The Dead
The collection of souls, gathered from various points in the preceding century, inhabiting Blackbury cemetery, who Johnny Maxwell discovers are not so much lost as at a loss.
The principal spectres
- Alderman Thomas Bowler (1826-1906)
- Mrs Sylvia Liberty, (d.1914) Suffragette
- Comrade William Stickers
- Solomon Einstein, taxidermist and amateur physicist
- Sidney "Wrong Way" Roundway, footballing legend
- Antonio Vicente, magician and escapologist manqué
- Mr. Ronald Newton (1878-1934)
- Mr. Addison Fletcher, an electronics engineer
- Pvt. Tommy Atkins, Blackbury Volunteers (the Pals)
- Mr. Eric Grimm. Nobody wants to talk about the circumstances of his death very much.