77 Shadow Street (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Earl Blandon: Former US Senator and all around jerk.
• Norman Boxer: The night concierge at the Pendleton.
• Devon Murphy: Former police officer turned security guard at The Pendleton. 29 years old.
• Bailey Hawks: Independent wealth manager and ex-marine. Basement pool swimmer, apartment 2-C. 38 years old.
• Silas Kinsley: Retired civil-litigation lawyer. Since his wife's death he has engrossed himself in the history of The Pendleton, apartment 3-C. 79 years old.
• Witness: Mysterious character we see periodically through out the book who is both messenger and caretaker of the Pendleton.
• Twyla Trahern: Songwriter, apartment 2-A. She has a son Winston. Divorced from Farrel Barnett, a country singer.
• Padmini Bahrati: Night concierge of the building.
• Thomas Tran aka Tran Van Lung: Building superintendent. Lives in an appartment in the basement.
• Sparkle Sykes: Writer. Mother of an autistic girl, Iris Sykes. Apartment 2-G
• Iris Sykes: Autistic daughter of Sparkle Sykes
• Winston Trahern aka Winny: Son of Twyla Trahern
• Martha Cupp: Sister of Edna Cupp, former CEO of Cupp Sisters Cakes. Somewhat sensible. 80 years old.
• Edna Cupp: Creator of Cupp Sisters Cakes, sister of Martha Cupp. Somewhat eccentric. 82 years old.
• Smoke: One of the Cupp sisters' cats
• Ashes: One of the Cupp sisters' cats
• Jerry Allwine: Bailey Hawks' employee.
• Margaret Pendleton: Disappeared from the Pendleton with her 2 children on Dec 2, 1897.
• Nolan Tolliver: Killed the Ostock family and part of their household on Dec 3, 1935.
• Perry Kyser: Worked on the renovation of Belle Vista in 1973.
• Sally Hollander: The Cupp sisters' housekeeper and cook.
• Logan Spangler: Chief of security. Ex-cop and ex-homicide detective. 68 years old.
• Vernon Klick: Security guard
• Mickey Dime: Professional killer. 35 years old.
• Dr. Kirby Ignis: Scientist and researcher.
• Fielding Udell: Conspiracy theorist

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• “"Better them than us".”

  Martha speaking to her sister Edna.

• “"Death was merely the price of admission, cheap if you considered all that it bought you. Fearing death meant also fearing life, which stole all meaning from the act of living."”

• “The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted forever, unless maybe he always would have skinny arms. So whatever came your way, you had to make the best of it, grin and bear it, smile through the storm. And the funny thing was, if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you ever could have wished for yourself.”

  Winny

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Pendleton: The high-priced apartment building where Earl Blandon lives.
• Topper's Restaurant. A fine steakhouse near the Pendleton

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• Heroism

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dean Koontz (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Peter Berkrot (Reader)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3561.O55S38
• Dewey: 813

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Dean Koontz: Author's website

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