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Victoria McQueen

This character, also called "the Brat" in the beginning of the novel, is a child when she discovers a portal on the "Shorter Way Bridge" that crosses "the distance between Lost and Found." She first discovers the portal when she rides across the bridge on her Raleigh Tuff Burner bicycle.

Charles Manx

This character "made dozens of [children] disappear back in the nineties." He has a house below the Flatirons where he hangs Christmas ornaments in the memory of the children, called Christmasland.

Ellen Thornton

This nurse at FCI Englewood in the Supermax prison infirmary appears in the novel's Prologue, and is accosted and threatened by the antagonist.

Bing Partridge

This character, introduced in "Spicy Menace, 1990," is a middle-aged man who heads a janitorial crew at NorChemPharm in Sugarcreek, Pennsylvania. He discovers an ad for Christmasland and applies, hoping to work in security. He becomes involved...

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