History NightmareFuel / Abarat

** One Stitchling is described as having a fully functionig colon, but no anus. Poor thing's been stuck with a permanent case of constipation.

** 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.

** 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 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 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.

** 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 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!

** 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.