Oscar Gleam

Oscar Gleam was the son of Hans Gleam and Giselle Gleam, the brother of Liesel Gleam, and the nephew of Jakob Gleam.

Certainties

Oscar and Liesel were first to realize that their father Hans's research into the Bogeyman-stories had borne unintended and terrible results. Unburdened by their father's Lamordian rationalism, they recognized that Bogeymen were appearing in Teufeldorf, and seemed to be seeking them out - kidnapping and killing other children as collateral damage. Frightened to the point of being traumatised, the children burned candles at night to keep the monsters out of their bedroom - only for the candle to go out.

The Scissorman and the Bad Thing attacked Oscar and Liesel, with their parents wholly unaware. The next morning, poor Liesel had been butchered. While Oscar had suffered scratches and bruises, he was alive - but unable to speak, having been forced to watch what was done to Liesel.

Hans moved the family to Ludendorf after the tragedy. Oscar and his mother would be committed to the asylum of Chateaufaux for therapy. While Giselle never left its walls, the same is not said of Oscar.

Uncertainties

It is known that Oscar was released from the asylum after ten years. Even when declared 'cured', he refused to sleep without a light.

It is at the very least strongly implied that Oscar is the storyteller of the introduction to Chapter Four: 'Noises in the Night', of Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends. If this is the case, then Oscar became a skilled folklorist in his own right - as well as a vengeful monster hunter. Presumably he had been hunting the Bogeymen when one night his candle went out, and he was murdered in an unnamed inn by the Scissorman, the majority of his notes ruined beyond legibility.