Does it? It also says they live in sewers and crawlspaces, so it's kind of contradictory, there. Probably are some of each, depending where they get their secrets from We'd divided them up into 4 'types' back in the day. *shrug* But I like the more decrepit ones, over the Victorian, myself. Things that creep up through the floorboards and under doorways to come get you, or squeeze out of the drains and pipes...far more inhuman and primally frightening to me. (Remember Ren's sluagh, Slick? She traveled through pipes and came up through toilets -- I think that's how she assassinated.)