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* ''Gloria'' (2021)
* ''DMV'' (2023)
* ''DMV'' (2023)
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* ''Literature/The Store'' (1998)
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His short story “The Washingtonians” was adapted into an episode of ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' in 2007. His novel ''The Consultant'' served as the basis for the streaming series of the same name.
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His short story “The Washingtonians” was adapted into an episode of ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' in 2007. His novel ''The Consultant'' served as the basis for the [[Series/TheConsultant2023 streaming series of the same name.name]].
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* CreatorProvincialism: As small New England towns are to King and small Northern California towns are to Koontz, small Southwestern towns are to Little.
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* CreatorProvincialism: As small New England towns are to King and small Northern California towns are to Koontz, small Southwestern towns are to Little.Little, though he occasionally sets his stories in Californian suburbs as well.
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His short story “The Washingtonians” was adapted into an episode of ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' in 2007. His novel ''The Consultant'' served as the basis for the streaming series of the same name.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex - Subverted in ''University'' (a.k.a. ''The Night School''). The two student protagonists are among the "good" minority on the titular campus. However, whenever they make love, the evil force suddenly takes them over and they have rough, dirty sex that leaves them very sore and often bleeding. Even at the end, [[spoiler:after the campus is destroyed, they're still "infected" and continue to enjoy a kinky BDSM-style sex life]].
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* SexualKarma: Subverted in ''University'' (a.k.a. ''The Night School''). The two student protagonists are among the "good" minority on the titular campus. However, whenever they make love, the evil force suddenly takes them over and they have rough, dirty sex that leaves them very sore and often bleeding. Even at the end, [[spoiler:after the campus is destroyed, they're still "infected" and continue to enjoy a kinky BDSM-style sex life]].
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* AdultFear - Many of his novels deal with these, including the nullification of personal identity (''The Ignored'') and the destructive power of consumerism (''The Store'').
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* MageSpecies: In ''The Walking'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' MageSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Walking'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WitchSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* DeathOfAChild - Frequently.
* DefiniteArticleTitle: Frequently, when it's not the SubTrope TheTitling. And sometimes it's ThePlace, which is not a SubTrope.
* DefiniteArticleTitle: Frequently, when it's not the SubTrope TheTitling. And sometimes it's ThePlace, which is not a SubTrope.
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* DefiniteArticleTitle: Frequently, when it's not the SubTrope TheTitling. And sometimes it's ThePlace, which is not a SubTrope.
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* NightmareFetishist - Many a character in his works.
* PredatoryBusiness - ''The Store''. A large corporation places "The Store" in the protagonist's home town and things go downhill from there.
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* RapeAsDrama - Happens quite a bit, especially in ''University''.
* ReligiousHorror - "The Revelation".
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* ProtectionRacket: The insurance company in ''The Policy'' is in fact one of these, with a supernatural twist. The AmbiguouslyHuman insurance agent offers policies that unfailingly protect against whatever the policy is for, even things that an insurance company shouldn't be able to do anything about, like criminal conviction. If anyone refuses a policy or fails to pay for it, the thing that policy protects against ''will'' happen to them. People eventually get so beaten down that they sign up for whatever the insurance man offers them, but [[MortonsFork at some point the policies become too much for them to pay for and the company destroys their lives when they run out of money]].
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* CreatorProvincialism: As small New England towns are to King and small Northern California towns are to Koontz, small Southwestern towns are to Little.
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* TornApartByTheMob - In ''Dominion'', Maenads are eventually revealed as the main antagonists for the first half of the story, during which they tear their victims to shreds and conspire to reawaken Dionysus.
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Witches'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WitchSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Witches'', Walking'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WitchSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Witches'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WtichSpecies WitchSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Witches'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WtichSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Witches'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WtichSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* WitchSpecies: In ''The Witches'', witches are a subset of humanity who possess the hereditary ability to perform magic. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Isabella]] is implied to belong to a ''different'' WtichSpecies than the other witches in the story - she is immortal and feeds off the power of other witches, but it's never made clear if she is a witch who made herself immortal or [[HumanoidAbomination the last of some primeval race of witch-eaters]].
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* AlienGeometries - At one point in The Consultant, the antagonist, Regus Patoff, [[spoiler:sends a fellow consultant to his otherworldly corporate office, where there's numerous hallways and misaligned doors without end.]]
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* AlienGeometries - At one point in The Consultant, the antagonist, Regus Patoff, [[spoiler:sends a fellow consultant to his otherworldly corporate office, where there's numerous hallways and misaligned doors without end.]]]] Shows up in other books as well, generally to indicate malign supernatural influence. For instance, the interior of the First People's Bank in ''The Bank'' is shown to be [[BiggerOnTheInside larger than the lot it occupies]].
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Many of his antagonists are people of uncertain origin and obvious supernatural nature who may or may not be human. Some of them might have started out human, while others were probably always [[HumanoidAbomination whatever they are]].
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Many of his antagonists are people of uncertain origin and obvious supernatural nature who may or may not be human. Some of them might have started out human, while others were probably always [[HumanoidAbomination whatever they are]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: A number of these show up. Probably the most obvious of these is the cup hu girngsi from ''The Summoning''. While called a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], it is not undead, but rather an ancient and evil ''thing'' that was never human to begin with.
