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** One Stitchling is described as having a fully functionig colon, but no anus. Poor thing's been stuck with a permanent case of constipation.
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** One Stitchling is described as having a fully functionig functioning colon, but no anus. Poor thing's been stuck with a permanent case of constipation.
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** Mater Motley fully displays just how psychotic she actually is, from intentionally making a friend for the explicit purpose of ''betraying and murdering said friend for ritual components'', to bragging about how she orchestrated the deaths of her entire family, with a literal special place for her grandchildren as she ''harvested her souls to enchant her flesh'', and outright allying with eldritch abominations to cause terror and destruction across her home planet.
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** Mater Motley fully displays just how psychotic psychopathic she actually is, from intentionally making a friend for the explicit purpose of ''betraying and murdering said friend for ritual components'', to bragging about how she orchestrated the deaths of her entire family, with a literal special place for her grandchildren as she ''harvested her souls to enchant her flesh'', and outright allying with eldritch abominations to cause terror and destruction across her home planet.
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** On that note, Shape -- TheDragon. A one-legged man who walks just fine on the stump of his missing foot... and has ''swords embedded in the flesh of his back,'' which he can pull out and put back in as well. Yeesh!
** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled with mud--and occasionally random internal organs--stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love".
** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled with mud--and occasionally random internal organs--stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love".
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** On that note, Shape -- TheDragon. A one-legged man who walks just fine on the stump of his missing foot... and has ''swords embedded in the flesh of his back,'' which he can pull out and put back in as well. Yeesh!
well! And unlike the John brothers who are nice and helpful, Shape is a sadistic murderer who will sing an IronicNurseryRhyme just to [[ForTheEvulz terrify those he is chasing.]]
** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled withmud--and mud, and occasionally random internal organs--stitched organs, stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love".
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** The brothers on the Time Out of Time, who have no faces -- just random facial features on crablike legs, that crawl around their otherwise [[TheBlank blank]] faces.
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** The brothers on the Time Out of Time, who have no faces -- faces; just random facial features on crablike legs, that crawl around their otherwise [[TheBlank blank]] faces.
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** And whatever the hell the Nephauree are is so horrifying off-screen that Mater Motley's glance was enough to unnerve her. If a tyrant who has eagerly and sadistically murdered thousands and her own family takes some pause at whatever the Nephauree represent, how bad will the rest of the Abarat take it?
** The Nephauree, [[EldritchAbomination Those Who Walk Behind The Stars]], are Mater Motley's benefactors and the series' [[GreaterScopeVillain greatest apparent evil]]. They are an entire alien race with [[WrongContextMagic magic and technology like nothing seen on the Abarat]]. They are essentially amorphous blots of smoky darkness concealing a true form so evil and grotesque that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm those few who can see it and survive remember nothing about it]], and they are so terribly powerful that Mater Motley trusted just ''one'' to personally kill every one of the ''thousands'' of people present at the third book's final battle. Their true motives are as yet unknown, but they are apparently looking forward to a "harvest" of the Abarat that will bring all life there to an end.
** The Nephauree, [[EldritchAbomination Those Who Walk Behind The Stars]], are Mater Motley's benefactors and the series' [[GreaterScopeVillain greatest apparent evil]]. They are an entire alien race with [[WrongContextMagic magic and technology like nothing seen on the Abarat]]. They are essentially amorphous blots of smoky darkness concealing a true form so evil and grotesque that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm those few who can see it and survive remember nothing about it]], and they are so terribly powerful that Mater Motley trusted just ''one'' to personally kill every one of the ''thousands'' of people present at the third book's final battle. Their true motives are as yet unknown, but they are apparently looking forward to a "harvest" of the Abarat that will bring all life there to an end.
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** The John brothers. One man... and six tiny heads growing out of the horns on his head. The book is illustrated, so even if you don't ''want'' to picture it, you see it. Hello, BodyHorror! [[NightmareRetardant Though the horror does decrease a bit]] when you discover they are not only [[CreepyGood good guys]] but also pretty goofy.
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** The John brothers. One man... and six tiny heads growing out of the horns on his head. The book is illustrated, so even if you don't ''want'' to picture it, you see it. Hello, BodyHorror! [[NightmareRetardant Though the horror does decrease quite a bit]] when you discover they are not only both pretty goofy and [[CreepyGood sincerely good guys]] but also pretty goofy.guys.]]
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** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled with mud--and occasionally random internal organs--stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love."
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** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled with mud--and occasionally random internal organs--stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love.""love".
** One Stitchling is described as having a fully functionig colon, but no anus. Poor thing's been stuck with a permanent case of constipation.
** One Stitchling is described as having a fully functionig colon, but no anus. Poor thing's been stuck with a permanent case of constipation.
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** The John brothers. One man... and six tiny heads growing out of the horns on his head. The book is illustrated, so even if you don't ''want'' to picture it, you see it. Hello, BodyHorror!
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** The John brothers. One man... and six tiny heads growing out of the horns on his head. The book is illustrated, so even if you don't ''want'' to picture it, you see it. Hello, BodyHorror!BodyHorror! [[NightmareRetardant Though the horror does decrease a bit]] when you discover they are not only [[CreepyGood good guys]] but also pretty goofy.
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** The Sacbrood, a voracious, highly adaptable and eternally reproducing kind of insect that inhabits the pyramids of Xuxux. The picture may not be very definite, but then again, depending on the strenght your imagination, the scene where they kill Mendelson Shape may be scarier.
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** The Sacbrood, a voracious, highly adaptable and eternally reproducing kind of insect that inhabits the pyramids of Xuxux. The picture may not be very definite, but then again, depending on the strenght your imagination, the scene where they kill Mendelson Shape may be scarier. Carrion and Motley are cultivating them specifically so that their numbers will grow great enough to ''literally'' blot out the Abarat's sky end to end.
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** The Nephauree, [[EldritchAbomination Those Who Walk Behind The Stars]], are Mater Motley's benefactors and the series' [[GreaterScopeVillain greatest apparent evil]]. They are an entire alien race with [[WrongContextMagic magic and technology like nothing seen on the Abarat]]. They are essentially amorphous blots of smoky darkness concealing a true form so evil and grotesque that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm those few who can see it and survive remember nothing about it]], and they are so terribly powerful that Mater Motley trusted just ''one'' to personally kill every one of the ''thousands'' of people present at the third book's final battle. Their true motives are as yet unknown, but they are apparently looking forward to a "harvest" of the Abarat that will bring all life there to an end.
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* And then the third book intentionally tones the danger down on average ''so it can ramp the horror''.
** Mater Motley fully displays just how psychotic she actually is, from intentionally making a friend for the explicit purpose of ''betraying and murdering said friend for ritual components'', to bragging about how she orchestrated the deaths of her entire family, with a literal special place for her grandchildren as she ''harvested her souls to enchant her flesh'', and outright allying with eldritch abominations to cause terror and destruction across her home planet.
** And whatever the hell the Nephauree are is so horrifying off-screen that Mater Motley's glance was enough to unnerve her. If a tyrant who has eagerly and sadistically murdered thousands and her own family takes some pause at whatever the Nephauree represent, how bad will the rest of the Abarat take it?
** Mater Motley fully displays just how psychotic she actually is, from intentionally making a friend for the explicit purpose of ''betraying and murdering said friend for ritual components'', to bragging about how she orchestrated the deaths of her entire family, with a literal special place for her grandchildren as she ''harvested her souls to enchant her flesh'', and outright allying with eldritch abominations to cause terror and destruction across her home planet.
** And whatever the hell the Nephauree are is so horrifying off-screen that Mater Motley's glance was enough to unnerve her. If a tyrant who has eagerly and sadistically murdered thousands and her own family takes some pause at whatever the Nephauree represent, how bad will the rest of the Abarat take it?
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* From the first book, we have...
** The John brothers. One man... and six tiny heads growing out of the horns on his head. The book is illustrated, so even if you don't ''want'' to picture it, you see it. Hello, BodyHorror!
** On that note, Shape -- TheDragon. A one-legged man who walks just fine on the stump of his missing foot... and has ''swords embedded in the flesh of his back,'' which he can pull out and put back in as well. Yeesh!
** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled with mud--and occasionally random internal organs--stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love."
** The brothers on the Time Out of Time, who have no faces -- just random facial features on crablike legs, that crawl around their otherwise [[TheBlank blank]] faces.
** And of course, there's the BigBad himself, whose face is surrounded by a vat of liquid in which electrical, pulsing nightmares swim. They come from tubes embedded in his skull.
* Then you get to the second book, and you add to this...
** Leeman Vol, one of the BigBad's henchmen that lost his nose to a spider and wears a crude leather nose in place, and is able to speak to insects because of his three pointy-teethed mouths. Not helping is that Vol has an insect-infected head. He has so many lice and ants and things living on him that when Shape hits him, some bugs actually fall off.
** The Sacbrood, a voracious, highly adaptable and eternally reproducing kind of insect that inhabits the pyramids of Xuxux. The picture may not be very definite, but then again, depending on the strenght your imagination, the scene where they kill Mendelson Shape may be scarier.
** Carrion's nightmares are pictured even more terrifying, including a scene right in the first chapter when they suck the fear out of a rather innocent man.
** Then there's the picture of Christopher [[spoiler: right before he dies.]] A freakin' skull, screaming out of a dark abyss!
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** The John brothers. One man... and six tiny heads growing out of the horns on his head. The book is illustrated, so even if you don't ''want'' to picture it, you see it. Hello, BodyHorror!
** On that note, Shape -- TheDragon. A one-legged man who walks just fine on the stump of his missing foot... and has ''swords embedded in the flesh of his back,'' which he can pull out and put back in as well. Yeesh!
** The Stitchlings, zombie-like minions filled with mud--and occasionally random internal organs--stitched together from random bits of old rotting flesh, by an insane old woman who never sleeps, and who once sewed her grandson's lips together for daring to say the word "love."
** The brothers on the Time Out of Time, who have no faces -- just random facial features on crablike legs, that crawl around their otherwise [[TheBlank blank]] faces.
** And of course, there's the BigBad himself, whose face is surrounded by a vat of liquid in which electrical, pulsing nightmares swim. They come from tubes embedded in his skull.
* Then you get to the second book, and you add to this...
** Leeman Vol, one of the BigBad's henchmen that lost his nose to a spider and wears a crude leather nose in place, and is able to speak to insects because of his three pointy-teethed mouths. Not helping is that Vol has an insect-infected head. He has so many lice and ants and things living on him that when Shape hits him, some bugs actually fall off.
** The Sacbrood, a voracious, highly adaptable and eternally reproducing kind of insect that inhabits the pyramids of Xuxux. The picture may not be very definite, but then again, depending on the strenght your imagination, the scene where they kill Mendelson Shape may be scarier.
** Carrion's nightmares are pictured even more terrifying, including a scene right in the first chapter when they suck the fear out of a rather innocent man.
** Then there's the picture of Christopher [[spoiler: right before he dies.]] A freakin' skull, screaming out of a dark abyss!
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