Meet the Cast
Conor O'Malley
Not Your Average Pre-teenOkay, to be fair, in some ways, Conor's totally typical for a junior-high boy: he's sarcastic, he feels ripped off because he's had to spend the last six years of his life...
The Monster
This is a monster that wants to help humans, even if it sometimes does so in a really weird way. For this guy, it's always opposite day in storytelling land, and his fables' morals often throw our...
Mum
Okay, we'll use the British word here and call her Mum, since that's what Conor calls her. She's dying of cancer, and the entire novel centers around that fact. She adores Conor, but she lies to hi...
Dad
Conor's father moved to America with his new wife six years before A Monster Calls takes place. He comes to visit Conor for a few days wile Conor's mom is in the hospital, but then he has to rush b...
Grandma
Meet Conor's mothers' mother, who comes to stay with them when Conor's mom gets really sick. She's a funky one, Grandma. She lives in a pristine house, she dyes her hair so her gray won't show, she...
Minor Characters
The Pit MonsterOkay, so he's never actually called the pit monster, but he lives in a pit and we have to distinguish him from the tree monster somehow. All we ever see him do is pull Conor's mom in...