Building to which Ted and Cynthia Randall followed Jonathan Hoag when he hired them to investigate him. Ted observed Hoag working as a jeweler on a nonexistent thirteenth floor.
Supposedly a jewelry company located in Suite 1310 of the Acme Building, where Jonathan Hoag worked. There was actually no thirteenth floor, nor a Detheridge & Company anywhere in the building. It was almost certainly a front for the Sons of the Bird.
Dr. Fitts (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Physician attending Edith Jameson's dinner party at which the brown stain under Jonathan Hoag's nails was pointed out.
(no first name) [mentioned in passing] Denizen of the Midway-Copton building.
Hartwick (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Physician known to Cynthia and Ted Randall. He "specialized in "very private operations for society people."
Jonathan Hoag
Well-to-do and fastidious gentleman who, realizing he had no idea what he did every day, hired Ted Randall and Cynthia Craig Randall to follow him. This assignment involved them with the plotting of the Sons of the Bird, and in untangling the mess Hoag remembered that he was not an ordinary human being but an "art critic" on Earth to experience human reality so as to judge the worthiness of the "artistic endeavor", i.e. Earth.
Edith Jameson's sister-in-law, who called attention to the stain under Jonathan Hoag's fingernails and tried to guess his profession.
Hotel Manchester
Seedy hotel in which Jonathan Hoag impulsively rented a room, reluctant to go home after the doctor refused to identify the stain found under his fingernails.
Maurice (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Boy who collided with Jonathan Hoag while skating, and to Hoag's distaste was rude about it.
Partner in the investigation firm Randall & Craig, hired by Jonathan Hoag to discover his profession. Her soul was stolen by the Sons of the Bird to force her husband to drop the case; after she recovered and they learned the truth about Hoag, they fled to a remote island to live a virtual hermit's existence, never leaving each other's presence.
Edward (Ted) Randall
Partner in Randall & Craig, Cynthia's husband. Although he was attacked and kidnapped by the Sons of the Bird, he still helped Jonathan Hoag learn his true nature.
Creatures originally included in Earth's reality by its creator, but "painted over". Instead of being eliminated, they remained in the background fomenting evil. They believed they were created by the embodiment of evil, which they called The Bird. They were destroyed by Jonathan Hoag after they kidnapped Ted and Cynthia Randall and tried to stop Hoag's mission on Earth.
St. George Rest Home
Institution in Dubuque, Iowa, where Jonathan Hoag claimed to have been treated for total amnesia. Ted Randall's investigation showed that it never existed.
