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Hellhound: The Hill Hounds, vicious faerie dogs which specialize in hunting and killing.

They are repelled by cold iron, sea salt, and holy symbols.

The Fair Folk: Known as the Folk, they live underground and can cause crops to wither and animals to fall ill if not placated with offerings of food.

Corinna later encounters one and sees that its face is indeed mostly taken up by a large mouth, with no eyes.

Eyeless Face: Old Francis says of the beings beneath Marblehaugh Park, "the Folk are mostly mouth".

Death by Childbirth: Lady Rona, Lord Merton's first wife, died in childbirth the baby died as well.

In her words, she can trip over everything and nothing. Big Bad: Sir Edward, who is sacrificing people to the Folk and wants to get rid of Finian, and later Corinna, to be the new owner of Marblehaugh Park.Later we learn he goes as far as to sacrifice people to the Folk in order to keep it out of harm, and its serious enough about wanting to be his that he plans to kill Finian "in an accident" for it. Its clear that Marblehaugh Park means everything to him, especially since we later learn Lord Merton had promised it to him, but he acts civil about it and it strikes one as a man very responsible for his belongings. Ambition Is Evil: Played with in Sir Edward.But the greatest danger may come not from the Folk, but from the dark secrets hidden within the mansion itself. Everything changes for Corinna when she is recruited to become the new Folk Keeper of Marblehaugh Park: an estate built atop caves containing Folk far older and more powerful than any she has encountered before. It is a difficult position to hold, and she has had to tell many lies to get it: about her gender, disguising herself as a boy called Corin and about her powers, falsely claiming to be able to wield the mystical Power of the Last Word while hiding the other strange and seemingly supernatural talents she does possess.

She has two children.īillingsley received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2003, which is awarded to an author of children's or young-adult fiction of literary merit to complete a manuscript.The Folk Keeper is a 1999 young adult fantasy book by Franny Billingsley.Ĭorinna is a Folk Keeper, charged with the important duty of pacifying The Fair Folk who live beneath Rhysbridge with offerings and protective spells so they won't wither the crops and curse the livestock. After moving back to Chicago, she wrote for many years while working at 57th Street Books in Hyde Park.

Biography īillingsley graduated from Tufts University in 1976, and from Boston University Law School in 1979. Franny Billingsley (born July 3, 1954) is the author of three children's fantasy novels, Well Wished, The Folk Keeper, and Chime, and the picture book Big Bad Bunny.