Inkheart Characters

Bookworm GirlWe know that Meggie is majorly into books: she sleeps with a book under her pillow at night (1.2), and she comes from a bookworm family. We also know that "Meggie had inherited her lov...

The Man with the Magic VoiceMo's pretty unique because of his ability to read characters and objects out of books. Meggie thinks at one point that "Nobody else in the world had a voice like her fat...

Roguely RogueWhen Dustfinger shows up on Meggie and Mo's doorstep in the rain, he's soaking wet so Meggie can't tell what color his shoulder-length hair is. But she can see that "The stubble around...

Cruel and Colorless Before we even meet Capricorn, he casts a shadow over the story. Meggie demands to know who he is, since she's heard her father and Dustfinger discussing him in scared, hushed v...

The Biggest BookwormMo and Meggie are giant bookworms, but Elinor may have them beat. She has more books than they do, and more expensive ones too. What's the deal?First, Elinor maybe didn't have t...

Cruel and LoyalBasta has a "rasping cat's tongue voice" (13.63), and looks to go with it. His face is: […] thin, sharply angular, with close-set eyes […] Basta was not a tall man, and his shoul...

Desert DreamerFarid emerges from a story within The Thousand and One Nights, though we don't know which one. When Mo reads him out, he's completely shell-shocked at first: The boy was some three or...

Like a BossFenoglio is the author of Inkheart, and by some strange coincidence, he lives in a small Italian village not far from where Capricorn's settled down. To Meggie, he looks old and distingu...

Absent MamaMeggie doesn't remember much about Resa, since she was only three when her mom left… a.k.a. disappeared into a book. And though this means Meggie's pretty much grown up without a mom,...

Awkward NerdDarius is the other reader that Capricorn acquires for himself, brought in as a replacement for Mo. Either Darius always been awkward, or living under Capricorn hasn't really been good...

Like Mother, Like SonThe first time Meggie gets a glimpse of Mortola, she doesn't know anything about her other than that she's one of Capricorn's servants. And she's old: "She looked like an old m...

Funny name, huh? He's "a great tall beanpole, looked as if a giant had pressed his face flat with his thumb" (17.3). As one of Capricorn's men, he gets the chance to be cruel pretty often, which he...

This dude is "small and thin, with a goatee beard on his receding chin" (17.3); he has a bit of a limp too (17.6), and a lot of a bad attitude. Basta characterizes him as "a useless shot" (48.11),...

Meggie accidentally reads Tinker Bell out of Peter Pan, and right away, the fairy makes trouble. Meggie tries to catch her, "but the fairy slipped through her fingers and whirred up to the ceiling,...

One of Fenoglio's grandkids, Paula seems younger than Meggie, but still old enough to boss around her other siblings, particularly Pippo. We know she's somewhat more mature because her siblings "pi...

This one of Fenoglio's grandkids is probably the most mischievous—among other antics, he steals the chocolate chips out of a cake as Meggie and Mo are arriving to talk to Fenoglio. He seems to be...

The last of Fenoglio's grandkids, Rico is about five years old and he tends to stay close to his granddad. At one point he's described as "clinging to Fenoglio's back like a little monkey" (30.6),...

Here's how Fenoglio describes the Shadow, a being magically created from the ashes of Capricorn's victims: Sometimes he was red as fire, sometimes as gray as the ashes into which fire turns all tha...

When Meggie reads the tin soldier out from a Hans Christian Andersen story, Mortola snatches him up immediately to bring him as proof of Meggie's reading abilities to Capricorn—and when she does,...

Capricorn has a number of men under his command—some from his own story-world, some from our world. Most of them are probably ruthless killers, hardened criminals, and general low-lifes. While th...

These unfortunate women are stuck working for Capricorn and his men: cleaning, cooking, and doing whatever else is asked of them. It seems like they're constantly living in fear, and we can't reall...

When the Shadow disappears and is replaced by all the creatures from whose ashes he was created, a bunch of them are magical creatures from the world of Inkheart, though now they're in our world. F...

The shadow's dissolution also leaves behind "men, women, and children" (59.15) who had originated from Inkheart and are now in our world. Elinor offers to let them crash at her place, "but most of...

This is one of Capricorn's men who vanishes into The Thousand and One Nights when Farid appears out of the book. Basta and some of the other men are unhappy about this development, but according to...

There are two incidences involving cops in this book, and not a single one of the cops comes out looking particularly good. The cops we meet come to Elinor's house in response to her report that a...