The word 'netherworld' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a mysterious or dangerous place or state that is far away or difficult to access. For example, 'The explorers ventured into the mysterious netherworld deep within the cave.'.
August is the month of the Buddhist Obon festival when ancestors from the netherworld make their annual visit to their former homes to dance and celebrate, and families from Tokyo and other big cities return to their ancestral homes to welcome back the spirits.
But there is a course between them, and a respectable way for Labour to spend what are likely to be the last six months of a 13-year stint in office: confront the fiscal predicament it has helped to create, and pursue those worthwhile policies it has already got.Labour has entered a strange political netherworld.
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"It took 150 years to build this brand," she says, and losing part of the retail network to a netherworld of shady Asians damages it.
Its androgynous male-female head seemed to promise explorations of the netherworld between reality and illusion, where things are seldom what they seem.Such deception was carried to extremes in a Spanish film that bemused festival-goers: "Abre los ojos" (Open your eyes), directed by Alejandro Amenabar.
Eri, a fashion model, does nothing but languish in a death-like sleep in a menacing netherworld, her black hair cascading across the pillow "like a flood of dark water".
The author, who wrote with elan about Hong Kong in his novel "Fragrant Harbour", does so again with fine depictions of his grandparents' internment by the Japanese in wartime Hong Kong.He uses his imagination to describe his mother's feelings as a banker's wife after years cloistered in a netherworld.
"Show them to us and we shall believe in them".Mr Ball's descriptions of the fascinating netherworld of Victorian spiritualism have an unexpectedly emotional element.
She raises the question: how come these people in a poor country are so skilled and astute, so clever that they can outfox us?Her tour of the Nigerian netherworld explores the ingenuity of an ambitious underclass, the turbo-charged commercial metabolism of Africa's biggest nation and its finely tuned culture of crime.
