Spookies

But if he could get Billy thinking she might be in the hands of the Spookies'maybe Spookies using LlewellCo as a front-

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Oh, he hadn't gotten very far yet hunting Spookies in the Fairchild organization — or demons, as Billy preferred to call them — but there was something here to find: he could smell it.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

It didn't have the range or penetrating capability of a conventional weapon, but against Spookies there was nothing on God's Green Earth more effective.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Much of the equipment Aerune had given him with which to hunt Spookies-unduplicatable by Earthly science-had been stored at a secret off-site location.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He was reasonably sure it would; Spookies were tough, and he was fairly sure he'd missed the heart.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Not the irreplaceable things, like the parasympathetic energy detectors that detected the reality-manipulating energy that Spookies gave off, or the illusion-filtering lenses that would allow their wearer to see through most Spookie illusions, but the simple things that could be made with Earth technology, like the bolt-guns and the steel capture nets.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

It was curious that while the Spookies looked more or less like humans, wherever the net and the handcuffs touched the creature's bare flesh, it actually blistered.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

The Christian fundamentalists believed that practically everything was Satanic, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter-and if the Spookies weren't strictly Satanic, they were out to enslave and destroy humanity, they didn't worship Jesus or the Judeo-Christian God, and they had pointed ears and unnatural powers.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Oh, he hadn't gotten very far yet hunting Spookies in the Fairchild organization-or demons, as Billy preferred to call them-but there was something here to find: he could smell it.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Like the cuffs, it was steel, not iron, but steel was nearly as effective against Spookies and a great deal stronger.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005