the netherworld

noun

literary
: the world of the dead : hell

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As an introductory experience that transitions visitors from the mortal realm to the netherworld of Jimmy Fallon’s sadistic dreams, this sequence feels directly inspired by the famous Stretching Room in the Haunted Mansion. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024 The Celts believed that the boundary between our world and the spirit world was thinnest on those days, and that residents of the netherworld could cross into this one to wreak some havoc. Aaron Mahnke, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024 Restless spirits and ravenous ghosts roamed there, in the waters, looking to pull unsuspecting humans into the netherworld. Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024 There’s an interesting twist in that the big bad — Kate del Castillo as the mother of the man Mike fathered — is a participant in some vague form of black magic and seems to be communing with the netherworld. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024 The money, for its part, ultimately showed up, trapped in the netherworld of a Korean cryptocurrency exchange. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023 And for fans of the film, the characters from the netherworld’s waiting room — including the shrunken-head hunter and suicidal Miss Argentina — are faithfully re-created. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023 In the musical production, Beetlejuice — a self-serving demon scheming to be set free from the netherworld — works the audience like a standup comic, with hilarious asides, topical one-liners and pointed insults for at least one unfortunate audience member each night. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023 Crypto remains in the netherworld of financial regulation, caught between traditional definitions of securities, commodities, assets, money, and payments. Aaron Klein, Time, 22 Nov. 2022

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