Bubby Grotto, a young merfolk boy who is a big fan of casketball. He dreams of becoming a professional casketball player someday.

Virginia Sound, a keyhole crab and the local locksmith of Blood Bay (owner of Sound's Locks & Keys). The townsfolk know that when Virginia comes personally to "pick" a lock that means she's hungry, though at least she offers a discount for a keyhole replacement afterwards.

Remi, a remipede who lives in a subterranean sea cavern accessible through a cavern opening under the boardwalk. They commute to work at their job at the elementary school.

Colleen Law, one of the many dockworkers of Blood Bay.

Boggle, Contract, and Gasket are a few of the generic creepies that showed up in Blood Bay sometime after the events of HorrorVale. Contract and Gasket tend to be found around the boardwalk area, while Boggle can be observed at the beach nearly every hour of the night.

Vance Hook. This old monster is a retired fisherman, dwelling in his house at the top of a cliff overlooking the sea at edge of town. Unfortunately, local youth like to spend romantic mornings parked on his hill, something he takes a great offense to. They've taken to calling his hill "Lover's Rise", although traffic has slowed ever since he started attacking them and their cars (or simply calling the local towing service when he doesn't feel like it).

Melva Hook, Vance's granddaughter. She's currently going to college upstate, although she visits quite frequently.

WARNING: Blood and Creepy

Monster Practice 2

1. Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro

2. The Other Mother from Coraline by Neil Gaiman

3. Trapdoor Jorogumo inspired from the Yokai from Japanese folklore and Trapdoor spiders

4. Medusa from the Greek tales of the hero Perseus 

5. Demon Bendy by The Meatly/ Kindly Beast

6. The Projectionist by The Meatly/ Kindly Beast

7. New Jersey Devil - American Urban Legend

The Hookman

An urban legend that began circulating widely in the 1950s, there are many variations of the legend, but the basic story is the same.

It begins when a teenage boy takes his unsuspecting date out to Lovers’ Lane for a make-out session. While there, they hear a report of a murderer who has escaped from a nearby insane asylum; the newscaster says everyone should be on the look-out for this crazy man, who has a hook in place of his right hand. The girl becomes frightened – especially when the couple hears a strange scratching sound coming from outside the car – but her date insists everything is fine and tries to continue making out. The girl resists, and eventually the boy relents and drives her home.

When they arrive back at the girl’s house, the girl exits the car and begins screaming hysterically. When her date exits the car as well, he sees a bloody detached hook embedded in the roof of the car – and realizes that the Hook Man would have scratched through to the interior of the car had they stayed at Lover’s Lane any longer.

Similarly, an urban legend folklorist’s call “The Boyfriend’s Death” also has much in common with the Hook Man legend (known as “The Hook”, and popularized in recent years by the TV show “Supernatural”).

Some of the key features of The Hook are that there is a radio warning of an escaped convict or madman, that the couple survives, and that they find the hook embedded in the car door once they are safely home. It has been told in the U.S. since the 1950s and is one of the most widely-known (and frequently studied) urban legends in the world.

The Boyfriend’s Death urban legend dates from the 1960s and has some similarities but many differences from The Hook. The Boyfriend’s Death is also set on Lover’s Lane, and occasionally interpolates the “radio warning” aspect of The Hook, but the most common similarity (in the U.S.) is that the killer is often said to be “The Hookman.” Significant differences between the Boyfriend’s Death and The Hook include: the boy exits the car while the girl stays in the car all night, she hears scratching sounds on the roof of the car, and when she is rescued in the morning by the authorities she sees her dead boyfriend hanging upside-down from a tree. It is his fingernails that have been making the scratching sounds.

Would he have thrown a perfectly good case away?

A teenage boy drove his date to a dark and deserted Lovers’ Lane for a make-out session. He turned on the radio for mood music, leaned over to whisper in the girl’s ear, and began kissing her.