/lit/ - Literature

I know there's enough bakker spam, but I just read this passage in Unholy Consult:
>The nephew of the famous Gothyelk fell gouting blood, shaking uncontrollably as the immediacy of his circumstances drained away.
>Dismayed faces floated above him for a time, then death came spiralling down ...
>Bore him wailing to the fire.

When it says "Bore him wailing to the fire". Is that describing him actually being damned to hell in real-time? Is hell surfacing on the material world in the same way it did on the plains of mengedda? Regardless I just really really like the prose here. Very chilling.