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Lamia

## Reference

**Lamia** are a type of cryptid with the upper bodies of humanoids and lower bodies of snakes. This article is primarily about the lamia that originated on Lemure, as found through studying Naga and his associates. They appear in the Jonathan and Frances Shorts and Spelunking Through Hell.

## Appendix Entry

**Lamia** (*Python lamia*). Semi-hominid cryptids with the upper bodies of humans and the lower bodies of snakes. Lamia are members of order synapsedia, the mammal-like reptiles, and are considered responsible for many of the "great snake" sightings of legend. The sightings not attributed to actual great snakes, that is.

## About

### Appearance

Naga's subtype of lamia have very little about them that looks human: They are truly snakes with arms, as they have no hair or false mammaries.

Other lamia subtypes are better at mimicking humanoid appearances.

Lamia can live for up to a thousand years, and never stop growing. When Alice met Naga, he was about 20 feet long. More than 70 years later, he's 50 feet long.

### Abilities

The lamia are a fully intelligent society complete with a university and inter-dimensional exploration.

Physically, the lamia can use their fangs as weapons. They can also open their jaws far beyond what a human can do, similar to snakes.

### Culture

Architecture among the lamia accounts for their streamlined bodies: their rooms and hallways are all rounded, with minimal sharp edges.

Naga is disgusted by mammalian fluids, particularly breast milk. It is unknown whether this is a common belief among his people. He calls humans "monkeys", likely equating them with other primates.

## Characters

* Naga
* Naga's assistants

## Trivia

* The genus name "*Python*" is already in use for actual pythons, so a more accurate name might be *Lamia python.*
	+ "*Lamia*" is also in use for a genus of beetles and a species of New Guinean mouse... the Prices can just tell the ICZN to stuff it.

## In Popular Culture

**See also:** Lamia (disambiguation)

* **Lamia** in ancient Greek mythology was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit.
* A Slavic dragon of Bulgarian folklore and European legends.
* Also a type of fae in Seanan McGuire's October Daye universe.
* In the manga and anime series Monster Musume, lamia are an all-female species of monster with the lower bodies of gigantic snakes and the upper bodies of humanoid women (though they also have pointed ears and scales on part of their faces).

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lamia
2. ↑ Audiobooks narrated by Emily Bauer
3. ↑ Audiobooks narrated by Ray Porter
4. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Books 1-3, 5-11
5. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell Ch. 4
6. ↑ Snakes and Ladders
7. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell Ch. ?
8. ↑ https://dailylifewithamonstergirl.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia
Ahool

## Reference

**Ahool** (*Acerodon ahool, Pterokeres ahool*) are an endangered, highly destructive cryptid that originates in Indonesia. They can also be found in North and South America.

## Appendix Entry

**Ahool** (*Acerodon ahool, Pterokeres ahool*). Large, batlike cryptids with monkeylike heads. The ahool are cooperative hunters, and host toxic bacterial colonies similar to those found in Komodo dragons. An adult ahool can be the size of a large dog. They are territorial, vicious, and always prepared to attack.

## About

Ahool are highly dangerous primates who live and hunt in packs, usually at dusk and dawn. Their colonies consist of 10-30 members, and they form mated triads of two females and a male.

Their primary weapons are their claws and teeth. Their mouths are also filled with infectious bacteria, much like what Komodo Dragons were once thought to have.

### Appearance

Ahool are dark gray flying monkeys. They are about the size of Gibbons, or around 40-90 cm in head and body length. Males are larger and tend to glide rather than fly, and are more vulnerable to predators.

## In the Series

* Dominic De Luca catches an ahool in a rooftop trap in Manhattan. Verity Price is furious, as the ahool wasn't actively hunting anything, though she later admits that it is a destructive enough species that she probably would have had to hunt it down anyway.

## In Popular Culture

* Ahool were first reported in 1925 in Java, Indonesia by naturalist Ernest Bartels He named them after the sound they made: "ahool, ahool, ahool!"  Over the next forty years, the creature was frequently reported by locals throughout western Java.
* Ahool appear in the television show "Freak Encounters."
* The online Price Family Field Guide compares ahool to the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.

### Classification

* The genus "pterokeres" is exclusive to cryptozoology. The Greek prefix "ptero-" refers to having wings. "Keres" may refer to the flying female death-spirits of Greek mythology.
* The family "pterochiria" is exclusive to cryptozoology. The Greek prefix "ptero-" refers to having wings, while "-chiria" means refers to having hands. Thus, a creature with hands as wings.
* The family "acerodon" refers to sharp-toothed bats. It is unknown why they have two family classifications.

## References

1. ↑ Discount Armageddon audiobook with Emily Bauer
2. ↑ Appendix Field Guide, Discount Armageddon
3. ↑ Gibbon, Encyclopedia Britannica.
4. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. 5
5. ↑ Halls, Kelly Milner (2019). *Cryptid Creatures: A Field Guide to 50 Fascinating Beasts.* Seattle: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-0684856025.
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
Ada Healy

**Ada Healy** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. She is the estranged daughter of Alexander Healy and Enid Healy, left behind with the Covenant when they emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. She has two brothers, Charles and Jonathan, but it is unknown whether she even knows Jonathan exists.

## Quotes

### Aeslin Lore

"Aim for the middle, for when you strike true, it's a bullseye, and when you miss, there's much more target"

## References

1. ↑ Magic for Nothing Ch. 8
2. ↑ The Recitation of the Most Holy and Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork
Candice

**Candice**, also called **Candy**, is a recurring character in the InCryptid series. She is leader of the Manhattan Nest of dragon princesses.

## About

### Appearance

Candice is a beautiful, blonde woman. She prefers to wear ratty and secondhand clothing rather than waste money on anything nicer. She dresses comfortably, often in yoga pants, a tank top, and scuffed up sneakers.

### Personality

Candice has a caustic and cold personality. She is obsessed with making money due to its biological importance to the health of her species.

### Abilities

As a dragon princess, Candice appears fully human but is immune to fire. She was able to use the 'ancestral language' of the dragons to command the servitors.

### Professional Life

Candy works at Dave's Fish and Strips as a server. She continues her employment when the place falls under new management and is renamed.

Candy is leader of the Manhattan dragon's Nest following Betty Smith's death.

## In the Series

### Discount Armageddon

Candy works at Dave's Fish and Strips with Verity, and they have an antagonistic relationship. That changes when Verity tells her there is a male dragon below Manhattan and helps Candy reunite with him. When Candy realizes that the Nest mother, Betty Smith, sold the male out to a snake cult, Candy kills Betty and becomes the new leader of the Nest.

### Midnight Blue-Light Special

Verity negotiates with a grudging Candy to rent the dragon Nest's warehouse in the meatpacking district when the Covenant comes to town.

Candy reveals that she is pregnant; Verity says her stomach suggests she is about two months along, though that may not reflect the dragon gestation period of carrying an egg for six months and then incubating it another six.

### Red as Snow

Candice is on maternity leave, so the other waitresses have to cover her shifts.

### Magic for Nothing

The slaughterhouse was rented out again as a refuge for the various Cryptid's of New York following the Freakshow being burned down.

## Relationships

### William

As the first dragon princess to bond with William after he awoke, Candy is the closest of William's multiple partners or "wives".

### Children

By 2014, Verity Reports that Candice and her sisters now have multiple children and are utterly devoted to them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 9
2. ↑ Discount Armageddon
3. ↑ Chaos Choreography Ch. 5
Haunt

**Haunts** are a type of ghost that appear in the Ghost Roads series.

## Price Family Field Guide

All haunts lost love at some point during their lives, although it may have been decades before they actually passed away. Their kiss can cure all known ailments. It can also kill. Which it does seems to be fairly arbitrary, and based on how close the person being kissed is to death. As haunts are not terribly bright as a class, they often misjudge their affections. Try not to encourage them.

## About

May smell like dried corn and harvest moons. Appears translucent. Easily suggestible. They belong to one of the lower levels of the twilight.

## Characters

* Rose releases a haunt from a spirit jar. It had been captured by a group of college-aged ghost hunters. In exchange for its freedom, Rose convinces it to kiss one of the college students who was injured, saving his life.

## In Popular Culture

"Haunt" is typically a general term to refer to any ghost who is haunting someone or something. They are not generally associated with the ability of a healing/killing kiss.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sparrow Hill Road, "Do You Believe in Ghosts?"
Angela (disambiguation)

Disambiguation page for Angela (disambiguation)The following is a list of links to pages that might share the same title.Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

**InCryptid series**

* Angela Baker

**Ghost Roads series**

* Angela (Ohio State student)
Highways and Major Roads

Route 14 stretches from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, to Chicago, Illinois.The Atlantic Highway, now known as Route 1, runs from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida.Route 42 runs from Cleveland, Ohio to Louisville, Kentuky.Interstate 75 is a major cross-country, north–south route, one of the longest in the U.S., from southern Florida to the northeastern point of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

## Route 1 (Atlantic Highway)

The direct predecessor to US 1 was the Atlantic Highway, an auto trail established in 1911 as the Quebec-Miami International Highway. In 1915, it was renamed the Atlantic Highway, and the northern terminus was changed to Calais, Maine.

**See also:** Ocean Lady

### In the Series

* Rose walks the Atlantic Highway to Calais in order to meet with Apple, Queen of the Routewitches.

## Route 14

**U.S. Route 14** an east–west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is in Chicago, Illinois. Its western terminus is the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

### In the Series

* Mary and Rose work together to exorcise a ghost who was buried under Route 14.

## Route 42

**U.S. Route 42** (**US 42**) is an east–west United States highway that runs southwest–northeast for 350 miles (560 km) from Louisville, Kentucky to Cleveland, Ohio. Interstate 71 (I-71) fully supplanted US 42 as an interurban highway in the early 1960s, relegating US 42 to its current role as an ordinary town-to-town surface road. Additionally, I-71 passes through Columbus, where US 42 avoids Columbus completely. It remains intact as a route; no part of it has ever been diverted to any Interstate highway. It is not the "parent" of any US route with a related number.

In spite of its even number, US 42 is posted north–south in Ohio.

### In the Series

* Rose is known as the Walking Girl of Route 42.

## Route 75

Route 75 is a major cross-country, north–south route, one of the longest in the U.S., from southern Florida to the northeastern point of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

### In the Series

* Rose hitchickes I-75 north to return home to Buckley Township, Michigan.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.\_Route\_14
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.\_Route\_42
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate\_75
Pelesit

**Pelesit** are a type of ghost mentioned in the Ghost Roads series.

## Price Family Field Guide

Ghosts bound to living masters through an unknown ritual. They appear normal in the twilight, but have trouble manifesting fully in the living world unless they are at or near the scene of a recent murder.

## In Popular Culture

Pelesit is a type of familiar spirit in Malay folklore that serves a master. It is generally a cricket, or occasionally a grasshopper. The term literally means "buzzer." Two rituals exist for acquiring a pelesit, both of which involve recitation of the correct incantations, and biting off the tongue of a dead child. This tongue, if kept properly with the appropriate rituals, is what becomes the pelesit. Pelesit attack their victims by entering the person's mouth tail-first.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelesit
Chief Smith

**Chief Smith,** first name unknown, is a character who appears in both the InCryptid and Ghost Roads series. He is James Smith's father.

## About

### Appearance

He is described as tall and having dark hair, a thick mustache, and "unforgiving eyes".

### Personality

Chief Smith is suspicious of outsiders and pretty much everyone who's not a straight white male. His homophobia is part of why James left, alongside his father blaming James for the death of his wife.

### Professional Life

He serves as the police chief of New Gravesend, Maine.

## In the Series

### Angel of the Overpass

Rose visits New Gravesend to find where the Crossroads died, and runs into Chief Smith as she walks into town. She manages to talk him into leaving her alone, and sets off to find the crossroads. Chief Smith later sees her as she's phasing into the "crossroads dimension", likely realizing she's a ghost when she disappears in front of him.

## Relationships

### James Smith

Chief Smith is mostly distant towards his son, partially blaming him for the death of his wife, and unable to accept that James is an adult and can make his own choices.
Lowryland, Florida

**Lowryland** is an amusement park in the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. It is depicted as a lower-budget Disneyland created by Michael Lowry, a contemporary of Walt Disney. It is located in Lakeland, Florida.

## Related Locations

### Roller Derby Warehouse

Home of the Lakeland Ladies; Cylia Mackie's temporary residence.

## Characters

**Major**

* Antimony Price: General employee
* Fern Conway: Princess Aspen face character
* Megan Rodriguez: Intern at Lowryland Hospital
* Sophie Vargas-Jackson: Hiring manager
* Emily Doyle: Public relations, cabal member
* Colin Brightman: Cabal member
* Joshua: Cabal member

**Minor**

* Clarice: HR recruiter
* Robin: General employee
* David Wilson: General employee, deceased
* Mr. Knighton: Public relations
* Cathy: General employee, burning victim
* Andrea: Princess Laura face character, explosion victim
* Marissa: Princess Lizzie face character, injured in explosion
* Eddie in Secruity

**Related Characters**

* Cylia Mackie (lives off-site)
* Ginger: Child lost during float explosion
Bug-a-boo

**Bug-a-boo** are a type of cryptid that has been mentioned but not seen in the InCryptid series. They have been compared to ghouls, bogeymen, and wendigo. Their preferred habitat is in absolute darkness, and they are likely consumers of "darks" lightbulbs.

## Quotes

* Darks were invented by an enterprising witch who looked at all the bogeymen, ghouls, and **bug-a-boos** trying to live below the radar of the human population and saw a niche begging to be filled. -Discount Armageddon
* There are totally valid ecological reasons for the existence of ghouls, **bug-a-boos**, and Wendigo. That doesn't mean anybody sane wants them for neighbors. -Discount Armageddon
Grandma Baker's ability to get into anyplace she wanted just by walking through the front gates was pretty awesome when I was a kid and she took us all to Disney World. Mom says we don't need to feel guilty about that, since the park still owes the family for handling that whole **bug-a-boo** problem they had back in the eighties. -Discount Armageddon

## In Popular Culture

* Bugaboo is another name for a bogeyman.
* A Bugaboo is a fictional insectoid alien from children's CGI television series *Monster Buster Club.*

## References

1. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. ?
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugaboo
Lowryland Cabal

The **Lowryland Cabal** is an organization of human magic-users based out of the Lowryland theme park. Antimony Price attracts their attention, and they offer to teach her how to control her powers, though they actually siphon them off to increase their own power.

## Members

* Colin Brighton
* Emily Doyle
* Joshua
Cynthia

**Cynthia** is a character in the InCryptid series who primarily appears in the . She owns the Red Angel, a cryptid-friendly tavern near Buckley Township, Michigan.

Her mother is a grove of aspen trees behind the Red Angel. She allows Alice Healy to hunt there if she leaves some of the blood and meat for her and some for her mother. She also looks after an adult Alice in between Alice's dimension-hopping adventures.

## About

Cynthia is Huldrafolk and has a bowed, hollow back through which she ingests blood. She also has a bovine tail.

She speaks both Finnish and English.

Cynthia owns the only cryptid-friendly tavern in Buckley. She intentionally runs it so that humans aren't interested in visiting. She does not naturally eat human foods like chicken or burgers, but can cook it when needed for human or more humanlike clientele.

## In the Series

### Take the Shot

Mary Dunlavy introduces Thomas Price to the Red Angel. He earns Cynthia's tentative respect by greeting her in Finnish.

### Halfway Through the Wood

Cynthia is the first person outside the family (and Thomas) who learns of Enid's death. She allows Alice to hunt a deer in her mother, and after draining most of the blood, lets her take the whole carcass (and drives her home). Cynthia is present at Enid's funeral.

### Follow the Lady

More than sixty years later, Cynthia is still running the Red Angel. She welcomes Antimony Price and her companions when they stop in Buckley.

### Spelunking Through Hell

When Alice makes an emergency dimensional jump back to Earth, she crashes through the Red Angel's window and collapses. Cynthia takes her to a storeroom to rest, and feeds her before she leaves.

### Backpacking Through Bedlam

When Alice first returns to Buckley with Thomas and Sally, she calls Cynthia to bring over dinner from the Red Angel. Cynthia is shocked that Alice actually found Thomas, and a little bit pissed that Alice is putting the town's cryptids in danger given the Covenant's recent North American activty.

Upon request, she takes Sally to the nearest Walmart some forty minutes away for new clothing.

## Relationships

### Alice Price-Healy

Cynthia has known Alice since she was a girl. She seems to have a soft spot for Alice, letting her hunt in the aspen grove that is Cynthia's mother and patching Alice up between inter-dimensional misadventures.

### Minna

Cynthia had a wife named Minna, with whom she spent fourteen years before Minna turned to stone.

## References

1. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood
2. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell
3. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood Ch. 12
Garrinna

Official artwork

## Reference

**Garrinna** are an Australian cryptid first seen in Pocket Apocalypse. They appear to be an evolutionary variation on the European griffin.

## Appendix Entry

*Garrinna (Ochigrypas gila).* Sometimes referred to as "the marsupial griffin," these small, brightly-feathered creatures fill the same ecological niche as the miniature griffin. They just do it in Australia. The garrinna is best described as a cross between a Tasmanian wolf and a pink and gray parrot. They are roughly the size of Corgis, and capable of dismantling cars with their clever beaks. Their habitat is small, and shrinking by the year.

## About

### Physiology

The garrinna is evolutionarily very similar to a griffin: they are marsupial mammals with avian features. They have avian upper bodies and wings, and the hindquarters of the Australian thylacine. They are the size of corgis: about a foot tall and 25-30 pounds.

Garinna mate for life and co-parent their young equally. They are marsupial, with the females holding their young in a kangaroo-like pouch. Pups are born in litters of up to four and are nursed for two months before beginning to explore beyond their mother’s pouch. They are able to fly by about four months old, and develop their adult plumage at about a year old.

Garinna are omnivores but prefer to eat meat. Their diet is primarily meat supplemented with fruit, grains, and eggs. They will scavenge carrion if hungry enough, and will work together to take down prey much larger than themselves.

### Behavior

Garinna prefer to live in large flocks, but overhunting has led to severely limited populations. They have intelligence comparable to crows and make excellent companion animals.

## Trivia

* There are likely different subspecies of garrinna, just as there are subspecies of lesser griffins.
* In 1954, young Alice Healy encountered a garrinna escaped from a private collector in Michigan.

## References

1. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse audiobook, narrated by Ray Porter
2. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Book 4
3. ↑ https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/142016314370/im-curious-about-the-garrinna-flora-and-the-ones
4. ↑ https://seananmcguire.com/fggarrinna.php
Crossroads Ghost

See also: Crossroads Guardian
**Crossroads Ghosts** appear in both the InCryptid and Ghost Roads series. They broker deals on behalf of the Crossroads, acting as advocate for the other party making the deal.

## Price Family Field Guide

Marked by their eyes, which all sightings have described as "containing miles," these ghosts speak for the crossroads, a metaphysical construct where those who are connected to the afterlife in some way are able to go and make bargains, the nature of which we still do not fully understand. The best known crossroads ghost is Mary Dunlavy, who tends to answer questions with "I'll tell you when you're dead."

## About

Crossroads ghosts are made by making a deal with the crossroads, one where you are willing to pay the price of your soul. The longer someone is a crossroads ghost, the more their natural personality is leeched away and replaced with a cold and unfeeling creature.

### Appearance

Regardless of their appearance in live, a crossroad ghost's hair will turn bone-white in time. They are also recognizable by their "highway eyes."

Crossroads ghosts may be corporeal or incorporeal at will, though they are generally not translucent. They are able to adapt their appearance to whatever form will make them most able to do their job, including appearing as an ordinary human.

### Abilities

Crossroads ghosts have all the basic spectral abilities: walking through walls, telekinesis, disappearing and appearing at will.

They are bound by the will of the crossroads and generally forbidden from revealing the crossroads' secrets.

Crossroads ghosts can speak and understand any language, but only when speaking to living beings.

### Habitat

Most crossroads ghosts appear to reside in the twilight unless called to the daylight to broker a deal. Mary Dunlavy must spend equivalent time in the twilight for every hour she spends with the Healy-Price family.

### Culture

Crossroads ghosts appear to know each other and of each other, though by their very natures do not seem to be on good terms with one another.

## Characters

* Mary Dunlavy: Mary became a crossroads ghost so she could continue caring for her ailing father after her own death. She has avoided the typical personality shift likely due to her association with the Healys.
* Bethany: Bethany made a deal with the crossroads after a plot with Bobby Cross went wrong. The plot resulted in her premature aging, so she made a deal with the crossroads in order to retain her youthful appearance forever. She is called to serve as mediator for Antimony Price.

## Quotes

“They have lots of ghosts and only one guardian, and it’s the job of the ghosts to argue for the humans who go to the crossroads to strike their bargains. We’re the brokers who make sure what you’re getting is actually worth it. Even though it basically never is. It’s like we’re yoked to an evil genie out of a children’s story, and there’s no intention so good that it can’t find a way to make it twisted and wrong.” -- Mary Dunlavy, Halfway Through the Wood
Leonard Cunningham

**Leonard Cunningham** is a recurring character in the InCryptid novels, and heir apparent to leading the Covenant of St. George.

## About

### Appearance

Tall, thin, with wire-framed glasses. Tends to dress "like a clerk," including bow tie, camel-hair jacket, and cross-body book bag.

### Personality

Leonard is committed to the Covenant cause. He is charming and kind to strangers and friends, but incredibly bigoted against cryptids any any human who associates with them.

### Professional Life

Leonard has been groomed from a young age to be the next leader of the Covenant, and believes wholeheartedly in their mission of extermination.

## In the Series

### Magic for Nothing

Leonard meets Antimony as "Timpani Brown" when she seeks out the Covenant in London, and introduces her to their training program at Penton Hall. Unknown to her, he knew who she was from the start, but kept it secret, as he believed he could turn her to his side.

At the climax of the novel, Leo finds Annie in the deserted carnival. He, Reginald, and other Covenant operatives are there for a purge - especially since Annie missed check-in, albiet intentionally. She turns on him, knocks him out, and races to find the bomb she suddenly realizes must be planted. Finding the bomb, she summons Mary and chucks the bomb at her ghostly babysitter; a surprised Mary transports it into the ghost world. Asking would have involved the crossroads, but this is a workaround.

Annie and an injured Sam face off against Margaret, who Leo neutralizes with a sedative. He forgives Annie for killing Robert since Sam had been in danger, and thanks Annie for not killing Chloe or Margaret. Then he lets them go, knowing it will be marked as his grandfather’s failure, with a promise to return when he leads the Covenant.

### That Ain't Witchcraft

Leonard uses a talisman and some of Antimony's blood to track her to New Gravesend, Maine, where he shows himself. Leo genteelly threatens Annie, assuring her that he will bring her back into the fold. Shaken, she takes Cylia and James to the warded house and warns them away from Leo (who they hadn't met yet), then makes sure he hasn’t somehow bugged the house.

Leo tries to shoot Sam with a poisoned crossbow bolt, but misses and hits Annie. Later, Annie brokers a truce with Leo so they can avoid fighting two fronts at once. He agrees to a year of not tracking her down. Leonard distracts the Crossroads while Annie’s allies prepare to summon Mary from banishment. After defeating the Crossroads, Annie dismisses Leonard now that the emergency is over; he postures and threatens but follows his word to leave, and gives her the talisman so he can't track her anymore.
Dire Boar

Official artwork

## Reference

The **dire boar** (*Sus gigantus*) is a cryptid comparable to feral pigs in the Americas and Australia, but far more alarming. They originated in Russia but can now be found in North America.

## About

Dire boar are incredibly smart and will eat almost anything. They are invasive in North America and have been nearly eradicated from the continent, although they have been spotted in the woods of Buckley Township, Michigan.

They live in matriarchal herds and fiercely defend their young and their herd mates from outside threats. The largest recorded herd contained seventeen adults.

### Appearance

Dire boar average eight feet tall at the shoulder, and can weigh over eleven hundred pounds.

### Classification

Dire boar are hoofed mammals in the swine family. *Sus gigantus* translates to "gigantic pig."

## In the Series

* Alice finds herself chased by a dire boar and takes refuge at the Parrish Place, where Thomas shoots the attacking beast.

## In Popular Culture

Dire Boar are a monster in Dungeons and Dragons.

## References

1. ↑ Dictionary.com
2. ↑ Target Practice
3. ↑ https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/SRD:Dire\_Boar
Lyra

**Lyra** is a character who appears in Chaos Choreography. She is best friends with Valerie Pryor and won their season of Dance or Die.

## About

### Appearance

Slim and athletic with a brilliant, camera-ready smile. African American. Casual clothes include yoga pants and a beaded red halter top.

### Personality

Lyra has a bubbly personality that gets her plenty of attention on stage, but she is also somewhat insecure and jealous of "Valerie's" time and friendship. She becomes increasingly concerned that Valerie is brushing her off throughout the All-Star competition.

## In the Series

### Chaos Choreography

Lyra is invited back to the All-Star season of Dance or Die along with Verity, who is under the alias Valerie Pryor. The two room together, and Lyra is excited to see her friend again, but gets frustrated when Valerie is constantly sneaking out to spend time with her "boyfriend" and "sister," not to mention making new friends among the cast. Anders Clarke slits Lyra's neck on live television as a sacrifice to summon an interdimensional snake.

## Relationships

### Valerie Pryor

Lyra considers Valerie her best friends, and enjoys being the only one who knows that Valerie is not a natural redhead and regularly sneaks out at night. As Verity-Valerie gets more caught up in solving an ongoing ritual murder case, Lyra becomes jealous about Valerie apparently getting close to other (cryptid) cast members.

### Pax

Lyra has an unreciprocated crush on Pax and is not shy about showing it. She does not know that he 1)turns into a shark, and 2)already has two wives and a husband at home.
Nicolaus Saltzenfast

**Nicolaus Saltzenfast** (ur. 2006/2007 r.) - uczeń Hogwartu, Puchon. Z charakteru nieśmiały, ale uparty. Typ melancholika, z duszą artysty. Trochę rysuje, pisze wiersze, gra na kilku instrumentach. Nienajlepszy jest za to w naukach ścisłych, i w sporcie. Zwłaszcza w zespołowych chociaż potrafi się nieźle wspinać i szybko biega.
Furred trout

Thought to be extinct by the Covenant, in part due locals culling river populations to deal with a perceived disease. They are extant in captivity thanks to private fisheries.

## Trivia

* The **Furred trout** also **Fur-Bearing Trout** or **Beaver trout** is a critter of the North American west coast possibly inspired by cases of Saprolegnia infection. While furred fish have been reported in western culture for over 300 years the first descriptions of a furred trout species stems from a report in 1929.
Big Al

**Big Al** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. He is a jink forger and pawn shop owner who lives in Las Vegas, and a friend of the Price-Healy family.

## About

### Appearance

Al is a huge man, described as having the build of a former wrestler and the belly of a championship eater.

### Personality

Al is friendly to those he cares about, like the Price family, but can be intimidating when he wants. He's a clever businessman who expects haggling, and doesn't believe in prices that can't be moved one way or the other. He hates the Covenant above all else.

### Abilities

As a jink, Al can manipulate luck. He is a skilled forger as well.

### Professional Life

Al runs a pawn shop that also offers slot machines and notary services. He also has a second business forging identity documents for people who need to disappear, he is considered among the best in the world.

## Biography

Al is originally from Toronto, where he lived with his family until the Covenant purged the city. The elder jinks bent as much luck as they could to keep the youngsters safe, before the Covenant found the elders and killed them. Al used the next five years to get very good at hiding. He decided he wanted to learn how to make people disappear, and thanks to his luck, the best instructors in the world happened to cross paths with him.

## In the Series

### Waking Up in Vegas

Verity and Dominic visit Al when they stop in Las Vegas, and pay him $25,000 to make Dominic a new identity. They haggle over the price, and Verity gets Al to throw in a glaive from the pawn shop as a wedding present. The next morning, the hungover couple face a trio of poachers attempting to steal the Aeslin mice, and after subduing them, bring the mice and all their stuff to Al's, as the hotel is no longer safe. Al gives Verity a wedding gift of $25,000 as thanks for uncovering the wildlife traffickers, and lends her a diamond and topaz necklace for her "something borrowed" and "something blue".

### Magic for Nothing

Al provided a solid cover identity for Antimony when she was sent to infiltrate the Covenant of St. George.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Waking Up in Vegas
2. ↑ Magic for Nothing, Ch. 4
Kairos

## Reference

**Kairos** are a type of luck cryptid that are cross-fertile with humans.

## About

Kairos are always where they need to be when they most need to be there. Their luck is internal, and it drives them through the world primed to do the most harm or the most good. They live in a haze of coincidence.

That haze of coincidence makes them immune to cuckoo telepathy. They always see through cuckoo tricks, always know where the cuckoo are, and can identify cuckoo babies as outsiders and dangers. The cuckoo hunted down all the Kairos and killed them. Where they couldn't exterminate them, the cuckoos exposed the Kairos to the Covenant, who burned them as witches and stoned them in the streets. The memories of the Kairos have been immortalized in the cuckoo cultural memory.

They may have a connection to a being called the "Lord of the Buffalo," although Alice was unaware of her heritage when speaking of this being. Frances Healy and her descendants seem unaware they have Kairos blood, though they tend to comment on the "Healy luck."

## Characters

**Full Kairos (Generation 1)**

* Fran's father

**1/2 Kairos (Generation 2)**

* Frances Brown

**1/4 Kairos (Generation 3)**

* Daniel Healy
* Alice Price-Healy

**1/8 Kairos (Generation 4)**

* Kevin Price
* Jane Harrington-Price

**1/16 Kairos (Generation 5)**

* Alex Price
* Verity Price
* Antimony Price
* Elsie Harrington
* Artie Harrington

## Quotes

"The luck-benders divided themselves into three types, depending on what they could do. The jinks saw luck, could borrow and bend it to their own desires. The Fortuna made luck, weaving it out of the walls of the world. And the **Kairos** were the worst of all, for us, because they were always where they needed to be when they most needed to be there.

[...]

The Kairos could interbreed with humans, just like the jinks and the Fortuna can, close enough to the same species as to blend and blur their genetics without penalty to the offspring." -Mark, Calculated Risks

## In Popular Culture

* In Greek mythology, the deity Caerus was the personification of opportunity, luck and favorable moments. Caerus is the due measure that achieves the aim. This god brings about what is convenient, fit, and comes in the right moment. Sometimes it could be the critical or dangerous moment, but more often Caerus represents the advantageous, or favorable occasion.
* "Kairos" is an Ancient Greek word meaning the right, critical, or opportune moment. The ancient Greeks had two words for time: chronos and kairos. The former refers to chronological or sequential time, while the latter signifies a proper or opportune time for action. While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.

## References

1. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. 2
2. ↑ Mama Said
How to Bake a Pie

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**How to Bake a Pie** is an InCryptid short story written for Seanan McGuire's Patreon supporters. It is 16th in the Alice and Thomas Shorts.

## Synopsis

And we're back to the Alice and Thomas timeline, as I try to move us toward the end of her college years by sending her grandfather to pick up the hodag she's managed to acquire.  Because Alice is nothing if not good at picking up the occasional Fearsum Critter...

## Plot

Laura and Alice chat about how Jonathan wants Alice to date a nice university boy.

Alexander finally arrives to retrieve Wilbur the hodag from Alice and Laura's dorm. He lies to Alice about the issues with the mail, claiming the new postman is too frightened to deliver to the Healy or Price homes. She asks after Thomas, and Alexander says he is still housebound by whatever he picked up in the Galway Woods last spring.

## Characters

* Alice Healy
* Laura Campbell
* Alexander Healy
* Wilbur the Hodag

**Mentioned**

* Jonathan Healy
* Thomas Price
* Peter, a classmate at the University of Michigan
* Asta Kalakos, a Carmichael gorgon
* Aldo Gucciard, a Carmichael human
* Enid Healy
* Frances Healy
* Mr. Hawkins, retired postman
* Rose Marshall
* Gary Daniels, Rose's boyfriend
* Mary Dunlavy

## Cryptids

* Hodag

**Mentioned**

* Aeslin Mice
* Lindworm, suspected of living in Ann Arbor
* Jackalope
* Swamp Bromeliad

## Locations

* Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

**Mentioned**

* Buckley Township, Michigan
	+ Galway Woods
* Carmichael Hotel, Chicago, Illinois

## Organizations

**Mentioned**

* Covenant of St. George
* Campbell Family Carnival
* Carmichael Hotel
Epigraphs

Epigraphs are an excellent source of family lore. The majority of epigraphs are quotes from the Price-Healy family, presumably as recited by the family's Aeslin Mice colony. Shorts narrated by non-family members (i.e. Istas and Ryan) generally cite cultural proverbs for the epigraphs. The prequel shorts do not include epigraphs.

The following characters are quoted in epigraphs; surnames of married characters suggest the approximate time in their lives that they were quoted.

* Alexander Healy
* Alice Healy (maiden name)
	+ Alice Price-Healy (after Thomas's disappearance)
* Angela Baker (married name)
* Enid Healy (married name)
* Evelyn Baker (maiden name)
* Frances Brown (maiden name)
* Jane Harrington-Price (married name)
* Jonathan Healy
* Juniper Campbell
* Kevin Price
* Laura Campbell
* Martin Baker
* Mary Dunlavy
* Thomas Price

1. ↑ Cited as "Francis Brown" - possible editorial error?
2. ↑ Cited as Frances Brown, although Fran first visited the Carmichael on her honeymoon. She is cited as Frances Healy during that original trip.
3. ↑ Cited in the text as Enid Baker. Unclear whether intended to be Enid Healy or Evelyn Baker.
4. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 10
5. ↑ The Lay of the Land
Arturo Gucciard

**Arturo Gucciard** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. He is an Italian-American bootlegger living in Chicago who supplies the Carmichael Hotel with their wine. He is the grandfather of Mike Gucciard.

## About

### Personality

He is a competent enough criminal to have a respectable business as a bootlegger during prohibition, managing the various relationships and supply chains that this requires.

### Abilities

Arturo can speak both Italian and English fluently, and is a very careful driver.

### Professional Life

Arturo is a bootlegger smuggling both bathtub gin and Canadian wine, including Medusa, into Chicago in the 1930s. Hector Kalakos hired him as an independent supplier, but this drew the attention of more powerful crime bosses, who wanted the business for themselves.

## In the Series

### Sweet Poison Wine

Jonathan and Frances Healy meet Arturo after rescuing him from three Swamp Hags that are trying to eat him. They realize he was bound and gagged by humans, who threw him into the water, hoping they would eat him without a trace. Arturo takes them to a diner, where they explain what the creatures were and tell him they've figured out he's a bootlegger. He refuses to tell them anything about his job or contacts, but they let him know they're staying at the Carmichael in case he changes his mind.

Later that evening, he finds the eviscerated remains of two of his men down by the lakeshore, and visits Fran and Jonathan at the Carmichael to ask for their help, much to the gorgons' displeasure. Jonathan and Fran go with him to a warehouse along the shoreline where they discover salt rocks designed to repel the river hags. Jonathan also realizes Gucciard is the Kalakos family's wine smuggler. He had presumably been set up by his competition, who had previously smuggled for the Carmichael. After Asta Kalakos reveals her gorgon nature to him, a shocked Arturo tells them the identity of his competitor, Francesco Russo. After Russo's demise, Arturo's job expands to provide the Carmichael's entire alcohol supply, not just their Medusa wine.

### The Star of New Mexico

He and Elana attended the funeral of Frances Healy after finding a babysitter for their son.

## Relationships

### Elena

The Star of New Mexico mentions Arturo having a wife or partner named Elena, with whom he had a son named Aldo.

1. ↑ The Star of New Mexico
2. ↑ The Star of New Mexico
Content Warnings

## General

* Urban fantasy-typical violence including knives, guns, hand-to-hand, and magical attacks.
* Frequent instances of murder, kidnapping, and torture
* PG-13/fade-to-black sexual encounters. No sexual assault. Ever.
* Dysfunctional family relationships
* Frequent mention of snakes
* Frequent mention of giant telepathic murder wasps
* Frequent discussions of telepathy, magical coercion, and the importance of consent
* Casual profanity

## InCryptid Main Series

### Discount Armageddon

* Ch. 1: Sexual harassment (challenged by protagonist)
* Casual “outing” of cryptids without their consent. Character in question, and other characters, are more thoughtful in future books.

### Magic for Nothing

* Ch. 14-16. Attack by a giant spider; dealing with its victims.
* Dated Harry Potter references. Author has since repudiated J.K. Rowling. (also occurs in *Tricks* and *That Ain't Witchcraft*)
* Dated Elliot Page references: published before he transitioned, so uses his deadname. (also occurs in *Tricks* and *That Ain't Witchcraft*)

### That Ain't Witchcraft

* Abusive / controlling parent (challenged by characters)

### Calculated Risks

* Ch. 13 to end. Giant insects including significant appearance of a giant spider.

### Spelunking Through Hell

**See also:** @SeananMcGuire content warning Twitter thread

* Psychological and physical abuse
* Abuse by an authority figure
* Mind control / removal of consent
* Parental neglect / abandonment
* Ch. 5, 19: Medical abuse, body horror
* Ch. 12: Discussion of parasitic reproduction
* Ch. 14: Discussion of suicidal ideation, postpartum depression

### Backpacking Through Bedlam

* Ch. 4: Giant spiders, bats, and mantises.
* Chapter 10: Flashback of severe postpartum depression

## Jonathan and Frances Shorts

### Stingers and Strangers

* Giant telepathic murder wasps
* Mind control

### The Star of New Mexico

* Major character death (continuation of Broken Paper Hearts)

## Alice and Thomas Shorts

**General:**

* Frequent abusive / controlling parenting
* Alice is a teenager and Thomas is 9 years her elder. Frequently addressed by characters. No romantic/sexual incidents while Alice is a minor.

### Halfway Through the Wood

* Major character death
* Gore, body horror

### And Sweep Up The Wood

* Major character death
* Appearance of giant telepathic murder wasps
* Graphic depiction of parasitic reproduction
* Body horror, gore
* Most explicit sex scene of the series, although "not very graphic."

### Passing Grades in Penance

* Domestic violence: Alice's date hits her. He is promptly dealt with.

## Other POV Shorts

### Balance

* Frequent use of mind control by narrator

## See Also

* Book Trigger Warnings - InCryptid by Seanan McGuire (series)

## References

1. ↑ https://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/470626.html#:~:text=to%20my%20characters.-,Ever.
Joanne Cunningham

**Joanne Cunningham** is a character in the InCryptid novels and a member of the Covenant of St. George. Joanne is married to William Cunningham, who is the son of Covenant leader Reginald Cunningham. Her adult children are Leonard, Chloe, and Nathaniel.

## About

Sandy brown hair, pointed chin, and a falsely warm smile. She is a stickler for courtesy, and will test a person's manners while assessing their value.

## In the Series

### Magic for Nothing

Joanne hosts a dinner for the Cunninghams, Pillais, and "Timpani Brown."

## Quotes

* **Joanne:** "My name is Joanne Cunningham; you may call me what you like."
**Antimony:** *Ah: so this was a guessing game, and I could tell that if I guessed wrong, I was going to regret it.* "You have a lovely home, Mrs. Cunningham."
Cylia Mackie

**Cylia Mackie** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. She is a former roller derby teammate of Antimony and one of her companions as she travels across America.

## About

### Abilities

Like all Jinks, Cylia can manipulate luck.

## Biography

Cylia joins Antimony, Sam, Fern, and Megan in Florida to fight the Lowryland Cabal. She later drives them (minus Megan) in her car all the way to New Gravesend, and drives back through Buckley, Michigan with them on the way home to Portland.

## Relationships

Cylia was previously married to Tav Mackie, but her husband died from diverting too much bad luck from her to himself.

She was involved with Fern and Antimony in the roller derby scene.

## Trivia

Her roller derby name, Triskaidekaphilia, means "obsession with the number 13". It may also be a reference to Triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13. Both are appropriate for a luck manipulator.