Characters
This is the main character of the book.
Who is George?
This is the first statue that George saw come to life.
What is a Pterodactyl?
What is London?
This is the thing that glows when there are Taints nearby.
What is a Warning Glass?
This type of statue, often made to look like some sort of monster, was originally meant as a water drain.
What is a gargoyle?
This character is said to be bad luck to statues.
Who is Edie?
This type of statue has a soul, or a spirit.
What is a Spit?
This is the museum that George is on a field trip to.
What is the Natural History Museum (London Natural History Museum)
This is the thing that the Sphinxes tell George he needs to find.
What is the Stone Heart?
This person is always walking behind people.
Who is the Walker?
This character is George's teacher and chaperone.
Who is Killingbeck?
This statue is mostly beast, without a conscience.
What is a Taint?
This is the obelisk where the Sphinxes reside.
What is Cleopatra's Needle?
This type of animal is represented by the statue that George breaks the head off of.
What is a dragon?
This character knows a lot and is named after the book he always holds.
Who is Dictionary?
This character introduces George to the world he has fallen into.
Who is The Gunner?
This type of person can "see" and experience the past.
What is a Glint?
This is the city that George's mother seems to be in when he calls her.
What is Madrid?
This is the thing that one of George's classmates knocks over and blames on him.
What is the pamphlet stand?
This weather pattern forces gargoyles to return to their plinths.
What is rain?
This character works as an actress.
Who is George's mom?
This is the answer to the Sphinxes' Riddle.
What is a Heart?
This is the old gates to the city, removed a long time ago and replaced by a dragon statue.
What is Temple Bar?
This is the structure that statues stand on.
What is a plinth?
This military unit was being advertised by a newspaper seller in Edie's vision.
What is the British Expeditionary Force?