“Now,” said the demon, in a voice that carried with it no sorrow, no relish, only a dreadful flat resignation, “you will be tortured.” Like this quote, the voice of the demon is created through simple, yet layered descriptions that give not a usual imagery that we are prone to think about when we typically think of hell. When we think of hell, we generally picture flamers; a devil torturing all that is around you. Yet, in this story by Neil Gaiman, you can clearly tell that he was going for a different approach, a different purpose that he tried to convey with a unique voice. He created an ambience of emptiness and coldness, which he carried through with these long interludes of descriptions. The room was long, and the demon waited by a smoking
