Dancy Flammarion is a fictional character created by Caitlin R. Kiernan, an albino teenager from the backwoods of Florida who hunts monsters at the direction of a Lovecraftian angel. First appearing in the novel Threshold (Roc/New American Library, 2001), Dancy was subsequently featured in a series of short stories collected in the volumes Alabaster (Subterranean Press, 2006) and Comes a Pale Rider (Subterranean Press, 2020). She also appears in a number of graphic novels written by Kiernan.
Inspiration[]
In their notes for Threshold, on September 16, 1998, Kiernan mentions a “creepy little ‘Boo Radley’ albino girl”--their earliest reference to the character who became Dancy Flammarion.[1] (Boo Radley is a reclusive, offputting, ultimately heroic character from Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.[2]) The name Dancy comes from a small town in Alabama,[3] in Pickens County near the Mississippi state line, that Kiernan passed through while collecting Upper Cretaceous fossils in July or August 1998; "the name stuck in my head, as names often do," they later wrote.[1]
Appearances[]
Fiction[]
- Threshold (2001)
- "The Well of Stars and Shadow" (2001)
- "Les Fleurs Empoisonnées" (2002)
- "Waycross" (2003)
- "Alabaster" (2006)
- "Bainbridge" (2006)
- "Highway 97" (2006)
- “Bus Fare” (2014)
- “Dancy vs. the Pterosaur” (2015)
- “Tupelo (1998)” (2017)
- “Dreams of a Poor Wayfaring Stranger” (2020)
- “Requiem” (2020)
- "Refugees" (2020)
Comic Books[]
- Alabaster: Wolves (2013)
- Alabaster: Grimmer Tales (2014)
- Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird (2015)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alabaster, "Preface," Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press, 2006).
- ↑ Wikipedia, "List of To Kill a Mockingbird characters."
- ↑ Wikipedia, "Dancy, Alabama."