Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

A fantasy novel by Jesse Bullington, set during the time of the Great Schism of the Catholic Church, in a world plagued by demons, populated by some of the worst scum known to exist, among them the protaganists of our story, the murderous, grave-robbing brothers Hegel and Manfried Grossbart.


 * Affably Evil - The Brothers Grossbart
 * Badass- So, so very much
 * Black and Grey Morality
 * Body Horror
 * Butt Monkey - Rodrigo. Apart from Barrouse, no one seems to like him, and it took a life or death situation for him to admit it.
 * Church Militant
 * Cluster F-Bomb - The Fuck Speech
 * Corrupt Church - After all, when you consider that the story is set during The Great Schism...
 * Crapsack World
 * Creepy Cathedral
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome - From the opening scene onwards.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: The Fuck speech, not to mention every time the Brothers discuss religion.
 * "We ain't thieves and we ain't killers. We's just good men been done wrong."
 * Darker and Edgier
 * Dead Baby Comedy
 * Even Evil Has Standards - Sort of. The Brothers are 'religious' and have taken chastity vows.
 * Evil vs. Evil
 * Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have! - Horribly, horribly subverted with Nicolette
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel - Any chapter that Nicolette is in.
 * Heroic Sociopath - The Brothers
 * Homage - LOTS.
 * In the Name of The Moon - The Brothers, who loooove citing their faith in the Virgin Mary
 * I Was Quite a Looker - Nicolette
 * Large Ham - Captain Barousse
 * Medieval European Fantasy
 * Mooks - The Demons
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast - Grossbartery is almost a synonym for criminal activity
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Private Military Contractors
 * Seinfeldian Conversation
 * Squick
 * Those Two Bad Guys - The Brothers Grossbart