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• Complete Monster: Sherman Oaks is one of the two main antagonists of the novel, and handily the more evil. A ghost hunter who both inhales the ghosts for himself and captures them to sell on the black market, Oaks has devoured thousands of ghosts over his centuries of immorally prolonged life, viewing each one as a tasty meal for him to consume. Not content with average ghosts, Oaks murders the artistically talented and inhales their ghosts, wanders military hospitals to steal the ghosts of dying soldiers, and drains newborns of their "ghost shells", parts of their psyche that break off for a few seconds due to the stress of birth, leaving the children with a large chunk of their personality missing as they grow up. In the present, Oaks catches wind of a powerful ghost, and, after brutally torturing and murdering a man and woman for information regarding it, begins tracking their son, Kootie, who now possesses the ghost, planning to kill the child then inhale the ghost all for himself, selling off his thousands of captured ghosts to fund his expedition. At the end of his rope due to withdrawal from not having inhaled a ghost recently, Oaks tries to kill everyone he can in the end, showing nothing but sadism and a sick curiosity for power all the way to his death.