson Parish sheriff’s office (The Disturbed, Council) — Where Rev and Rae give statements about the Miller scene, providing their alibi.
• Kayrevla (Lacombe) (The Disturbed, KAYREVLA) — Old Victorian where Rev rigs the bathtub scaphism setup for Terry; the same rotting house from the Coventry case. (Manuscript chapter title is the typo “KAYRELA”; canonical spelling is KAYREVLA.)
• Metaire (Terry’s home) (The Disturbed, Stakeout) — Palatial lakefront house overlooking Lake Pontchartrain that Rev surveils for over a week.
• Metairie Cemetery (The Disturbed, Guidrys) — Above-ground necropolis where the city interns Freddy, Janet, and Fred among police chiefs and tycoons.
• New Orleans Mental Hospital (The Disturbed, Kelly) — Multi-building gated asylum on Tchoupitoulas, formerly the marine hospital; Terry’s and Burke’s killing-ground.
• Saint Christina’s (The Disturbed, Explanations) — Father Kelly’s parish; venue for breaking the Marcus news and later Rev’s burglary of the safe.
• The Court (The Disturbed, The Court) — Themed-room motel in New Orleans, where Rev keeps a 60s-disco room as base of operations.
• The swamp warehouse / abattoir (The Disturbed, Aftermath) — Cobwebbed industrial garage outside New Orleans where Burke meets Rev, dies, and an unnamed victim has been butchered in the back room.

Organizations

• NOPD homicide (The Disturbed, Custody) — Hines/Cohen and the rest of the unit working the asylum and Guidry-fire cases.
• The Order (The Disturbed, Fitzgerald) — Cellular, compartmentalized secret society (no in-text proper name beyond “the Order”); sends in lawyers, supplies, sketch artists, and PIs at Fitzgerald’s request to track Burke’s cabal.
• Parks, Mason, and LeBlanc (The Disturbed, Council) — High-end criminal defense firm Fitzgerald retains for Rev.
• Burke’s cabal (The Disturbed, Dream) — Liver-eating circle Rev observes in his prophetic dream: Burke at center plus twelve hooded acolytes (Terry one of them, Blake another); Rev counts eleven still to identify after Terry.

Mythos / Concepts / Rituals

• Bayou Butcher (Victor Devereaux) (The Disturbed, Asylum) — Asylum-jail nickname of a real patient who chopped his family up and fed them to his gators; loosed to add chaos the night Burke flays Kelly. (Devereaux first named, with Bayou Butcher tag, in chapter Asylum.)
• Binding the Jar (The Disturbed, Preparation) — One-time, lifetime ritual described in Whispers from the Nile that fuses a person to the Jar; the jar appears to bind itself to Rev unbidden.
• Hapi and Nephthys (The Disturbed, Delivery) — Egyptian baboon-headed lung guardian and his protectress goddess of darkness/ritual/magic; Kelly identifies the Jar’s contents (the lungs) by the powers Rev has witnessed.
• The Great Mother (The Disturbed, Interrogation) — Cult title Terry uses for Burke; she is to her cabal what Nyarlathotep is to the small entities.
• The jar’s protection / interference (The Disturbed, Awakening) — The Jar dudding Rev’s ammunition, popping its own safe lock, and unleashing devouring ants on Burke; Rev concludes the artifact has its own purposes for him.
• Nyarlathotep / Black Pharaoh (The Disturbed, Delivery) — The Egyptian-named “false god” whose glyph Burke scattered in book 2; Kelly speculates he may have been a real person.
• Roman scaphism (boat-of-honey) (The Disturbed, Scaphism) — Persian/Roman execution by milk and honey, exposure, and bacterial rot, which Rev recreates in a corn-syrup-filled bathtub for Terry.
• The dud-cartridge “Russian roulette” (The Disturbed, Awakening) — Rev’s nightly suicide attempt with progressively more loaded chambers; every cartridge dimples to a misfire, convincing him the Jar has chosen him.

Texts and artifacts

• Burke’s sapphire pendant (The Disturbed, Aftermath) — Striking blue gem Burke always wore; Rev recovers it from the swamp ash and uses it to break Terry at Kayrevla.
• Father Kelly’s letter (The Disturbed, Saying Goodbye) — Hidden in Hibernia box 10407; instructs Rev to keep the Jar himself and lose it (and possibly himself) when his will runs out.
• The custom gabardine trench coat (The Disturbed, Threads) — Tailored by Jerry Whitmer to conceal a sawed-off Winchester double-barrel and the Jar in opposing internal pockets.
• The Jar of Nephren-Ka (The Disturbed, Saint Christina’s) — Now bound (or nearly so) to Rev; calls to him, refuses to be locked away, and unleashes the ant-swarm that destroys Burke.
• Whispers from the Nile: Nephren-Ka’s Legacy (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Anonymous 1914 first edition (only ~200 surviving copies) detailing the Black Pharaoh tomb hieroglyphs and the binding ritual.

Events

• The Miller murders (The Disturbed, Prologue) — Burke, wearing Marcus’s face, slits Mrs. Miller’s throat from the kitchen bar and disembowels Mr. Miller while Jerome is forced to watch.
• The asylum riot and Kelly’s flaying (The Disturbed, Top Floor) — Terry kills the lights, releases the patients, and Burke crucifies Kelly in the chapel; the bald man kills Jerome and is shot by Rev.
• The Guidry kitchen explosion (The Disturbed, Freddy’s) — Burke’s flare-rigged front door ignites a gas trail to three jerricans on the dining table while Freddy, Janet, and Fred sit gagged.
• The swamp warehouse showdown (The Disturbed, Meeting) — Rev brings the unsealed Jar to Burke; ants pour out and devour her down to a pile of crumbling alien bones.
• Terry’s scaphism at Kayrevla (The Disturbed, Scaphism) — Rev seats Terry’s head through a homemade wooden stocks above a corn-syrup tub, with a single drinking tube; the next night a crow has eaten Terry’s face and Rev finishes him with both barrels.
• Burke’s prophetic-dream cabal (The Disturbed, Dream) — The Jar shows Rev a memory of Burke and twelve hooded acolytes — including Terry — eating a young woman’s liver in a forest grove, giving him their faces.
• Fitzgerald’s bar standoff (The Disturbed, Arúnsearc) — Rev draws his sawed-off in Fitzgerald’s office and refuses to surrender the Jar; the Order accepts him as their hunter instead.
• Rae’s coma and waking (The Disturbed, Recovery) — Rae wakes after weeks unconscious with retrograde amnesia and lingering migraines; agrees to join Rev on the cabal hunt.