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Per TRS Horny Devils has been renamed. Moving tropes to either Succubi And Incubi or Hot As Hell depending on the context.


* HornyDevils: They run an Old West whorehouse.


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* SuccubiAndIncubi: They run an Old West whorehouse.
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* WeaponTitle: "The Infernal Napoleon" actually refers to a demonic cannon[[note]]Specifically the ''Canon obusier de 12'', known in the US as the '12-pounder Napoleon': the primary cannon used in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar[[/note]].

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* EyeSpy: In "The Nightjar Women", Lilith is able to remove and send semm flying around to spy for her.

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* EyeSpy: In "The Nightjar Women", Lilith is able to remove and send semm them flying around to spy for her.


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* FullBoarAction: In "Hell's Hired Gun", the demon-possessed sharpshooter Medgar Tooms is accompanied by a herd of pigs which rip apart the bodies of his victims, as well as serving as alternate vessels for the demons that possess him.
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* ClothingCombat: Being CrazyPrepared, the Rider has stitched the 72 names of God in threaded gold into the inner seam of his ''rekel'' coat, in case he should ever be stripped of all of his other amulets and talismans. In "The Dust Devils", this actually happens, but he destroys a demon by turning his coat inside out and wrapping it around the demon.


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* CrazyPrepared: The Rider tries to be prepared for any supernatural threat he might encounter. He carries so many protective amulets and talismans that he clinks when he walks. And, in case he should ever be stripped of all of his other protections, he has stitched the 72 names of God in threaded gold into the inner seam of his ''rekel'' coat.
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* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: In "The Shomer Express", The Rider takes on a Arabian demonic ''ghul'' that has [[ThrillerOnTheExpress smuggled itself aboard a passenger train]]. The ''ghul'' possesses an intelligence slightly above animalistic, and can can take on the form of the last corpse it ate (until it finishes digesting the flesh). However, its feet remain cloven hooves, betraying it as a demon.
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* KillItWithFire: After battling the ''ghul'' for some time in "The Shomer Express", the Rider finally remembers that the only way to destroy is with fire. After a gruelling battle, he manages to batter it into the firebox of the locomotive [[ShovelStrike with a shovel]].


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* ThrillerOnTheExpress: "The Shomer Express". On a midnight train crossing the desert, a corpse turns up desecrated. Something stalking the passenger cars has assumed its shape, and only the Rider can stop it.
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* ShovelStrike: In "The Shomer Express", the Rider uses the fireman's shovel to batter the ''ghul'' into the firebox of the locomotive: the only way to destroy it being to KillItWithFire.
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* HealingHands: In "Hell's Hired Gun'', the Rider is [[BedouinRescueService saved from a blizzard]] by a PreacherMan turned [[TheHermit hermit]]. In a fit of religious fervour, the hermit is able to draw out the Rider's fever by laying hands on him: something which surprises the hermit as much as it does the Rider.
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The four collections each have a title that is a play upon a the title of a popular {{Western}}. The books are:
** ''[[Film/HighPlainsDrifter High Planes Drifter]]''
** ''[[Film/DollarsTrilogy The Mensch with No Name]]''
** ''[[Series/HaveGunwillTravel Have Glyphs, Will Travel]]''
** ''[[Film/OnceUponATimeInThewest Once Upon a Time in the Weird West]]''

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* BlowYouAway: In "The Dust Devils", the EvilSorcerer summons a minor demon which manifests as a wind that sets up a permanent dust storm around the town. He later sends it to attack the Rider, and it blasts him with cyclonic force winds. The Rider finds the body of one the demon's previous victims who had the flesh stripped from his bones by the sand blasted by the wind.

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* BlowYouAway: In "The Dust Devils", the EvilSorcerer summons a minor demon which manifests as a wind that sets up a permanent dust storm around the town. He later sends it to attack the Rider, and it blasts him with cyclonic force winds. The Rider finds the body of one the demon's previous victims who had [[FlayedAlive the flesh stripped from his bones bones]] by the sand blasted by the wind.


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* FlayedAlive: In "The Dust Devils", the EvilSorcerer summons a minor demon which manifests as a wind that sets up a permanent dust storm around the town. He later sends it to attack the Rider, and it [[BlowYouAway blasts him with cyclonic force winds]]. The Rider finds the body of one the demon's previous victims who had the flesh stripped from his bones by the sand blasted by the wind.

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