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Characters

The following is a list of characters from How to Kill a Monster and its television adaptation in the order they are mentioned or appear.

This page contains spoilers! Do not read this before finishing the story.

Characters

Character	Medium	Description
Gretchen Allen	Book and TV episode	The main protagonist and narrator. She is tall and thin, and has long, straight, blonde hair.
Gretchen and Clark's parents	Book and TV episode	Gretchen's parents divorced when she was two. Clark's parents are also divorced. Gretchen's real mother and Clark's real father are not named. However, Gretchen's father married Clark's mother, making the two kids step-siblings.
Grandma Rose	Book and TV episode	Grandma Rose is Gretchen's grandmother. Grandma Rose loves to cook, and she is a really kind person. She lives with her husband in a old castle-like mansion located in the middle of a swamp. Along with Grandpa Eddie, she is described by the kids as being strange and smelly.
Grandpa Eddie	Book and TV episode	Grandpa Eddie is Gretchen's grandfather. Grandpa Eddie is very hard-of-hearing, and he misunderstands some words that people say. He and his wife say that they love their grandchildren. However, in the book, they abandon them with a killer swamp monster.
Clark Allen	Book and TV episode	Clark is Gretchen's stepbrother. He has curly brown hair and wears glasses. He loves to read comic books, especially scary ones. Clark can be very stubborn and gets scared easily, which makes him an easy target to Gretchen's jokes.
Charley	Book	Charley is Gretchen and Clark's dog. It accompanies them on the trip and protects them from the Swamp Monster's attack.
Arnold	Book	Arnold is Clark's best friend. Gretchen describes him in the book as being "the biggest nerd in the neighborhood". He is only mentioned.
Swamp monsters Including the main Swamp Monster	Book and TV episode	They're species of swamp creatures covered in green fur, which are able to talk. They have huge gorilla bodies and alligator faces. The first monster to appear in the book is allergic to humans, but it's unknown if the other swamp monsters also are.
General store worker	Book	This man brings a pink envelope to Grandpa Eddie and Grandma Rose's home from the general store.

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-The following is a list of characters from ''[[How to Kill a Monster]]'' in the order they are mentioned or appear.
+The following is a list of characters from ''[[How to Kill a Monster]]'' and its [[How to Kill a Monster/TV episode|television adaptation]] in the order they are mentioned or appear.
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+|character=[[Gretchen Allen]]
-|medium=Book
+|medium=Book and TV episode
-|description=Gretchen is Clark's stepsister and the main protagonist of ''[[How to Kill a Monster]]''. She is tall and thin, and has long, straight, blonde hair.
+|description=The main protagonist and narrator. She is tall and thin, and has long, straight, blonde hair.
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 |character=Gretchen and Clark's parents
-|medium=Book
+|medium=Book and TV episode
-|description=Gretchen's parents divorced when she was two, and the same happened to Clark. What happened with Gretchen's real mother or Clark's real father is unknown.
+|description=Gretchen's parents divorced when she was two. Clark's parents are also divorced. Gretchen's real mother and Clark's real father are not named. However, Gretchen's father married Clark's mother, making the two kids step-siblings.
 }}
 {{Character
-|character=Grandpa Eddie and Grandma Rose
+|character=Grandma Rose
-|medium=Book
+|medium=Book and TV episode
-|description=They're Gretchen's grandparents. Grandpa Eddie is very hard-of-hearing, and he misunderstands some words that people say. Grandma Rose loves to cook, and she is a really kind person. The couple live in a old castle-like mansion located in the middle of a swamp. They are described by the kids as being strange and smelly. They say that they love their grandchildren. However, in the book, they abandon them with a killer swamp monster.
+|description=Grandma Rose is Gretchen's grandmother. Grandma Rose loves to cook, and she is a really kind person. She lives with her husband in a old castle-like mansion located in the middle of a swamp. Along with Grandpa Eddie, she is described by the kids as being strange and smelly.
 }}
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-|character=Clark
+|character=Grandpa Eddie
+|medium=Book and TV episode
+|description=Grandpa Eddie is Gretchen's grandfather. Grandpa Eddie is very hard-of-hearing, and he misunderstands some words that people say. He and his wife say that they love their grandchildren. However, in the book, they abandon them with a killer swamp monster.
+}}
+{{Character
+|character=[[Clark Allen]]
+|medium=Book and TV episode
+|description=Clark is Gretchen's stepbrother. He has curly brown hair and wears glasses. He loves to read comic books, especially scary ones. Clark can be very stubborn and gets scared easily, which makes him an easy target to Gretchen's jokes.
+}}
+{{Character
+|character=Charley
 |medium=Book
+|description=Charley is Gretchen and Clark's dog. It accompanies them on the trip and protects them from the Swamp Monster's attack.
-|description=Clark is Gretchen's stepbrother and the secondary protagonist in the book. He has curly brown hair and wears glasses. He loves to read comic books, especially scary ones. Clark can be very stubborn and gets scared easily, which makes him an easy target to Gretchen's jokes.
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-|character=[[Swamp Monster|The Swamp Monsters]]
+|character=Swamp monsters
+|caption=Including the main [[Swamp Monster]]
-|medium=Book
+|medium=Book and TV episode
 |description=They're species of swamp creatures covered in green fur, which are able to talk. They have huge gorilla bodies and alligator faces. The first monster to appear in the book is allergic to humans, but it's unknown if the other swamp monsters also are.
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