Threshold

Threshold is a novel by Caitlin R. Kiernan, published in 2001, part of their Deep Time series.Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Summary Bibliography: Caitlin R. Kiernan." It introduces characters whose stories continue in Low Red Moon (2003) and Alabaster (2006). 
It won the 2001 International Horror Guild award for best novel.International Horror Guild, IHG Recipients. 
== Characters ==
* Chance Matthews: A 23-year-old paleontologist from Birmingham, Alabama. Her life has fallen apart since her then-lover Deacon Silvey and her best friend Elise Alden on a lark broke into the Birmingham Water Works tunnel on Red Mountain above the city.
* Deacon Silvey: A psychic who has become an alcoholic by self-medicating against the "crippling headaches" that come with his powers. He "dropp[ed] out of Emory halfway through an undergraduate degree in philosophy." He works "convenience store jobs, liquor store jobs, anything to pay the rent and enough left over to stay drunk whenever he needed to stay drunk." After dating Chance for three years, they broke up after Deacon slept with Elise after whatever happened inside the waterworks tunnel. He's now seeing Sadie Jasper.
* Dancy Flammarion: A 16-year-old albino girl from Florida who believes that angels instruct her to kill monsters. She escaped from the state mental hospital in Tallahassee. She comes to Birmingham to enlist Chance, Deacon, and Sadie's help to stop something that was released in the Red Mountain tunnel.
* Elise Alden: A friend of Chance's, she kills herself after being traumatized in the waterworks tunnel and blaming herself for the end of Chance and Deacon's relationship.
* Sadie Jasper: An aspiring writer and Deacon's lover. Known for her "callous goth-girl shtick." She has "coalblack hair"; her eyes are "heavy-lidded and her pale, blue irises surrounded by all that smudged eyeliner."
* Dr. Alice K. Sprinkle: An older paleontologist on Chance's thesis committee. She "has hands like a bricklayer."
* Soda: A friend of Deacon's who loans him a beat-up car.
== References ==
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works