History YMMV / TheBookOfLostThings

** [[JackassGenie The Crooked Man]] a being whose method of staying alive for centuries is [[ImmortalityImmorality utterly repulsive]]. He [[TheCorrupter talks a child]] in our world into [[DealWithTheDevil sacrificing someone they hate to him]], usually a younger brother or sister. He feeds upon their heart and their life for as long as they would have lived, while the corrupted child is crowned king or queen [[BlessedWithSuck of a world built out of their own nightmares]]. For good measure, the child is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone tormented by the reality of what they've done]] and will eventually discover that all his or her attempts to [[TheAtoner atone for this crime]] by ruling justly will come to nothing, because they have no power of their own. Eventually, the king or queen will grow old, the victim's life force will begin to fade, and the Crooked Man goes looking for another child that's prepared to have their unwanted siblings horribly murdered.

** The Crooked Man: Quite apart from holding a massive gallery of past victims and special tortures, his method of StayingAlive is utterly repulsive: [[DealWithTheDevil he talks a child in]] ''[[DealWithTheDevil our]]'' [[DealWithTheDevil world into]] [[MoralEventHorizon sacrificing someone they hate to him]] - usually a younger brother or sister. He feeds upon their heart and their life for as long as they would have lived, while the corrupted child is crowned king or queen...[[BlessedWithSuck of a world built out of his or her own nightmares]]. For good measure, the child's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone tormented by the reality of what they've done]] and will eventually discover that all his or her attempts to [[TheAtoner atone for this crime]] by ruling justly will come to nothing, because they have no power of their own. Eventually, the king or queen will grow old, the victim's life force will begin to fade, and the Crooked Man goes looking for another child that's prepared to have their unwanted siblings horribly murdered...[[KidsAreCruel and he's been doing this for]] '''[[KidsAreCruel centuries]].'''
** The Huntress: Bored with her usual game and finding [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame humans]] too fragile to keep up the entertainment, she's taken up grafting the heads of human beings onto animal bodies - through a technique she learned from three surgeons she happened to abduct and torture. Because adults don't adjust well to the shock, the recipients of this treatment are children, who generally spend the last tortured minutes of their lives running through a dark forest in an unfamiliar body before being shot dead, partially eaten, and having their preserved remains hung from a wall.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids - It's a story about a 12 year old boy who visits a fairy tale land... and is filled to the brim with Nightmare Fuel.

** The Crooked Man. Quite apart from holding a massive gallery of past victims and special tortures, his method of StayingAlive is utterly repulsive: [[DealWithTheDevil he talks a child in]] ''[[DealWithTheDevil our]]'' [[DealWithTheDevil world into]] [[MoralEventHorizon sacrificing someone they hate to him]] - usually a younger brother or sister. He feeds upon their heart and their life for as long as they would have lived, while the corrupted child is crowned king or queen...[[BlessedWithSuck of a world built out of his or her own nightmares]]. For good measure, the child's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone tormented by the reality of what they've done]] and will eventually discover that all his or her attempts to [[TheAtoner atone for this crime]] by ruling justly will come to nothing, because they have no power of their own. Eventually, the king or queen will grow old, the victim's life force will begin to fade, and the Crooked Man goes looking for another child that's prepared to have their unwanted siblings horribly murdered...[[KidsAreCruel and he's been doing this for]] '''[[KidsAreCruel centuries]].'''

* CompleteMonster - The Crooked Man. Quite apart from holding a massive gallery of past victims and special tortures, his method of StayingAlive is utterly repulsive: [[DealWithTheDevil he talks a child in]] ''[[DealWithTheDevil our]]'' [[DealWithTheDevil world into]] [[MoralEventHorizon sacrificing someone they hate to him]]- usually a younger brother or sister; he gets feed upon their heart and their life for as long as they would have lived, while the corrupted child is crowned king or queen... [[BlessedWithSuck of a world built out of his or her own nightmares]]. For good measure, the child's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone tormented by the reality of what they've done]], and will eventually discover that all his or her attempts to [[TheAtoner atone for this crime]] by ruling justly will come to nothing, because they have no power of their own. Eventually the king or queen will grow old, the victim's life force will begin to fade, and the Crooked Man goes looking for another child that's prepared to have their unwanted siblings horribly murdered... [[KidsAreCruel and he's been doing this for]] '''[[KidsAreCruel centuries]].'''
** Another rotten character would be the huntress: bored with her usual game and finding [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame humans]] too fragile to keep up the entertainment, she's taken up grafting the heads of human beings onto animal bodies- through a technique she learned from three surgeons she happened to abduct and torture. Because adults don't adjust well to the shock, the recipients of this treatment are children, who generally spend the last tortured minutes of their lives running through a dark forest in an unfamiliar body before being shot dead, partially eaten, and their preserved remains hung from a wall.

* NightmareFuel - Much of the book is filled with this.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids - It's a story about a twelve year old boy who visits a fairy tale land... and is filled to the brim with Nightmare Fuel.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids - It's a story about a twelve year old boy who visits a fairy tale land... and is filled to the brim with HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

** Another rotten character would be the huntress: bored with her usual game and finding [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame humans]] too fragile to keep up the entertainment, she's taken up grafting the heads of human beings onto animal bodies- through a technique she learned from three surgeons she happened to abduct and torture. Because adults don't adjust well to the shock, the recipients of this treatment are children, who generally spend the last tortured minutes of their lives running through a dark forest in an unfamiliar body before being shot dead, partially eaten, and their preserved remains hung from a wall. Holy ''shit.''
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Much of the book is filled with this.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Much of the book is filled with this.