Andy Hallorann

Dick and his parents visited four times a year, and young Dick Hallorann hated those visits. He was terrified of Andy Hallorann, and called him—only in his own mind, to speak it aloud would have earned him a smack across the chops—the Black Grampa. “You know about kiddie-fiddlers?” Dick asked Danny.

Dick Hallorann’s abusive paternal grandfather, known as Black Grampa.