History YMMV / TheTwistedOnes

* NightmareFuel: There's an awful lot of this.
** It's scary enough when we get the reveal that the deer effigy is a) [[spoiler: alive and sentient]], b) has been [[spoiler: watching the protagonist this ''whole time'', and every time she thought she heard a woodpecker it was actually this thing]] and c) is [[spoiler: ''right outside her bedroom window looking in right now'' and that's why the dog is growling.]] It's ''worse'' when the protagonist's dog runs off into the woods and she [[spoiler: starts worrying about him being stripped for parts and rebuilt as an effigy (he comes back just fine, but he might not have; there are effigies made of dog parts).]] And then it turns out [[spoiler: it's only partly made out of deer. A lot of it was made out of Cotgrave, which is why he's stalking the house ''and making another effigy out of the junk.'']]
** When she thinks that it's physically impossible to make faces like the ones on the statues, like it says in the litany, and tries it to make the point to herself. And then her face starts uncontrollably twisting to ''let her'' and she can't stop.
** On an entirely mundane front there's the chilling and accurate depiction of an abusive relationship, dementia, and mental illness.
* ParanoiaFuel: Mouse thinks that this is the worst part of having lived through this. She's learned that the world has supernatural things in it, that it doesn't work like she thought it did, that it's dangerous... and she doesn't know anything about how it ''does'' work or what to be afraid of. For all she knows her dog barking at a trash can could be a critical warning, but it could also be nothing at all.

* ParanoiaFuel: Mouse thinks that this is the worst part of having lived through this. She's learned that the world has supernatural things in it, that it doesn't work like she thought it did, that it's dangerous... and she doesn't know anything about how it ''does'' work or what to be afraid of. For all she knows her dog barking at a trash can could be a critical warning, but it could also be nothing at all.
* WhatAnIdiot: Throughout the book, Mouse laments not being prepared for the situations she finds herself in. She [[NonActionGirl doesn't have a weapon]]. Bongo can choke himself pulling on a collar. [[spoiler: When she decides to answer Anna's WoundedGazelleGambit, Mouse has time to prepare! But she does not attempt to arm herself or put Bongo in his harness, despite having one. She is astonished at Foxy's foresight in bringing a gun and sandwiches, which are some very basic supplies.]]

* UncannyValley: Mouse notes this in the mindset of the girl chronicled in The Green Book. While she knows she should probably be sympathetic, she finds her really disturbing. [[spoiler: She reacts the same way to Anna.]]
** The city of the White People is subtly wrong. Not due to alien geometries though. It's oddities like how the lanterns are hung and lit but are scattered at random, like they've been hung by people with no real idea of what lanterns are actually for. Not to mention how everything is well maintained but the buildings are covered with enormous wasp nests. [[spoiler: It's because there are no White People anymore and the Twisted Ones are just following their old orders. They don't need lanterns any more than they need eyes, and they have no orders regarding clearing out the wasps so they just leave them alone.]]

** The city of the White People is subtly wrong. Not due to alien geometries though. It's oddities like how the lanterns are hung and lit but are scattered at random, like they've been hung by people with no real idea of what lanterns are actually for. Not to mention how everything is well maintained but the buildings are covered with enormous wasp nests. [[spoiler: It's because there are no White People anymore and the Twisted Ones are just following their old orders. They don't need lanterns any more than they need eyes, and they have no orders regarding clearing out the wasps so they just leave them alone.]]

** It's scary enough when we get the reveal that the deer effigy is a) [[spoiler: alive and sentient]], b) has been [[spoiler: watching the protagonist this ''whole time'', and every time she thought she heard a woodpecker it was actually this thing]] and c) is [[spoiler: ''right outside her bedroom window looking in right now'' and that's why the dog is growling.]] It's ''worse'' when the protagonist's dog runs off into the woods and she [[spoiler: starts worrying about him being stripped for parts and rebuilt as an effigy (he comes back just fine, but he might not have; there are effigies made of dog parts).]] And then it turns out [[spoiler: it's only partly made out of deer. A lot of it was made out of Ambrose, which is why he's stalking the house ''and making another effigy out of the junk.'']]

* UncannyValley: Mouse notes this in the mindset of the girl chronicled in The Green Book. While she knows she should probably be sympathetic, she finds her really disturbing. [[spoiler: She reacts the same way to Anna.]]

** When she thinks that it's physically impossible to make faces like the ones on the statues, like it says in the litany, and tries it. And then her face starts uncontrollably twisting to ''let her'' and she can't stop.

* JerkassWoobie: Anna. She's been through hell, and it certainly wasn't her fault. It was just bad luck of ancestry and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. [[spoiler: But by the time of the story she's so broken that she'll try to sell someone else to the same fate and casually murder her only companion without a second thought. And then, on the brink of escaping, she betrays them all again.]] Mouse can't bring herself to hate her after everything, but she was still a pretty awful person by the end.

** When she thinks that there's no way to make faces like the ones on the statues, like it says in the litany, and tries it. And then her face starts uncontrollably twisting to ''let her'' and she can't stop.

** It's scary enough when ''The Twisted Ones'' reveals the deer effigy is a) [[spoiler: alive and sentient]], b) has been [[spoiler: watching the protagonist this ''whole time'', and every time she thought she heard a woodpecker it was actually this thing]] and c) is [[spoiler: ''right outside her bedroom window looking in right now'' and that's why the dog is growling.]] It's ''worse'' when the protagonist's dog runs off into the woods and she [[spoiler: starts worrying about him being stripped for parts and rebuilt as an effigy (he comes back just fine, but he might not have; there are effigies made of dog parts).]] And then it turns out [[spoiler: it's only partly made out of deer. A lot of it was made out of Ambrose, which is why he's stalking the house ''and making another effigy out of the junk.'']]

* NightmareFuel: It's scary enough when ''The Twisted Ones'' reveals the deer effigy is a) [[spoiler: alive and sentient]], b) has been [[spoiler: watching the protagonist this ''whole time'', and every time she thought she heard a woodpecker it was actually this thing]] and c) is [[spoiler: ''right outside her bedroom window looking in right now'' and that's why the dog is growling.]] It's ''worse'' when the protagonist's dog runs off into the woods and she [[spoiler: starts worrying about him being stripped for parts and rebuilt as an effigy (he comes back just fine, but he might not have; there are effigies made of dog parts).]]

** When she thinks that there's no way to make faces like the ones on the statues, like it says in the litany, and tries it. And then her face starts uncontrollably twisting to let her ''and she can't stop''.

* UncannyValley: Mouse notes this in the mindset of the girl chronicled in The Green Book. While she knows she should probably be sympathetic, she finds her really disturbing. [[spoiler: She reacts the same way to Anna, another being like her.]]

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler: Anna. She's been through hell, and it certainly wasn't her fault. It was just bad luck of ancestry and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But by the time of the story she's so broken that she'll try to sell someone else to the same fate and casually murder her only companion without a second thought. And then, on the brink of escaping, she betrays them all again.]] Mouse can't bring herself to hate her after everything, but she was still a pretty awful person by the end.