Silent Hill (novel) is a horror novel by Sadamu Yamashita. It was published in 2006 and is divided into three chapters: Fog, Darkness and Nightmare. The book it contains 272 pages and 8 illustrations by Masahiro Ito.
At the start, Harry Mason drives to Silent Hill with his daughter Cheryl for a vacation. At the town's edge, he swerves his car to avoid hitting a girl in the road; as a result, he crashes the vehicle and loses consciousness. He wakes, and realizes that Cheryl is missing, so he seeks her. Silent Hill is deserted and foggy.
Harry Mason: Mason is the protagonist. Writer whose wife died of an illness four years prior. He has not accepted her death.
Cheryl Mason: is Harry's seven-year-old adopted daughter and an elementary school student. She was adopted by Harry and his wife after the couple found her abandoned while they were vacationing in Silent Hill.
Dahlia Gillespie: is the forty-six-year-old owner of an antique shop in the suburb of Silent Hill and a priestess of The Order, serving as the game's primary antagonist.
Alessa Gillespie: is Dahlia's fourteen-year-old daughter,who has possessed supernatural powers ever since she was born. Her classmates at elementary school called her a witch, teased her, scribbled on her desk, and excluded her, because of her possession of these abilities.
Cybil Bennett: is a twenty-eight-year-old police officer from the nearby town of Brahms and an ally of Harry, repeatedly supporting him in his search for Cheryl when they periodically meet in both alternate dimensions.
Michael Kaufmann: is a fifty-year-old doctor and the director of medical staff at Silent Hill's Alchemilla Hospital. He secretly allied with Dahlia Gillespie, but he turns on her and attempts to prevent her plans.
Lisa Garland : is a twenty-three-year-old nurse who worked at Alchemilla and another ally of Harry, repeatedly helping him. She nursed Alessa while the latter was hospitalized in Alchemilla, due to Alessa's life-threatening burns from the "accident" Dahlia staged.
