Jeremy Heldt

Jeremy Heldt works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. Six years prior to the central timeline of this story, his mother died in a car accident. He lives with his father in the same house the three of them used to live in. When strange footage starts being reported on some of the tapes at the Video Hut, he is the first person to have it brought to his attention, and the first person to address the matter, taking the tapes home and watching them himself.

Jeremy is a soft-spoken and practical person, thoroughly Midwestern and resembling his father more and more as the book progresses. He is sympathetic and respectful of the privacy of others in a way that other characters do not seem to be. Jeremy's curiosity about Lisa Sample is tentative and empathetic, contrasting sharply with Stephanie's, which is more focused on finding...