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A cerebral horror novel, ''14'' is published by Creator/PermutedPress and has received much praise for its labyrinthine but understandable mystery. It has another book in the same universe by the same author, ''Literature/TheFold''.
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A cerebral horror novel, ''14'' is was published by Creator/PermutedPress in 2012 and has received much praise for its labyrinthine but understandable mystery. It has another book in the same universe by the same author, ''Literature/TheFold''.
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* ApartmentComplexOfHorrors: the Kavach Building certainly leans this way. Architecture that seems non-Euclidean, infested by shiny green cockroaches that all have an extra leg, a very carefully locked room that, after the tenants figure out how to open it opens directly into DEEP SPACE, and more fun surprises. [[spoiler:In the end, it subverts the trope, sort of, as it turns out to be the only thing preventing a horrendous race of Great Old Ones from coming to Earth and eating almost all living things.]]
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* HollywoodNerd: Veek.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tim is dead, the entire crisis was their fault, and they're all traumatized. Nate is now the new building manager, though.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tim is and Mrs. Knight are dead, the entire crisis was their the protagonists' fault, and they're all traumatized. Nate is now the new building manager, though.]]
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* MysteriousPast: Nate and the others start to suspect this about Tim as the story goes on (Veek at one point says, in reference to Tim knowing things the average person wouldn't, "you can only use that 'I read a book about it' excuse so many times"). [[spoiler: When the shit hits the fan later in the book and Tim reveals himself to be a BadassGrandpa, he says he may have at one time been affiliated with a "three-letter agency".]]
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A novel by Peter Clines (author of the ''Literature/ExHeroes'' series and ''The Eerie Adventures of Robinson Crusoe''). ''14'' chronicles the journey of a young man named Nate Tucker who rents an apartment in Los Angeles where the rent is suspiciously cheap, the cockroaches are bright green with an extra leg, and there's a single padlocked room on his floor that seems to terrify everyone around him. Except, it's the room next door to it where people are constantly committing suicide.
A cerebral horror novel, ''14'' is published by Creator/PermutedPress and has received much praise for its labyrinthine but understandable mystery. It has another book in the same universe by the same author, ''Literature/TheFold''.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: The survivors at the end]]
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: Humanity will be eaten by extra-dimensional monsters if there's too many psychic presences on Earth. The Kavach Building prevents this.]]
* AppliedPhlebotinum: There's ''a lot'' of it going on in the Kavach Building.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Some residents suspect the building might be this. [[spoiler: It's actually the only thing preventing the Apocalypse.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Cthulhu. Though he's unnamed, it's very obviously either him or the inspiration for the deity in-universe.]]
* BlatantLies: Tim's excuse for knowing an increasingly bizarre set of skills is reading about them in manuals printed by the publishing company he used to run.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tim is dead, the entire crisis was their fault, and they're all traumatized. Nate is now the new building manager, though.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Tim, a retired publisher who gets along pretty well with all the younger residents of the Kavach Building.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The secrets of the universe tied to the Kavach Building threaten one's sanity. [[spoiler: Subverted. Everything actually more or less works out in the end.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Mrs. Knight, an otherwise sweet old lady, gets sucked into an alien sun through explosive decompression.]]
* EldritchLocation: The Kavach Building.
** [[spoiler: It has a doorway INTO SPACE.]]
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: This is enforced around the Kavach Building, which is a good thing [[spoiler: once the world starts to end.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Xela [[spoiler: when she names the massive bat-winged tentacle-faced monsters "sqales" (squid-whales), because a stupid name makes them slightly less terrifying.]]
* GranolaGirl: Xela has elements of this, being an outgoing art student who's pretty forthright about her sexuality.
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler:The Kavach Building itself acts as one. You might suspect the device to be in the house, but you wouldn't expect the house to BE the device. It's just a weird little apartment building in L.A, right?]]
* HolierThanThou: It seems like Andrew can't go five minutes without pointing out someone's supposed moral shortcomings. [[spoiler: Turns out his squeaky-clean Christian persona is just a front, but he still acts superior even when he's revealed to be a cultist bent on sacrificing the world to his "god".]]
* HollywoodNerd: Veek.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Xela doesn't see much problem sunbathing nude.
* LovecraftLite: [[spoiler: Only three major characters die and one was evil.]]
* MeaningfulName: The Kavach Building [[spoiler: It means 'shield']].
* {{Meganekko}}: Veek.
* TheMenInBlack: [[spoiler: They appear at the end.]]
* MysteriousPast: Nate and the others start to suspect this about Tim as the story goes on (Veek at one point says, in reference to Tim knowing things the average person wouldn't, "you can only use that 'I read a book about it' excuse so many times"). [[spoiler: When the shit hits the fan later in the book and Tim reveals himself to be a BadassGrandpa, he says he may have at one time been affiliated with a "three-letter agency".]]
* MoodWhiplash: Light and humorous storytelling swerving into cosmic horror then back.
* MsFanservice: Xela is this for the book, though Nate's AboveTheInfluence.
* PointyHairedBoss: Eddie, Nate's boss at the magazine where he does data entry work, comes off as a unctuous, self-important dullard, making dubious claims about the amount of productivity he could be getting in if he were doing Nate's job.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The residents really-really are messing with stuff above their knowledge level. [[spoiler: And it almost destroys the world.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:The government is quite understanding despite the fact our heroes almost ended the world.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: The Family.
* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:Tim, a former FBI or CIA agent who can put down four not quite human creatures in fifteen seconds]].
* ShoutOut: Extensive ones to ''Scooby Doo'', ''Lost'', and [[spoiler: The ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''.]]
* UnluckyEveryman: Nate Tucker is this ''before'' he becomes a resident of the Kavach Building.
* WeirdnessCensor: The events of the book are only visible to the characters inside the building.
* WildCardExcuse: How did Tim learn his increasingly bizarre variety of talents? He published a book on it once. He smugly tells them it's a ''really'' good excuse once they stop believing it.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: [[spoiler:Oskar reveals he knows how to set the building back to normal only to ''immediately'' get killed.]]
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A novel by Peter Clines (author of the ''Literature/ExHeroes'' series and ''The Eerie Adventures of Robinson Crusoe''). ''14'' chronicles the journey of a young man named Nate Tucker who rents an apartment in Los Angeles where the rent is suspiciously cheap, the cockroaches are bright green with an extra leg, and there's a single padlocked room on his floor that seems to terrify everyone around him. Except, it's the room next door to it where people are constantly committing suicide.
A cerebral horror novel, ''14'' is published by Creator/PermutedPress and has received much praise for its labyrinthine but understandable mystery. It has another book in the same universe by the same author, ''Literature/TheFold''.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: The survivors at the end]]
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: Humanity will be eaten by extra-dimensional monsters if there's too many psychic presences on Earth. The Kavach Building prevents this.]]
* AppliedPhlebotinum: There's ''a lot'' of it going on in the Kavach Building.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Some residents suspect the building might be this. [[spoiler: It's actually the only thing preventing the Apocalypse.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Cthulhu. Though he's unnamed, it's very obviously either him or the inspiration for the deity in-universe.]]
* BlatantLies: Tim's excuse for knowing an increasingly bizarre set of skills is reading about them in manuals printed by the publishing company he used to run.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tim is dead, the entire crisis was their fault, and they're all traumatized. Nate is now the new building manager, though.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Tim, a retired publisher who gets along pretty well with all the younger residents of the Kavach Building.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The secrets of the universe tied to the Kavach Building threaten one's sanity. [[spoiler: Subverted. Everything actually more or less works out in the end.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Mrs. Knight, an otherwise sweet old lady, gets sucked into an alien sun through explosive decompression.]]
* EldritchLocation: The Kavach Building.
** [[spoiler: It has a doorway INTO SPACE.]]
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: This is enforced around the Kavach Building, which is a good thing [[spoiler: once the world starts to end.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Xela [[spoiler: when she names the massive bat-winged tentacle-faced monsters "sqales" (squid-whales), because a stupid name makes them slightly less terrifying.]]
* GranolaGirl: Xela has elements of this, being an outgoing art student who's pretty forthright about her sexuality.
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler:The Kavach Building itself acts as one. You might suspect the device to be in the house, but you wouldn't expect the house to BE the device. It's just a weird little apartment building in L.A, right?]]
* HolierThanThou: It seems like Andrew can't go five minutes without pointing out someone's supposed moral shortcomings. [[spoiler: Turns out his squeaky-clean Christian persona is just a front, but he still acts superior even when he's revealed to be a cultist bent on sacrificing the world to his "god".]]
* HollywoodNerd: Veek.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Xela doesn't see much problem sunbathing nude.
* LovecraftLite: [[spoiler: Only three major characters die and one was evil.]]
* MeaningfulName: The Kavach Building [[spoiler: It means 'shield']].
* {{Meganekko}}: Veek.
* TheMenInBlack: [[spoiler: They appear at the end.]]
* MysteriousPast: Nate and the others start to suspect this about Tim as the story goes on (Veek at one point says, in reference to Tim knowing things the average person wouldn't, "you can only use that 'I read a book about it' excuse so many times"). [[spoiler: When the shit hits the fan later in the book and Tim reveals himself to be a BadassGrandpa, he says he may have at one time been affiliated with a "three-letter agency".]]
* MoodWhiplash: Light and humorous storytelling swerving into cosmic horror then back.
* MsFanservice: Xela is this for the book, though Nate's AboveTheInfluence.
* PointyHairedBoss: Eddie, Nate's boss at the magazine where he does data entry work, comes off as a unctuous, self-important dullard, making dubious claims about the amount of productivity he could be getting in if he were doing Nate's job.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The residents really-really are messing with stuff above their knowledge level. [[spoiler: And it almost destroys the world.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:The government is quite understanding despite the fact our heroes almost ended the world.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: The Family.
* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:Tim, a former FBI or CIA agent who can put down four not quite human creatures in fifteen seconds]].
* ShoutOut: Extensive ones to ''Scooby Doo'', ''Lost'', and [[spoiler: The ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''.]]
* UnluckyEveryman: Nate Tucker is this ''before'' he becomes a resident of the Kavach Building.
* WeirdnessCensor: The events of the book are only visible to the characters inside the building.
* WildCardExcuse: How did Tim learn his increasingly bizarre variety of talents? He published a book on it once. He smugly tells them it's a ''really'' good excuse once they stop believing it.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: [[spoiler:Oskar reveals he knows how to set the building back to normal only to ''immediately'' get killed.]]
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