Evelyn Addams is a powerful necromancer. Ever since her earliest childhood, she could see and hear the spirits of the dead. Believing her to be unstable, her family had her committed to a mental hospital. Though she adamantly held out for a number of years that she really could talk with the dead, she finally acquiesced and began telling doctors the opposite, so in her late teenage years, she was released back to her family and considered ‘cured’.

She joined a paranormal society called the Female Phantom Finders and together she and her friends went on ghost hunts using Eve as a communication tool. She also stumbled upon the strange dimension known as The Library, and obtained Eleanora Blackwood’s Book of Shadows. She also, for a short time, fell victim to the corruptive influence of the phantom, Dagan Erebus, an experience that changed her forever. She and her friends, along with her sister, Brittany Addams, traveled to Ghost Nook Island, and, in a botched attempt to save the soul of Anaximanes Ravenhurst, her friends were all consumed by his darkness. She, however, not only survived, but managed to use her necromantic powers to enslave the Anax himself!