Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-188432-20130505035914/@comment-2129131-20130505053656

Much like the Empty Child plague, the term can be thrown around two ways: a symbolic meaning and a straight definition. For the Empty Child, a child who acts hollow and empty, and a plague associated with the nanogenes that twisted his appearance. For the Crimson Horror, the nickname of the red leech, and the phenomenon.