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Nightmare Fuel / Going Postal

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  • The One Month Prologue, and the death of John Dearheart.
  • The fates of the four previous postmasters:
    • Mr Mutable falls five stories 'smack, sir, smack on to the marble' head first, and splashes,
    • Mr Sideburn drops through the ghost of a staircase and falls down five flights of stairs, breaking just about every bone in his body in the process,
    • Mr Ignavia dies from a heart attack that, we later learn, was caused by walking through a human ghost and seeing everything inside them as he did it,
    • And as for poor Dark Clerk Whobblebury, who fell onto the "Bloody Stupid" Johnson-designed Sorting Engine... 'His head was all over the wall!'
  • Mr Gryle is walking Nightmare Fuel. The wild banshee is not Played for Laughs and unnerves even Gilt's dedicated Igor, who has worked with werewolves and vampires before.
  • The clacksmen's tendency to think they can fly, and learn otherwise.
  • In-Universe, even, at least in the Sky 1 movie. After Pump tells him that "When banks lose money, it is not the banker who starves," Moist has a nightmare about the guy whose money he swindled hanging himself.

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