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Heloise Tapper

**Heloise Tapper** is a character in the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. She is the first Cuckoo to be recorded by cryptozoologists, since Fran's immunity to her telepathy allowed people who had encountered her to escape with their minds intact.

## Biography

### Stingers and Strangers

Heloise has been posing as a music teacher in Boggsville, Colorado for several months when Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown arrive to investigate unusual Apraxis Wasp activity. They meet her, and Jonathan is transfixed by her telepathic charms. Fran is unaffected.

They question Eleanor, revealing that they know she is a cryptid. She recounts recent events in town, and the three realize a discrepancy in Heloise's position as town music teacher. They go to visit Heloise, who convinces Jonathan that she is his wife and Fran is the interloper. A shootout leads to both Jonathan and Heloise injured but alive, and Fran breaks through Jonathan's daze by declaring her love for him.

The next day, they find that Heloise has vanished, and only the three of them remember she was ever there.

### The First Fall

Heloise does not appear in this story, but she was the one who hired the bogeyman assassin to "send a message" to Jonathan and Frances by killing their infant son, Daniel Healy.

### Oh Pretty Bird

Jonathan tracks down Heloise to Whiting, Indiana. He, Fran, Alexander, and Enid all travel there, with the precaution of anti-telepathy charms. In Whiting, they discover that everyone in town has become hypnotized by Heloise and her mate, Robert Tapper. Heloise is posing as the town librarian, while Robert took over as the school principal. Both are living in the mayor's house, where the Healys go to confront them. As Jonathan and Fran enter, Robert removes Fran's charm, seemingly taking control of her mind. Jonathan keeps the cuckoos talking as Alex and Enid approach through the back door. When the Tappers proudly reveal how little they care about human life, and gloat over murdering Daniel, Fran reveals she was faking being mind-controlled, and kills Robert with a shot between the eyes. She and Johnny turn on Heloise, both shooting her at the same time, in the middle of her rant. They take the bodies back with them to dissect, but the cuckoos' baby is never found.
Dullahan

**Dullahan** appear in the Ghost Roads series. They are parasitic heads controlling a dead body. Their heads are held on only by a length of ribbon.

## About

### Appearance

Dullahans appear human, but are actually a living, parasitic head controlling someone else's stolen corpse. If they remove the ribbon, their head will fall off and keep talking.

### Abilities

Dullahan are invisible to most people unless they reveal themselves, though they exude an aura of discomfort.

## References

1. ↑ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown Ch. 17
Follow the Lady

**Follow the Lady** is a short story in the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. If features Antimony Price and is a direct sequel to That Ain't Witchcraft.

## Plot

While Antimony and her friends are driving across America, James's car breaks down in Buckley Township. James calls a tow truck, while Annie takes the others to the Red Angel. At the bar, she introduces them to her grandmother Alice, who happens to be there.

Antimony tells Alice about how she killed the crossroads, and that Thomas might still be alive in another dimension. They all head to the Old Parrish Place to spend the night, where Alice entrusts her Aeslin mice to Annie for safekeeping.

## Characters

* Antimony Price
* James Smith
* Sam Taylor
* Cylia Mackie
* Fern Conway
* Cynthia
* Alice Healy

**Mentioned**

* Emery Spenser
* Arthur Harrington
* Umeko
* Thomas Price
* Frances Healy
* Jonathan Healy
* Laura Campbell
* Kevin Price
* Jane Harrington-Price
* Mary Dunlavy
* Rose Marshall
* Tav Mackie
* Leonard Cunningham
* Verity Price
* Alexander Price
* Evelyn Price
* Sally Henderson

## Cryptids

* Jink
* Sylph
* Sorcerer
* Fūri
* Huldra
* Tailypo
* Aeslin Mice

**Mentioned**

* Incubus
* Jorōgumo
* Crossroads / anima mundi
* Crossroads Ghost
* Hitchhiker
* Finfolk
* Bogeyman
* Swamp Hag
* Minotaur (suspected)
* Swamp god

## Locations

* Buckley Township, Michigan
	+ Old Parrish Place
	+ Red Angel

**Mentioned**

* New Gravesend, Maine
* Gentling, Maine
* Portland, Oregon

## Organizations

**Mentioned**

* Spenser and Smith Family Carnival
* Campbell Family Carnival
* Covenant of St. George

## Quotes

### Epigraph

* **Frances Brown**: "Once you make the carnival your home, you'll always belong there. The boneyard remembers your stride. The midway remembers the sound of your laughter. Once a carnie, always a carnie."

## Continuity

* Thomas's tailypo stuck around and had generations of family hanging around the Parrish place.
* Sam took Annie's Aeslin mice to the airport.
* Alice was born in Gentling, not Buckley.
* Alice's rejuvenation procedure sometimes has the effect of making her forget things.
* Annie jokes that she and Sam are "good with spiders".

## Trivia

* According to Alice, the Covenant is aware of the Red Angel.
* Cynthia's wife Minna is one of the angel statues behind the building.
D'nhyr Bear

The **D'nhyr Bear** is a type of cryptid mentioned in the Alice and Thomas prequels. Little is known about it. It looks like a bear with large, batlike wings. Thomas Price saved Alice Healy from one in 1955.

"Even D'nyhr, massive and resilient as they were, tended to stay down once the majority of the head had been removed by a close-range shotgun blast."
Adrienne

**Adrienne** is a recurring character in the InCryptid series. She is a former roller derby player, but was banned from most leagues after Antimony Price discovered she was using her mara abilities to take the luck of derby players mid-bout.

## About

### Abilities

As a mara, Adrienne can absorb life energy from other sapient beings.
Emery Spenser

**Emery Spenser** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. She is Sam Taylor's grandmother and raised him when her daughter, his mother, was not emotionally willing to. She is the current owner of the Spenser and Smith Family Carnival.

## Quotes

* “A cat can have kittens in an oven, but that doesn’t make them muffins.” Quoted by Sam.
Gentling, Maine

Gentling is a fictional coastal town in Maine. It is home to the finfolk.

The town was settled by Howard Gentling in the 1700s as a haven for his fellow finfolk. By the mid-1800s, it was the species' largest known settlement; one in three townsfolk have finfolk blood.

The town is sprawling and disorganized, and the locals tend not to keep up with modern fashion or trends. Although the mayor is technically an elected position, it has always gone to descendants of the Gentling family.

The town contains a church but no bed and breakfast.

## Points of Interest

### Grocery Store

Closed and abandoned about a year ago; used to keep finfolk infants before they are sold to the highest bidder.

### Lindsay House

Kept in better repair than most homes along the shoreline, perhaps due to Elaine's imperviousness to the call of the sea. It has a mermaid-shaped weathervane on the roof.

### Mayor's House

Originally home to Howard and Abigail Gentling. The house is designed with floors, wallpaper, and furniture carefully chosen to hide signs of dampness. Indoor plumbing was installed in 1936.
Einherjar

"Valhalla" (1905) by Emily Doepler

**Einherjar** are a type of ghost that have been mentioned in the Ghost Roads series.

## Price Family Field Guide

These dead heroes are supposed to stay in Valhalla, if it exists, so we don't know why they sometimes crop up in the living world. They become solid in the presence of alcohol or violence, and they very much enjoy professional wrestling.Culture

## In Popular Culture

In Old Norse, einjerhar translates literally to "army of one" or "those who fight alone." In Norse mythology, they are people who have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries. In Valhalla, the einherjar eat their fill of meat and mead. The einherjar prepare daily for the events of Ragnarök, when they will advance for an immense battle at the field of Vígríðr.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar
Laicaln bee

Mentioned in And Sweep Up The Wood as one of three options for some sort of giant wasp (the others being Melnorn or Apraxis Wasp), **Laicaln bees** are a nesting cryptid. "They're pretty clever, but [...] they can only sting once before they die, they don't breed quickly, and they'd never survive the winter." -Alice Price-Healy

Laicaln bees prefer to drink from stagnant pools, as opposed to fresh, clear water. Laicaln supposedly stick to hollow trees when building a hive, and block the entrances with wax. They move slowly at night.
Bigfoot

## Reference

**Bigfoot** is a type of cryptid, closely related to the Sasquatch. They are mentioned several times throughout the InCryptid series but so far have never been seen.

## Trivia

* Many Sasquatch make their living as Bigfoot hunters, just for the fun of tormenting each other.

## In Popular Culture

**Bigfoot**, also commonly referred to as **Sasquatch** in Canadian and American folklore, is an ape-like creature that is purported to inhabit the forests of North America. Supposed evidence of the existence of Bigfoot includes a number of anecdotal visual sightings, disputed video and audio recordings, photographs, and casts of large footprints. These continue to circulate despite repeatedly and credibly refuted by scientific methods. Yet Bigfoot has become an icon within the fringe subculture of cryptozoology all the same and an enduring element of popular culture.

The Bigfoot legend originated in northern California in 1958. A construction worker named Jerry Crew brought a plaster imprint of homonid footprints into a newspaper. The construction workers were already using the term "Bigfoot" to refer to the creature and the *Humbolt Times* article popularized it.

California has claimed the title of The Bigfoot State, although Washington and Oregon are also competing for most bigfoot sightings. It was similar to but distinct from the yeti, which originated in the Himalayas. It is sometimes conflated with the Sasquatch, which is more of a Northern US / Canada legend and closer to a giant human. Bigfoot, on the other hand, is depicted as a giant hairy primate. Its name was coined by loggers who found giant, humanlike footprints around their worksites.

The town of Willow Creek, California hosts an annual festival called Bigfoot Daze; its museum has a Bigfoot exhibit; there is also a Bigfoot Steakhouse, Bigfoot Motel, Bigfoot Burgers, and a Bigfoot lawnmower store.

Boring, Oregon is home to the North American Bigfoot Center, and Troutsdale, Oregon began hosting the Oregon Bigfoot Festival in 2017. Oregon is also home to a permanant Bigfoot trap, which has not caught a bigfoot since its installment in 1974.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigfoot
2. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigfoot
3. ↑ Singing the Comic-Con Blues
4. ↑ The Price Family Field Guide: Sasquatch
5. ↑ Bigfoot - Rational Wiki
6. ↑ Coleman, Loren and Jerome Clark (1999). *Cryptozoology A-Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Ness Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature.* New York: Fireside. ISBN 978-068486025
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ocker, J.W. (2022). *The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters.* Philadelphia: Quirk Books. ISBN 978-1683693222
Mark

**Mark** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. He is a Johrlac who allies with the Prices against Ingrid and the other Johrlac and helps them save Sarah Zellaby.

## About

### Appearance

Like all Johrlac, Mark has pale skin, dark hair, and blue eyes (except when he's actively using his telepathy, which turns them white).

### Abilities

Mark has telepathic abilities, like all Johrlac. After the events of Calculated Risks, Dr. Morrow mentions that he is still in a coma, but speculates that Mark may be turning into the first known cuckoo king. It is unknown if a cuckoo king has different powers than a queen like Sarah.

## Biography

Mark grew up in California, with his human family. He came to care for them, especially his sister, Cici, and helps the Prices foil Ingrid's plan to use Sarah to travel between dimensions and destroy the Earth.

## Relationships

### Cici

Cici (short for Cecilia) is Mark's human sister. Usually, when Johrlac go through their first instar (around puberty), the telepathic information overload overwhelms them and they murder their human host family. However, his little sister Cici thought he was playing a game, and he chased her around the house with a knife for so long that his mind stabilized and he instead became fiercely protective of her. He once killed another male cuckoo that was trying to harm Cici. The only reason he joined Ingrid in the first place was her threatening his family, and he defected to the Price's side to prevent the cuckoos from destroying Earth.

## References

1. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. 20
2. ↑ Calculated Risks
Manananggal

Classic depiction

## Appendix Entry

**Manananggal** (*Tanggal geminus*). If the manananggal is proof of anything, it is that Nature abhors a logical classification system. We're reasonably sure the manananggal are mammals; everything else is anyone's guess. They're hermaphroditic and capable of splitting their upper and lower bodies, although they are a single entity, and killing the lower half kills the upper half as well. They prefer fetal tissue, or the flesh of newborn infants. They are also venomous, as we have recently discovered. Do not engage if you can help it.

## About

"The manananggal are native to the Philippines, where they live disguised among the human population, using them for shelter and sustenance at the same time. They spend the days looking just like everyone else. It's only when the sun goes down that they open their wings and separate their torsos from their lower bodies. That's when they fly into the night, looking for prey.

They prey on infants, both newly born and just about to be born. the manananggal will also feed on the mothers, but only if they're still carrying or have given birth within the last twenty-four hours. Weak prey. Easy prey. Prey that, in this modern world, is conveniently herded into maternity wards and hospital beds, making it easy for the manananggal to come in and eat its fill."

Progressively sloppier kills indicate they are preparing to find a mate and nest.

Pouring salt down the feeding tube kills the lower body, while bullets to the head will dispatch the upper half.

They are venomous.

## In the Series

### Midnight Blue-Light Special

A manananggal has been preying on the various hospitals in Manhattan, killing humans and cryptids alike. Dr. Morrow of St. Giles' hospital calls Verity for help. Verity confronts and kills the creature with Sarah running backup.

## In Popular Culture

The manananggal is an old mythical creature in the Philippines that separates from their lower part of body and their fangs and wings give it a vampire-like appearance.

## References

1. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special audiobook, Ch. 1
2. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Books 2, 5-11
3. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 1
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manananggal#/media/File:Manananggal.jpg
Ambulomancer

**Ambulomancers** are a type of supernatural that draw power from the distance they walk.

## Price Family Field Guide

Characterized by their reluctance to trust themselves to any form of vehicular transit, these born wanderers are eternally on the move, gathering strength and power from the distance they have traveled. A novice ambulomancer will be able to control the road in small ways, finding food, shelter, and protection even within the harshest environments. An advanced ambulomancer will actually be able to interpret the language of the road itself, using this information to predict the future and manipulate coming events. Ambulomancers can be of any species, human or non-human, although humans and canines are most common.

## Abilities

“Annie . . .” He paused. “Is it still okay to call you that?”

“Yeah,” I said. “It’s ‘Antimony,’ remember? My Great-Aunt Laura was an **ambulomancer**. She made a prediction that could have applied to either me or my cousin Elsie, about needing to disappear under a name that was ours but wasn’t at the same time. My parents named me ‘Antimony Timpani,’ and Elsie’s parents named her ‘Elsinore Norelle,’ to make sure we’d be able to do what we had to, when the time came.” I laughed bitterly. “When we were kids, we used to bet each other on who it would be. I never thought I’d win.” - Magic For Nothing (p. 315)

## Culture

Ambulomancers are not subjects of the Queen of the Routewitches, but respect her and many keep in contact with her.

## Characters

* Matthew Barrowman
* Violet Barrowman
* Holly Barrowman
* Willow Barrowman

## In Popular Culture

The Latin root "ambul" means "to walk, to take steps, to wander." e.g. Amble=to walk at a slow, easy pace. Ambulatory=Of, or related to walking or moving.

The suffix "-mancy" refers to prophecy.

Ambulomancy: Divination through walking, commonly in circles.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/latin-ambul-3211673
2. ↑ https://www.occultopedia.com/a/ambulomancy.htm
Mike Gucciard

**Michael "Uncle Mike" Gucciard** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. He is a friend of the Healy-Price Family and an honorary uncle to the youngest generation.

## Relationships

### Lea Gucciard

Lea Gucciard, an Oceanid, is Mike's wife. She took his last name when they married, since Oceanids don't have last names.

## Trivia

Mike Gucciard is named after a real person, presumably a friend or acquaintance of Seanan's, who is credited as one of the "Wicked Girls and Lost Boys" on her album *Wicked Girls*.

## Quotes

**Midnight Blue-Light Special**

* **Mike, regarding cars:** "Always stay two years behind the times. Any newer, looks like you've got money, you become a visible target. Any older, you risk sticking out. Two years is the sweet spot." (Ch. 9)
* **Mike:** "We've all got our skills. There's no shame in depending on them. Just in falling apart if things don't go exactly the way you were planning." (Ch. 13)
* **Mike:** "Truth is the best way to guarantee obedience. The more lies you're told, the harder it gets to keep the stories straight." (Ch. 18)
* **Mike:** "If a member of your family gets hurt, you feel bad. You figure out why it happened. You make sure it doesn't happen again. Feeling awful is the first step. Everything after this is up to you." (Ch. 24)

## References

1. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 13
2. ↑ Snake in the Glass
Hanging Tree

**"Hanging Tree"** is a song about Rose Marshall, written in 2007.

## Lyrics

Meet me in the shadow of the hanging tree,

Where the skeletons of mercy dangle still.

Love is like a shadow hanging over me;

I always say I won't. I always will.

And love is like the mountain,

And it doesn't care

That my stillborn heart beats naked in my hand.

Love is like the winter,

And it isn't fair...

But the hanging tree's been hurt. It understands.

See the pretty maidens in their summer gowns,

With hollyhocks and lilies in their hair.

Counting off the petals as they shower down --

He loves me not. He loves me. He'll be there.

And hope is like a promise

I can never keep,

A tangled maze of tragedy and blame.

I lay me down each night,

And still I never sleep,

But the hanging tree forgives me, all the same.

So lay me down where the tangled roots

Of the past hold tightly to the land;

I've been here before, I know the way.

So lay me down in the gentle arms

Of the only one who understands;

The hanging tree's the only love I've ever had

Who ever said that I could rest, that I could stay...

Leave me in the shadow of the hanging tree,

Where the sins of past transgressions sing and sigh.

Love is like a story never meant to be;

I always say I won't. I always lie.

And faith is like the shadow

Of the hanging tree,

It's rooted deep in everything we are.

It catches us in chains

Until we're never free,

But the hanging tree forgives my every scar.

Meet me in the shadow of the hanging tree;

Bring your shattered heart like rubies in your hand.

Maybe love was never really meant to be,

But the hanging tree keeps faith. It understands.
Cryptid

The general term for those species that are a step outside of scientific reality.Ted Harrington has the theory that all cryptid species have migrated to earth from Other Worlds. There are close to a thousand species of sapient and non-sapient species of cryptid, the less than one hundred species that can pass for human have only been intentional social contact from roughly the 1860s. A large amount of species are also nocturnal and as such like living in places with large sewer systems such as New York City.

Most sapient species don't have much medical expertise with their own biology, this makes Evelyn Price so sought after.

Most Cryptids that can not interbreed with humans only have sexual relationships among themselves being turned off by the idea of a human partner becuase among other things they won't smell right, Sylphs are explictly mentioned to do this.

College is not a common occurrence for most Cryptids.

## References

1. ↑ Imaginary Numbers, Ch. 9
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Discount Armageddon, Ch. 4
3. ↑ Discount Armageddon, Ch. 12
4. ↑ InCryptid Q&A, Part IV: City Living is the Life for Me
5. ↑ InCryptid Q&A, Part VI: Breeding
6. ↑ InCryptid Q&A, Part IX: College Days
Fortuna

## Reference

**Fortuna** are a type of luck-benders mentioned in the InCryptid series. They can make luck, weaving it out of the walls of the world. They have been compared to Jinks and Kairos.

"Sometimes Mary suspected Alice had one or more of those 'looks human enough to bring home to Mom, actually about as human as an opossum' folks kicking around somewhere back in her family line. Something like a jink or a mara or even a Fortuna, something that could bend luck to suit itself. It would explain a lot." - Backpacking Through Bedlam, prologue

## In Popular Culture

**Fortuna** is a Roman goddess of fortune and the personification of luck. She is still popular in Italian culture and often depicted blindfolded because "luck is blind."

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fortuna
2. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. ?
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna
Drop bear

Modern depiction

## Reference

The **drop bear** is a terrifying, marsupial Australian cryptid that resembles a koala.

## Quotes

* "I leaned back in my seat and opened the guide to the chapter on drop bears, which included some sketches that made me want to ask the pilot to turn the plane around. Give me a nice normal Waheela or wendigo any day: drop bears were *freaky*. [...] According to the guide, where we were going we would be contending with drop bears, bunyips, Queensland tigers, and other lovely, predatory things I wasn't used to seeing on a regular basis." -Pocket Apocalypse Ch. ?
* "To your average tourist in Australia - and, indeed, to your average Australian - the drop bear was a fun campfire story and something to scare kids with. Sadly, the cryptozoological world knows better. Why Australia felt the need to evolve a carnivorous, tree-dwelling marsupial that looks like a koala after it's been exposed to serious amounts of steroids is anyone's guess, but I was in no hurry to meet one. A normal koala is perfectly capable of clawing a man's face off. A drop bear will both claw it off and eat it, which doesn't strike me as particularly social." -Pocket Apocalypse Ch. ?

## In Popular Culture

The drop bear (sometimes dropbear), assigned the fictional scientific name *Thylarctos plummetus*, is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala (*Phascolarctos cinereus*). This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically docile herbivores (and are not bears), drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above.

* Drop bears were first reported in 2005 in Pearth, Australia. The Australian slogan "Look up, stay alive" was created in honor of the drop bear. Supposedly, wearing forks in your hair or Vegemite behind your ears will repel them. Most experts agree that they are a myth designed to frighten tourists.
* The drop bear is featured in the Australian Museum.

## References

1. ↑ dictionary.com
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Drop bear on Wikipedia
3. ↑ Halls, Kelly Milner (2019). *Cryptid Creatures: A Field Guide to 50 Fascinating Beasts.* Seattle: Sasquatch Books. pp. 69-70. ISBN 978-1632172105.
4. ↑ https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
Chandi Sarpa

**Chandi Sarpa** is a minor character who appears in Half-Off Ragnarok. She constantly sneaks into the Columbus Zoo to spend time with her betrothed, Shami, who appears as a cobra.

## About

### Appearance

Chandi is around nine or ten years old. [*citation needed*] She is of Indian descent, with darker skin and black hair.

### Personality

Chandi is a bossy and somewhat spoiled child, accustomed to wheedling adults in order to get her way. In particular, she is obsesed with spending time with her betrothed Shami because otherwise she might not develop sufficient immunity to his venom.

### Abilities

Chandi is immune to most venomous snakes and helps Alex Price feed them sometimes at the zoo. She can presumably communicate with male wadjet in their cobra form.
Campbell Family Carnival

The **Campbell Family Carnival**, also known as the **Campbell Family Circus**, has been friendly with the Healy-Price family since the days of Frances Brown, who was their star performer.

Generations later, Antimony began spending summers there when she was six years old, and found family and belonging among the misfits of the carnival. They taught her knife-throwing, trapeze, and other carnie staples.

## Characters

* Paul Campbell
* Juniper Campbell
* Laura Campbell
* Frances Healy
* The Incredible Christopher
* Grayson Campbell

## Quotes

* “It was the first place I felt like me, Antimony, not just the annoying youngest Price kid. I was defined by more than my place in the family, and it was amazing.” -Antimony, Magic for Nothing Ch. 11
Carcolh

Mentioned in Halfway Through the Wood, a **Carcolh** is a beast large enough to consume a human whole. Its mucus has properties that can dissolve skin.

## In Popular Culture

**Lou Carcolh**, or the **Carcolh**, is a mythical beast from French folklore. It's described as a large, slimy, snail-like monster with hairy tentacles and a large shell. It was an inspiration for the Goodra line in the pokemon franchise.
Madhura

Official artwork

## Reference

**Madhura** are a type of cryptid that can blend in with the human population and tend to be fond of sweets.

## Appendix Entry

**Madhura** (*Homo madhurata*). Humanoid cryptids with an affinity for sugar in all forms. Vegetarian. Their presence slows the decay of organic matter, and is usually viewed as lucky by everyone except the local dentist. Madhura are very family-oriented, and are rarely found living on their own. Originally from the Indian subcontinent.

## About

The Madhura *(Mellitus madhura)* originated in India. They have since migrated to England, Canada, and the United States as well as other locations habitable to humans. They can blend seamlessly into a human population, and their lifespan mirror that of humans.

Their physiology roughly resembles mammals, although they do not lactate. They may be related to insects, since they bear live young and feed them with a honey-like substance produced under their tongues.

Their diet includes fruit, honey, and refined sugar. Their presence causes the slowing of decay of all kinds.

They appear to have no natural defenses and have been ruthlessly hunted by the Covenant of St. George.

## Characters

* Sunil
* Rochak
* Piyusha

## In Popular Culture

* In Sanskrit, "madhura" refers to honeyed sweetness.
* In the Madhurya Bhava style of yoga, practitioners focus on divine love. Madhurya or Madhura refers to love or devotion.
* "Mellitus," the Madhura's genus and species, describes a type of diabetes.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/
2. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Books 1-2, 5-11
3. ↑ https://www.sanskritdictionary.com/?q=madhura
4. ↑ https://www.sivanandaonline.org//?cmd=displaysection&section\_id=681
5. ↑ https://melissawest.com/what-are-the-five-bhavas/
6. ↑ https://saisarathi.com/divine-discourses/madhura-bhakti/
Gary Daniels

**Gary Daniels** is a character in the Ghost Roads series by Seanan McGuire. He was Rose Marshall's boyfriend when she was alive, and the first person to meet her ghost.

## About

### Personality

Gary was a popular boy, a member of the football team from a well-off family. He was kind and "a lot more than halfway to being in love" with Rose.

### Abilities

Like Rose, Gary was a car enthusiast, and knew how to fix up his vehicle. After his death, his soul was bonded with the ghost of his car, and Rose drove him on the ghostroads. He communicates through his radio, playing bits of songs.

## In the Series

### Sparrow Hill Road

In "True Love Never Dies", Rose is drawn back to Buckley to play psychopomp for Gary Daniels himself, who is quietly passing away in a senior facility. He consulted with routewitches to find a way to get her to be his psychopomp, and she meets him in his last moments. Before he dies Gary gives her instructions to go to a particular routewitch mechanic in Dearborn. When Rose meets Carl the mechanic, he leads her to Gary's custom-built car, a 1952 Ford Crestline Sunliner. He crushes the car and its keys in front of Rose, then prompts her to go into the twilight where she finds Gary has melded with the car. He had spent most of his life finding a loophole to allow him to ride the ghostroads and reunite with Rose after death.

In "Thunder Road", Rose drives Gary to the Last Dance Diner, only to find Emma missing and a note from Bobby saying he kidnapped her. They meet him in the midnight, where Rose gambles her and Gary's souls in a race against Bobby, refereed by Bethany. They win, and return home to the Last Dance.

## Relationships

### Rose Marshall

Gary came from a well-off family, and his parents disapproved of Rose, who was poor. Despite this, he loved her, and they planned to go to prom together. On prom night, his car broke down, but she had no way of knowing what was keeping him. Tired of waiting, she went for a drive. She ended up being killed by Bobby Cross, and Gary found her ghost up on Sparrow Hill. He gave her his suit jacket, and they drove around all night, before he brought her back home. It wasn't until he got home to find the police waiting for him that he found out Rose had died on Sparrow Hill Road. Even after more than 60 years without her, Gary never stopped loving Rose, and spent most of his life trying to find a way to allow them to reunite in death.

## Trivia

The car on the first cover of Sparrow Hill Road, which Rose is sitting on, is a Crestline Sunliner, most likely Gary.

## References

1. ↑ At the time of Rose's death, he was 6 months away from turning 18. Prom is usually in the spring, so he would turn 18 in late 1952.
2. ↑ *Sparrow Hill Road*, "True Love Never Dies"
3. ↑ *Sparrow Hill Road*, "The Pretty Little Girl in the Green Silk Gown"
Hannah

**Hannah** is a minor character in the InCryptid series who appears in Half-Off Ragnarok. She is a half-Greater Gorgon, half-Pliny's Gorgon hybrid and leader of the Columbus gorgon community.

## About

### Appearance

Hannah is roughly seven feet tall with snakes for hair.

### Abilities

She has the leadership abilities needed to hold her community together especially eveident given that gorgon communities have failed before.

Has the shape-shifting ability of a greater Gorgon, unlike most hybrids she is able to have children.

## Biography

### In the Series

Hannah is the offspring of a Pliny's gorgon and a greater gorgon. Her parents were ostracized by each of their communities for their relationship with one another, but Jonathan Healy helped them settle in Columbus and build a safe haven for themselves.

Normally, this sort of species combination should make her infertile, so Hannah was surprised to become pregnant with Lloyd. Her partner, another gorgon, was not interested in fatherhood and left them.

### Half-Off Ragnarok

Hannah is suspicious of Alex Price and Shelby Tanner when they visit the gorgon community while investigating petrifactors. However, she allows them to look around and answers their questions. Only later does Alex realize that she knew all along that Lloyd was causing the problems. He confronts her outside Lloyd's hideout, and she reluctantly stands aside to allow Alex to exterminate her son.

### The Measure of a Monster

When the children of her community were kidnapped she sanctioned Dee to get Alex Price to come in and find the children and their kidnappers.

## Relationships

### Her Son

She loved her son even though he was born deformed.
Cornwife

A **Cornwife** is a humanoid cryptid that is either a plant that evolved to be pseudo-mammalian, or a primate that evolved to mimic some attributes of plants. They thrive in agrarian settings, and can pass for human well enough to get college degrees when they feel the need to contribute to the family farm.

## About

Cornwife is a gender-neutral term, like how "Bogeyman" refers to both males and females.

### Appearance

They have hair the color of corn silk, with green undertones. Their biology is different enough from animals that the giant spiders of the "Giant Bug Dimension" don't recognize them as edible.

## Characters

* Michael, an agriculture major at Iowa State University.

## Popular Culture

* Corn Mother, also called Corn Maiden, is a mythological figure believed, among indigenous agricultural tribes in North America, to be responsible for the origin of corn (maize).

## References

1. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. 10
2. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. 19
3. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Corn-Mother
Ever-laster

**Ever-lasters** are a type of ghost that appear in the Ghost Roads series. They are ghost children who pretend to go about growing up normally. They are known for their gift of prophecy.

## Price Family Field Guide

These eternal children haunt playgrounds and schoolyards, playing clapping games and going to classes that never end. A surprising amount of knowledge is encoded in their rhymes, for those who find the time to listen.
Jink

Official artwork

## Reference

**Jink** are humaoid luck manipulators in the InCryptid series. They first appear in Tricks for Free.

Compare to the Mara, Fortuna, and Kairos.

## Appendix Entry

**Jink** (*Tyche iynx*). Luck manipulators and masters of disguise, these close relatives of the mara have been known to conceal themselves right under the nose of the Covenant. No small trick. Most jinks are extremely careful about the way they move and manipulate luck, and individuals have been known to sacrifice themselves for the good of the community.

## About

Jinks are close relatives of homo sapiens and can perfectly hide within the human population. Having luck on their side certainly helps.

They are cross-fertile with humans, although offspring are often sterile.

Jink are omnivores that favor fruits and sugars.

They possess an extra organ similar to the ampullae of Lorenzini found in sharks This organ allows them to feed on others’ luck energy. They rarely kill their victims.

### Abilities

Jinks can identify, aquire, and manipulate the luck of those around them. Since they usually steal good luck, they tend to be unpopular in the sapient cryptid community. In reality, jink are very conscious of the balance of luck and generally try to avoid painting a target on their backs by sapping all the good luck from a community.

When they “spend” their luck, good or bad, they will eventually experience the opposite kind of luck in some unforeseen manner. This is the universe keeping balance. They refer to it as "paying the Lady."

## Characters

* Big Al
* Cylia Mackie
* Tav Mackie

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/jinx
2. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Books 7, 8, 9
Coachman

**Coachmen** are a type of ghost that appears in the InCryptid short story, The Ghosts of Bourbon Street.

## Price Family Field Guide

These archaic ghosts have rarely been seen in the modern day, bound as they traditionally are to phantom carriages, complete with horses. They are happy to give lonely travelers rides to their final destination, and generally fail to point out that this will involve riding in their bellies.

## Characters

* Amelia: a friend of Rose's who lives in New Orleans during the 21st century.

## Popular Culture

The story of a ghostly carriage and driver is common in ghost stories of the Western world.

* The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards (1864)
* The Phantom Carriage (1921)
* The Legend of the Phantom Coach in East Texas by John Q. Anderson (1963)
Barnacle Goose

## Reference

**Baranacle geese** are a type of cryptid best described as a "that could never happen" hybrid of plant and animal. They do not eat people, although they have a tendency to hiss and honk a lot. They seem to be common to Buckley, Michigan.

## In Popular Culture

The non-cryptid **barnacle goose** is a subspecies of geese notable for its black plumage. It is found in the Arctic regions.

A barnacle is any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell. The non-cryptid kind of **goose barnacles** have stalks and attach themselves to the underside of ships and floating timber.

## References

1. ↑ Dictionary.com
2. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. ?
3. ↑ The Way Home
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle\_goose
5. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/barnacle
Manfred Cunningham

Manfred Cunningham is the leader of the Covenant of St. George in the 1960s. He believes that Thomas Price can be shown the error of his ways and pulled back into the fold of the Covenant -- or at least, that's what Cunningham told Gwendolyn Brandt before sending her off to fulfill her betrothal to Thomas.

1. ↑ What You Pay For
Gwendolyn Brandt

**Gwendolyn Brandt** is a recurring character in the Alice and Thomas prequel stories. She is a Covenant operative originally betrothed to Thomas Price.

## About

### Personality

Gwendolyn is utterly loyal to the Covenant and has no love for anything outside it. She is also driven by greed for the Price family fortune.

## Biography

Gwendolyn was raised to be loyal to the Covenant, and was a fearsome child. Thomas remembers when they were both fifteen and learned they were to be betrothed; he was terrified of her and avoided her at all costs.

## In the Series

### What You Pay For

Gwendolyn comes to Buckley on a mission from the Covenant: to marry her betrothed, Thomas Price, and become pregnant with a Price heir. She does not take his "no" well, nor the knowledge that he apparently got married to a local girl named Mary.

### What You Build

Gwendolyn helps track the Alkabyiftiris slime. She and Thomas each try to make the other see their way of thinking, with little results.

### The Hand of the Forest

Gwendolyn realizes Mary is a ghost, but Mary continues the charade and says that Thomas likes her that way. Then Gwen is attacked by the sentient slime and sees Thomas use magic to destroy it.

Thomas takes her to the Healy house to recover. After removing the slime, he compels her to return home to England and report to the Covenant that he should be left alone.

### Halfway Through the Wood

Gwendolyn makes a deal with the crossroads to arrange an attack on the Healy household with a bidi-taurabo-haza, resulting in the death of Enid Healy and five civilians, and nearly causing Alice's death as well. In revenge, Mary Dunlavy hunts her down and sics the same cryptid upon her.
Juniper Campbell

**Juniper Campbell** is a character who appears in the InCryptid prequel shorts. She is a routewitch, fortuneteller, and adoptive family of Frances Healy's. She is also a member of the Campbell Family Carnival.

## About

### Appearance

Dyed black hair, no makeup, but features that seem like she cakes herself in it. Her traveling clothes are jeans and an off-the-shoulder peasant blouse a hundred years out of style.

### Ability

Juniper can see both the future and the past. She uses a custom tarot deck based on literary references to aid her; she calls it bibliomancy.

As a routewitch, she collects power through the amount of traveling she does.

She tends to be bothered by ghosts looking to her for help, and she thoroughly wards the circus against them.

### Professional Life

Juniper is the Campbell Family Carnival's fortuneteller.

## In the Series

### Married in Green

Jonathan arranges for Juniper and the whole carnival to come to Buckley to attend Fran's wedding. Juniper reads Fran's fortune with a tarot deck and predicts that if she remains in Buckley, she will be happiest in life but meet an untimely demise.

### The First Fall

Juniper welcomes a grieving Frances and Jonathan back to the carnival after their firstborn son is murdered by a bogeyman. She assures Frances that Daniel is not lingering as a ghost. She also suspects this will be the last time they see one another alive.

### Winter Sunshine

When the Healys go to Florida for the winter, Juniper wards Mary from entering the carnival or the surrounding area. She does this every time they visit, and Mary remains just as irritated as always.

## Relationships

### Frances Healy

Juniper and Frances are as close as sisters. Juniper is like an aunt to Alice as the girl grows up.

## References

1. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood Ch. 8
2. ↑ Married in Green
3. ↑ Married in Green
Harpy

Modern depiction

## Reference

The **harpy** is a type of cryptid that has been mentioned several times but not seen in the series.

## About

* As adolescents, they go through several molts before their adult feathers come in
* Males are properly termed harriers.
* Their blood has a noted coppery smell.
* They typically have feathers in their scalp which, given normal feather have veins and are this painful to remove, necessitate the use of wigs when amoung the human public.
* Their diet includes various small birds though their meals seem to be contraindicated for humans.

## In Popular Culture

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a **harpy** is a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds. They were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness. Pottery art depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures.

## References

1. ↑ Dictionary.com
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Discount Armageddon, Ch. 4
3. ↑ Chaos Choreography, Ch. 14
4. ↑ Discount Armageddon, Ch. 24
5. ↑ Chaos Choreography, Ch. 3
6. ↑ Harpy
Faoladh

Depiction of an Irish werewolf

**Faoladh** are a therianthrope species theorized as the origin point for lycanthropy.

## Popular Culture

The faoladh are an Irish variation on the werewolf, said to have been the descendants of a legendary figure named Laignech Fáelad whose line gave rise to the kings of Ossory.

## References

1. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 13
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolves\_of\_Ossory
3. ↑ https://earthandstarryheaven.com/2015/05/13/irish-werewolves/
Elizabeth Evans

**Elizabeth Evans** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. She is the earliest known ancestor of the Healy-Price Family and the original adopter of the family's Aeslin Mice colony.

## Biography

Elizabeth Evans and her daughter Caroline Carew discovered the Aeslin mice behind their house and took them in. As current Covenant members, they had to keep the mice a secret.

Elizabeth's husband, known to the Aeslin only as "the Cruelest God", killed her by striking her in the head. She lingered in her bed for five days, commemorated in the Aeslin Carnival holiday. For this act of Deicide, the Aeslin deliberately Forgot the Cruelest God's name, and only preserve his empty shrine as a sign that even the gods are imperfect—Elizabeth chose poorly in her choice of mate.

## Quotes

### Aeslin Lore

"The Kindly Priestess refused to be recognized as a god, saying that it was improper for a woman to set herself above her husband."

## References

1. ↑ That Ain't Witchcraft Ch. 24
2. ↑ The Mysteries of the Stolen God and Where His Waffles Went
3. ↑ Imaginary Numbers
Eliza

**Eliza** is the narrator of the InCryptid short story Balance.

### Personality

Eliza is a classically conditioned cuckoo. She is cold, calculating, and self-serving. She will do anything to ensure her own survival.

### Abilities

Eliza demonstrates the telepathic memory alteration inherent to cuckoos.

## In the Series

### Balance

Eliza gleefully causes chaos in Burbank, and charms a woman named Barb into taking her to "her" home. A man named Jesse arrives and seems to think Eliza is another cuckoo named Victoria, before shooting her dead with a dart of theobromine. As she dies, her telepathic distress signal brings all the local cuckoos there to kill him.

## Quotes

* "All we do is exploit what's available to us. Does a human who makes their dog work for its supper consider themselves malicious? Do they feel like terrible people because they enjoy a good piece of steak on occasion? No. They recognize themselves as the higher creature, and they use the lesser as they see fit. We simply do the same.
We simply do it to *them*."
Aly Fell

**Alastair "Aly" Fell** is the primary cover artist of the InCryptid Series. He also designed the original Sparrow Hill Road cover. When he is not available, Lee Moyer designs the InCryptid cover art.

## InCryptid Books

* Discount Armageddon
* Midnight Blue-Light Special
* Half-Off Ragnarok
* Pocket Apocalypse
* Chaos Choreography
* Magic for Nothing
* Calculated Risks
* Spelunking Through Hell

## Online Presence

* Website: alyfell.blogspot.com
* Instagram: @allyfellart
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlyFellArt
* ArtStation; https://www.artstation.com/alyfell
* DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/alyfell
* Book series: http://www.darkrising.co.uk/