Erin (AYAOTD)

Erin

Background

Erin is a stage actor who plays the character Seamus Doyle in the play Will-o'-the-wisp. Gort is his true name. He is a banshee. Every seven years Gort needs to steal a human soul.

During the events of Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 1 Episode 10 The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun played by John Dunn-Hill

Jake is acting in a stage play when Carl/Goblin snarls at him. Jakes screams and Erin asks Carl why he would scare a lad like Jake. As Carl and Erin are about to duel, Jake trips and falls down, ruining the scene. Carl laughs and removes his wig and Erin tells everyone to break for the night.

Erin calls for Lucy and asks for his tea. Erin calls for Jake and has Jake close his eyes and imagine himself as a magician. Later in his dressing room, Erin sings a song to himself about eating a soul as he lights candles near a photo of Jake. During rehearsal in the play, Jake asks Erin to make him a leprechaun and Erin has Jake dance and speak certain words and then drink a liquid. Jake’s voice suddenly changes, and Jake gets scared and refuses to continue the scene. Erin stops the play and tries to convince Jake to continue and tells Jake that he has the gift of the glammer. During final rehearsal, Jake and Erin rehearse the part of the play where Jake speaks about changing into a leprechaun. As Jake is about to say the final words, Sean pulls a rope causing a part of the stage to fall down, stopping rehearsal. Erin goes to his mirror and pulls off fake ears, revealing large pointy ears and when he takes his robe off, he has a large hairy patch on his back.

During the premier, as Jake is giving the final oath, Erin drinks from the bota bag, but figures out something is wrong. Jake takes his gaze away from Erin, who then appears as his true form. Erin starts to menacingly walk towards Jake, who yells out for help. Sean then calls Erin by his true name, Gort. Erin tries to destroy Sean with a spell, which seemingly works, and then steals Jake’s soul, and Jake transforms into a frog. Sean reappears and pulls out a tail from a bag, which happens to be Erin’s, and then says yours be mine and mine be yours before throwing it at Erin. Erin then disappears forever.