Characters / Entities

• Antebellum Books proprietor (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Wispy-haired liver-spotted old bookseller in Covington who sells Whispers from the Nile.
• Augustin Terry, M.D. (The Disturbed, Kelly) — Brown-haired hazel-eyed director of New Orleans Mental Hospital; secret cultist who lures Kelly to be flayed 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 himself, though never explicitly named in the kill-room scene) who murders Jerome and ambushes Rev with a Burke-style Japanese chef’s knife; killed by Rev (testicles torn off, hollow-point round to the face).
• Barnes (The Artifact, The Meeting) — Coventry’s silent chauffeur, sustained by an enchanted necklace; collapses into pinkish sand once it is removed.
• Beatnik (Faucheux Monuments sculptor) (The Artifact, Faucheux Monuments) — Long-haired Belle Chasse artisan who carves a copy of the Jar from onyx for Coventry.
• Bernie (Bernard Latour) (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Intellectually disabled Saint Christina’s gardener and whittler raised by Father Duncan; falsely arrested for the homeless murders. (Surname Latour appears later in the book.)
• Cindy (The Artifact, Back Home) — Cheery operator at Rev’s Pensacola answering service, Dependable Answering Service.
• Cohen (Mr. Clean) (The Disturbed, Custody) — Bald NOPD homicide detective on the asylum case.
• Cornelius James Randolph (The Artifact, Kinsey’s Legacy) — Atlanta-based occultist who binds Calhoun as cat’s-paw to steal the Jar; killed by Rev at Besonwa.
• Crew Cut / Ian (The Disturbed, Release) — Fitzgerald’s IRA bodyguard with a “tiocfaidh ár lá” tattoo and a Desert Eagle.
• David Blake (The Disturbed, Blake) — Flamboyant narcissist cabal member Terry names under torture.
• Detective Hines (Toupée) (The Disturbed, Interview) — Toupée-wearing NOPD homicide detective on the asylum case.
• Detective Stephenson (The Betrayed, Teens) — Dim NOPD detective who coins “Homeless Snatcher” and browbeats Bernie.
• Detective White (The Betrayed, The Scene) — Stephenson’s smarter partner who recognizes Burke’s Japanese chef’s knife.
• Donald Coventry III (The Artifact, Back Home) — British Director of the Cultural Preservation Society; cultist who tries to summon the centipede entity through Rev’s blood. (First named via phone in Back Home; arrives in person in The Meeting.)
• Douglas Randolph (The Artifact, Randolph) — Cornelius’s first cousin in Covington who warns Rev that Cornelius “always was passing strange.”
• Dr. Copeland (The Disturbed, Recovery) — Hospital physician who clears Rae after her coma.
• Dr. Ibrahim Aziz (The Artifact, Digging Deeper) — Tulane researcher pioneering the modified-CT technique used to image the Jar.
• Dr. Williams (The Disturbed, Hospital) — ER doctor who stitches up Rev’s flank.
• Émile Durand (The Disturbed, Delivery) — French expedition founder who unearthed the Black Pharaoh tomb in 1912 and died in 1913.
• Father James Kelly (The Betrayed, Saints) — Irish-brogued priest of Saint Christina’s, Oxford-trained psychologist and senior Order member; ultimately crucified and flayed by Burke in the asylum chapel.
• Father Peter Walsh, S.J. (Commune, Briefing) — Aging Jesuit scholar studying Las Tribus Olvidadas; taken over by a parasitic worm at Skelly’s Hole.
• Felix (“Wax Man”) (Commune, Father Walsh) — Severely burn-scarred, web-handed Psikinépikwa mute who paints Eye-of-Ra wards and ultimately stabs Walsh.
• Fitzgerald (The Betrayed, Saints) — Irish ex-mob boss running the Arúnsearc pub; secretly Order member who bankrolls Rev. (Named in Saints; first met on-page in Arúnsearc.)
• Franklin (Commune, Boat) — Psikinépikwa villager who lends Skeeter the small johnboat.
• Freddy Guidry (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — NOPD captain in the fourth district, Rev’s mentor and best friend; killed with his family by Burke’s gas-can booby trap.
• Frederick “little Fred” Guidry (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — Freddy and Janet’s teen son; killed in the kitchen explosion (in The Disturbed).
• Graybeard / Jack (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Old Vietnam-vet homeless man at the I-10 tent city, Alisha’s protector.
• Grimes (Valerie) (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Stern Burke Foundation outreach manager and Bernie’s lifelong de facto guardian.
• Hassana Sani (The Artifact, Initial Inquiries) — Tall, dark-skinned Intake Supervisor at the Cultural Preservation Society’s New Orleans warehouse.
• Hubert (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — Morbidly obese Cajun dispatcher at King Cab.
• Isabelle Randolph (The Artifact, Lacombe) — Cornelius’s daughter and Searchlight recruiter who placed “David Kinsey” at the Cultural Preservation Society.
• Jack McDougall (The Artifact, The Decision) — Bartender at Lili Marlene’s in Pensacola.
• James (The Betrayed, Burke’s Place) — Burke’s wooden-faced manservant.
• Jamie Gilroy (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Thirteen-year-old McDonough boy mutilated in Burke’s basement cage.
• Janet Guidry (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — Freddy’s wife; killed in the kitchen explosion (in The Disturbed). (First named in Freddy’s phone call in The Hunt is On.)
• Jerome (The Betrayed, Saints) — Ten-year-old homeless boy at the Poydras shelter, Marcus’s protector; later murdered in his asylum cell.
• Jerry (J. Whitmer) (The Disturbed, Threads) — Pensacola tailor on Palafox who custom-tailors Rev’s gabardine trench coat.
• John Calhoun (David Kinsey) (The Artifact, The Meeting) — Naïve Tucker, Georgia young man recruited by Randolph and given an Egyptologist alias to steal the Jar; consumed in bed at Kayrevla. (First seen as alias “Kinsey” in The Meeting; real name revealed in Georgia.)
• Kurt and Lewis (Lewis Porter) (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Gay homeless couple camped at Washington Square; both vanish.
• Laura Wagner (The Artifact, Digging Deeper) — New York Times reporter announcing the gifting of the Jar.
• Louis (Commune, Caught) — Bug-eyed scaly-skinned Psikinépikwa villager who guards the cells.
• Lurch (The Artifact, Clash of the Titans) — Coventry’s seven-foot-plus acromegalic enforcer; killed by Rev.
• Maddie Brooks (The Artifact, Lacombe) — Lead Recruiter at Searchlight Staffing in Atlanta.
• Marcus (The Betrayed, Saints) — Young runaway homeless boy who beds inside Jackson Square’s hedges; Burke’s “pet kid.” (The Disturbed gives his age as eight; The Betrayed does not specify.)
• Martha (Commune, Message) — Baton Rouge transcriptionist who renders Las Tribus Olvidadas into English.
• Marvin Brown (The Artifact, Georgia) — Black PI partner at Brown and Williams in Atlanta.
• Mason (“Skeeter”) (Commune, Walsh’s Rooms) — Lanky Cajun airboat captain in Gibson; secretly aligned with the Psikinépikwa cult. (Card found in Walsh’s Rooms; first met in person in chapter Skeeter.)
• Miss LeBlanc (The Disturbed, Explanations) — Social worker who escorts Marcus to the Poydras shelter farewell.
• Mr. and Mrs. Miller (The Disturbed, Prologue) — Marcus’s abusive parents, slaughtered in their kitchen by Burke wearing Marcus’s face.
• Mr. Calhoun (Gerald Calhoun Jr.) (The Artifact, Lacombe) — Calhoun’s father in Tucker, Georgia.
• Mr. Carter (The Artifact, The Jar) — Branch manager of Rev’s Pensacola First National Bank.
• Mr. Peters (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Older Burke Foundation volunteer at the I-10 tent city.
• Mr. Pritchard (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Candy-shop proprietor on Bernie’s “five friends” list.
• Ms. Daniels (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Florist on Bernie’s “friends” list.
• Ms. Thelma (Commune, Boarding House) — Wizened black housekeeper at the diocese boarding house in Baton Rouge.
• Ms. Wilson (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Sunday pie-baker on Bernie’s “friends” list.
• Old Tom (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Elderly homeless man who lived at the Poydras shelter; one of the missing.
• Oleg Nikolaev (The Artifact, On Kinsey’s Trail) — Russian-immigrant King Cab driver in Westwego.
• Pete (Peter) Abrams (The Artifact, Randolph) — Former Nola assistant DA, now partner at Collins, Griffin, and Abrams; recommended Rev to Coventry.
• Pheobe Durst (Sarah Burke / The Great Mother) (The Betrayed, Saints) — Centuries-old Homo anthropophagi (ghoul) wearing the glamour of a beautiful blond philanthropist; primary antagonist from Book 2 onward. (Spelling “Pheobe” used in The Betrayed; The Disturbed only ever calls her “Burke” — the given name does not appear there.)
• Professor Emilio Diaz (Commune, Franciscan) — Franciscan University history professor who places Psikinépikwa on a map.
• Rae (Rachel) Gordon (The Betrayed, Candidates) — Russian-Jewish PI from Newark via LA; ex-actress, Ju-Jitsu/Escrima trained, drives a black 280Z; Rev’s partner from Book 2 onward.
• Rebecca (The Artifact, Digging Deeper) — Rev’s ex-wife, who left him without warning four years before the Coventry case.
• Rev (Revel) Parata (The Artifact, Franklin Surveillance) — Six-foot-seven, half-Maori half-Chiricahua-Apache PI based in Pensacola, ex-NOPD homicide and ex-Army recon scout; series protagonist.
• Richard Meyers (The Disturbed, Body) — Name on the planted New Orleans Railway Maintenance card in the alley homeless victim’s jacket.
• Robinson Parks (The Disturbed, Council) — Fitzgerald’s high-end criminal defense attorney with the firm Parks, Mason, and LeBlanc.
• Rudolph and Scarecrow detectives (The Disturbed, Lies) — Pair of NOPD detectives who interview Rev at the Guidry fire.
• Rufus Freeman (The Artifact, Initial Inquiries) — Older Black truck driver at the Cultural Preservation Society loading dock.
• Saints jersey gang leader (The Betrayed, Saints) — Young black gang leader in a #38 jersey who fronts the gang Marcus ran errands for.
• Shane MacQuillan (The Betrayed, Bernie) — Fourteen-year-old McDonough boy who vanished with Jamie; remains identified at the riverside dump.
• Sherelle (The Artifact, Initial Inquiries) — Coventry’s middle-aged Parisian-French-accented assistant.
• Theresa Collins (The Betrayed, Fanny) — Director of the Gravier Street shelter.
• The alley homeless victim (The Disturbed, Body) — Anonymous green-skinned corpse found in the abandoned industrial-park alley as Burke’s first message after returning.
• The Centipede / Crawling One (The Artifact, The ‘Production’) — Multi-legged, three-lobed-red-eyed insectoid entity birthed from Coventry’s body and loosed into the swamp.
• The Elder (Commune, Aftermath) — Hunched, walking-stick-wielding Cajun-French patriarch of Psikinépikwa; orchestrates the comet-night ritual.
• The grandfather (tsúyé) / Coyote spirit (The Artifact, Kinsey’s Legacy) — Rev’s late maternal grandfather, an Apache healer; appears as a coyote at the plantation ritual.
• The Order’s grandmaster (The Disturbed, Fitzgerald) — Compartmentalized leader of the Order of the Hidden Eye; identity unknown even to Fitzgerald.
• The Sleeper / The God in the Hole (Commune, The Awakening) — Boxcar-headed, six-tentacled aquatic god dwelling at the bottom of Skelly’s Hole.
• The Worm (Walsh’s parasite) (Commune, Waking the Dead) — Acid-blooded grub larva of the centipede; lived in Walsh’s ear and controlled him.
• Turbo (Lloyd Franklin) (The Artifact, Franklin Surveillance) — Strung-out Louisiana bail-skip Rev brings in from a Calhoun County, Georgia trailer in the opening chapter.
• Victor Devereaux (Bayou Butcher) (The Disturbed, Asylum) — Asylum patient who chopped his family up and fed them to his gators; loosed during the asylum riot.
• William (The Disturbed, Exploration) — Knocked-out asylum orderly Rev finds shoved into a closet.

Places

• Antebellum Books (The Disturbed, Acquisition) — Drab brick antiquarian bookshop in Covington.
• Arúnsearc (The Betrayed, Arúnsearc) — Fitzgerald’s Irish pub in the French Quarter.
• Bayou Black Drive / Gibson (Commune, Skeeter) — Last toehold of civilization before the bayou; Skeeter’s home.
• Besonwa (The Artifact, BESONWA) — Cornelius Randolph’s Greek-revival house at 1 Old Jones Place outside Quitman, Georgia, with a priest-hole and ritual basement.
• Boutte barn (The Disturbed, Isolation) — Old wooden barn off an unmarked Boutte dirt road where Terry conducts his solitary ritual.
• Burke Foundation HQ (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Suite 200 in a high-rise at 707 Perdido Street.
• Burke residence (The Betrayed, Burke’s Place) — Yellow Greek-revival historic home on Chartres Street with a basement abattoir, walk-in cold rooms hung with human cuts, and a trap-door spur into the under-city tunnels.
• Cultural Preservation Society intake center (The Artifact, The Decision) — Brick warehouse at 920 Julia Street in New Orleans where Coventry processes acquisitions; HQ at the Manhattan gallery. (Address first given in The Decision; first visited in Initial Inquiries.)
• Diocese boarding house (Commune, Boarding House) — Two-story shotgun in Baton Rouge run by Ms. Thelma; Walsh’s rooms.
• Dookie Chase’s (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Famous black-owned Creole restaurant in New Orleans.
• Faucheux Monuments (The Artifact, Faucheux Monuments) — Beatnik’s monument-shop front on West W Street, Belle Chasse.
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University (Commune, Briefing) — Baton Rouge university where Las Tribus Olvidadas is held.
• Gravier Street shelter (The Betrayed, Fanny) — City-run shelter near Tulane School of Medicine where Fanny lived.
• Hibernia National Bank (The Disturbed, The Court) — Bank holding Father Kelly’s safe-deposit box 10407 with Rev’s letter.
• Jackson Square (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Iron-fenced French-Quarter park where Marcus snuck behind the Andrew Jackson statue.
• Kayrevla (The Artifact, KAYREVLA) — Decaying Victorian on a Lacombe estate inherited from Randolph’s father; reused by Rev for Terry’s scaphism.
• Lafon Home for Boys (The Artifact, Lafon Boys Home) — Abandoned brick orphanage on Chef Menteur Highway east of New Orleans, used for Coventry’s rituals.
• Lili Marlene’s (The Artifact, The Decision) — Pensacola jazz bar in Seville Quarter.
• Louisiana State Archives (Commune, Boarding House) — Baton Rouge archive Rae searches for Psikinépikwa records.
• McDonough Playground (The Betrayed, Teens) — Vacant city-block park off Brooklyn Avenue where Shane and Jamie were last seen.
• Metaire (Terry’s home) (The Disturbed, Stakeout) — Lakefront house overlooking Lake Pontchartrain.
• Metairie Cemetery (The Disturbed, Guidrys) — Above-ground necropolis where the city interns the Guidrys.
• Napoleon House (The Betrayed, Arúnsearc) — French-Quarter restaurant famous for muffulettas and Pimm’s.
• New Orleans Mental Hospital (The Disturbed, Kelly) — Multi-building gated asylum on Tchoupitoulas, formerly the marine hospital.
• Parata & Associates office (The Artifact, Back Home) — Rev’s Creole-townhouse storefront on Palafox Street in the Pensacola historic district.
• Poydras Street shelter (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Shelter where Jerome bunks.
• Psikinépikwa / Skelly’s Hole (Commune, Skeeter) — Forgotten bayou village in Terrebonne Parish around an azure sinkhole, depopulated by the 1920s Skelly Oil collapse.
• Tranquility, Louisiana (Commune, Skeeter) — Modern English place-name for the village Rev calls Psikinépikwa; the name “Tranquility” is given by Skeeter in chapter Skeeter and used as a chapter title later in Commune.
• 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.
• Saint Christina’s Catholic Church (The Betrayed, Saints) — Father Kelly’s Gothic parish in the Faubourg with a twelve-story bell tower under restoration.
• Skeeter’s Airboat Charters (Commune, Skeeter) — Cracker-Barrel-decorated tin-roof shop on the outskirts of Gibson.
• The Court (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Themed-room motel in New Orleans where Rev habitually stays.
• The swamp warehouse / abattoir (The Disturbed, Aftermath) — Cobwebbed industrial garage outside New Orleans where Burke meets Rev and dies.
• 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.
• Vacherie plantation (The Artifact, Plantation) — Coventry’s Greek-revival plantation house off Oak Alley Lane on the Mississippi.
• Washington Manor (The Artifact, Kinsey’s Apartment) — Apartment complex on Washington Avenue where Calhoun rented unit 214.
• Washington Square Park (The Betrayed, Jerome) — City-block park where Kurt and Lewis camped.

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 victims.
• Burke’s twelve-cultist cabal (The Disturbed, Dream) — Liver-eating circle Rev observes in his prophetic dream; Terry was one, Blake another.
• Cultural Preservation Society (The Artifact, The Meeting) — Manhattan-headquartered non-profit ostensibly preserving historic apocrypha; front through which Coventry acquires the Jar.
• Dependable Answering Service (The Artifact, Back Home) — Rev’s Pensacola answering service.
• King Cab (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — Yellow-painted New Orleans cab company on Howard Avenue.
• NOPD fourth district (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — New Orleans Police Department station Freddy commands; Rev’s old shop.
• Order of the Hidden Eye (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Ancient secret order Father Kelly belongs to; researches occult texts and dispatches kill teams.
• Parks, Mason, and LeBlanc (The Disturbed, Council) — High-end criminal defense firm Fitzgerald retains for Rev.
• Pinkerton, Globe, Valdez (The Artifact, The Meeting) — Big-name New Orleans investigative firms Coventry deliberately bypassed in hiring Rev.
• Psikinépikwa cult (Commune, Bonfire) — French-speaking remnant of Tranquility who perform a weekly hymn and prepare a comet-night summoning of their god.
• Searchlight Staffing (The Artifact, Initial Inquiries) — Atlanta-based technical staffing agency captured by Randolph through a $300,000 “investment.” (Hassana Sani names them in Initial Inquiries; Maddie Brooks contact in Lacombe.)
• Society for Esoteric Knowledge (The Artifact, The Hunt is On) — Cornelius Randolph’s South Atlanta cult front.

Mythos / Concepts / Rituals

• Asymmetric pentagram circle (The Artifact, What Lies Beneath) — Warped five-pointed star inside a chalk circle ringed with foreign script; recurring containment device for the Jar’s power.
• Bayou Butcher (Victor Devereaux) (The Disturbed, Asylum) — Knife-wielding asylum nickname for Devereaux.
• Binding the Jar (The Disturbed, Preparation) — One-time, lifetime ritual that fuses a person to the Jar; the Jar appears to bind itself to Rev unbidden.
• Black pearl eyes of the Jar (The Artifact, Aftermath) — Iridescent black pearls set into the Pharaoh-head lid that catch and seem to focus the entity’s regard.
• Canopic jar (The Artifact, Initial Inquiries) — Sealed Old Kingdom Egyptian vessel containing a single mummified organ.
• Chlorpromazine (Commune, The Jar) — Antipsychotic Walsh has been taking, suggesting he had been hearing voices long before the worm.
• Comet-night summoning (Commune, The Hymn) — Once-in-history comet alignment that opens an eye in the storm clouds and lets the village’s hymn pull the god to the surface.
• Crab spider mimicry / Aphantochilus (The Betrayed, Chartres) — Burke’s pet allegory: ant-mimic spider that lives among its prey unseen.
• Eye of Ra ward (Commune, Walsh) — Filled-iris right eye drawn inside an asymmetric pentagram, a protective glyph through threat of violence.
• Five-tentacle dance / hymn (Commune, Bonfire) — Villagers’ weekly chant whose movements mirror the Sleeper’s whipping luminescent tentacles.
• Glamour / illusion (The Betrayed, Lair) — Ghoul ability to mold human perception; defeated by mirrors, photographs, and apparently Rev’s particular sensitivity.
• Hapi and Nephthys (The Disturbed, Delivery) — Egyptian baboon-headed lung guardian and goddess of darkness/ritual/magic; Kelly identifies the Jar’s contents as the lungs.
• Homo anthropophagi (ghoul) (The Betrayed, The Revelation) — Once-human predators turned through perversion and ritual; gain skills and longevity by consuming victims.
• Hypnotic compulsion / mind-control by gaze (The Artifact, What Lies Beneath) — Ability to override another’s body with sustained eye contact, demonstrated by Randolph and (via the worm) Walsh.
• Key of Solomon protective glyph (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Diagram from The Key of Solomon used to ward against ghouls.
• Long pig (The Betrayed, Charnel) — Burke’s “Arapawa pork” served at her dinner; revealed to be human meat.
• Nyarlathotep / Black Pharaoh (The Artifact, What Lies Beneath) — Egyptian-named “false god” whose glyph recurs across the series; the centipede and worms are his servants. (Name first appears in Randolph’s chant; “Black Pharaoh” first in The Meeting/Initial Inquiries; “the crawling one” first in The ‘Production’.)
• Pendant of the Hidden Eye (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Cheap silver “energy” amulet ritually charged by Father Kelly to serve as anti-ghoul ward.
• Ranger candy (The Disturbed, Interrogation) — Slang for ibuprofen, the Army’s catch-all for pain.
• Roman scaphism (boat-of-honey) (The Disturbed, Scaphism) — Persian/Roman execution by milk-and-honey, exposure, and bacterial rot, recreated in a corn-syrup bathtub for Terry.
• Saint Christina the Astonishing’s resurrection (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Parish 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 an over-sized shadow.
• Sunrise Ceremony / Apache rituals (The Artifact, What Lies Beneath) — Chiricahua coming-of-age dances Rev’s tribe practiced; their memory is what breaks Randolph’s compulsion.
• The compulsion-breaking chant (The Artifact, The Ritual) — Half-remembered Apache syllables Rev’s grandfather taught him; rises unbidden and dispels the cult’s chant.
• 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.
• 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 mind-voice / call (The Artifact, Loose Ends) — Subtle internal pull Rev begins feeling from the unsealed Jar, whispering rationalizations to keep it close.
• The Jar’s protection (The Disturbed, Awakening) — The Jar dudding ammunition, popping its safe lock, and unleashing devouring ants on Burke; appears to act in service of its own purposes for Rev.
• The larva (Commune, Worm) — Acid-blooded grubs the centipede injects into hosts to control or breed.
• The Sleeper’s pressure waves (Commune, The Awakening) — Reality-warping shockwaves issuing from the god whose intelligence overflows containment in this world.
• The Skelly Hole undercurrent (Commune, Skelly’s Hole) — Bottomless suction current at the lip of the hole that drowned the original Skelly Oil crew.

Texts and artifacts

• Burke’s sapphire pendant (The Disturbed, Aftermath) — Striking blue gem Burke always wore; recovered from the swamp ash.
• The Book of Eibon (The Artifact, Aftermath) — Ancient leather-bound, iron-clasped grimoire on Randolph’s basement workbench at Besonwa.
• De praestigiis daemonum (On the Tricks of Demons) (The Betrayed, The Revelation) — Fifteenth-century witch-hunting manual whose appendix illustrates ghouls.
• Father Kelly’s grimoire shelf (The Betrayed, Burke Foundation) — Glass-locked case in Kelly’s office holding The Magus, Le Dragon Rouge, Grimoir of Pope Honorius, Malleus Maleficarum, and other tomes.
• Father Kelly’s posthumous 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.
• Japanese chef’s knife (Burke’s) (The Betrayed, Desperate Measures) — Special-order Japanese knife with kanji-etched blade Burke gives Bernie and uses on Ms. Miller and Father Kelly.
• The Burke Foundation lollipop (The Betrayed, Jerome) — Wrapped candy with the open-hand-in-blue-circle logo handed out to homeless contacts.
• 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 Artifact, The Meeting) — Black-onyx Old Kingdom Canopic jar with a Pharaoh-head lid set with black-pearl eyes; recurring engine of the series.
• The Key of Solomon (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Grimoire Father Kelly uses to draw the protective ward over doorways.
• The Kinsey/Calhoun journal (The Artifact, KAYREVLA) — Small leather-bound diary Calhoun kept of his “explorations into the occult.”
• The Kris knife (The Artifact, Tracking Cornelius) — Wavy-bladed Indonesian dagger displayed in Randolph’s Atlanta office; used on the Quitman sacrifice.
• The “stylized sun” glyph (The Artifact, Tracking Cornelius) — White-on-black painted symbol — filled circle with arrows in each of the eight compass directions (N, NE, E, SE, etc.) — first seen in Randolph’s office. The manuscript does not name it as a Nyarlathotep glyph; the iconography may or may not recur in later books.
• The 15th-century Spanish Bible (Skelly’s Bible) (Commune, Felix) — Water-warped Old-Testament-heavy Bible the village requires Walsh to preach from.
• Walsh’s coded diary (Commune, Civilization) — Hardback journal in Walsh’s nearly impenetrable handwriting that Rev pockets from Skelly’s Hole.
• Walsh’s room sigils (Commune, Walsh’s Rooms) — Wall-covering pencil sketches of eel-like sea creatures arrayed around Key of Solomon glyphs that seem to writhe when stared at.
• 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.
• Las Tribus Olvidadas (Commune, Briefing) — Anonymous “lost-tribes” book attributed to Álvarez de Pineda’s expedition, lures Walsh into the swamp.

Events

• Burke’s basement showdown (The Betrayed, Showdown) — Rev and Rae rescue Jamie from Burke’s hanging cage and drive Burke into the under-city tunnels.
• Burke’s epilogue feeding (The Betrayed, Epilogue) — Wounded Pheobe Durst lures and consumes a young man in an alley, beginning her long game of revenge against Rev.
• The Calhoun consumption at Kayrevla (The Artifact, KAYREVLA) — Calhoun lies down in the four-poster bed and is liquefied, leaving only a blood-soaked oval of sheets and mushroom growth.
• The Catacombs standoff (The Betrayed, Catacombs) — Burke holds Marcus hostage in a tunnel chamber under the Claibourne overpass; Felix’s intervention ends the rite.
• The Christmas comet-night ritual (Commune, The Awakening) — Walsh chants the Cthulhu-fhtagn line atop a rock with his back to Skelly’s Hole; the village gives itself to the rising god.
• 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.
• 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.
• The body dump in Skelly’s Hole (Commune, The Return) — Rev throws Walsh’s corpse into the hole rather than fabricate a believable police story.
• The Felix capture (Commune, Felix) — Rev cuffs Felix behind the church and discovers his web-fingered burned hand.
• The Felix jailbreak (Commune, Escape) — Felix blackjacks the guard with a bag of pebbles and frees Rev and Rae the night before the ritual.
• 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 Lafon Home ritual (The Artifact, The Ritual) — Five black-robed Coventry cultists chant around the Jar; Rev’s ancestral chant dispels the three-lobed red-eye vision.
• The Marcus-and-Miller-parents reunion (The Betrayed, Reunion) — Marcus is returned to his parents under social-worker supervision after Burke’s basement; Jerome says goodbye.
• 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 Miller murders (The Disturbed, Prologue) — Burke, wearing Marcus’s face, slits Mrs. Miller’s throat from the bar and disembowels Mr. Miller while Jerome watches.
• The mid-bayou airboat trip (Commune, Boat Ride) — Rev and Rae cross to Skelly’s Hole with Skeeter, learning the hole’s history and undercurrent.
• 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 Pact (Order recruitment) (The Betrayed, The Pact) — Father Kelly chalks the Solomon ward over Rev’s office door and recruits Rev and Rae into the Order of the Hidden Eye.
• The plantation summoning (The Artifact, The ‘Production’) — Coventry uses Rev’s blood to draw the asymmetric pentagram on the marble obelisk-square; the centipede hatches from Coventry’s mouth.
• The Quitman ritual / Randolph’s death (The Artifact, What Lies Beneath) — A ricochet from Rev’s revolver kills Randolph after his foot smudges the protective circle.
• 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.
• The Skeeter betrayal (Commune, Caught) — Skeeter ambushes Rev at the disabled airboat and locks him and Rae in the village’s plank cells.
• The Sotheby’s 1918 sale (The Artifact, Digging Deeper) — Auction at which the Jar of Nephren-Ka sold for £1.24 million to John Birch.
• 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 homemade wooden stocks above a corn-syrup tub; finishes him with both barrels the next night.
• Walsh’s death and de-worming (Commune, Waking the Dead) — Rev shoots Walsh during the rite; Felix stabs him; the next morning the worm crawls out of his ear and Rev crushes it underfoot.