Vocabulary
The Forma that creates light; The first forma that Peter learns.
What is Lux?
The protagonist and main character in the book.
Who is Peter Grant?
The son of Old Man Thames and Isis’s wife, whose pool Beverly goes swimming in.
Who is Oxley?
The event that occurs after Peter’s second meeting with Oxley and Isis, at their house.
What is Peter’s meeting with Tyburn?
Nightingale’s liaison in the fire brigade, who got Peter and Nightingale
Who is Frank Caffrey?
Magic words associated with shapes in the mind that can be strung together to form magic spells.
What are Formas?
The daughter of Mama Thames who accompanies Peter Grant on many occasions.
Who is Beverly Brook?
Peter Grant’s wizarding mentor and governor in the Metropolitan Police.
Who is Inspector Nightingale?
The event that occurs when things go wrong during the operation to catch Henry Pyke.
What is Nightingale getting shot?
Oxley’s wife who loves the theatre, who gave Peter information about Henry Pyke and Charles Macklin.
Who is Isis?
A sort of parasitic ghost that returns to the world of the living to wreak havoc or exact revenge on the world or people living in it.
What is a Revenant?
A revenant actor who has returned from the grave to exact revenge on the actor who killed him. For most of the book they think he is the one controlling all the humans and acting out the play “The tragical comedy, or comical tragedy, of Punch and Judy”, but it turns out he is actually being controlled by the incarnation of Mr. Punch.
Who is Henry Pyke?
The dog of the first victim of Mr. Punch, Mr. William Skirmish, who Peter kept because the dog could sense Vestigia.
Who is Toby the dog?
The event that occurs in the burning covered market with the german family.
What is Beverly’s flooding of the market?
The superior officer who assaults Peter during the riot.
Who is Deputy Assistant Commissioner Folsom?
Residue left behind by magic or magical entities.
What is Vestigia?
Peter Grant’s former partner on the police force, who was possessed by Henry Pyke.
Who is Lesley May?
The actor from the 1770s who murdered Henry Pyke.
Who is Charles Macklin?
The event that occurs in the opera house during the performance.
What is the cast (and Lesley) getting possesse?
The man who hands Peter the spear which he kills Mr. Punch with in the past/spirit world.
Who is Tiberius Claudius Verica?
The smell of anti-life. (Vampires, Zombies, etc.)
What is Tactus Disvitae?
The daughter of Mama Thames who Peter visited and whose fountain he broke.
Who is Tyburn?
The incarnation of the riot, hate and chaos in London, the puppeteer of the puppeteer Henry Pyke who uses modern-day humans to act out a play from the 1700s, “The tragical comedy, or comical tragedy, of Punch and Judy.
Who is Mr. Punch/Pulcinella?
The ghost Peter talks to at the very begging of the book, who turns out to act just be Henry Pyke playing a made-up characte.
Who is Nicholas Wallpenny?