Re- that last panel: It’s funny that Lottie should bring that up. A while back I was wondering whether the Night Creeper entity might be after Lottie specifically because its former host is her step-dad now (also, she played a particularly large role in defeating it, because it couldn’t reduce her to a state of despair- and Skelottie’s goal seems to be to reduce Lottie to a state of despair). I’m not saying it’s likely, but most of the pieces do seem to fit pretty well- at least, if you kind of squint a little.