Jim Grondin

Jim is first seen in chapter 4 where he, along with David, Myron, Ollie and Norm enter the loading bay to fix the generator after it had turned off. He, along with Myron and Norm are in disbelief about the noises David had heard and try to send Norm out to unclog the exhaust. He witnesses Norms death but along with everyone except for David is too frozen in fear to help and lets him get dragged away, even being too scared to turn off the generator. After the incident gets drunk with Myron, believing he is the reason for his death and hating himself for it. He is not really mentioned again until chapter 9, wherein he, David, Ollie, Buddy, Hilda, Dan and Mike go to the pharmacy next door to gather supplies as a type of penance as David describes it. He eventually becomes too fearful after hearing the noises and gets lost in the pharmacy, presumably being mauled by the spider creatures encountered by the rest of the group.

In the film Jim survives the pharmacy, but unfortuntely his horrifying and traumatic encounter with Grey Widowers causes him to lose his mind, and unable to cope, he crosses over to Carmody. Becoming a minor villain from the point.