"The Colossus of Ylourgne": Nathaire is a wicked, diminutive sorcerer with a huge chip on his shoulder. Faking his death and stealing countless corpses from the graveyards, Nathaire fuses them into a gigantic colossus to house his soul before going on a rampage. Ravaging the countryside, Nathaire tortures, rapes and murders everything he finds, plucking people apart when he catches them and leaving nothing but ruin and death in his wake for miles. Attacking the chief city of his wrath, Nathaire tramples over countless victims, slaughtering everything he sees before focusing on the church, intent on leaving no survivors.
"The Dark Eidolon": Namirrha, born Narthos, is a beggar boy nearly killed by the carelessness of Prince Zotulla. Surviving and nursing a monstrous grudge, Namirrha becomes a great necromancer and invites Zotulla and his lover to a banquet. Having all their guests murdered, Namirrha then savagely tortures Zotulla and his favorite mistress, forcing Zotulla to watch the pain of the latter while also summoning demonic horses to trample Zotulla's chief city, killing everyone except those in Namirrha's palace.
"The Empire of the Necromancers": Mmatmuor and Sodosma are a pair of necromancers thrown out of their hometown for unspeakable sorcery. Mmatmuor and Sodosma decide to resurrect the populace of the dead empire of Cindor, binding the souls of the dead people to their command and ruling as despots. Mmatmuor and Sodosma constantly torture and humiliate the former nobility of the city to slake their mutual sadism, resurrect the fairest corpses to serve their necrophilic lust, and keep the empire enslaved to their cruel whims even as the souls of the deceased become aware of, and tormented by, their predicament.
"The Garden of Adompha": King Adompha and his equally vile court magician Dwerulas rule Sotar, which is known for Adompha's royal garden, hidden from the eyes of all but himself and Dwerulas. In truth, Adompha and Dwerulas capture or execute anyone disfavored by them in Sotar in order to butcher them and have Dwerulas fuse their remains to the plants of the garden, creating half-human, half-vegetable hybridssuspended in a strange state between life and death. Adompha orders a servant girl murdered purely for her hands, ordering the rest of her body fed to the plant her hands will grow upon, and furthermore murders Dwerulas on nothing more than an impulse. Dwerulas manages to curse Adompha in retaliation, resulting in Adompha's garden turning upon him and raking him to pieces.
"The Gorgon": The mysterious old man is a figure who has somehow transcended time itself. Gaining the head of Medusa, the old man becomes a Serial Killer, luring in countless individuals from different time periods to trick them into gazing upon the Gorgon to turn them into stone, trapping them in unending pain and terror, which he then adds to a macabre gallery of trophies for his own amusement.
"The Isle of the Torturers": King Ildrac is the wicked ruler of Uccastrog, a nation commonly known as the "Isle of the Torturers" for the inhumane practices inflicted on its prisoners. Ildrac defines "prisoners" as whoever washes ashore onto Uccastrog, capturing castaways and purposefully marooning ships so as to inflict all manners of endless torture upon them, keeping them alive for years on end. When the story's protagonist, King Fulbra, washes ashore, Ildrac mocks him for expecting royal clemency and has all of his slaves tortured and flayed to spite him. Fulbra is subjected to one torture after the other, forced to languish in a cell in between sessions, within which is a pit Fulbra can see the flayed remains of all of Ildrac's victims. Ildrac even resurrects the souls of all these victims to make them torture Fulbra more. Ildrac finally designs for Fulbra to face a poison that will put his mind through a thousand unspeakable hells in an instant, and even reveals the single woman who was kind to Fulbra in his captivity was merely his pawn, having her administer the poison just to crush Fulbra even more. Ildrac is undone, ultimately, when Fulbra outwits him precisely by playing on Ildrac's inability to not Kick the Dog whenever an opportunity presents itself.
"The Stairs in the Crypt": An evil necromancer in life, Avalzaunt awakens in his own crypt after death and enslaves a group of ghouls to his will. Sending them out to murder people to quench his thirst for blood, Avalzaunt grows bloated upon it, having all his old apprentices hunted down and murdered. Growing greedier, Avalzaunt leads an attack on a nearby monastery, plotting to kill and drain every monk before he moves on to more living beings out of cruelty and gluttony.
"The Testament of Athammaus": Knygathin Zhaum is a Voormi of unique heritage and unusual cunning and sadism for his kind. Barely able to qualify as a Humanoid Abomination even by the standards of his species, Zhaum is dissatisfied with merely devouring innocent people and leads hordes of Voormis to scourge the countryside. Zhaum inflicts litanies of horrors upon villages, torturing, raping, killing and worse with aplomb, and drags off scores of villagers for unspeakable fates in the caverns of the Voormis. When the people of Commoriom try and kill him, Zhaum plays a cruel game with them; Zhaum submits himself to execution, only to return the following day and start devouring more people. Zhaum repeats the process, growing more and more monstrous with each execution, until he finally tires of it and obliterates the rest of Commoriom, devouring whomever he doesn't drive out.
The Woobie: The young King Fulbran from The Isle of the Torturers, who saw most of the population of his kingdom die of a plague, including his court mage whom he loved like a foster father, and was forced to escape via boat only to end up enduring the tortures of the psychothic Iildrac.
": Nathaire is a wicked, diminutive sorcerer with a huge chip on his shoulder. Faking his death and stealing countless corpses from the graveyards, Nathaire fuses them into a gigantic colossus to house his soul before going on a rampage. Ravaging the countryside, Nathaire tortures, rapes and murders everything he finds, plucking people apart when he catches them and leaving nothing but ruin and death in his wake for miles. Attacking the chief city of his wrath, Nathaire tramples over countless victims, slaughtering everything he sees before focusing on the church, intent on leaving no survivors.