Candy Quackenbush residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: student, traveller of Abarat Candy had always prided herself upon having a vivid imagination. When, for instance, she privately compared her dreams with those her brother described over the breakfast table, or her friends at school exchanged at break, she always discovered her own night-visions were a lot wilder and weirder than anybody else’s.

Henry Murkitt residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA The town council decided to change the name of the town. Henry took it very badly. On Christmas Eve 1947 he checked into the hotel, and the poor man never checked out again.

Christopher Carrion residence: Gorgossium - 12:00 am occupation: lord of midnight

Mendelson Shape residence: Gorgossium - 12:00 am occupation: servant to the bord of midnight His fleshless limbs were so long, Candy could readily imagine him walking up a wall. On his back there was a curious arrangement of cruciform rods that almost looked like four swords which had been fused to his bony body. He was naked but for a pair of striped shorts and he walked wit a pronounced limp. But there was nothing frail about him. Despite the lack of muscle, and that limp of his, he looked like a creature born to do harm.

John Mischief residence: no permanent residence occupation: master criminals

Deaux-Deaux residence: sea of izabella occupation: cardplayer

Rojo Pixler residence: Commexo City - 8:00 am occupation: owner of the Commexo Company, entrepeneur It's not Commexo, it's the man who owns Commexo. It's what he wants. Control. Of all of us. Of all the islands. He wants to be king of the world.

Malingo residence: Ninnyhammer - 10:00 pm occupation: servant to Kaspar Wolfswinkle "I'm here," said a voice from above, and there (hanging down from a roof) was a creature that resembled a Halloween nightmare come to life.

Kaspar Wolfswinkle residence: Ninnyhammer - 10:00 pm occupation: claims to be semiretired wizzard

Mater Motley residence: Thirteenth Tower - 12:00 am occupation: seamstress Sewing was her perpetual labor; she never stopped. She didn't even sleep. She was too old to sleep, she'd once said. She had no dreams left to dream.

Otto Moulihan residence: Gorgossium - 12:00 am occupation: lieutenant of the lord of midnight

Timothy Tarrie residence: Ninnyhammer - 10:00 pm

Thaddeus George occupation: painter

Samual Hastrim Klepp The Fifth residence: Yebba Dim Day - 8:00 pm occupation: publisher and printer of Klepps Almenak For a traveler in the Arabat there can be a few documents as useful, or as thorough in its contents, as Klepp's Almenak. It was first published some two hundred years ago, and it is a stew of fact and fiction, in which the author writes one moment as a practical explorer, the next as a mythologist...

Filth residence: The Twilight Palace - 7:00 pm occupation: Court fool of the late king Claus

Finnegan Hob residence: The Nonce - 3:00 pm occupation: dragon-hunter

Melissa & Bill Quackenbush residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: temporarily unemployed, Candy's parents Miss Schwartz residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: Candy's history teacher Wallace Murkitt residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: grandfather of Henry, founding father of Murkitt Norma Lipnik residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: hotel manager Deborah Hackbarth residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: Candy's classmate Ruth Ferris residence: Chickentown, Minnesota, USA occupation: Candy's classmate