The Ferryman, also known as the Candleman, is a reoccurring anti-villain in the Little Nightmares franchise. In the 2017 Little Nightmares comic series, his job is to hunt down children and bring them to the Maw. In the 2023 audio-fiction series The Sounds of Nightmares, he works to manipulate the story's main protagonist Noone into giving herself up into the Nowhere.