Frances Barrison, also known as Shriek, was the girlfriend and later wife of deranged serial killer Cletus Kasady and a former inmate at Ravencroft. She was a mutant who possessed a supersonic screech. She escaped Ravanecroft because her boyfriend Cletus Kasady had bonded with the Symbiote Carnage. Patrick Mulligan once shot Frances in the left eye. Shriek her supersonic screeches are one of Carnage's weaknesses so they don't get along well however Carnage's host Cletus loves Shriek.