- Complete Monster: The Lady is a narcissistic Fay clinging to the last vestiges of power and authority. With her pact with the town of Gentry, she reigns over them, and has them sacrifice children once every seven years that she keeps as a pet, torments and eventually kills and devours, with a girl named Natalie the next of her victims. Setting fire to a church which causes a fatality upon being challenged, the Lady also tries to kill Mackie Doyle and others by handing them over to her Torture Technician, the Cutter, to gruesomely murder.
- Genius Bonus: Mackie's narrative describes how he found a copy of Tam Lin among Emma's books. Tam Lin is a centuries old Scottish ballad in which the heroine, Janet, rescues Tam Lin from his fairy captors before they use him as a tithe to hell.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Pastor Doyle. Of the Doyle family, he gets significantly less page time in comparison to Sharon and Emma and he isn't even given a first name. Emma tells Mackie that their dad has a hard time with seeing kids (or rather their replacements) die, but he never admits this to Mackie himself. There's also no mention of whether the existence of Them or their practice of tithing stolen children ever questioned his faith or if he belongs to his own spectrum of belief.
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