History Literature / FullDarkNoStars

[[quoteright:328:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fulldark_7309.jpg]]'''''Full Dark, No Stars''''' is a collection of novellas written by Creator/StephenKing that all deal with the theme of vengeance and retribution.

* GreenEyedMonster: the ''actual'' reason for Streeter's hatred toward Tom.

* ApocalypticLog - The entire story is the written confession of its protagonist.
* DarkerAndEdgier - Probably one of King's bleakest works. It starts off grim and only gets worse.
* DiabolusExMachina - Everything that can go wrong does.
* DisposingOfABody - Arlette is dumped in a well.
* GlasgowGrin - Wilfred accidentally gives this to his wife when he kills her.

* SwarmOfRats - And how.

* ShoutOut - To Creator/HPLovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls".
* TeenPregnancy - Wilfred's son gets the neighbor's daughter pregnant. It doesn't go well. For anyone.

* UnreliableNarrator - Perhaps.

* AnimateInanimateObject - Tess imagines many of her appliances helping her and giving her advice.
* MostWritersAreWriters - Par for the course with a Stephen King story.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone - Tess initially has one of these after accidentally killing her rapist's brother and believing him to be innocent. [[spoiler: It turns out he was in on it with his brother.]]

* ScaryLibrarian - [[spoiler: Ramona, who deliberately sent Tess off the beaten path so she would get raped and murdered by her son.]]

* AssholeVictim - Played with. The reader is made to hate Tom Goodhugh, (he stole Dave's girlfriend, got rich off an idea that Dave helped implement, etc) but it's hard not to feel sorry for him when his life turns to shit.
* ComedicSociopathy - Of the darkest sort.
* EquivalentExchange - Dave Streeter's life finally turns around at the expense of his friend's.
* GreenEyedMonster - the ''actual'' reason for Streeter's hatred toward Tom.
* KarmaHoudini - Dave Streeter.
* LouisCypher - George Elvid.
* TraumaCongaLine - Tom Goodhugh's life after Dave's deal.

* AxesAtSchool - Bob planned a school shooting when he was younger with his friend Brian.

* FauxAffablyEvil - Bob is rather charming and a pillar of the community.
* NightmareFetishist - Darcy discovers a collection of some extremely dark sadomasochistic magazines from Bob.
* SignificantMonogram - Bob's serial killer alias 'Beadie' was derived from his childhood friend Brian Delahanty's initials. Bob believes that Brian 'infected' him.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory - King was in part inspired by the BTK killer, particularly after the killer's wife received backlash for claiming to have no knowledge of her husband's crimes.
* WouldHurtAChild - While Bob usually just killed women, he also at one point killed one of their children. He later tells his wife that it was an accident, although that's put into doubt when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he had bitten off the boy's penis]].

A man convinces his son to help him in murdering his wife after she proposes moving off the family homestead. The story is distilled, pure, ItGetsWorse.

[[quoteright:328:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fulldark_7309.jpg]]'''''Full Dark, No Stars''''' is a collection of novellas written by StephenKing that all deal with the theme of vengeance and retribution.

* ShoutOut - To HPLovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls".

* UnreliableNarrator - Perhaps.

* TookALevelInBadass: Tess

* ScaryLibrarian - [[spoiler: Ramona, who deliberately sent Tess off the beaten path so she would get raped and murdered by her son.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Wilfred uses this to explain how murdering someone is an act of good. To elaborate, they're murdering the wife because, in his eyes, she's a terrible person and a sinner. Thus, by killing her before she can redeem herself, it gets her into Heaven OffOnATechnicality.

* AssholeVictim - Played with. The reader is made to hate Tom, (he stole Dave's girlfriend, got rich off an idea that Dave helped implement, etc) but it's hard not to feel sorry for him when his life turns to shit.

A man convinces his son to help him in murdering his wife after she proposes moving off the family homestead. ItGetsWorse.

* AxesAtSchool - Bob planned a school shooting when he was younger.

* NightmareFetishist - Darcy discovers a collection of some extremely dark S&M magazines from Bob.

* WouldHurtAChild - While Bob usually just killed women, he also at one point killed one of their children. He later tells his wife that it was an accident, although that's put into doubt when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he had bitten off the boy's penis]].
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory - King was in part inspired by the BTK killer, particularly after the killer's wife received backlash for claiming to have no knowledge of her husband's crimes.

* DarkerAndEdgier - Probably one of King's bleakest works.

'''''Full Dark, No Stars''''' is a collection of novellas written by StephenKing that all deal with the theme of vengeance and retribution.