AFTERLIGHTS 101
These are what Nick, Allie, and Lief become after the car accident.
What are Afterlights?
Mary Hightower lives in this shocking location in Everlost.
What is the World Trade Center?
This gang leader searches Nick and Allie for valuables on their way to New York.
Who is Johnnie-O?
This is thrown away as worthless by the Altar Boys.
What is a coin?
Nick and Allie die in this kind of accident.
What is a head-on car collision?
This 11-year-old boy first explains Everlost to Nick and Allie.
Who is Lief?
These books teach children how to behave in Everlost.
What are Mary’s rule books?
This terrifying monster kidnaps Afterlights and sails on the Sulphur Queen.
Who is the McGill?
These small slips of paper help guide the McGill’s next destination.
What are fortune cookie fortunes?
Allie insists on walking to this city to try to return home.
What is New York City?
These objects are in every Afterlight’s pocket, even though Mary claims they are useless.
What are blank coins?
According to Mary, these treats are dangerous and should be avoided.
What are fortune cookies?
This mysterious figure captures Nick and Lief before the McGill takes them.
Who is the Haunter?
This ship serves as the McGill’s floating prison.
What is the Sulphur Queen?
Allie teams up with this unlikely group to try to defeat the Haunter.
Who are Jonnie-O and the Altar Boys?
This half-world exists between life and whatever comes next.
What is Everlost?
Allie becomes suspicious when she notices this strange pattern in the daily lives of the New York Afterlights.
What is that they repeat the same routine every day (stuck in a rut)?
This is what the McGill wants Allie to teach him.
What is skinjacking?
This disaster explains why Nick and Allie are shocked to see Mary’s home still standing.
What is 9/11, or the September 11 terrorist attacks?
Nick, Lief, and hundreds of other Afterlights experience this upside-down fate aboard the McGill’s ship.
What is chiming?
This is what some Afterlights can learn to do to temporarily enter the living world.
What is skinjacking?
Allie goes to this New York Afterlight hoping to learn special talents, which ultimately leads to Nick and Lief being captured.
Who is the Haunter?
This decision by Allie earns the McGill’s trust and buys her time.
What is inventing a fake process to teach skinjacking?
Afterlights will slowly sink into the ground unless they are standing in one of these places.
What are deadspots?
The McGill decides to go to this city after reading a fortune from a fortune cookie.
What is Atlantic City?