Characters / Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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General Tropes

• Catchphrase: Gary declares each meeting closed at the end of the episode with the same phrase, and of course all of the society members introduce that week's episode with the trademark phrase: "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story..."
• Children's Covert Coterie: The Midnight Society - a group of preteens who gather around a campfire in the woods at night to share ghost stories. There are even initiation rituals for new members, such as being led to the fire and telling a story while blindfolded. The reboot of the series takes it further with current members being masked for the initiation.
• Framing Device: Before and after each tale, a small segment occurs with the tellers that foreshadows or concludes something regarding that episode's story, be it a motif, a moral, or a Driving Question.
• Motifs / Creator Thumbprint: Almost all of the kids in the Midnight Society have recurring themes in their stories. Here they are, as follows:
  • Betty Ann tends to tell stories about supernatural creatures either breaking into our world, or dragging the main character into theirs.
  • David tends to tell stories about what happens if you don't resolve unpleasant past events or deal with the evil inside people in the present.
  • Eric had only two full stories before leaving, but his Irish ancestry inspired him to tell a leprechaun story.
  • Gary's stories usually feature magical or cursed objects and the dangerous effects they have on people. Also, Gary keeps using the character of Sardo, the wannabe magician who owns Sardo's Magic Mansion ("That's Sar-DOH! No Mister, accent on the do!").
  • Kiki tends to tell stories about the dangers of being careless or deceitful, and warning against letting history repeat itself. She also tends to feature people of color and athletes to a greater extent than the others do.
  • Kristen tells a lot of "unfinished business" stories about ghosts who need mortals to help them complete their business. Additionally she usually brings a prop or costume to match the theme of her story. The only one she doesn't do this for is "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost".
  • Sam tells mostly love stories, particularly love that lasts from beyond the grave.
  • Stig only told two stories, but both were about outsiders being judged based on appearance or tastes.
  • Tucker tends to tell stories involving frayed family relationships that later mend, and in his stories the villain tends to appear because someone released him by accident.
  • Frank's stories mostly consist of Dr. Vink, with the exception of "The Tale of the Full Moon" and "The Tale of Train Magic".
  • Vange’s stories tend to revolve around games.
  • Andy’s stories tend to be cerebral and have morals to them.
• Nightmare Fetishist: The teens gather at night to tell scary stories to each other, which both fascinate and frighten them.
• The Storyteller: The premise of the series is that these friends gather round a campfire and tell horror stories to one another.

Original Midnight Society

Takes place during Seasons 1-5

Gary (Seasons 1-5)

Played By: Ross Hull

• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Sam.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The soft-spoken, restrained leader of the group told "Super Specs" and "Pinball Wizard" (which had some of Season 1's darkest endings, if not the darkest). He also explicitly told "Super Specs" and set up a little prank at the end because Kristen told him some of the group were criticizing his stories behind his back.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Responsible to Tucker's foolish.
• Not So Above It All: While he keeps a stern eye on Tucker's impudent merriment, Gary, when showing Kristen around his dad's magic shop, is seen to enjoy the odd prank.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive guy to Frank's manly man.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With his younger brother Tucker.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Has an impressive grasp of mystical lore, seemingly learned from his dad's magic shop.

Betty Ann (Seasons 1-5)

Played By: Raine Pare-Coull

• Brainy Brunette/ The Smart Guy: Her stories often have subversive twists. Also rather cunningly lures Tucker into reading aloud, from a mysterious book, a description of his recent actions.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Supportive, welcoming and easy-going, but has an evident fondness for macabre imagery, and occasional shock endings.
• Cloudcuckoolander Her introductions to "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor", "The Tale of the Dollmaker," and "The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner" show a fondness for surreal, thought-provoking notions.
• Ironic Name: "Betty Ann" is a surprisingly cute name for a girl that's got such a flair for the macabre.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Her calmer demeanor makes her the blue oni to Kiki's boldness.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Her stories tended to be the darker than the others. Infamously, her last story was "The Tale of the Chameleons", which many fans view as the most brutal in the entire series. She also owns a pet tarantula.

Kiki (Seasons 1-5)

Played By: Jodie Resther

• The Big Guy: Has a playful, occasionally antagonistic brashness.
• The Lad-ette
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Her outspokenness makes her the red oni to Betty Ann's more cheerful and mellow nature.
• Sassy Black Woman
• Tomboy

Frank (Seasons 1-4)

Played By: Jason Alisharan

• Hidden Depths: Against general expectation, he quite amicably admits his fear of the dark. His stories often mix raw danger with heartfelt themes.
• The Lancer: A bluff sense of humour and air of toughness hide a solemn reflectivity.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni to Gary.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Gary and David being Sensitive Guys.

David (Seasons 1-2)

Played By Nathaniel Moreau

• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Another sensitive guy to be compared to the very manly man Frank was.
• The Smart Guy

Kristen (Seasons 1-2)

Played By: Rachel Blanchard

• Girl Next Door
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Probably the nicest member of the society.

Eric (Season 1)

Played By: Jacob Tierney

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappeared after Season 1. He's only character whose departure was never addressed, nor was someone brought in as a replacement.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Though he usually sparred with Frank, he had a habit of antagonizing the others.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite this, he was clearly a valued member. One episode has his mourning the death of his grandfather and ended with the others giving him a group hug.
• Sixth Ranger
• Tragic Keepsake: His grandfather's hat, which he brings (and uses to one story after they pass away.

Tucker (Seasons 3-7)

Played By: Daniel DeSanto

• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Foolish to Gary's responsible.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Most of the others initially question his admittance. He maintains a caustic banter with Frank.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With his older brother Gary.
• Tagalong Kid

Samantha (Seasons 3-5)

Played By: JoAnna Garcia Swisher

• Love Interest: To Gary. And possibly Frank, but he leaves before loose ends are tied.
• Samus Is a Girl: Has her head covered and is just called "Sam" on her first time telling a story.

Stig (Season 5)

Played By: Codie Lucas Wilbee

• Big Eater: Implied to be this.
• The Big Guy: Shows a jovially brash sense of fun.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Tucker's the only reason he got in and the only one who likes him.
• Irony: Is one of the, if not the, most unpopular Society members among fans yet the stories he tells are generally considered to be excellent and are fondly remembered.

New Midnight Society

Takes place during Seasons 6-7

Quinn

Played By: Kareem Blackwell

• Beware the Nice Ones: While not as "nice" as either Gary or Betty Ann, he's still fairly easy-going and the two stories he told in Season 6,("The Tale of the Wisdom Glass" and "The Tale of Vampire Town") have very dark endings compared to most of the series.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sometimes a bit caustic, especially towards Andy, but sincerely praises one of his stories.
• The Lancer: Sometimes wryly undermines the others.

Evangeline "Vange"

Played By: Vanessa Lengies

• Expy: Her mellow amiability and jolly exuberance respectively recall Betty Anne and Kiki.
• Genki Girl: Often quite bubbly.

Andy

Played By: David Deveau

• Expy: His tendency to emotive tales of personal conflict recalls David, Kristen and Sam.
• Mellow Fellow: Peacefully amiable.

Megan

Played By: Elisha Cuthbert

• Beware the Nice Ones: Though overall a nice person, she also told the only bad ending of Season 7 " The Tale of the Lunar Locusts".
• Big Sister Instinct: Seems quite protective of Andy.
• Expy: Her fondness for demonstrative props recalls Kristen.

Carnival of Doom

Rachel Carpenter

Played By: Lyliana Wray

• New Transfer Student: Is new to town and school when she befriends the Midnight Society.

Gavin Coscarelli

Played By: Sam Ashe Arnold

Graham Raimi

Played By: Jeremy Ray Taylor

• Terrified of Germs

Louise Fulci

Played By: Tamara Smart

Akiko Yamato

Played By: Miya Cech

Curse of the Shadows

Gabby Lewis

Played By: Malia Baker

• Drives Like Crazy: When she "borrows" her mom's car to go save Luke.
• The Reliable One: Logical and dependable.
• The Smart Guy: She's the most studious and intelligent of the group, and often solves problems the group faces logically.

Jai Malya

Played By: Arjun Athalye

• Butt-Monkey: Out of the whole group, he's the one taken the least seriously.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Lets himself be taken by the Shadowman so that his friends can escape.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He's the first of the group to crack a joke, and is the most lighthearted, especially in contrast to his more intense friends.
• Took a Level in Badass: When he sacrifices himself to buy this friends some time to escape the Shadowman.
• Undying Loyalty: He's described as and shown to be incredibly loyal to his friends, putting their safety before his own.

Luke McCoy

Played By: Bryce Gheisar

• Cool Board: Skateboards to school.
• Determinator: Will stop at nothing to find Connor and later, to defeat the Shadowman, no matter what anyone says.
• Grew a Spine: Over the course of the season, Luke learns to stop being afraid to take charge.
• The Lancer: Quieter and more practical in contrast with Connor's boldness and impulsivity.
• Those Two Guys: Him and Connor.

Hanna Romero

Played By: Beatrice Kitsos

• The Big Guy: Although she's not physically the largest, Hanna is the most aggressive of the group and described as a 'fighter'.
• Fiery Redhead: Outspoken and assertive. And ginger.
• Soapbox Sadie: In her first scene she's seen aggressively collecting signatures to save the earth.

Seth Romero

Played By: Dominic Mariche

• Annoying Younger Sibling: He insists on tagging along on the Midnight Society's adventure, much to Hanna's annoyance.
• Badass Adorable: Despite the Shadowman being an Implacable Man, his magic tricks proves to be the most effective at keeping him at bay most of the time.
• The Prankster: He tied everyone's shoe laces together while they were unconscious during the seance.
• Tagalong Kid: He's the younger brother of Hanna who wants nothing more than to be a part of the Midnight Society, and follows them around.

Connor Stevens

Played By: Parker Queenan

• Ambiguously Gay: He owns a board game about calling cute boys to see which one has a crush on you. He's also closer with Luke than any other member of the Midnight Society, and calls out to him exclusively while he's trapped.
• Big Brother Instinct: To the other kids trapped in the shadow world, especially Zoe.
• Black Eyes of Evil: When he is possessed by the Shadowman.
• Capture and Replicate: By the Shadowman.
• Distressed Dude: The group's mission is to find and save him.
• The Leader: Of the Midnight Society.

Ghost Island

Kayla King

Played By: Telci Huynh

• Angsty Surviving Twin: Her sister's death weighed so heavily on her she couldn't enjoy scary stories or anything to do with the occult afterwards.
• Asian and Nerdy: Downplayed, but she's of Asian descent and loves the occult and researching history.
• Nerves of Steel: Kayla's incredibly brave and is the first to investigate when things start happening.
• Nice Girl: She's a very caring young woman and she's the first one to recognize the Lady in the Mirror for the victim she really is and opts to help her. She also loves her friends deeply, even Max who she just met.
• The Protagonist: While all four of the friends are the central characters, Kayla is the main focus of the story.
• Ship Tease: Gets a bit of this with Max.

Leo B. Stoker

Played By: Luca Padovan

• Camp Gay: Very clearly flamboyant and is openly gay.
• It's All My Fault: When Kayla gets trapped behind the mirror, he's utterly distraught and blames himself, as he was the one who convinced her to come to the resort when she had second thoughts.
• Nerves of Steel: Chooses to stay with Max to help him repel the Lady in the Mirror.
• Nice Guy: He's a very sweet-natured person and clearly loves his friends.
• Ship Tease: He has quite a few heartfelt moments with Max.
• Tender Tears: Sheds them when he believes Max is trapped behind the mirror forever.

Summer Dacosta

Played By: Dior Goodjohn

• Brutal Honesty: Summer is the one to lay the truth out pure and simple (or what she thinks is the truth).
• Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed as she's good at hiding it, but she's quite jealous that Ferris is pining for her attractive older cousin.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: She claims she doesn't have any feelings for Ferris, but it's clear that she does and is in denial about it. She comes to accept it and is implied to become his girlfriend by the end of the series.
• Hollywood Atheist: Downplayed, but she's the most vocal about her not actually believing in ghosts. Of course, that doesn't last very long...
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. Summer can be hotheaded and isn't afraid to speak her mind, but she's a caring girl who loves her friends and like the others, wants to help the Lady in the Mirror.
• Ship Tease: Gets quite a bit with Ferris. She's implied to become his girlfriend by the end.
• Spicy Latina: She's not afraid to speak her mind and is the most standoffish and confrontational of the group.

Ferris Poe

Played By: Chance Hurstfield

• Grew a Spine: He pines for Summer's older cousin (Leo even outright calls him a SIMP!), but he realizes that she isn't right for him and by the end, he rebuffs her offer of a "private dance" and instead chooses Summer over her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ferris can be a little bit much, but his heart is always in the right place and he's a steadfastly loyal friend.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Downplayed. He's one of the four friends and they all clearly love him, but his tendencies and hypochondria can make him frustrating for them to deal with at times.
• The Paranoiac: Paranoia is a very defining trait of his.
• Sickly Neurotic Geek: Ferris is very paranoid, sensitive and a very clear Hypochondriac and is very clearly into very nerdy hobbies and interests.
• Ship Tease: He gets quite a bit with Summer as the series progresses. By the end, it's implied they get a Relationship Upgrade.

Max Matheson

Played By: Conor Sherry

• Ambiguously Bi: Pretty clearly romantically interested in Leo, but is also very close with Kayla, and his sacrifice for her is referred to as "for love", although it could be meant as platonic.
• Double Meaning: The friends joke that he "ghosted" them when he vanished, which makes him uncomfortable because he is a ghost. Similarly, his heart-to-heart with Leo is about him realizing he was a ghost, but it could be taken as him coming out as gay (or bisexual).
• Foreshadowing: There are several hints that he was the boy who vanished in 1996; his phrasing is a bit out of date and there's a lot about the modern world he's a little unsure about. He also claims to work at the resort, but is never really shown doing any work.
• Dead All Along: He's revealed to have been a ghost since disappearing in Room 13 in 1996.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: It's strongly implied at the end that he communicates via letter instead of in person because he knows the post-time travel age gap between himself and Leo/Kayla would make a relationship entirely inappropriate, and he doesn't want to give any hint of impropriety.
• Nice Guy: A very caring, kind and brave young man. Despite his fate, he wants to help the Lady in the Mirror, knowing that she never intended to hurt him.
• Ship Tease: Gets this with both Kayla and Leo. It's implied he chooses Leo, but it could have gone either way.
• Sixth Ranger: Meets and joins the friend group at the hotel, years after they'd become friends.

Bella King

Played By: Telci Huynh

• The Ace: Implied to be this by Kayla, as she stated she always knew what to do.
• Always with You: She reveals that even though she's moved on, she is always with her sister and friends, sitting with them around the campfire when they tell stories.
• Ambiguous Situation: The cause of her death is never actually disclosed and she was still very young when she died, so we never really find out the story.
• The Leader: Of the Midnight Society, until her death.
• The Lost Lenore: A platonic example, but her death devastated all her friends and her sister.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Bella loved dark and creepy stories and often encouraged Kayla to do rituals with her.

Stanley Crane

Played by: Julian Curtis

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In life, his real name was Captain Jonas Cutter and he was the one who seduced the young woman Lucia and used her love for him to free himself from the mirror. Even as Stanley Crane, he comes across as a snarky, but overall well-meaning authority, but he's really a cruel and desperate snake.
• Blatant Lies: He becomes desperate once the Lady in the Mirror is freed and begins to make things up as he goes. All of the kids make clear they don't believe him, especially after all they've learned.
• Dirty Coward: As Kayla deduces, he couldn't pass on from death because it terrified him so much and he trapped Lucia's soul in the mirror to escape having to do so again.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed considering all he did to her, but it appears as though in life, he did genuinely love Lucia. He's also visibly ashamed when he traps her behind the mirror again and seems remorseful when he gazes at her reflection. Finally, when they see each other for the last time, they share one last tragic Held Gaze before she departs to the afterlife.
• Evil Brit: British by nationality and very much evil.
• Faux Affably Evil: Comes across as chummy, humorous and reasonable, but he's actually a cruel, manipulative and selfish Jerkass.
• Foreshadowing: There are a number of hints that Stanley is not really who he claims to be; he's fully aware of the ghost, Room 13, the spirits that dwell in the hotel and even knows them by name, he's desperate to keep the Lady in the Mirror imprisoned even after "learning" her tragic origin, he claims his whole family "passed long ago" and he's also aware of Kayla's nightmares even though he shouldn't be.
• Karmic Death: He's shown not only falling into the abyss of the sea (as he'd originally drowned), but he's now trapped in the same nightmare he put Lucia through all those centuries ago.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's extremely persuasive and presents himself as a Reasonable Authority Figure who does what he does because he's just trying to save the resort and everyone in it, but he's really just in it to save his own skin. He's also the one to plant the seed of seeing Bella again into Kayla's head and she doesn't realize his deception until it's too late. And then there's his betrayal of Lucia...
• Really 700 Years Old: He's revealed to be Captain Jonas Cutter, who lived and stayed on the island to ensure Lucia never broke free.

Monsters and Ghosts

The Corpse

Played By: Marcel Jennin

• Elemental Zombie: Of the water elemental variety, where its entire body is composed of water, which gives it invisibility and cannot be harmed by physical objects.
• Evil Smells Bad: Its appearance is always heralded by a terrible smell like rotten eggs, which is identified as acid.
• Intangible Man: When Zeke tries to whack it with a pole, it just passes through the Corpse's body with a spray of water.
• Invisible Monster: For the first half of its appearance. In the second half, when it becomes visible, it takes the form of a decaying corpse.
• Making a Splash: Is an Elemental Embodiment of water.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Its a reanimated corpse who was buried in a cemetery where the high school swimming pool was built. Fueled by vengeance for disturbing its rest, the corpse seeks to drown anyone who enters the pool. Its body is composed of water and acid, giving it invisibility and intangibility. It can become visible when coming into contact with methyl orange, and can also be killed by manganite.
• Red Is Violent: The methyl orange dyes its decaying body red, and is hellbent on murdering anyone who crosses its path.
• Vengeful Ghost: It holds a grudge against anyone trying to use the pool, since it was not properly relocated like the other inhabitants of the cemetery that the pool was built on.
• Would Hurt a Child: It actually drowned a young boy.

Ghastly Grinner

Played By: Neil Kroetsch

• Faux Affably Evil: "How can I ever repay you for bringing me through? I know. I'll leave you with a smile."
• It Amused Me: At least Zeebo had a reason to pursue his target. This guy went after anyone he could for the fun of it.
• Laughing Mad: Constantly. And he causes it in others, too.
• Monster Clown: Of the jester variety.
• Portal Book: The teacher dunking the comic in a fish tank and the kid trying to dry it out in the mircowave enable the Ghastly Grinner to cross over into the real world. Defeating him requires drawing a new comic.
• Slasher Smile: Oh, yeah.

Phone Police

Played By: Griffith Brewer, Richard Jutras

• Butt-Dialing Mordor;
• Disproportionate Retribution: They lock up kids for life just for making prank calls
• The Scourge of God: Punishing people who make prank phone calls. With eternal imprisonment in a dungeon.
• Wardens Are Evil: The warden of the phone prison is an evil old man.

The Shadow Man

Played By: Kyle Strauts

• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He sincerely loved his daughter and became the Shadow Man in a desperate bid to try and bring her back after she died.
• Tragic Monster: He used to book of shadows to become a monster in order to avenge the death of his daughter.
• Weakened by the Light: Duh
• Would Hurt a Child: His M.O. is kidnapping children who stray into the woods after dark.

Silver Sight

Played By: Ryan Cooley

• Big Bad: Of the Tale of the Silver Sight story arc.
• The Chessmaster: Helps the current midnight society to find the Silver Sight device, so it can wrap them up in the same Deal with the Devil it did with the original Midnight society.
• Creepy Child: It's mostly seen in the form of a young child.
• Deal with the Devil: It is a demon who uses the Silver Sight device to grant wishes and collect souls.
• Hoist by His Own Petard/Karmic Death: Its MO was to use the Silver Sight device to collect souls, try to guess what's used to destroy it.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-Universe, it's after the Midnight Society, however since the Midnight Society takes place in the "Real World." It might come after you.
• This Cannot Be!: When it realizes that Gary is using the power of the Silver Sight against it.
• This Was His True Form: When it's being defeated it briefly transforms into something resembling a pale old man.

Mr. Tophat

Played By: Rafael Casal

• All Part of the Show: Said word for word by him as a way to assure visitors that everything that happens, weird, dangerous or both, is meant to happen.
• Deal with the Devil: Made one of these in order to keep his carnival running.
• Repulsive Ringmaster: Of the Carnival of Doom.
• Tragic Villain: All he wanted was to make a name for himself and realize his father's dream of bringing joy to the world with his carnival, but his overzealous desire to make it a reality led to him severely rushing production of the rides and unveiling the park before it was even ready. With the safety hazards left unchecked, they caused the deaths of several visitors on opening day and destroyed his name and reputation. Broken and desperate, he made a Deal with the Devil to have his carnival, but at the cost of stealing innocent souls. The ultimate tragedy is the cruel irony that he was denied the one thing he truly wanted (to be remembered), as no one ever remembers their visit to his Circus of Fear.
• We Can Rule Together: Sort of. He tries to appeal to Rachel by saying they are both victims of otherworldly machinations and extends his offer for them to work together. Rachel doesn't buy it.

The Lady in the Mirror

Played By: Camilla Issa

• Anti-Villain: The Lady in the Mirror is a woman named Lucia. She's actually not evil and genuinely doesn't want to hurt anyone, she's just desperate to escape her imprisonment in the mirror.
• Ethereal White Dress: She wears one that drapes down her body, making her appear more ghostly.
• Healthy in Heaven: Upon being freed of her curse after so long, she transforms from the tortured spirit into the beautiful young woman she once was, a content and peaceful smile on her face.
• I Just Want to Be Free: She's desperate to escape her imprisonment behind the mirror, hence she haunts the hotel.
• I Will Wait for You: She and Jonas Cutter were deeply in love and she vowed to wait for his return. Sadly, he drowned before they could be reunited. And it only got worse from there...
• Mirror Monster: She haunts and lives in the mirror in Room 13 of the Veil Hotel.
• Small Town Boredom: In life, Lucia wanted to leave the island and sail away to find greater adventures, hence why she became such a skilled ship builder. Unfortunately, she had no idea how to sail.
• Tragic Villain: Lucia was a kind young woman who was betrayed by the man she loved and was trapped behind the mirror for hundreds of years, suffering in agony and isolation and only took the lives of others by accident as she became more and more desperate to escape her nightmarish fate. The Midnight Society recognize her for the victim she is and resolve to help end her curse, which she gives a sincere thanks for before she moves on.
• Spicy Latina: Lucia was a proud, confident and headstrong woman.
• Woman Scorned: Her lover, Captain Jonas Cutter betrayed her when she saved his soul. Needless to say, she was happy to leave him to his fate once he got his just desserts.

Zeebo

Played By: Aron Tager

• Anti-Villain: He gives the protagonist a damn good scare, but only because they took his nose.
• Famed In-Story: Being the face of a popular attraction will do that. In later stories it's mentioned that he even got his own video game.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: After the story, some of the Society members speculate that a carnival barker disguised himself as Zeebo or he actually IS the ghost of Zeebo.
• Monster Clown: He was only harassing the kid to get back his stolen clown nose, but he was still pretty scary. And he used to be a criminal.
• Unseen Evil: The actual ghost (if that is what it is) is only seen once in a hall of mirrors. All other times he remains lurking out of view.

Ray Lawson

Played by: Colin Fox

• And I Must Scream: In death, he's been forced to live the night of the crash over and over.
• Evil Old Folks: He's in his fifties or so and is a very conniving and desperate spirit.
• Famed In-Story: The tale of Train 713 is well-known among the conductors.
• Fate Worse than Death: By the end of the episode, he must wander the tracks on foot for all eternity, never to rest or find any true peace.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's polite, engaging and gifts Tim with his watch, but it's all an act to make Tim trust him so he can use him for his own ends.
• Ghost Train: He's the conductor of the 713, a ghost train that comes out at night.
• Tragic Mistake: He truly never meant to cause the 713 to crash in 1915 and it only happened because he was asleep and never got the message that the tracks needed to change. This of course led to the crash that killed him, the passengers and started the nightmare the episode is centered around.
• Tragic Villain: Quite possibly the most tragic of the original series' run of antagonists. His backstory is very tragic and his fate is equally tragic and pitiable, especially considering Ray himself has spent his afterlife in torture all because of one mistake he made in life.
• Would Hurt a Child: Was scheming to let Timothy take his place on the eternal loop of 713's train crash.

Other Characters

Sardo

Played By: Richard M. Dumont

• Ascended Extra: According to Word of God, Sardo was only supposed to be in one episode, but they liked the actor, so they kept bringing him back. He even continued to appear after Gary left.
• Catchphrase: "Sar-DO! No 'Mister', accent on the 'do'."
  • "Buy now or bye now!"

Dr. Vink

Played By: Aron Tager

• Accidental Misnaming: Most of the time he has to correct people that it's Vink, not Fink.
• Ascended Extra: Like Sardo, Vink was only supposed to be in one episode, but they kept bringing him back due to the actor's performance.
• Bullying a Dragon: He makes a deal with the theater manager in "The Tale of the Midnight Madness" for showing his silent vampire movie. If it revitalizes the theater's business, he gets to showcase his other films once a week. The first part happens, but the manager reneges on their deal, so Vink sees to it that his vampire comes to life and stalks the theater. During all the confusion, he also buys the theater.
• Catchphrase: "It's Vink, with a vah-vah-vah" and "I am not a nutbag."
• Heel–Face Turn: In his last appearance, he's genuinely helpful to the protagonists.
• Karma Houdini: He's never punished for the evil things he's done.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: He's been a Mad Artist filmmaker ("The Tale of the Midnight Madness"), a Supreme Chef in a high-class restaurant ("The Tale of the Dangerous Soup"), and a barber ("The Tale of Cutter's Treasure" two-parter). He was also a crazy guy living in the woods in his first appearance, but that's not really a paying job.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: "The Tale of the Dangerous Soup" is a literal example, as he exposes people to their worst fears to get the secret ingredient for his soup.
  "It knows what scares you!"
• Noodle Incident: He has led a very fantastical life and often hints at his various travels.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: "I am not a nutbag." He even says this when nobody asks.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Talks with a bizarre foreign accent that's difficult to pin down. When he laughs, his actor's real voice slips through.

Young Sardo

Played By: Ryan Beil

• Big Damn Heroes / Thanatos Gambit: He sets up, via his own death, a way to tell Luke how to defeat the Shadowman for good. This prevents the Shadowman's existence and also everyone who was taken by him or died, including Sardo himself. And by what he says to Luke at the end he's fully aware of what happened despite earlier denials, warning him to not delve into curses again.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
• Hidden Depths: He initially comes off as a Child Hater, but it's later revealed that it's only because he's witness so many kids not heeding his warning and then getting taken by the Shadow Man throughout the years.
• Stage Magician: How he sneaks the Midnight Society out of the glow dance.

Stanley Crane/ Captain Jonas Cutter

Played By: Julian Curtis

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