Dead Folks in Lolita

--The sentiment that "no ghosts walk" in the beginning of the book is meant to say that all characters who play a part in the story are no longer dwelling amongst the living in a visceral sense; though, this is not entirely true, as those characters are kept alive and technically amongst the living by their place in this story, which will likely be read by many to come.
--Humbert is dead when this story is being read. We know this because John Jay Jr. says in the foreword that "'Humbert Humbert,' [the author of Lolita], had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16th, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start" (3).
--Lolita herself is dead. John Jay Jr. also graces us with this information in the foreword, saying "Mrs. 'Richard F Schiller' died in childbed giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest" (5).
--Annabel, the initial object of Humbert's love, died four months after their attempt at consummation, of a disease called "typhus in Corfu" (13).
--Charlotte is dead. Though her death scene is described on page 98 ("...the top of her head a porridge of bone, brains, bronze hair and blood"), the first time that Humbert declares that she is dead is when he says to Lolita, "your mother is dead" (141).
--Valeria and Maximovich are dead. Valeria's death is confirmed when Humbert hears the news that "Mrs. Maximovich nee Zborovski had died in childbirth around 1945" (30). Maximovich himself has died, or so it seems, as result of "a year-long experiment...[that] dealt with human and racial reactions to a diet of bananas and dates in a constant position on all fours" (30).
--Quilty is killed in the last few pages of the book, when Humbert chases him upstairs in his house and shoots him several times. His death scene: "Quilty of all people had managed to crawl out onto the landing, and there we could see him, flapping and heaving, and then subsiding, forever this time, in a purple heap" (305).
--Humbert's mother is dead. "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three" (10).
--Humbert's aunt Sybil is dead. "Aunt Sybil had punk-rimmed azure eyes and a waxen complexion. She said she knew she would die soon after my sixteenth birthday, and did" (10).
--Finally, Charlotte's first husband is dead, of course. This is what leaves Charlotte vulnerable and prone to falling completely in love with weird old Humbert (other than his charming European habits and manners).

There are surely other characters who are dead. This could be a long project.