The Devils is a dark fantasy epic centering on a special force of monsters enlisted to save Europe from a scourge of flesh-eating elves.
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Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
2 June 2025
In this fiction, the Crusades were not waged against Moors, but against elves – a race said to devour the flesh of humans, among other atrocities that are neither confirmed nor denied by the end of the story.
Stripped first of his access to the goblin court, and now of his ability to speak with the dead, Celehar nonetheless still has commitments to the living.
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Natalie Zutter
January 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2025
Lisa’s Joker is part motivational speaker, part chaos goblin.
Crusty art critics and right-wing trolls joined together to bash the work for not looking exactly like every other lifeless oil-on-canvas depiction of a U.S. president.
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Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
12 June 2025
From popular folk-rockers Mumford & Sons to giant forest trolls and classical music with a Spanish twist, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond.
The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.
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