Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Frank Q and Maggie My

A married couple — whom Carl takes for police by their bearing — who stumbled into the dungeon with their teenage daughter and were told by their guide that the only way to survive was to kill other crawlers. Frank has three skulls when Carl meets him; Maggie has five. Their daughter, Yvette, would not.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
• Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline

Arc

The caprid liaison who helped Maggie cheat 'has been dealt with' (ch. 1); Carl thinks of him again when Orren talks about sheriffs who go too far (ch. 59). A fan's symbiote is named Maggie (ch. 41).