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->''”all our memories will one day come unspooled like so much string...”''
-->-- '''Mary Hollow''', from the story ''A Letter to Bianca Rose''
''No One Came For Me'' is a collection of horror stories by Creator/MaryHollow, published in 2023.
It falls firmly in the CosmicHorror or NewWeird genres, with [[ShoutOut shoutouts]] to [[Creator/ThomasLigotti Thomas Ligotti]] and [[Creator/ShirleyJackson Shirley Jackson]].
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!!Stories in ''No One Came For Me'':
* “Into the Tandrid Loom”: a girl [[UnreliableNarrator loses her mind]] in a forest.
* “A Letter to Bianca Rose”: a cryptic letter from an unnamed narrator to a lost friend.
* “Gnaw”: in the early 19th century, a ConMan underestimates his competition.
* “Coming Around”: an old stroke victim revisits the school where she was [[KidsAreCruel bullied as a teen]].
* “The Slough Room”: the narrator reconnects with a friend to talk high school memories, leading him to discover disturbing secrets bigger than both of them.
* “Neural Mechanisms of Analgesia”: a [[ShownTheirWork detailed and academically sourced]] exposition on how pain and analgesia work.
* “The Door”: two boys break into their school and get lost in a [[EldritchLocation maze of impossible geometry]].
* “Sorrow’s Embrace”: set DarkAgeEurope, an abbess investigates a haunted manor.
* “Glory”: a young woman shares a cab with an aging anthropologist who begins to [[TragicMistake confess his sins]].
* “White Noise”: a young girl has a [[PsychosexualHorror dark sexual awakening]].
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!!Tropes in the stories:
* AssholeVictim: The narrator in ''Gnaw'' (who is even [[JustForFun/OneOfUs described using this trope]] in the [[WordOfGod writer’s commentary]] in the extended edition).
* BodyHorror: All over the place, but peaks with the [[AndIMustScream eventual fate]] of the narrator in ''Gnaw''.
* CosmicHorrorStory: ''Glory''.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: The ''Gnaw'' narrator escapes the danger once, but decides to go back for this.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What Maude ''intends'' to do to Susan in ''Coming Around'' is arguably already an example of this; but then it is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone inadvertently]] [[ExaggeratedTrope turned up to eleven]].
* TheHeretic: Bianca Rose refers to herself as such in ''A Letter to Bianca Rose''.
* {{Homage}}: ''The Door'' is a BloodierAndGorier adaptation of a 50's horror comic by the same name.
* HumanoidAbomination: Mass-produced in ''The Slough Room''.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Discussed in ''White Noise''.
* MindScrew: It's anybody's guess what is actually happening in ''Into the Tandrid Loom''.
* NightmareFuel: ''Neural Mechanisms of Analgesia'', once it gets into "the problem with general anesthesia".
* NunTooHoly: Carla/Margaret in ''Sorrow's Embrace''.
* TeensAreMonsters: "I should have died around twelve", says Maude in ''Coming Around'', because: "By high school the other kids have learned how to detach; if they despised you in life, they’ll outright hate you once you’re dead".
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->''”all our memories will one day come unspooled like so much string...”''
-->-- '''Mary Hollow''', from the story ''A Letter to Bianca Rose''
''No One Came For Me'' is a collection of horror stories by Creator/MaryHollow, published in 2023.
It falls firmly in the CosmicHorror or NewWeird genres, with [[ShoutOut shoutouts]] to [[Creator/ThomasLigotti Thomas Ligotti]] and [[Creator/ShirleyJackson Shirley Jackson]].
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!!Stories in ''No One Came For Me'':
* “Into the Tandrid Loom”: a girl [[UnreliableNarrator loses her mind]] in a forest.
* “A Letter to Bianca Rose”: a cryptic letter from an unnamed narrator to a lost friend.
* “Gnaw”: in the early 19th century, a ConMan underestimates his competition.
* “Coming Around”: an old stroke victim revisits the school where she was [[KidsAreCruel bullied as a teen]].
* “The Slough Room”: the narrator reconnects with a friend to talk high school memories, leading him to discover disturbing secrets bigger than both of them.
* “Neural Mechanisms of Analgesia”: a [[ShownTheirWork detailed and academically sourced]] exposition on how pain and analgesia work.
* “The Door”: two boys break into their school and get lost in a [[EldritchLocation maze of impossible geometry]].
* “Sorrow’s Embrace”: set DarkAgeEurope, an abbess investigates a haunted manor.
* “Glory”: a young woman shares a cab with an aging anthropologist who begins to [[TragicMistake confess his sins]].
* “White Noise”: a young girl has a [[PsychosexualHorror dark sexual awakening]].
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!!Tropes in the stories:
* AssholeVictim: The narrator in ''Gnaw'' (who is even [[JustForFun/OneOfUs described using this trope]] in the [[WordOfGod writer’s commentary]] in the extended edition).
* BodyHorror: All over the place, but peaks with the [[AndIMustScream eventual fate]] of the narrator in ''Gnaw''.
* CosmicHorrorStory: ''Glory''.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: The ''Gnaw'' narrator escapes the danger once, but decides to go back for this.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What Maude ''intends'' to do to Susan in ''Coming Around'' is arguably already an example of this; but then it is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone inadvertently]] [[ExaggeratedTrope turned up to eleven]].
* TheHeretic: Bianca Rose refers to herself as such in ''A Letter to Bianca Rose''.
* {{Homage}}: ''The Door'' is a BloodierAndGorier adaptation of a 50's horror comic by the same name.
* HumanoidAbomination: Mass-produced in ''The Slough Room''.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Discussed in ''White Noise''.
* MindScrew: It's anybody's guess what is actually happening in ''Into the Tandrid Loom''.
* NightmareFuel: ''Neural Mechanisms of Analgesia'', once it gets into "the problem with general anesthesia".
* NunTooHoly: Carla/Margaret in ''Sorrow's Embrace''.
* TeensAreMonsters: "I should have died around twelve", says Maude in ''Coming Around'', because: "By high school the other kids have learned how to detach; if they despised you in life, they’ll outright hate you once you’re dead".
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