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  • Given how retrograde horror is, it should be no surprise that many Shockliners are Western devils and are very concerned about how their interest in horror dovetails into their hell-born heresies of either the boy-rapist or hillbilly kind.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

  • "It is most difficult to understand the disposition of the Bible God, it is such a confusion of contradictions; of watery instabilities and iron firmnesses; of goody-goody abstract morals made out of words, and concreted hell-born ones made out of acts; of fleeting kindnesses repented of in permanent malignities."

    Pop Christianity 2006

  • All, all, but what is owing to her relations, is the fault of that woman, and of her hell-born nymphs.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • O! this is cowardice, brutality, hell-born fury and revenge!

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  •   Or blot with hell-born sin such saint-like forms.

    The Rape of Lucrece 2004

  • Blinded and dazed in that hell-born glare, they had died without an opportunity of defending themselves.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Blinded and dazed in that hell-born glare, they had died without an opportunity of defending themselves.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Blinded and dazed in that hell-born glare, they had died without an opportunity of defending themselves.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • "I have looked upon hell-born horror," said Elric,

    Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984

  • Now those hell-born backed warily from Conan and Sharak, rolling fearsome red eyes at Jhandar.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

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