Characters reference


The following list lists almost all characters that appear in all of King Diamond's stories. Every character is carefull described. The main purpose of this reference is to let one quickly find out who the character is, without scanning through entire lyrics.

Abigail
Story: Abigail
Stillborn daughter of Countess de La Fey. Her spirit later possesed Miriam Natias and killed Jonathan La Fey. After her rebirth she ate some part of Miriam's body... She was then taken by the Black Horsemen to then chapel in the forest and nailed to the coffin with seven silver spikes, so she could never rise again.
Madeleine Bavent
Story: "The Eye"
A real person. 18 year old french nun who entered the convent at Louviers in 1625, after having been seduced by a priest. Died in 1647 in prison.
Black Horsemen
Story: Abigail
Servants of Count de La Fey. He warned Jonathan La Fey and Miriam Natias of the danger caused by Abigail using the strangely sounding words "18 will become 9". Later they've taken Abigail to the chapel in the forest to bury her forever.
Count de La Fey
Story: Abigail
He found out about about her wife (Countess de La Fey) faithlessness and then pushed her down the stairs on July the 7th, 1777, thus killing her and Abigail, to prevent his properties from being inherited by a bastard child (Abigail). His ghost later visited Jonathan de La Fey to warn him of Abigail's revenge.
Countess de La Fey
Story: Abigail
Faitless wife of Count de La Fey. Died on July the 7th, 1777, after having broken her neck due to her being pushed down the stairs by the Count. She then stillborn Abigail.
Doctor Le Croix
Story: Voodoo
A Voodoo sorcerer. He's the one who led the revenge against the Lafayettes.
David Lafayette
Story: Voodoo
Husband of Sarah Lafayette. Became seriously sick after Salem put some graveyard dust into his breakfast.
Father Pierre David
Story: "The Eye"
A real person. Chaplain of the convent at Louviers till his death in 1628.
Jeanne Dibasson
Story: "The Eye"
A real person. Suppossed witch. Was burned (at least in the story).
Doctor Eastmann
Story: The Spiders' Lullabye
A psychiatrist at Devil Lake Sanitarium. Specialized in curing phobias of various kind (by using a sort of shock therapy). His attempts to cure Harry ended tragically.
Grandma
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
Grandmother of King and Missy, mother of Mother. Was kept in a sanitarium for few years after tragic "accident" that happened to her husband, because she kept on bubbling about "Them". She ordered "Them" to kill Missy after she found out about their ceremonies, and then got killed by King in a revenge.
Grandpa
Story: Voodoo
Grandfather of Sarah Lafayette. Altrough the graveyard dust Salem has put in his breakfast made him sick, he managed to save Sarah's life, as well as Father Malone's one.
Harry
Story: The Spiders' Lullabye
A man from the countryside who was terribly afraid of spiders. After reading and advert in a newspaper telling Doctor Eastmann cures all sorts of phobias at Devil Lake Sanitarium he went there and almost got cured. Unfortunately one of the spiders bit him deadly.
Mrs. Jane
Story: Fatal Portrait
Mother of Molly. Obsessed with jelousy she didn't want anyone to see her daughter, so she kept her locked up in the attic room. She then painted her portrait, and then burned it in a Candle of Fate after Molly made it speak to her. Gone insane.
Jonathan La Fey
Story: Abigail
Husband of Miriam Natias, relative (and heir) of Count de La Fey. Got killed by the spirit of Abigail that has posessed his wife.
King
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
Narrator of the longest King's story. Brother of Missy, son of Mother, grandson of Grandma. Attended the meetings Grandma organized with "Them". He then killed the Grandma in revenge for Missy's death and was put in a sanitarium by Doctor Landau. Went back to "Amon" (old house) after a phone call from Grandma's ghost and made a deal with "Them". Killed and burned by Doctor Landau along with his Mother.
Doctor Landau
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
A psychiatrist. He was the one to put King is a sanitarium. Several years later he married King's Mother and then they together killed King and burned him together with Reverend Sammael.
Lucy
Story: The Graveyard
A little daughter of Mayor Mackenzie. She was molested by her father. The Lunatic kidnaps her to take revenge on Mayor for hurting Lucy as well as many years he spent in a Sanitarium after being falsely accused by the Mayor for this.
Lula Chevalier
Story: Voodoo
One of the voodoo worshippers. As King sings she's a girl that no one ever sees.
The Lunatic
Story: The Graveyard
Main character and narrator of The Graveyard. He worked for Mayor Mackenzie some time ago, but whan he caught him molesting his own daughter, Lucy, he got falsely accused of doing this by the Mayor and put in the Black Hill Sanitarium. After several years he manages to break out (killing a nurse) and hides in a local graveyard (killing several other people). Then he kidnaps Lucy and calls Mayor ordering him to come (under the threat of Lucy's death). He makes him a "trial" and "sentences" him to death. Then, when he's ready for the execution, he gets killed by Lucy (his head gets cut off with a glass). He asks Lucy to take his head with her and so she does.
Father Malone
Story: Voodoo
An exorcist from New Orleans, friend of Grandpa. Comes to "LOA" house to do exorcisms when Sarah Lafayette gets possesed. Was badly hurt when (still possesed) Sarah hits him several times with a heavy cross. Survives thanks to Grandpa's intervention.
Mayor McKenzie
Story: The Graveyard
Father of Lucy, whom he molested. Falsely accused The Lunatic when he found out and caosed him to be put in the sanitarium. Lunatic then tried to get revenge but he failed to kill the Mayor and gone killed himself instead.
Miriam Natias
Story: Abigail
18 year old wife of Jonathan La Fey. Got posessed by Abigail's spirit when they came to inherit Count de La Fey's mansion. Died during the rebirth of Abigail.
Missy
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
Sister of King, daughter of Mother and granddaughter of Grandma. When she found out about the meetings Grandma arranged with "Them" (they required some blood and they taken it from Mother) she tried to stop them, but then Grandma ordered "Them" to kill her. So they did (using a big axe) and the burned her in the fireplace. Her spirit later came to King to warn him about Doctor Landau's and Mother's conspiracy.
Molly
Story: Fatal Portrait
A little 4 years old girl who was kept in the attic by her jealous mother, Mrs. Jane, until her death. Her spirit was then imprisoned in the Candle due to some sort of magic (her mother started to paint her portrait, but when she finished it Molly made it speak to her mother about Molly's pain and her mother's demise. So the mother burnt it in the Candle of Fate while speaking an ancient rhyme from The Book of Jonah. The only way to set her free was to burn the candle again while reading the same rhyme).
Mother
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
Mother of King and Missy. When Grandma returned home she become a source of blood for the tea Grandma fed "Them" with. This didn't have a good influence for her health, of course. Next time we meet her is several years after King was released from the asylum. She formes a conspiracy against King along with Doctor Landau (whom she marries). They kill King and then burn him.
Jean Le Noir
Story: Voodoo
The first owner of the "LOA" house. A voodoo priest. His spirit walks the house at nights.
Nurse Needle
Story: The Spiders' Lullabye
A nurse at Devil Lake Sanitarium. She helped Doctor Eastmann in his therapy that, due to their oversight caused Harry's demise.
Father Mathurin Picard
Story: "The Eye"
A real person. Chaplain of the convent at Louviers from 1628 to his death in 1642. Among his sick, insane deeds he managed to rape Madeleine Bavent. He did many other evil things, at least in the story.
Nicholas de la Reymie
Story: "The Eye"
A real person. Head investigator of the Christian Burning Court (Chambre Ardante), in Paris, France.
Salem
Story: Voodoo
Butler in the "LOA" house. He's one of the voodoo worshippers, and since worked for the Lafayettes he first found about their plan to destroy the voodoo cemetery and then was the one who realized the revenge plan. As we find out at the end of the story he actually have died several years earlier and is a zombie.
Baron Samedi
Story: Voodoo
Probalby some powerful voodoo priest. His spirit appears once in a story, when it gets into Doctor Le Croix and tells few commands to Salem.
Reverend Sammael
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
A local priest. Doctor Landau and King's Mother visit him after killing King and make him believe he was posessed by some evil demon. They burn King together then.
Sarah Lafayette
Story: Voodoo
Pregnant wife of David Lafayette. She is first made sick (using some graveyard dust put into her breakfast) by Salem, and later several spirits of the dead are sent into her. This is all done to prevent Lafayettes' plan of destroying the voodoo cemetary.
Madame Sarita
Story: Voodoo
One of the voodoo worshippers. She has a Voodoo Boutique, where Salem bought snake curse and goofer dust needed to complete the revenge on the Lafayettes.
"Them"
Story: "Them" / Conspiracy
The spirits that Grandma was meeting. A tea mixed with some human blood was needed to set them free. "They" killed Missy when Grandma ordered them to do so. Some time after his return to "Amon" King makes a deal with "Them" and gives "Them" "Amon" back.
Two Little Girls
Story: "The Eye"
Some little girls that played in the ashes of Jeanne Dibasson's stake. One of them found "The Eye" there, and the other looked inside it and found so much horror in it, that she choke forever.

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