Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Guild of Suffering

The cult of the Night Wyrm — a demigod outside the pantheon, 'similar to Samantha' — with outreach centres rather than churches, which keeps memorial crystals and once had a seventh floor given over to raising its god; the elbow tattoo grants access.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 23 — The Molly Maguires
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 34 — Family business

Progression

A stripper's tattoo gives it away; a slip of skin reads itself (ch. 19); a purple-shag closet, a spiderweb door, the Molly Maguires (ch. 23); a map for a refusal (ch. 24); a plan, an IED, a demon and a kill in a kitchen (ch. 31, ch. 32); 'there is always more', and the client is the widower (ch. 33, ch. 34).