With a talent for the clarivoyant and a connection to ancestral dark magic, Melody’s work as a sorceress makes her the perfect host. She will bewilder and beguile her guests with delectable spirits and distinctive dishes while leaving you wanting more. You will never know what she has up her sleeve and her power to surprise and delight is challenged by none. But beware her dark hidden agenda disguised in plain sight.

A veteran who did twenty honorable years in the military, Bo Bandini is an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency who hails from Wraith’s Cove. With an obsessive personality, Bo refuses to back down while facing unbeatable odds. With an infectious laugh and complex nature, Bo’s willpower and motivations are admirable. It is a challenge to ascertain Bo’s theories and opinions. Nobody knows which sector of the CIA Bo is assigned.

A budding artist and famous escapist, Dr. Fox discharges all creative energies into maintaining the House of Dread – a performance theater and ghoulish museum of artifacts associated with deadly attempts at magic. Dr. Fox was chiseled from the stone which gives forth fierce, bold types. A no-nonsense creature of habit, Dr. Fox is disciplined and determined to make history in the field of illusion. This illusionist has suffered a lifetime of great injustices and sadness, so the hair-raising, sinister magic shows at the theater are reflective of the past.

Morgan Marlowe is a clerk for the Stop-N-Go – a convenience store on Black Dahlia Drive. Morgan recites freeform poetry with ease and engages in petty crimes to supplement a meager income and satisfy rich tastes. An accomplished pickpocket, Morgan is particularly dexterous and uses an assorted bag of tricks to thrive and evade strife with the police. A streetwise facade with a heart of an innocent child – you’ll find yourself cheering for this antihero

Flynn Moriarty exists behind a smokescreen of a glitzy swirl of high society shindigs and life without boundaries or limits. Behind the curtains, Flynn drones on about a failed career and empty trust fund. Flynn faces the world with utterly nothing but the power of a charismatic personality. Due to Eddie Poe being a childhood friend. Flynn recently landed a job with the Wraith’s Cove Daily as an entrylevel field journalist, reporting on local bake sales, ice cream socials, and farm festivals. Flynn has the potential to be a success in the field if an inflated ego and a bottomless barrel of pride do not ruin everything.

A perplexing individual with a silver tongue and a dark past, Lincoln has finally figured out the world and is a contributing member of society. As a youth, Lincoln underwent a misguided rebellion and dropped out of high school to become a street hooligan. Today, Lincoln is a morally ambiguous and infallible police psychologist for the city of Wraith’s Cove. Lincoln is oddly calm when predicting misfortune and devastation.

A probing spectator of the macabre, Sterling Twist is a rebel with a cause who modifies the past, present, and future at will. Sterling is a vibrant outcast who spews intriguing tales of extravagant adventures – which may or may not hold a shred of reality. Causing trouble at every junction, Sterling is a ferocious free thinker who often pretends to be someone else when intermingling in society. This cagey soul may be quite dangerous, as Sterling never reveals intentions.

With a primal instinct of survival, shrewdness, and deceitfulness, Eddie Poe is editor-in-chief at the Wraith’s Cove Daily. A loner drove to seclusion from heartbreak and an unfortunate sequence of misfortunes, Eddie has an attachment to a strict routine and will become enraged if anyone gets in the way. An aficionado of the macabre, Eddie runs the editorial department at the Wraith’s Cove Daily after giving up on a dream career as a freelance poet. Due to Eddie’s self-loathing state of mind, Eddie’s estate is in a sullied condition and dire need of repairs.

Touted as the grandest detective of modern times, Landry Nevermore is intellectual, witty, and charming. Landry possesses the powers of persuasion and rationality to crack challenging cases in the crime-ridden, evil realm of Wraith’s Cove. A deductive mastermind who utilizes a superior mind for the good of the town, Landry is in tune with the seedy minds of humanity’s underbelly.

Of all the chilling guests on Poe’s invite list, Jess Sherlock is the most mysterious. A struggling writer, blatantly embracing life with a drive fringing on recklessness, Jess has a serene detachment from a visible path of self-destruction. Lacking awareness or concern for well-being or comfort, Jess intentionally enters harm’s way. Jess has penned over thirty best-selling novels of the undead and lives in a mansion overlooking Wraith’s Cove, next door to the envious Eddie Poe.

Corrupt, wicked, and dangerous to associate with, Gray Golightly possesses an unchained, thoughtless persona. Gray’s a heartless and contemptuous troublemaker who uses people like a hairbrush – for their functionality. Take Gray’s words lightly, as Gray’s life is one big fairytale narrated by an imaginative mind. Gray’s a hipster who lives for wicked adventures and plays the cello with a disturbing lack of talent. Gray is currently being investigated by Landry Nevermore for multiple disappearances of thrill seekers who have entered the Golightly Escape Experience.

Paige Shandy is the chief technology officer at the Wraith’s Cove Daily. Cynical with little redeeming qualities, Paige is utterly obnoxious and taxing to be around. An acknowledged computer hacker and suspected member of an international hacking group, this CTO is not to be toiled with, albeit many have tried and failed epically. Paige can be terrifying and intimidating, but on a second’s notice, Paige turns gentle as a lamb. Paige’s duo of personalities keeps everyone guessing

Brock Falstaff is an academic genius who constantly makes a mess of situations. Bored with mundane life, this scholar creates perilous scenarios purely for the enjoyment derived from evading the predicaments. Brock is unemployed yet intermingles with the hollow upper-class world. Both witty and charming, Brock is a manipulator with a propensity for using wealthy friends to obtain undeserved luxuries and to fund an extravagant shopping habit.

Bold, heroic, and honorable, Sam Salander is an actual role model in every sense. Sam has an ambitious and overbearing personality as the Headmaster of Hogcastle Preparatory School. Sam understands the abundant defects and imperfections in the human condition and is on a mission to instill an eternal code of value and honor within the 284 students who roam the corridors of the prestigious academy

An American of Irish descent, Logan is an office manager at the Wraith’s Cove Daily who is obsessed with workplace power-plays and revenge plots. A merciless ladder climber who never compromises, Logan is a gossipmonger when tittle-tattle has the promise to lead to advancement in rank at the newspaper. Logan prefers to be alone when possible and is anything but altruistic.

A doomed romantic, Seven has an inquisitive temperament coupled with a powerful imagination. Unfit for the adult world, Seven has a difficulty dealing with obligations and responsibilities. Seven has a stoical truthfulness that causes Seven innately to do the right thing. A puppeteer, Seven has built a lucrative career by performing at home parties, weekly shows at the House of Dread, and by running ads on a YouTube channel with over 500K subscribers.

A conventional rogue, Lolo Trotsky is a larger than life private investigator. A riotously amusing vigilante who believes to be a modern-day Robin Hood, Lolo rejects societal rules and does whatever is needed to get the job done. Often called a bully, Lolo claims it is merely that Lolo’s way is best, and others may not realize what is good for them. Lolo is the archenemy of Landry Nevermore, as they are often working the same murder cases – albeit, the victim’s families hire Lolo.

With a childlike charm and wonder, Danny Drake is a forensic anthropologist for the Wraith’s Cove Crime Lab. Hailing from an impoverished background - Danny deplores the upper crust of society. Hungry for attention, Danny holds the center stage of any room and often reminisces about when Danny’s mother gave up everything for a failed attempt at Danny becoming a child star. This lab dweller embraces never-ending grudges and blames society for everything wrong in life.

Zane Katz is a deeply philosophical federal agent. Rather aloof with expensive tastes, Zane’s a worldly, refined individual who people easily come to trust. Nobody knows which agency Zane works for and if Zane is in Wraith’s Cove for business or pleasure. The agent was invited to Poe’s Raven Party and was first to return an RSVP card. This is troubling to those on the guest list with shady pasts and less than honorable intentions.