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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:Lady Midday offers Lois whatever she wants for herself and her family, most notably a cure for Clark's autism, if she'll worship Lady Midday and do Her work. Lois angrily refuses, saying that the cured Clark would just be a fake and not her real child, and that she won't help Lady Midday hurt and kill others in exchange for that. Lady Midday is about to cut off Lois's head, but she is saved by Wrob, who knocks her aside begging Lady Midday to choose him as Her servant instead. Lady Midday cuts off his head and vanishes.]]
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* GoodCopBadCop: Two cops use a relatively mild version of this routine when they interrogate Lois about [[spoiler:Sidlo's death]].
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* ItsAllMyFault: Lois blames herself for Lady Midday's interest in Clark because she kept researching Mrs. Whitcomb, despite [[spoiler:Mrs. Whitcomb's ghost attempting to warn her away]].
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* {{Fingore}}: When Lois is crawling on her hands and knees [[spoiler:during the fire at Ursulines Studio]], a man steps on her hand, breaking a finger. She keeps crawling on one hand.
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* TheIllegible: Wrob's handwriting is extremely hard to read, which isn't helped by what he calls hypographic pornocentrism, meaning a tendency to misspell words as sex-related.
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* MyNaymeIs: Filmmaker Wrob Barney added the W while he was in high school to distinguish himself from his older siblings Richard, Robin, and Reid.
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Thanks to Sidlo, Lois has a video of Lady Midday trapped in a reel of film. She plans to burn the film without watching it to kill Lady Midday; unfortunately, Wrob steals the film in order to turn it into one of his art films, resulting in a fire that kills thirteen people when he tries to screen it.]]
* MyNaymeIs:Filmmaker Wrob Barney added the W while he was in high school to distinguish himself from his older siblings Richard, Robin, and Reid.
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* FinallyFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Mrs. Whitcomb and Hyatt's skeletons show up after Lois's confrontation with Lady Midday.]]
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* CantSeeADamnThing: [[spoiler:Giscelia was blinded for some time after her encounter with Lady Midday as a child. Lois is almost completely blinded after Sidlo helps her connect to Mrs. Whitcomb and Lady Midday, and because she refuses to do Lady Midday's work, this time it sticks - she is expected to be legally blind for the rest of her life, although her vision slowly improves over the years.]]
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Most of the book takes place in late 2014, but the epilogue takes place at least five years later.
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* OffWithHisHead: Lady Midday appears to laborers at exactly noon, and decapitates anyone who isn't perfectly respectful.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: [[spoiler:Ever since Sidlo drew Lady Midday's attention by extracting Mrs. Whitcomb's memory, she's been keeping him alive. He's over a hundred years old now, and unable to die even though he wants to. He even quotes "Tithonus."]]
* BlindSeer: Vasek Sidlo, a blind man with the ability to extract people's memories and record them on film.
* BlindSeer: Vasek Sidlo, a blind man with the ability to extract people's memories and record them on film.
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* TheInsomniac: Sidlo hasn't slept more than two or three hours a night since extracting Mrs. Whitcomb's memory of Lady Midday. He feels the noonday sun even at midnight.
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* ItRunsInTheFamily: Lois realizes that she has all the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, which manifested as more severe autism in Clark.
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* TheInsomniac: Sidlo hasn't slept more than two or three hours a night since extracting Mrs. Whitcomb's memory of Lady Midday. He feels the noonday sun even at midnight.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Lois realizes that she has all the symptoms ofAsperger's Asperger syndrome, which manifested as more severe autism in Clark.
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* TheIllegible: Wrob's handwriting is extremely hard to read, which isn't helped by what he calls hypographic pornocentrism, meaning a tendency to misspell words as sex-related.
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* RediscoveringRootsTrip: Mrs. Whitcomb once went on a trip to the Wendish territories, where her father's family came from. [[spoiler:It turned out to be a mistake - she drew the attention of Lady Midday, and because, unbeknownst to her, she was four months pregnant at the time, Lady Midday claimed the unborn Hyatt as her own.]]
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Former film teacher, critic, and amateur historian Lois Cairns discovers evidence that Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, a reclusive spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared during a train journey in 1914, was also a filmmaker. As Lois investigates, she unwittingly invites the forces that haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films into her life, endangering herself, her husband Simon, and her autistic son Clark.
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* SupernaturalProofFather: Simon never personally sees or encounters anything undeniably supernatural and is initially highly skeptical of Lois's claims about what's happening; unlike most examples, however, he is at least willing to support Lois in her investigations, and ultimately accepts that ''something'' beyond the mundane is going on.
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* SupernaturalProofFather: Simon never personally sees or encounters anything undeniably supernatural and is initially highly skeptical of Lois's claims about what's happening; unlike most examples, however, he is at least willing to support Lois in her investigations, and ultimately accepts that ''something'' beyond the mundane is going on. [[spoiler:Mrs. Whitcomb's husband Arthur is likewise dismissive of his wife's supernatural explanations for their troubles, but in the end he leaves her and goes back to Europe because of it.]]
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Lois has serious self-esteem issues, though she improves by the end of the story.
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* ConcealingCanvas: Hyatt kicked loose a panel in the wall next to his crib, revealing a ladder-way built to make it easier to clean the flue. He tacked up a bunch of sketches to hide it so he could come and go as he pleased during the night. His mother never found out until after his disappearance.
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* PottyFailure: Clark wakes up crying; when Lois and Simon reach his room, he's wet himself.
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* TheEndIsNigh: [[spoiler:Mrs. Whitcomb was born Griscela Wròbl, the daughter of a farmer who let all his animals go, burned his crops, and led his family into the remains of the field, where they spent two weeks waiting for the End. Nine-year-old Griscela was the SoleSurvivor, with the rest of her family either dying of privation or being beaten to death by the father.]]
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* HumanSacrifice: One of the stories collected by Mrs. Whitcomb features "heretics" who cut their old and young into pieces at the end of each harvest, then put them into pots with candles in them to feed them to She Who Gives All.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Safie describes the Yezidi Peacock Angel as "beyond good and evil," as those are human concepts and he's an angel.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Lois's mother, Lee, became an alcoholic to deal with her failed marriage.
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* ForbiddenLove: Safie's great-grandparents were a Yezidi man and a Christian woman who moved from Armenia to Canada because of their families' disapproval, allowing them to avoid the Armenian Genocide.
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* CommonalityConnection: Lois feels a connection with her former student, Safie Hewsen, because they both suffered from vivid nightmares about terrifying angels as children.
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* HowDadMetMom: Lois's parents met at theatre school. She was seventeen. He was a twenty-four-year-old draft-dodger from Australia. They married five years later, had Lois two years after that, and divorced seven years after that.
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''Experimental Film'' is a 2015 novel by Gemma Files.
Former film teacher, critic, and amateur historian Lois Cairns discovers evidence that Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, a reclusive spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared during a train journey in 1914, was also a filmmaker. As Lois investigates, she unwittingly invites the forces that haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films into her life, endangering herself, her husband Simon, and her autistic son Clark.
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!!''Experimental Film'' contains examples of:
* TheFaceless: After her mentally disabled son Hyatt went missing, Mrs. Whitcomb spent the rest of her life in mourning outfits that covered her entire body. One theory for her disappearance is that she removed her veil before exiting the train with the other passengers; she hadn't shown her face in public in years, so no one would have recognized her.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Lois realizes that she has all the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, which manifested as more severe autism in Clark.
-->'''Lois''': Don't you see? This is why this happened. Because I'm just like him, except it's all on the inside.
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Clark speaks entirely in echolalia, largely taken from movies, cartoons, and songs.
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Former film teacher, critic, and amateur historian Lois Cairns discovers evidence that Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, a reclusive spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared during a train journey in 1914, was also a filmmaker. As Lois investigates, she unwittingly invites the forces that haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films into her life, endangering herself, her husband Simon, and her autistic son Clark.
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!!''Experimental Film'' contains examples of:
* TheFaceless: After her mentally disabled son Hyatt went missing, Mrs. Whitcomb spent the rest of her life in mourning outfits that covered her entire body. One theory for her disappearance is that she removed her veil before exiting the train with the other passengers; she hadn't shown her face in public in years, so no one would have recognized her.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Lois realizes that she has all the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, which manifested as more severe autism in Clark.
-->'''Lois''': Don't you see? This is why this happened. Because I'm just like him, except it's all on the inside.
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Clark speaks entirely in echolalia, largely taken from movies, cartoons, and songs.
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