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''Midnight Hobo'' is a horror short story written by Creator/RamseyCampbell.
Late night radio jockey Roy is under quite a bit of stress. His new co-host Derrick is an incompetent {{Jerkass}} trying to take over Roy's show, and his boss clearly favors Derrick over him. And on Roy's walk back home, he keeps encountering a crazed homeless old man who warns of something lurking in a nearby tunnel. When Roy tries to investigate for himself, he finds the homeless man was right when something living in the tunnel begins stalking him.
!!List of tropes applying to this story:
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Derrick is a smarmy, entitled {{Jerkass}} who spends the entire story being obnoxious. Whatever the EldritchAbomination in the tunnel does to him, it's hard to feel too bad.]]
* TheAssimilator: The thing living in the tunnels may be this. [[spoiler:It's left ambiguous if it assimilated Derrick, or simply [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced him.]]]]
* CantTakeCriticism: One of Derrick's defining traits, which fuels his rivalry with Roy. Derrick constantly makes rookie mistakes, but refuses to learn from them and takes Roy's admittedly harsh critiques as personal slights.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: The titular Midnight Hobo. Though he is right about something monstrous living in the tunnel.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Roy is a curmudgeon, but Derrick is mainly trying to take over his show because Roy criticized him for making rookie mistakes.
* EldritchAbomination: Whatever lives in the tunnel. It's unclear what it is, but it's implied to be some kind of LivingShadow and it [[spoiler:assimilates Derrick to use him as a disguise.]]
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Roy himself is quite grumpy and abrasive, although he's somewhat sympathetic and shows signs of compassion.
** Derrick is extremely smarmy and much nastier than Roy.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Most of Campbell's stories ends with the protagonist being killed, but Roy is able to notice the creature is trying to trap him and manages to escape to safety.]]
Late night radio jockey Roy is under quite a bit of stress. His new co-host Derrick is an incompetent {{Jerkass}} trying to take over Roy's show, and his boss clearly favors Derrick over him. And on Roy's walk back home, he keeps encountering a crazed homeless old man who warns of something lurking in a nearby tunnel. When Roy tries to investigate for himself, he finds the homeless man was right when something living in the tunnel begins stalking him.
!!List of tropes applying to this story:
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Derrick is a smarmy, entitled {{Jerkass}} who spends the entire story being obnoxious. Whatever the EldritchAbomination in the tunnel does to him, it's hard to feel too bad.]]
* TheAssimilator: The thing living in the tunnels may be this. [[spoiler:It's left ambiguous if it assimilated Derrick, or simply [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced him.]]]]
* CantTakeCriticism: One of Derrick's defining traits, which fuels his rivalry with Roy. Derrick constantly makes rookie mistakes, but refuses to learn from them and takes Roy's admittedly harsh critiques as personal slights.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: The titular Midnight Hobo. Though he is right about something monstrous living in the tunnel.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Roy is a curmudgeon, but Derrick is mainly trying to take over his show because Roy criticized him for making rookie mistakes.
* EldritchAbomination: Whatever lives in the tunnel. It's unclear what it is, but it's implied to be some kind of LivingShadow and it [[spoiler:assimilates Derrick to use him as a disguise.]]
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Roy himself is quite grumpy and abrasive, although he's somewhat sympathetic and shows signs of compassion.
** Derrick is extremely smarmy and much nastier than Roy.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Most of Campbell's stories ends with the protagonist being killed, but Roy is able to notice the creature is trying to trap him and manages to escape to safety.]]
