“Grindylow”

A kulullû encountered and killed by Archie and Jocasta while in Dufton, England. The creature had spent the past 70 years attached bodily to a local washerwoman named Clodagh, only revealing itself during the irruption of Morgan le Fay when it ambushed Archie and Jocasta after first rendering Archie’s family unconscious using one of its neurological toxins. According to Clodagh, she first met “Grindylow” — the codename later assigned to him by SANDMAN for reporting purposes — when she was only 13.

Oh, my heart goes a flutter just thinking about how beautiful he was. I was … I was a lass of 13 and he, well, one day from out of the muck and the mire of the river, just stood up. And he looked at me with these deep, deep blue eyes and swept me off my feet, he did.

Grindylow’s demise disabled Clodagh, rendering her permanently bed-ridden. She was not pleased with Jocasta when the latter visited her to say goodbye before returning to America.