Husher

**Hushers**, or **dark ghosts**, **shadow demons** (Danish: *tystere*) are black ghosts that exist within Hell. Hushers are a type of demon, albeit a completely different kind from the tempters, vargars and gragorns. Like the other devils, the hushers originate from the first fallen angels, but has possibly grown out of the angels' darker thoughts. Hushers can shape-shift, but they usually take the shape of dark, cold shadows, a hazy hybrid of shadow and solid form. Hushers live in and are able to conceal themselves in shadows, small and large, and as such they commonly haunt dark, forgottenm places, such as the alleyways between some houses in Hell. For instance, the Forest of Fear in Hell are haunted by hushers, who punish murders their punishments by chasing them and transforming themselves into their past victims. If one is in the presence of a husher for a longer period of time, one risk losing their mind. Hushers are able to hide in the shadow of a devil, allowing a tempter to conceal the fact that they two shadows when transformed, however there is the danger of losing one's sanity.

Hushers move around by drifting along the ground.

The cook at Lucifer's castle, Ravine, described hushers to Philip Engel as the shadows and shapes, one thinks they see out of the corner of their eye in the dark, the fingers one feels in the back of their neck when they think they are alone, the monsters in the closet, the scary sounds of the night and that which makes one afraid of walking down the steps to the basement. In addition to this, the hushers are also the authors of all the world's nightmares, writing them with blood with quilts on parchment made of human skin in the basement under a house out in the Bog of Nightmares in Hell.

Aziel Stofeles had hushers in his army during the Great Devil War.

## Anatomy

Hushers are a mixture of black, living shadow and solid form, however it is not clear when they are one or the other, or if it is one's imagination playing a trick on their viewer. When Philip Engel visited the house of the hushers in the Bog of Nightmares and walked down into the basement where the hushers sit and write the nightmares of the world, he saw the hushers as hazy masses, but in fleeting glimpses the masses revealed bloody knuckles and claws like knives. He did however start to feel the pressence of the hushers pressuring on his sanity shortly after, so it is not clear if what he saw was real or not. When Philip was ambushed by a husher during the Great Devil War, it grabbed his shoulder with claw-like hands. Hushers seen from above can resemble bottomless abysses. Their darkness is unfathomable, endless and no light is able to diminish it, but shy away from them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Devil's Apprentice*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback). Høst & Søn, October 11 2018 (English e-book). (Original Danish version published September 30, 2005 by Høst & Søn)
2. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Die of Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback). Høst & Søn, October 11 2018 (English e-book). (Original Danish version published August 31, 2007 by Høst & Søn)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Wrongful Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback) (Original Danish version published April 30, 2009 by Høst & Søn)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)
5. ↑ In the Danish edition of *The Wrongful Death*, the hazy mass of the hushers' hands revealed, in fleeting glimpses, "blodige knogler og kløer som knive", which literally translates to "bloody bones and claws like knives," however the English edition changed "bones" to "knuckles".