* [[spoiler:Madge]], after the remorseless entropy curse is redirected at her.
--> ''She had plenty of time to feel it as the demonic killer, the guiding mind who had been behind the entropy curse, flowed in its semigaseous form into her mouth and throat and lungs, then extruded savage spines and tore her apart from within.
--> [[spoiler:Madge]] didn't manage to get out a scream as she died.
--> But it wasn't for lack of trying.''
* [[spoiler:Trixie's]] death just a few minutes before; while she was an utterly horrible person, Harry's appalled by her being suffocated by a spell and then thrown into the Deeps while she's still alive.
* Lord Raith. Just entirely. Damn pretty-boy vampires he is ''terrifying''.
* Harry's description of the Black Court thralls and Renfields with The Sight:
-->I don't know if you've ever seen a sheep slaughtered for mutton. The process isn't fast, even if it isn't really cruel. They make the sheep lie down on its side and cover its eyes. The sheep lies there without struggling and the shepherd takes a sharp knife and draws a single neat line across its throat. The sheep jerks in a sharp twitch of surprise, while the shepherd holds it gently down. It smells blood and stirs more. Then the animal quiets again under the shepherd's hand. It bleeds. ...
* In the first battle with the Black Court vampires, two of them start feeding off Lara ''by chewing holes in her breasts''. NauseaFuel and terrifying.
* The curse itself: It's directed at the women around Genosa, all of them completely blameless, and most of them die horribly because of harmless things: one woman is water-skiing and gets hit by a car that goes off a bridge; one goes to get some golf-clubs out of a car and gets stung to death by thousands of bees; one takes a shower, the water turns scalding hot and she falls through the glass into a pool of water that becomes electrically charged; and the last goes looking for a bottle of water and ends up walking right into the firing line when a gun goes off and misses its intended target.
* What Lara does to [[spoiler: Lord Raith. Yes, he deserves it (and then some) but the description of Lara shucking her clothes and preparing to rape her father both physically and mentally into total submission is chilling, and Harry specifically states that if he, Murphy and Thomas had stuck around a few seconds longer, they probably would have lost their minds.]] Later on in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' [[spoiler:when Harry meets Lord Raith again during another showdown in the Deeps, he wonders if there's even anything ''left'' of the vampire king's mind, or if it's merely Lara speaking through him like a puppet]].
* The damage Harry's hand suffers in the raid on the Black Court Vampire base. He notes blisters growing on it in the face of the heat of the flame throwers, his fingers appearing to grow thinner and curl as the flesh seemed to melt off them like wax, and that the pain made him momentarily blind. It's several books before the hand starts functioning anywhere near the degree that it originally did.
* Ebenezer [=McCoy=]: CoolOldGuy... wielder of the ColonyDrop via satellite.... And he's revealed to be [[spoiler:"The Blackstaff", the ''one man'' allowed, and '''encouraged to''', break the Laws of Magic in defence of the White Council.]] And Literature/{{Changes}} shows that [[spoiler:the staff itself allows him to ignore TheCorruption from breaking the Laws of Magic]]. Given what he can do with just a satellite, and he's self-admittedly responsible for TheTunguskaEvent, Krakatoa, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811-12_New_Madrid_earthquakes the New Madrid earthquake]], what could he do if he weren't so moral and the asteroid belt were closer?
* When Harry realizes that Lord Raith is [[spoiler: responsible for his mother's death,]] he just about goes crazy with rage, in a way we haven't seen yet. Ebenezar calmly reaches out and [[{{Squick}} grabs Harry by his injured hand]] to make him calm down, and it's only when he does that Ebenezar reveals that he's tried to kill Raith ''three times'' already, and none of his attempts worked.
* Harry himself after he has disarmed one of the villains responsible for several heartless murders. The description of ''his thoughts'' are quite disturbing. Had they not been interrupted, Harry is not sure what he would have done
** The villains themselves, taking EvilIsPetty to another level.
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