History Literature / NOS4A2

* LooksLikeOrlock: Manx has some resemblances to Max Shreck.

** The map of the United Inscapes of America includes the [[{{It}} Pennywise Circus]] and the Lovecraft Keyhole.]

* UglyGuyHotWife: Lou and Vic.

** A slightly ironic one. Bing complains about Wayne's name (his father is a comic fan, and named his son [[{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne Carmody]], saying that people shouldn't use silly comic book names, but normal names like John and Sue. If you use "Johnny" instead of "John", you get [[FantasticFour two very famous comic book characters]] - from the same title, no less.

** The map of the United Inscapes of America includes the [[{{It}} Pennywise Circus]] and the Lovecraft Keyhole.

-->Joe Hill: The kids live in an eternal state of innocence, and it ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Innocent children like to rip the wings off a butterfly just to watch it flop around, and they will laugh ’cause they don’t know any better. Innocence is ignorance. [http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/interview-nos4a2-author-joe-hill]

* {{Expy}}: Bing, "The Gasmask Man" is this to "The Trashcan Man" from ''Literature/TheStand''. At one point he even says "My life for you!"

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Although his license plate is NOS4A2 Manx is not a traditional vampire. Instead, he maintains his youth by his car draining the souls of children as he kidnaps them to a semi-imaginary realm. In the process, though, the children become something much more resembling traditional vampires.

!! NOS4A2 contains examples of:

!! Nos4a2 contains examples of:

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Although his license plate is Nos4a2, Manx is not a traditional vampire. Instead, he maintains his youth by his car draining the souls of children as he kidnaps them to a semi-imaginary realm. In the process, though, the children become something much more resembling traditional vampires.

A horror novel by Joe Hill. Charlie Manx has built a wonderful place just for children, where it's Christmas every day. Kids get to have the greatest fun in Christmasland, riding the Sleighcoaster, feasting from La Chocolatier, or playing scissors-for-the-drifter. And the fun never ends in Christmasland, where these wonderful children get to stay children . . . forever.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Subterranean Press released a limited edition that includes illustrations by Gabriel Rodriguez (ComicBook/LockeAndKey), an alternate ending, a novella that was cut from the novel and -- if you got the ''lettered'' edition -- a replica of Charlie Manx's autopsy bone mallet.

* CompleteMonster: It's implied that Charlie Manx did not start out as this, but had his empathy drained away as he used the Wraith to stay young.

At 116 years old, Charlie Manx has been kidnapping children to Christmasland, a place built by his imagination in a world that exists somewhere alongside ours. By the time they arrive, they've been . . . changed. Victoria McQueen also knows how to travel to places that aren't quite there, using her Raleigh Tuff Burner bicycle to travel and find things that have been lost. At seventeen, she had a close encounter with Manx and was the first person to escape his grasp. Manx was sent to prison, and Vic was left to cope with a psyche deeply scarred by her encounter. Thirteen years later, Manx escapes and takes his revenge on Vic by "rescuing" her son and bringing him to Christmasland. With her unusual ability to find things, Vic may be the only one who has a chance at saving him.

** Vic McQueen has a bike that let's her instantly travel great distances and find things that have been lost.

** A demonic, semi-autonomous, murderous car? [[{{Sounds familiar}} Christine]].
** The map of the United Inscapes of America includes the [[{{It}}Pennywise Circus]] and the Lovecraft Keyhole.

* Shout out:
** A demonic, semi-autonomous, murderous car? Sounds familiar.
** The map of the United Inscapes of America includes the Pennywise Circus and the Lovecraft Keyhole.

* CompleteMonster: It's implied that Charlie Manx did not start out as this, but had his empathy drained away as he used the Wraith to stay young.

!! [Nos4a2] contains examples of:

AnyoneCanDie: There is a significant body count among the main characters.

At 116 years old, Charlie Manx has been kidnapping children to Christmasland, a place built by his imagination in a world that exists somewhere alongside ours. By the time they arrive, they've been . . . changed. Victoria McQueen also knows how to travel to places that aren't quite there, using her Raleigh Tuff Burner bicycle to travel and find things that have been lost. At seventeen, she had a close encounter with Manx and was the first person to escape his grasp. Manx was sent to prison, and Vic was left to cope with a psyche deeply scarred by her encounter. Thirteen years later, Manx escapes and takes his revenge on Vic by "rescuing" her son and bringing him to Christmasland. With her unusual ability to find things, Vic may be the only one who has a chance at saving him.