lamia

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Noun
  • In that way, Broken Voices is about the circumstances that allow abuse to happen; Vitek is like a vampire, a cold and distant creature capable of great charm, and Karolina, in all her disarming naivety, is easy prey.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 10 July 2025
  • So far, the answer seems to be blues-loving vampires, a cuddly alien and a life-sized block world.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • It was emptied of us and, therefore, full of dunes and demons, bogs and bleeding trees.
    Devon Walker-Figueroa, The New York Review of Books, 3 July 2025
  • Things become messy when a popular rival boy band – The Saja Boys – are revealed to be demons.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Brown and Kountz play Luna and Marvin, a couple who moves to Evergreen Lane with a passion for goblins and ghouls that inspires the whole neighborhood to go all in.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2025
  • While the cars are moving in two dimensions to the fighter jets’ three, Kosinski makes the races feel truly physical—not just on the turns and straights, but in the frenetic pit stops and in the viewing suites stuffed with sheikhs and tech ghouls.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • That lady is really the aforementioned murderous hag (Meredith Binder), her false veneer of youthful beauty reinforced by a magic mirror’s flattering (if also caustic) topless female spirits, and sustained via grisly methods seemingly inspired by Elizabeth Bathory.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 May 2025
  • Several get small charts offering ideas to inspire how the monster could be used, such as what strange price a hag might have for its secrets or what an owlbear might keep in its den beyond treasure.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
  • That includes, but is not limited to...actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The Rose Field begins where the second book, The Secret Commonwealth leaves off: Lyra alone in a city full of daemons, or physical projections of a person's soul, looking for Pantalaimon as her mentor, Malcolm Polstead, searches for her.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Devil’s Museum, a satellite of the main collection, has amassed more than 3,000 depictions of demons, evil spirits and incubus from around the world.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Your fame sits beside you like an incubus, and people are embarrassed and want to leave the room.
    Candace Bushnell, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The mushroom’s healing properties also lead to hallucinations, often involving mysterious white imps, who should be adorable and instead come across as menacing little ghouls.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • And Dot — well, Dot keeps an imp in an old wine bottle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Lamia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamia. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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