Questions tagged [demons]
A malevolent supernatural being.
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A fantasy book about a main character named Draco
Looking for a book I read some time ago but didn't get a chance to finish. This is what I know:
Might be a series of novels
Main character named Draco
Set in a fantasy realm
Draco is royalty
He ends ...
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Young adult horror story in which a boy's neighbor turns out to be the Devil
What I can remember is that a boy lives with his grandma in a apartment and a new neighbor moves in. The kid befriends the neighbor as the neighbor seems to know the kid's secret thoughts. It turns ...
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Fantasy manga where the mc is a female from a noble family and her knight is a demon
The Beginning her family is killed only she and her knight survived went to her fiance family who treated her like trash later she and her knight run but is captured and the Knight reveals he's a ...
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1990s(?) fantasy book with a female mage protagonist and demons
I am trying to remember the name of a fantasy novel I read in the 90s, which I think was published then too.
It centers around a young (rare) female mage who is very lonely. She has just graduated ...
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Old (pre 1980) story in which a man is given a beautiful "woman" in exchange for some service to a demon
What I recall is that the chief demon tells the man the despite the woman also actually being a fearsome demon, the man would never see this and she would be as affectionate as any woman.
The chief ...
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Manga/anime in which the main character fights demons that want to invade and protects those that want peace
There is this manga/anime that begins with some dudes digging a huge pot which they open, releasing a demon.
The demon kills them and runs off, then it's hit by a delivery girl and the demon possesses ...
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Short story where a man summons demon who mocks him for not believing in God
I read this short story a while ago and can't for the life of me find it again. I think it might have been around the time that the SFX Pulp books were released and the aliens found humans were ...
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What is the earliest example of a deal with the devil that hinges on a trick of wording?
The deal with the Devil is a common trope. Also common is the notion that you had better check the terms extremely carefully, because the Devil is prone to slipping in tricks of wording to his ...
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Online story - mother tempted by youth leader, demonic possession involving a movie
I read this story online in the last five years or so. I think it's a long short story or possibly a novelette. The main character is a woman with two teenage sons. The sons go to scout or church ...
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Does the idea of a human being tricking demons (a bit like Constantine) come from folklore or some particular story predating Hellblazer?
A few years ago, I started reading the Hellblazer comic-book series, and while I enjoyed it a lot, I felt that the concept of a human being tricking demons (something the character Constantine is ...
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Book series about a female detective partnered with a part-human, part-demon, male cop
Read this series around about 2008-2010; thought they were either by Rachel Caine or Kelley Armstrong, but from what I can see I must be mistaken.
From what I can remember of the concept, humans and ...
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Short video of insurance salesman summoning a demon who also is into insurance
I remember seeing, probably in the 90s, a short movie with a nerdy insurance salesman who decided, for reasons I can't remember, to summon a demon.
He successfully summoned two, one traditionally ...
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Children's book involving demon summoning and a main character who is secretly an angel
I'm trying to figure out a book series I used to read. I know the plot revolves around a group of 3 teenagers fighting a bunch of sorcerers who draw their power from summoning demons. The group is 2 ...
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Anime about a girl with short red hair who was some type of fighter and fought demons
I am trying to find the name of an anime where there was this girl with short red hair who was some type of fighter and fought demons.
It was an ecchi anime, so there was some tentacle scenes.
There ...
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Anime about a boy who made a deal with a demon underground
All I can remember about it the story was fantasy about a boy who made a deal with a demon underground, I think, but she transformed into something else because he made the creature angry. He also ...
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