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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Charlie is taken over and made to commit the murders by the witch.]]
** [[spoiler:Only not really. Charlie doesn't exist.]]

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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Charlie is taken over and made to commit the murders by the witch.]]
** [[spoiler:Only
witch...Only not really. Charlie doesn't exist.]]



* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:First Jennifer goes missing in the night, then Eve runs into the forest because she thinks she sees Jennifer in the trees. Then George is taken by something in the night. Hank finds their bodies cut to ribbons later.]]
** [[spoiler:It dwindles even further later. Sometime after being separated from Jake, Jackie (who both abandoned him, thinking him responsible for the disappearances), and Scott, Hank finds Jake being burned on a cross made of human bones]].

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* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:First Jennifer goes missing in the night, then Eve runs into the forest because she thinks she sees Jennifer in the trees. Then George is taken by something in the night. Hank finds their bodies cut to ribbons later.]]
** [[spoiler:It
It dwindles even further later. Sometime after being separated from Jake, Jackie (who both abandoned him, thinking him responsible for the disappearances), and Scott, Hank finds Jake being burned on a cross made of human bones]].



* HappilyMarried: The impression we're given of Hank and Mary's marriage. [[spoiler:As the story goes on and we get more flashbacks, it turns out their relationship was collapsing pretty badly.]]
** [[spoiler:To the point of divorce, as it turns out.]]

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* HappilyMarried: The impression we're given of Hank and Mary's marriage. [[spoiler:As the story goes on and we get more flashbacks, it turns out [[SubvertedTrope their relationship was collapsing pretty badly.]]
** [[spoiler:To
badly]], to the point of divorce, as it turns out.]]



* NiceGirl: Jennifer, a friend of the old couple.

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%%ZCE * NiceGirl: Jennifer, a friend of the old couple.



* ShoutOut: Hank imagines the plot of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' when he starts getting the creeps during the hike.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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Hank imagines the plot of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' when he starts getting the creeps during the hike.



* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals that Scott and Charlie were never real and Hank was always hiking alone. Charlie never killed all those people under the influence of a witch; Hank did it in his delusion]].

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* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals that Scott and Charlie were never real and Hank was always hiking alone. Charlie never killed all those people under the influence of a witch; Hank did it in his delusion]].delusion]].
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A lot of the earlier chapters are spent developing the characters met on the hike. [[spoiler:Only Hank is alive by the end]].
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* NothingIsScarier: Nothing about the witch or any of the other occurrences is ever really explained. ''None'' of it. And that makes the whole incident more terrifying.

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* HappilyMarried: The impression we're given of Hank and Mary's marriage. [[spoiler:As the story goes on and we get more flashbacks, it turns out their relationship was collapsing pretty badly. Ultimately to the point of divorce.]]

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* HappilyMarried: The impression we're given of Hank and Mary's marriage. [[spoiler:As the story goes on and we get more flashbacks, it turns out their relationship was collapsing pretty badly. Ultimately to ]]
** [[spoiler:To
the point of divorce.divorce, as it turns out.]]
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** [[spoiler:Only not really. Charlie doesn't exist.]]

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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Well, ''delusion''. There was no witch; Hank committed all the murders himself. His wife isn't even dead; they're just divorced]].



* EldritchAbomination: Implied. The witch is never presented as human or something that ''used'' to be human. Hank ultimately comes to the conclusion that she ''is'' the mountain itself somehow.

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* EldritchAbomination: Implied. The witch is never presented as human or something that ''used'' to be human. Hank ultimately comes to the conclusion that she ''is'' the mountain itself somehow. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that she's just a figment of Hank's deranged mind]].



* HappilyMarried: The impression we're given of Hank and Mary's marriage. [[spoiler:As the story goes on and we get more flashbacks, it turns out their relationship was collapsing pretty badly]].

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* HappilyMarried: The impression we're given of Hank and Mary's marriage. [[spoiler:As the story goes on and we get more flashbacks, it turns out their relationship was collapsing pretty badly]].badly. Ultimately to the point of divorce.]]



* TheLostLenore: Mary, Hank's late wife.

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* TheLostLenore: Mary, Hank's late wife. [[spoiler:Turns out she isn't dead. Hank is insane and they've been long divorced]].



** Hank has an absurd thought about ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' when he has to camp at the top of a mountain with a bunch of strangers.

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** Hank has an absurd thought about ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' when he has to camp at the top of a mountain with a bunch of strangers.strangers.
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals that Scott and Charlie were never real and Hank was always hiking alone. Charlie never killed all those people under the influence of a witch; Hank did it in his delusion]].
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* EldritchAbomination: Implied. The witch is never presented as human or something that ''used'' to be human. Hank ultimately comes to the conclusion that she ''is'' the mountain itself somehow.


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* NothingIsScarier: Nothing about the witch or any of the other occurrences is ever really explained. ''None'' of it. And that makes the whole incident more terrifying.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:By the end, Hank is the only one alive. Jennifer, George, and Eve are cut to pieces, Jake is burned to death, and Jackie has her neck broken. We never see what happened to Scott, but he doesn't emerge from the mountain even after Hank escapes.]]
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** [[spoiler:It dwindles even further later. Sometime after being separated from Jake, Jackie (who both abandoned him, thinking him responsible for the disappearances), and Scott, he finds Jake being burned on a cross made of human bones]].

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** [[spoiler:It dwindles even further later. Sometime after being separated from Jake, Jackie (who both abandoned him, thinking him responsible for the disappearances), and Scott, he Hank finds Jake being burned on a cross made of human bones]].
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''The Adirondack Witch'' is a horror novel by Creator/PatrickReuman.

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''The Adirondack Witch'' is a 2022 horror novel by Creator/PatrickReuman.

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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Charlie is taken over and made to commit the murders by the witch.]]



* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Charlie is taken over and made to commit the murders by the witch.]]

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