Mall Carke

Old Mall Carke moves through the countryside as a keeper of the old tales, the kind of figure whose words are half-credited and half-feared by everyone who hears them. She is bound up with the fairy tradition that shadows the story's events, and her knowledge gives her a strange authority that ordinary folk cannot quite explain or dismiss. What she knows, and how she came to know it, quietly shapes the atmosphere of dread that surrounds the characters' fates.