The Beast Fears Fire - Underworldly Denizens

Well, the first two days of 2013 went by without my being able to post to LiveJournal, which is a big argument against the service, but what the hell. 2 days late, my take on 2012 - it was a better year than a lot of them have been, and, if nothing else, it is the year that I found thus-far-effective treatment for panic, which is going to probably catapult it into a top 10 somewhere.

Ghouls and goblins are the most numerous living thing you'll find in the Underworld, but they aren't, by any stretch, the only things. There's some others, junk drawer leftover creatures, and many of them are fairly inoffensive. We're not mentioning those. Instead, we're looking at a handful of the worst creatures you're likely to find in the Black Mansions Below, well, the worst that aren't unique, anyway. Some of them have a claim to being something that came about naturally, and some don't even pretend. Their origins are diverse, and, to a large extent, we can't really even guess what combination of spirit, upper-world life, Underworld life, stupid magical experimentation left out to go bad, and plain rotten luck go into making these things. Some secrets really aren't worth the bother to learn.