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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
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* SexualKarma: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochism between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
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''Stories Never Told'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror anthology]] by Lightysnake, and an entry in ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga''. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3348124/1/Stories-Never-Told here]].
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''Stories Never Told'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror anthology]] by Lightysnake, [=VineLight=][[note]]Formerly Lightysnake[[/note]], and an entry in ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga''. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3348124/1/Stories-Never-Told here]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Helen Valentine cheats on her husband, Il Padre from the ''Valentine'' series with Y'golonac the Defiler, the Great Old One of Depravity. Then she cheats on ''him'' with Hardestadt Delac anonymously in a way that enrages Y'golonac.
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* CutenessProximity: Jeanne's reaction to a group of penguins is to begin fawning over how adorable they are.
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* {{Homage}}: Not only one to ''Literature/TheMountainsOfMadness'', the story contains numerous shout-outs and aspects from the work of Clark Ashton Smith (a contemporary of ''Mountains''' author H.P. Lovecraft).
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* {{Homage}}: Not only one to ''Literature/TheMountainsOfMadness'', ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', the story contains numerous shout-outs and aspects from the work of Clark Ashton Smith (a contemporary of ''Mountains''' author H.P. Lovecraft).
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* {{Homage}}: Not only one to ''Literature/TheMountainsOfMadness'', the story contains numerous shout-outs and aspects from the work of Clark Ashton Smith (a contemporary of ''Mountains''' author H.P. Lovecraft).
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* GenkiGirl: A major aspect of Nebula's character. Her unrestrained passion and zest for life, creativity and all of the Old World's potential is part of what attracts Lucifer to her.
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* ''The Guilty and the Just'': In the ancient days of the Old World, the Judicator Lucia, Architect of Justice, joins with Hell' prince, Azazel Baal, to uncover a mytserious plot.
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* ''The Guilty and the Just'': In the ancient days of the Old World, the Judicator Lucia, Architect of Justice, joins with Hell' Hell's prince, Azazel Baal, to uncover a mytserious plot.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
* FramingDevice: "Stories at Dinner", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. [[spoiler:Their host turns out to be Nyarlathotep.]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:What the "dinner" turns out to be at the end of the FramingDevice.]]
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[[folder:A Question of Monsters]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
* FramingDevice: "Stories at Dinner", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. [[spoiler:Their host turns out to be Nyarlathotep.]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:What the "dinner" turns out to be at the end of the FramingDevice.]]
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[[folder:A Question of Monsters]]
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of those trapped in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum and held in perpetual torment for billions of years.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played very darkly; Adam communicates with his brother Xol Malig who spends the entire conversation needling and mocking him for thinking Adam can be anything but a monster.
* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte in ''By Blackest Well'' is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is in fine form, always with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played very darkly; Adam communicates with his brother Xol Malig who spends the entire conversation needling and mocking him for thinking Adam can be anything but a monster.
* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte in ''By Blackest Well'' is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is in fine form, always with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of those trapped CainAndAbel: Adam's brother Xol Malig, introduced in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum ''Literature/TheWolvesOfWar'', is very clearly the Cain: he spends the entire conversation needling and held in perpetual torment mocking him for billions of years.thinking Adam can be anything but a monster.
* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
*AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played very darkly; Adam communicates with his brother Xol Malig UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who spends the entire conversation needling lure in and mocking him for thinking Adam can be anything but a monster.
* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte in ''By Blackest Well'' is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.kill pedophiles.]]
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[[folder:In Darkest Hearts]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
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[[folder:The Guilty and the Just]]
* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia isin fine form, always ready with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.coarse, dry repartee.
* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
*
* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte in ''By Blackest Well'' is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.
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[[folder:In Darkest Hearts]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
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[[folder:The Guilty and the Just]]
* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is
* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon:
** Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
** Azazel Baal is a handsome young prince of hell, but those who know ''Literature/ReignInHell'' know he's one of the most horrific villains in the saga.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm. [[spoiler:Also applies to the framing story, only they bite off a bit more than they can chew.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
** Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
** Azazel Baal is a handsome young prince of hell, but those who know ''Literature/ReignInHell'' know he's one of the most horrific villains in the saga.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm. [[spoiler:Also applies to the framing story, only they bite off a bit more than they can chew.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon:
** Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
**FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Azazel Baal is a handsome young prince of hell, but those who know ''Literature/ReignInHell'' know he's one of the most horrific villains in the saga.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm. [[spoiler:Also applies to the framing story, only they bite off a bit more than they can chew.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.saga.
** Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
**
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm. [[spoiler:Also applies to the framing story, only they bite off a bit more than they can chew.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
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* NothingIsScarier: A noble makes a pass at Helen, prompting her to accept the invite. He's never seen again, with people looking for him and nobody ever revealing just what happened to him...
* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstadt.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Knygathin Zhaum is a billion-year-old Voormi sleeping in the Antarctic cold.
* SexForServices: In ''The Guilty and the Just'', Azazel demands Lucia sleep with him in exchange for his help, which she views as simply a transaction.
* SiblingMurder: Azazel's goal in ''The Guilty and the Just'' is to kill his elder brother Talrik to enhance his position in line to the throne.
* SkewedPriorities: Lucia is more outraged that Azazel manipulated her in ''The Guilty and the Just'' than she is that he got tons of people killed in his scheming.
* StealthSequel: ''Shadows in the Ice'' turns out to be one to Clark Ashton Smith's ''The Testament of Athammaus.''
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** Azazel's minions, Morviak and Andras, dislike each other due to the former being a commoner and the latter a proud noble. To a lesser extent, Lucia is hardly thrilled with having to team up with Azazel, whom she regards as an arrogant demon princeling.
** Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]
* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstadt.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Knygathin Zhaum is a billion-year-old Voormi sleeping in the Antarctic cold.
* SexForServices: In ''The Guilty and the Just'', Azazel demands Lucia sleep with him in exchange for his help, which she views as simply a transaction.
* SiblingMurder: Azazel's goal in ''The Guilty and the Just'' is to kill his elder brother Talrik to enhance his position in line to the throne.
* SkewedPriorities: Lucia is more outraged that Azazel manipulated her in ''The Guilty and the Just'' than she is that he got tons of people killed in his scheming.
* StealthSequel: ''Shadows in the Ice'' turns out to be one to Clark Ashton Smith's ''The Testament of Athammaus.''
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** Azazel's minions, Morviak and Andras, dislike each other due to the former being a commoner and the latter a proud noble. To a lesser extent, Lucia is hardly thrilled with having to team up with Azazel, whom she regards as an arrogant demon princeling.
** Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]
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* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstadt.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Knygathin Zhaum is a billion-year-old Voormi sleeping in the Antarctic cold.
* SiblingMurder: Azazel's goal
* SkewedPriorities: Lucia is more outraged that Azazel manipulated her
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
**
** Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]
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* VillainousFriendship: Joseph Curwen of ''By Blackest Will'' believes Silas Ruthven and Eliphas Coyte are truly his friends, the latter being his mentor. [[spoiler:It turns out he's very wrong as Coyte double crosses him at the end.]]
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*VillainousFriendship: Joseph Curwen AndIMustScream: The fate of those trapped in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum and held in perpetual torment for billions of years.]]
* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica--[[spoiler:Knygathin Zhaum]]--is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Knygathin Zhaum]] is a billion-year-old Voormi sleeping in the Antarctic cold.
* StealthSequel: ''Shadows in the Ice'' turns out to be one to Clark Ashton Smith's ''The Testament of Athammaus.''
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[[folder:By Blackest Will]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.]]
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* NothingIsScarier: A noble makes a pass at Helen, prompting her to accept the invite. He's never seen again, with people looking for him and nobody ever revealing just what happened to him...
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstadt.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
* VillainousFriendship: Joseph Curwen believes Silas Ruthven and Eliphas Coyte are truly his friends, the latter being his mentor.[[spoiler:It It turns out he's very wrong as Coyte double crosses him at the end.]]
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*
* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica--[[spoiler:Knygathin Zhaum]]--is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Knygathin Zhaum]] is a billion-year-old Voormi sleeping in the Antarctic cold.
* StealthSequel: ''Shadows in the Ice'' turns out to be one to Clark Ashton Smith's ''The Testament of Athammaus.''
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[[folder:By Blackest Will]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.]]
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* NothingIsScarier: A noble makes a pass at Helen, prompting her to accept the invite. He's never seen again, with people looking for him and nobody ever revealing just what happened to him...
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstadt.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
* VillainousFriendship: Joseph Curwen believes Silas Ruthven and Eliphas Coyte are truly his friends, the latter being his mentor.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Helen Valentine cheats on her husband, Il Padre from the ''Valentine'' series with Y'golonac the Defiler, the Great Old One of Depravity. Then she cheats on ''him'' with Hardestadt Delac anonymously in a way that enrages Y'golonac.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Helen Valentine cheats on her husband, Il Padre from the ''Valentine'' series with Y'golonac the Defiler, the Great Old One of Depravity. Then she cheats on ''him'' with Hardestadt Delac anonymously in a way that enrages Y'golonac.Y'golonac.
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[[folder:Behind the Trees]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm.
* KidHero: Rowan Thornriver, a scrappy teenager from Tennessee, is the protagonist of "Behind the Trees" with Hardestadt as her ally.
* HillbillyHorrors: The atmosphere of the story is extremely reminiscent of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'': while the setting is Tennessee, not Texas, the grimy, isolated backwoods horror element is still front-and-center in the story.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Ruby's Hollow, a town in the backwoods of Tennessee [[spoiler:that happens to be host to ghost children and a cannibal clan.]]
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:Rowan turns out to be a ghost herself. Even she's unaware of this until the last minute.]]
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Behind the Trees]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm.
* KidHero: Rowan Thornriver, a scrappy teenager from Tennessee, is the protagonist of "Behind the Trees" with Hardestadt as her ally.
* HillbillyHorrors: The atmosphere of the story is extremely reminiscent of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'': while the setting is Tennessee, not Texas, the grimy, isolated backwoods horror element is still front-and-center in the story.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Ruby's Hollow, a town in the backwoods of Tennessee [[spoiler:that happens to be host to ghost children and a cannibal clan.]]
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:Rowan turns out to be a ghost herself. Even she's unaware of this until the last minute.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: The monster hidden within Antarctica is a hideous, malformed blob the size of a city, all ooze and misshapen slime.
* NothingIsScarier: A noble makes a pass at Helen, prompting her to accept the invite. He's never seen again, with people looking for him and nobody ever revealing just what happened to him...
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstedt.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A twisted inversion occurs when Y'golonac is furious with Helen Valentine for having consensual sex with Hardstedt.Hardstadt.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: A variation. Hardestadt makes it clear his fling with Helen will be such. She ''hates'' all three and tries to make sure it's rough and painful for her as possible so she can fantasize it isn't.
* StealthSequel: ''Shadows in the Ice'' turns out to be one to Clark Ashton Smith's ''The Testament of Athammaus.''
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* UnholyMatrimony: Azazel and Sevara Gehenna appear to be this, being an equally ambitious and coldhearted couple who trade playful jibes, are attached at the hip and can barely resist sneaking off to have a tryst even when surrounded by allies. Being a sociopath, however, Azazel in truth cares absolutely nothing for her. [[spoiler:Sevara later ends up in Azazel's infamous Court of the Broken after saving their daughter from Azazel.]]
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* UnholyMatrimony: Azazel and Sevara Gehenna appear to be this, being an equally ambitious and coldhearted cold-hearted couple who trade playful jibes, are attached at the hip and can barely resist sneaking off to have a tryst even when surrounded by allies. Being a sociopath, however, Azazel in truth cares absolutely nothing for her. [[spoiler:Sevara later ends up in Azazel's infamous Court of the Broken after saving their daughter from Azazel.]]
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played very darkly; Adam communicates with his brother Xol Malig who spends the entire conversation needling and mocking him for thinking Adam can be anything but a monster.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is infine form, always with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
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* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is infine in fine form, always with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of the most depraved men in the stories is Marcel Petiot, a real-life SerialKiller operating in Paris during World War 2.
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* SiblingMurder: Azazel's goal in ''The Guilty and the Just'' is to kill Talik to enhance his position in line to the throne.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Azazel's minions, Morviak and Andras, dislike each other due to the former being a commoner and the latter a proud noble.
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** Azazel's minions, Morviak and Andras, dislike each other due to the former being a commoner and the latter a proud noble. To a lesser extent, Lucia is hardly thrilled with having to team up with Azazel, whom she regards as an arrogant demon princeling.
** Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
** Azazel's minions, Morviak and Andras, dislike each other due to the former being a commoner and the latter a proud noble. To a lesser extent, Lucia is hardly thrilled with having to team up with Azazel, whom she regards as an arrogant demon princeling.
** Eliphas Coyte is loathe to see Helen Valentine again, recalling that during his time serving Y'golonac, Helen almost fed him to her husband, Il Padre. Helen barely sees this as memorable enough to comment on.
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* AndIMustscream: The fate of those trapped in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum and held in perpetual torment for billions of years.]]
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* AndIMustscream: AndIMustScream: The fate of those trapped in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum and held in perpetual torment for billions of years.]]
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** Azazel Baal is a handsome young prince of hell, but those who know ''Literature/Reign in Hell'' know he's one of the most horrific villains in the saga.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The Knygathin Zhaum is a billion-year-old Voormi sleeping in the Antarctic cold.
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* BadBoss: Even though Azazel is ChildhoodFriends with his minions, Shax, Andras, and Morviak, he has no problem treating them as infeiors and keeping them in line with threats.
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* EvilPrince: Azazel was a wicked and ambitious man long before he became King. The entire plot of recovering the Cornerstone was a pretense to kill his brother and advance his position in line to the throne.
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* SiblingMurder: Azazel's goal in ''The Guilty and the Just'' is to kill Talik to enhance his position in line to the throne.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon:
** Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
** Azazel Baal is a handsome young prince of hell, but those who know ''Literature/Reign in Hell'' know he's one of the most horrific villains in the saga.
** Helen Valentine is a gorgeous, vivacious and cheerful woman who is a devious, monstrous sadomasochist who violates every taboo known to man and then some. Her masks do slip at times to showcase what she truly is under it.
** Azazel Baal is a handsome young prince of hell, but those who know ''Literature/Reign in Hell'' know he's one of the most horrific villains in the saga.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: In contrast to the cold transaction between Lucia and Azazel and the anonymous, violent sadomasochsim between Hardestadt and Helen, Hardestadt and Jeanne are caring and warm with one another in ''Shadows in the Ice'' and ''The Architect of Matter'' features the young Nebula and Lucifer being very caring and passionate together.
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: When Azazel demands Lucia sleep with him for his help, she attempts to be as passive as possible, only to find herself enjoying it, much to her frustration, due to her and Azazel's disturbing similarities.
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* SkewedPriorities: Lucia is more outraged that Azazel manipulated her in ''The Guilty and the Just'' than she is that he got tons of people killed in his scheming.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Eliphas Coyte in ''By Blackest Well'' is chronically deserting dark gods after learning all he can. [[spoiler:He finally pulls this on Nyarlathotep himself.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is infine form, always with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucia is infine form, always with a witty repartee in ''The Guilty and the Just.''
* GoneHorriblyRight: Helen is fine with Y'golonac jealous of sleeping with Hardestadt. [[spoiler:It nearly results in him refusing to help her when she needs him.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Helen Valentine in ''By Blackest Will'' finds violent to be incredibly arousing, even and especially when it's being done to her. [[spoiler:When she and Hardestadt have an anonymous hook up, she specifically stokes his sadistic side to give her as much pain as possible.]]
* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: When Azazel demands Lucia sleep with him for his help, she attempts to be as passive as possible, only to find herself enjoying it, much to her frustration, due to her and Azazel's disturbing similarities.
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* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]
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* SexForServices: In ''The Guilty and the Just'', Azazel demands Lucia sleep with him in exchange for his help, which she views as simply a transaction.
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]]]
* VillainousFriendship: Joseph Curwen of ''By Blackest Will'' believes Silas Ruthven and Eliphas Coyte are truly his friends, the latter being his mentor. [[spoiler:It turns out he's very wrong as Coyte double crosses him at the end.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Helen sends her own son, Draco Valentine, to die against Hardestadt when she's tired of him, viewing his jealousy of her as evidence he's no longer of any value.
* YourCheatingHeart: Helen Valentine cheats on her husband, Il Padre from the ''Valentine'' series with Y'golonac the Defiler, the Great Old One of Depravity. Then she cheats on ''him'' with Hardestadt Delac anonymously in a way that enrages Y'golonac.
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.
* VillainousFriendship: Joseph Curwen of ''By Blackest Will'' believes Silas Ruthven and Eliphas Coyte are truly his friends, the latter being his mentor. [[spoiler:It turns out he's very wrong as Coyte double crosses him at the end.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Helen sends her own son, Draco Valentine, to die against Hardestadt when she's tired of him, viewing his jealousy of her as evidence he's no longer of any value.
* YourCheatingHeart: Helen Valentine cheats on her husband, Il Padre from the ''Valentine'' series with Y'golonac the Defiler, the Great Old One of Depravity. Then she cheats on ''him'' with Hardestadt Delac anonymously in a way that enrages Y'golonac.
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''Stories Never Told'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror anthology]] Lightysnake, and an entry in ''Literature/TheNeverKindSaga''. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3348124/1/Stories-Never-Told here]].
At a gathering of wealthy socialites, a young man is regaled with a series of tales in the past:
* ''The Architect of Matter'': Nebula, the Architect of Matter of the Daydreamers, reflects upon her purpose in a young Teraverse, and her relationship with the archangel Lucifer
* ''A Question Of Monsters'': The mysterious Adam, leader of outcasts, centers in on a grim operation, leading to revelations even he does not expect.
* ''In Darkest Hearts'': A trio of allies during World War 2 are on the trail of a mysterious killer, set during ''Literature/TheWolvesOfWar''
* ''The Guilty and the Just'': In the ancient days of the Old World, the Judicator Lucia, Architect of Justice, joins with Hell' prince, Azazel Baal, to uncover a mytserious plot.
* ''Shadows in the Ice'': 1955. Set after ''The Wolves of War,'' the Seer Jeanne Dreyuss and Hardestadt Delac undertake a voyage to Antarctica to find a lost city, unaware of the horrors awaiting below the ice.
* ''By Blackest Will'': When the 17th century becomes the 18th, the dark god Nyarlathotep draws together a group of sorcerers of the darkest hearts to hunt down a traitor to his order, with alliances ever shifting among them.
* ''Behind the Trees'': In a rural Tennessee town, a teenage girl uncovers a set of disappearances in connection with the town's founding family, with something very hungry lurking in the woods.
!!Tropes present in this work:
* AFatherToHisMen: Adam, as ever, loves the Sodality dearly and allows some members to counsel him in turn.
* AndIMustscream: The fate of those trapped in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum and held in perpetual torment for billions of years.]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm. [[spoiler:Also applies to the framing story, only they bite off a bit more than they can chew.]]
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]
At a gathering of wealthy socialites, a young man is regaled with a series of tales in the past:
* ''The Architect of Matter'': Nebula, the Architect of Matter of the Daydreamers, reflects upon her purpose in a young Teraverse, and her relationship with the archangel Lucifer
* ''A Question Of Monsters'': The mysterious Adam, leader of outcasts, centers in on a grim operation, leading to revelations even he does not expect.
* ''In Darkest Hearts'': A trio of allies during World War 2 are on the trail of a mysterious killer, set during ''Literature/TheWolvesOfWar''
* ''The Guilty and the Just'': In the ancient days of the Old World, the Judicator Lucia, Architect of Justice, joins with Hell' prince, Azazel Baal, to uncover a mytserious plot.
* ''Shadows in the Ice'': 1955. Set after ''The Wolves of War,'' the Seer Jeanne Dreyuss and Hardestadt Delac undertake a voyage to Antarctica to find a lost city, unaware of the horrors awaiting below the ice.
* ''By Blackest Will'': When the 17th century becomes the 18th, the dark god Nyarlathotep draws together a group of sorcerers of the darkest hearts to hunt down a traitor to his order, with alliances ever shifting among them.
* ''Behind the Trees'': In a rural Tennessee town, a teenage girl uncovers a set of disappearances in connection with the town's founding family, with something very hungry lurking in the woods.
!!Tropes present in this work:
* AFatherToHisMen: Adam, as ever, loves the Sodality dearly and allows some members to counsel him in turn.
* AndIMustscream: The fate of those trapped in Commoriom, [[spoiler:who were consumed by Knygathin Zhaum and held in perpetual torment for billions of years.]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: Behind the Trees features the Whitebrook family, who gain power and longevity from the consumption of human flesh. Ruby's Hollow is their larder and farm. [[spoiler:Also applies to the framing story, only they bite off a bit more than they can chew.]]
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Jeanne leaves her brief relationship with Hardestadt, realizing they feel little but mutual sadness they're trying to drown in one another, and she can't grow tethered to him.
* PaedoHunt: Adam plans to destroy a brothel that caters to pedophiles and kill everyone there. [[spoiler:Until he learns it's a front for vampires to lure in pedophiles.]]
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler:The child vampires of ''A Question of Monsters'' are a family who lure in and kill pedophiles.]]
