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Then down once more, that spiraling way, a light here, a light there, into the caverns of Kolvir.... On down. Twisting and winding through the gloom. The torch and lantern-lit guard station was theatrically stark within it. I reached the floor and headed that way. "Good evening, Lord Corwin," said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. "Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?" "A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful." "You enjoy this duty?" He nodded. "I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here." "Fitting, fitting," I said. "I'll be needing a lantern." He took one from the rack, brought it to flame from his candle. "Will it have a happy ending?" I inquired. He shrugged. "I'll be happy." "I mean, does good triumph and hero bed heroine? Or do you kill everybody off?" "That's hardly fair," he said. "Never mind. Maybe I'll read it one day." "Maybe," he said. ~ Chapter 4, The Hand of Oberon

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Hidebehind from American folklore.

When an observer attempts to look directly at it, the creature quickly hides behind an object or behind the observer and therefore cannot be directly seen.

The Hidebehind supposedly uses this ability to stalk human prey without being observed and to attack them without warning. Said victims, including lumberjacks and others who frequent the forests, are then dragged back to the creature’s lair to be devoured. The creature subsists chiefly upon the intestines of its victim and has a severe aversion to alcohol, which is therefore considered a sufficient repellent.

Tales of the hidebehind may have been used as an explanation of strange noises in the forest at night. Early accounts describe Hidebehinds as large, powerful animals, despite the fact that no one was able to see them.

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