YMMV / The Diviners (2012)

• Complete Monster:
  • The King of Crows is a centuries-old being of endless cruelty and greed. Desiring power, the King of Crows would make lopsided deals with people in need and then use Exact Words to twist their desires against them. The King of Crows then tricked the Diviners into destroying his ghost minions in order to empower himself, before leading an army of ghosts to devour whole towns and everyone in them, planning on doing this until he had consumed the entire world.
  • First novel: "Naughty" John Hobbes is a religious fanatic who believed himself to be The Antichrist and it was his job to bring Judgement Day to end the world. To this end, he began a ritual to become the Beast by killing people and eating a part of them, manipulating the wealthy Ida Knowles into letting him use her mansion Knowles End, where he murdered all of her servants and eventually her as well, causing him to be hung for his crimes. Returning decades later as a ghost, Hobbes would become known as the Pentacle Killer with deeds such as killing a woman and taking her eyes, killing a twelve-year old boy, burning a man alive, and skinning a woman, all so he could end the world and rule over the new one as a god.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Naughty John song will get stuck in your head and never leave.
  • The man in the stovepipe hat.
  • Evie's dreams of James fighting in the first world war.
• The Woobie:
  • Jericho lives with the knowledge that his body may one day shut down or the fact he may go insane. He was also abandoned as a child after he contracted Polio and because of the machines keeping him alive, he believes that he isn't even human or deserving of love and friendship.
  • Theta is really a young woman from Kansas on the run after possibly killing her abusive husband.
  • Wai-Mae is the crying woman. In order to cope with the fact she was sold into prostitution, murdered her captors, and then was accidentally buried alive, her spirit traps people in a dream world so she can fuel her own delusions. Despite the horror of what she does, Wai-Mae is a broken little girl.

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