| I | | | Sweet Sorrows |
| | Zachary Ezra | Rawlins | A second year Emerging Media graduate student. aka: Zack. |
| | Sarah | Waters | A Welsh novelist. |
| | Raymond | Chandler | American-British novelist and screenwriter. |
| | Katrina | Hawkins | A senior Emerging Media and theater double major. aka: Kat. |
| | Gertrude | Stein | American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector. |
| | Elena | | Zachary's acquaintance. |
| | J. S. | Keating | An author. |
| | Lexi | | Kat's acquaintance. |
| | Jules | Verne | French novelist, poet and playwright. |
| | Donna | Tartt | American author. |
| | F. Scott | Fitzgerald | American novelist, essayist, short story and screenwriter. |
| | Thomas | Bulfinch | American writer. |
| | Dashiell | Hammett | American author. |
| | William | Shakespeare | English playwright. |
| | Samuel T. | Coleridge | English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian. |
| | Edgar Allan | Poe | American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. |
| | Emily | Dickenson | American poet. |
| | Jane | Austen | English novelist. |
| | Charles | Dickens | English writer and social critic. |
| | Matilda | | A hotel cat. |
| | Dorian | | Zachary's new acquaintance. |
| | Madam Love | Rawlins | Zachary's mother. |
| | Mirabel | | Eleanor's daughter. aka: Max. |
| II | | | Fortune and Fables |
| | The Keeper | | Zack's new acquaintance. |
| | Oscar | Wilde | Irish poet and playwright. |
| | David | Bowie | English singer-songwriter. |
| | Allegra | Caballo | Zack's acquaintance. |
| III | | | The Ballad of Simon and Eleanor |
| | Eleanor | | The girl in the forest. aka: Lenore. |
| | Shirley | Jackson | American writer. |
| | David | Smith | American sculptor and painter. |
| | Rhyme | | Mirabel's acquaintance. |
| | Simon Jonathan | Keating | A boy who fall in love with Eleanor. |
| | Jocelyn | Keating | Simon's mother. |
| | Asim | | Simon's father. |
| | Rembrandt | | Dutch painter. |
| | Hecate | | The chief goddess presiding over magic and spells. |
| | John | Tenniel | English illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist. |
| IV | | | Written In The Stars |
| | Jorge Luis | Borges | Argentine short story writer. |
| | Sappho | | Archaic Greek poet. |
| V | | | The Owl King |
| | Sivia | | The Keeper's acquaintance. |
| VI | | | The Secret Diary Of Katrina Hawkins |
| | Vince | Guaraldi | American jazz pianist. |
| | Balthazar | | Kat's pug. |
| | Arthur C. | Clarke | English science-fiction writer. |
| | Preeti | | Kat's friend. |