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he was turned away from a warm fire. Now he wanders through Greendale, knocking
on doors and ripping out the hearts of anyone who doesn't invite him into their homes
(because they're heartless, get it?). It seems to be loosely based on Lovecraft's short
story, "The Outsider." When The Uninvited crashes Aunt Hilda's wedding to Dr.
Cerberus after being excluded from the festivities, the two Sabrinas defeat the entity
through trickery. I honestly felt a little sorry for this Eldritch Terror, but you can't have a
zombie-like figure ripping people's hearts out all over the place just because they failed
to show a bit of hospitality.
The rest of the Terrors make their appearance one by one: The Weird—an octopus-like
entity likely inspired by Lovecraft's most famous creation, Cthulhu—who is a parasite
with a collective consciousness that takes over Sabrina's body; The Perverse, whose
reality-warping powers are called forth by a gold imp statue (a nod to the Edgar Allan
Poe short story, "The Imp of the Perverse"); The Cosmic, in which the various realms
start to merge, with disastrous consequences; The Returned, in which departed loved
ones return from the dead; The Endless, possibly inspired by the Lovecraftian
deity Thasaidon; and finally, The Void, which existed at creation and will bring about the
end of all things.
(Warning: major spoilers below the gallery. Stop now if you haven't finished the
season.)