as in demons
an evil spirit
he'd often wrestle with his conscience, but inevitably the cacodemons would win
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Eerie in a way that feels more seductive than scary, the film isn’t bewitched by its demons so much as the process of transubstantiation by which a (self)tortured young woman can transform them into grace.
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Opportunity Babcock will arrive at camp in search of forwards who can be demons on the forecheck.
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Typically, ghosts show up in literature when something that has been repressed escapes and becomes everyone’s problem.
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This bed and breakfast is said to be haunted by more than a dozen spirits, including the ghosts of Civil War soldiers and a woman who once owned the early 1800s home.
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Night of the Living Dead centers all the action at a farmhouse, where seven people attempt to ward off the ghouls — without any prior knowledge of how to do so.
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Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.
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In their respective grief, mommy issues, daughter issues, and, in the case of Armand and Daniel, daddy issues, our vampires are giving each other a run for their money over who is the most beautiful, most unwell.
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Taylor-Johnson starred as Friedrich Harding, a skeptic set in his belief that vampires don’t exist.
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The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.
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But there are lots of potential devils in the details (otherwise there’d be little need for experimental reactors).
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“Cacodemons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cacodemons. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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