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* BigBad: The Master.
* BigGood: Setrakian.
* BigGood: Setrakian.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Eldritch Palmer's deal with The Master.
* DemonicPossession: One of the Master's abilities.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After re-killing her husband, Hermann — who had been described as a [[Main/RapeAsDrama "rapist"]] one of the worms slips into her [[Main/NauseaFuel through her anus]].
* DemonicPossession: One of the Master's abilities.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After re-killing her husband, Hermann — who had been described as a [[Main/RapeAsDrama "rapist"]] one of the worms slips into her [[Main/NauseaFuel through her anus]].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After re-killing her husband, Hermann
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* GentleGiant: Yusef Sardu, before his transformation.
* GothSpirals: The italics words in the book have this certain flair.
* GothSpirals: The italics words in the book have this certain flair.
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* {{Homage}}: To {{Dracula}}; the famous scene in Creator/BramStoker's novel when the ''Demeter'', a Russian ship, runs aground crew-less in England is updated in this novel to a Boeing 777 which inexplicably shuts down completely shortly after landing.
** The Master's going to New York is an homage to Dracula's going to London.
* HorrorHunger: Ansel Barbour's arc. His thirst for blood steadily growing, he tries eating and drinking everything out of the fridge .... only to be aroused by the bloody meat. [[spoiler:This all culminates in him feeding on the family dogs.]]
** The Master's going to New York is an homage to Dracula's going to London.
* HorrorHunger: Ansel Barbour's arc. His thirst for blood steadily growing, he tries eating and drinking everything out of the fridge .... only to be aroused by the bloody meat. [[spoiler:This all culminates in him feeding on the family dogs.]]
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* {{Homage}}: To {{Dracula}}; the famous scene in Creator/BramStoker's novel when the ''Demeter'', a Russian ship, runs aground crew-less in England is updated in this novel to a Boeing 777 which inexplicably shuts down completely shortly after landing.
**landing. The Master's going to New York is an homage to Dracula's parallels Dracula going to London.
* HorrorHunger: Ansel Barbour's arc. His thirst for blood steadily growing, he tries eating and drinking everything out of thefridge ....fridge... only to be aroused by the bloody meat. [[spoiler:This all culminates in him feeding on the family dogs.]]
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* HorrorHunger: Ansel Barbour's arc. His thirst for blood steadily growing, he tries eating and drinking everything out of the
* JarOfTheBizarre: Abraham Setrakian keeps the still-beating heart of his vampirized wife in a jar, because [[StakingTheLovedOne he can't bear to fully destroy her]].
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** The Master's initial body comes from Sardu, a 19th century German aristocrat suffering from gigantism who is two and half meters tall. [[spoiler: After his body is damaged he takes Bolivar's.]]
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** The Master's initial body comes from Sardu, a 19th century German aristocrat suffering from gigantism who is two and half meters tall. [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After his body is damaged he takes Bolivar's.]]
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* LockedRoomMystery : A plane filled with dead bodies certainly qualifies.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The Master bears a resemblance - in particular, his face is described as particularly vile, capable of inciting terror all by itself.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The Master bears a resemblance - in particular, his face is described as particularly vile, capable of inciting terror all by itself.
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* LooksLikeOrlok: The Master bears a resemblance
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* MagicalJew: Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Romanian Jewish academic, Holocaust survivor and vampire hunter. He initially serves to [[CassandraTruth provide ignored warnings about the impending vampire pandemic]] before taking a leading role in combatting [[BigBad The Master]], providing guidance and leadership to other characters in fighting him [[spoiler: up until his own death]].
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* TheRenfield: Eldritch Palmer. He allied himself with The Master because [[WhoWantsToLiveForever he wants to live forever.]]
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* TheRenfield: Eldritch Palmer. He allied himself with The Master because [[WhoWantsToLiveForever [[ImmortalitySeeker he wants to live forever.]]
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* MoneyisNotPower: Eldritch Palmer was incensed when the European "Ancients" refused to turn him into a vampire, since they had already done so to other men who didn't have nearly as much money as him; after he uses his wealth and influence to arrange the Master's [[spoiler:nuclear winter]], he demands that the Master fulfill his half of their bargain. The Master responds by [[spoiler:ripping his head off.]]
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* MoneyisNotPower: MoneyIsNotPower: Eldritch Palmer was incensed when the European "Ancients" refused to turn him into a vampire, since they had already done so to other men who didn't have nearly as much money as him; after he uses his wealth and influence to arrange the Master's [[spoiler:nuclear winter]], he demands that the Master fulfill his half of their bargain. The Master responds by [[spoiler:ripping his head off.]]
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* JustifiedTrope: Unlike ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', every break from traditional conceptions of vampires is explained. Religious artifacts have no effect, but when vampires were first known to the world in the middle ages, the church used them as an opportunity to increase their own power by saying only God could kill them. Garlic is ineffective, but its usefulness in folk remedies and its unpleasant smell gave rise to the belief. Their stinger leaves only a small, thin slit, but Head Hunters are shown to execute humans with long, vaguely fang-like iron spikes, making two wounds to the neck appear as a bite. They don't turn into bats and wolves, but before houses had basements and cellars, they would hid in caves near towns, driving the animals in them out into the town. A similar effect happens in New York, but with rats
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* JustifiedTrope: Unlike ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', every Every single [[OurVampiresAreDifferent break from traditional conceptions of vampires vampires]] is explained. Religious artifacts have no effect, but when vampires were first known to the world in the middle ages, the church used them as an opportunity to increase their own power by saying only God could kill them. Garlic is ineffective, but its usefulness in folk remedies and its unpleasant smell gave rise to the belief. Their stinger leaves only a small, thin slit, but Head Hunters are shown to execute humans with long, vaguely fang-like iron spikes, making two wounds to the neck appear as a bite. They don't turn into bats and wolves, but before houses had basements and cellars, they would hid in caves near towns, driving the animals in them out into the town. A similar effect happens in New York, but with ratsrats.
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* ShutUpHannibal: while holding Eph captive, Palmer delivers a long speech, explaining that humanity's subjugation by the Master and his vampire strain is just natural evolution, and Palmer, by helping the process along, has just realized this ahead of everyone else. Eph, completely unimpressed, replies, ''You know, Mr. Palmer, you're not insane. You're not even truly evil. What you are, Mr. Palmer, is ''desperate''."''
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* ShutUpHannibal: while holding Eph captive, Palmer delivers a long speech, explaining that humanity's subjugation by the Master and his vampire strain is just natural evolution, and Palmer, by helping the process along, has just realized this ahead of everyone else. Eph, completely unimpressed, replies, ''You replies:
-->You know, Mr. Palmer, you're not insane. You're not even truly evil. What you are, Mr. Palmer, is''desperate''."'''''desperate'''.
-->You know, Mr. Palmer, you're not insane. You're not even truly evil. What you are, Mr. Palmer, is
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* AfterTheEnd: ''The Night Eternal'' [[spoiler:is set after the nations nuked each other, plunging the world into nuclear winter, leading the Master and his legions to take over the world.]]
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* AfterTheEnd: ''The Night Eternal'' [[spoiler:is set after the nations nuked each other, plunging the world into nuclear winter, leading allowing the Master and his legions to take over the world.]]
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* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of the third and final book, the Master and his minions are destroyed, but Eph and many other characters are also dead. Plus, human civilization is utterly devastated.]]
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* BitterSweetEnding: BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of the third and final book, the Master and his minions are destroyed, but Eph and many other characters are also dead. Plus, human civilization is utterly devastated.]]
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** In-universe, Mr. Quinlan. He lacks the blood worms, and is identified as unique by his masters. His backstory is explained in ''The Night Eternal'': [[spoiler:The Master was a quasi-adviser to Caligula, and as such had anything he desired, including a below-ground chamber where he fed on virgins. When Caligula's reign was toppled, The Master was in the process of feeding off a pregnant woman, who subsequently escaped. Quinlan was born as a half breed, known as The Born. The Lumen mentions other Borns, who would have been destroyed when The Master set off the nukes of the other six Ancient Ones at the end of "The Fall".]]
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** In-universe, Mr. Quinlan. He lacks the blood worms, and is identified as unique by his masters. His backstory is explained in ''The Night Eternal'': [[spoiler:The Master was a quasi-adviser to Caligula, and as such had anything he desired, including a below-ground chamber where he fed on virgins. When Caligula's reign Caligula was toppled, deposed, The Master was in the process of feeding off a pregnant woman, who subsequently escaped. Quinlan was born as a half breed, known as The Born. The Lumen mentions other Borns, who would have been destroyed when The Master set off the nukes of the other six Ancient Ones at the end of "The Fall".]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: The Master kills Palmer]].
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: The Master kills Palmer, though Eichhorst later suggests to Setrakian that the Master always planned to do so]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After confirming that all the arrangements Palmer has made to create a global nuclear winter are ready to go, The Master kills Palmer]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After confirming that all the arrangements Palmer has made to create a global nuclear winter are ready to go, The Master kills Palmer]].
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*MoneyisNotPower: Eldritch Palmer was incensed when the European "Ancients" refused to turn him into a vampire, since they had already done so to other men who didn't have nearly as much money as him; after he uses his wealth and influence to arrange the Master's [[spoiler:nuclear winter]], he demands that the Master fulfill his half of their bargain. The Master responds by [[spoiler:ripping his head off.]]
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Palmer insists that the Master will honor his promise to make Palmer immortal, since the Master's plan could never have worked without him. Eph replies that the Master has already turned thousands of "ordinary" people into vampires "for free", and asks simply, ''"Then why is he making you wait in line?"''
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*ShutUpHannibal: while holding Eph captive, Palmer delivers a long speech, explaining that humanity's subjugation by the Master and his vampire strain is just natural evolution, and Palmer, by helping the process along, has just realized this ahead of everyone else. Eph, completely unimpressed, replies, ''You know, Mr. Palmer, you're not insane. You're not even truly evil. What you are, Mr. Palmer, is ''desperate''."''
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* DeadlyBook: All who have possessed the cursed book ''The Occido Lumen'' (or ''Silver Codex'') have met with corruption or death, and it leaves a wake of destruction.
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* [[spoiler: MentorOccupationalHazard: Setrakian.]]
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* [[spoiler: MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Setrakian.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While they are disposed by sunlight and silver, religious artifacts have no effect. Setrakian notes how many vampire myths are based on common misconceptions. A vampire doesn't have fangs, but a long stinger. They can't turn into animals like bats and rodents, but drive such animals from their dwellings. They aren't invisible in mirrors, but - on silver-backed mirrored surfaces - appear to be shaking, allowing them to be instantly identified.
** In-universe, Mr. Quinlan. He lacks the blood-worms, and is identified as unique by his masters.
*** [[spoiler:In "The Night Eternal", Quinlan's backstory is explained pretty thoroughly. The Master was a quasi-adviser to Caligula, and as such had anything he desired, including a below-ground chamber where he fed on virgins. When Caligula's reign was toppled, The Master was in the process of feeding off a pregnant woman, who subsequently escaped. Quinlan was born as a half breed, known as The Born. The Lumen mentions other Borns, who would have been destroyed when The Master set off the nukes of the other six Ancient Ones at the end of "The Fall".]]
** [[spoiler: The original seven vampires were all born from the blood of Azriel, the Archangel of Death.]]
** In-universe, Mr. Quinlan. He lacks the blood-worms, and is identified as unique by his masters.
*** [[spoiler:In "The Night Eternal", Quinlan's backstory is explained pretty thoroughly. The Master was a quasi-adviser to Caligula, and as such had anything he desired, including a below-ground chamber where he fed on virgins. When Caligula's reign was toppled, The Master was in the process of feeding off a pregnant woman, who subsequently escaped. Quinlan was born as a half breed, known as The Born. The Lumen mentions other Borns, who would have been destroyed when The Master set off the nukes of the other six Ancient Ones at the end of "The Fall".]]
** [[spoiler: The original seven vampires were all born from the blood of Azriel, the Archangel of Death.]]
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** The vampires are creatures called strigoi, who have pale, hairless bodies and a stinger, a long tentacle-like organ inside their mouth and throat tipped with a needle-like barb that they shoot into a victim's throat to feed. Strigoi are created by a human becoming infested with blood worms; even a single worm getting into someone's body will cause the transformation. The worms pass into a strigoi's victim through its stinger as it drains their blood, and if a strigoi bleeds, the exposed worms will seek out the nearest living person to infest. While they are disposed by sunlight and silver, religious artifacts have no effect. Setrakian notes how many vampire myths are based on common misconceptions.A vampire doesn't have fangs, but a long stinger.Their stingers are misconstrued as fangs. They can't turn into animals like bats and rodents, but drive such animals from their dwellings. They aren't invisible in mirrors, but - on but--on silver-backed mirrored surfaces - appear surfaces--appear to be shaking, allowing them to be instantly identified.
** In-universe, Mr. Quinlan. He lacks theblood-worms, blood worms, and is identified as unique by his masters.
*** [[spoiler:In "The Night Eternal", Quinlan'smasters. His backstory is explained pretty thoroughly. The in ''The Night Eternal'': [[spoiler:The Master was a quasi-adviser to Caligula, and as such had anything he desired, including a below-ground chamber where he fed on virgins. When Caligula's reign was toppled, The Master was in the process of feeding off a pregnant woman, who subsequently escaped. Quinlan was born as a half breed, known as The Born. The Lumen mentions other Borns, who would have been destroyed when The Master set off the nukes of the other six Ancient Ones at the end of "The Fall".]]
**[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The original seven vampires were all born from the blood of Azriel, the Archangel of Death.]]
** The vampires are creatures called strigoi, who have pale, hairless bodies and a stinger, a long tentacle-like organ inside their mouth and throat tipped with a needle-like barb that they shoot into a victim's throat to feed. Strigoi are created by a human becoming infested with blood worms; even a single worm getting into someone's body will cause the transformation. The worms pass into a strigoi's victim through its stinger as it drains their blood, and if a strigoi bleeds, the exposed worms will seek out the nearest living person to infest. While they are disposed by sunlight and silver, religious artifacts have no effect. Setrakian notes how many vampire myths are based on common misconceptions.
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* SexualExtortion: [[spoiler: Dr. Barnes offers Nora a job at his mansion to get her and her mother out of the concentration camp; however, he makes it pretty obvious what kind of 'service' he expects from her.]]
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* SexualExtortion: [[spoiler: Dr.[[spoiler:Dr. Barnes offers Nora a job at his mansion to get her and her mother out of the concentration camp; however, he makes it pretty obvious what kind of 'service' he expects from her.]]
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* AndIMustScream[=/=]FateWorseThanDeath: The fate of the Nazi vampire, Dr. Dreverhaven. Setrakian dismembers him, places him in a coffin, and drops him in the sea, forever cut off from the Master. [[AssholeVictim And given the horrific implications of his crimes, there couldn't have been anyone in this series more deserving of it than him]].
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* BadassGrandpa : Abraham Setrakian, a holocaust survivor with a sword [[spoiler: who has spent most of his life killing vampires]]. Apparently also quite adept at defending his shop from street thugs, given the discussion that he has with Gus.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The fate of the Nazi vampire, Dr. Dreverhaven. Setrakian dismembers him, places him in a coffin, and drops him in the sea, forever cut off from the Master. [[AssholeVictim And given the horrific implications of his crimes, there couldn't have been anyone in this series more deserving of it than him]].
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The first book chronicles the arrival of an airplane at JFK airport filled with dead bodies drained of their blood. Dr. Ephraim Goodweather of the CDC is called in to investigate, but is baffled by the virus that seems to have killed these people. That is until a old man provides him with information that this is ''not'' a virus, but another V-Word: Vampire.
Followed by two sequels: ''The Fall'' released in 2010 and ''The Night Eternal'' in 2011. The book has been adapted into a TV show by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Series/TheStrainTVSeries, and also an (extremely faithful)comic book adaption.
Followed by two sequels: ''The Fall'' released in 2010 and ''The Night Eternal'' in 2011. The book has been adapted into a TV show by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Series/TheStrainTVSeries, and also an (extremely faithful)comic book adaption.
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The first book chronicles the arrival of an airplane at JFK airport filled with dead bodies drained of their blood. Dr. Ephraim Goodweather of the CDC is called in to investigate, but is baffled by the virus that seems to have killed these people. That is is, until a an old man provides him with information that this is ''not'' a virus, but another V-Word: Vampire.
Followed by two sequels: ''The Fall'' released in 2010 and ''The Night Eternal'' in 2011. The book has been adapted into a TV show by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Series/TheStrainTVSeries, and also an (extremelyfaithful)comic faithful) comic book adaption.
Followed by two sequels: ''The Fall'' released in 2010 and ''The Night Eternal'' in 2011. The book has been adapted into a TV show by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Series/TheStrainTVSeries, and also an (extremely
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* UntranslatedCatchPhrase: Abraham Setrakian spouts a phrase (which is not printed) in his native Romanian before dispatching vampires. He later says it means "My sword sings of silver", but it sounds better in the old language. [[spoiler: Eph later says it in English when he tries to kill The Master.]]
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: In "The Fall", even though vampire outbreaks are occurring all over the world, Eph's arrest still makes the news, just so our heroes can learn about it.
** Actually, Eph is a wanted criminal because of events in "The Strain", where he is falsely charged with murder and stealing dead bodies, as part of the cover-up allowing the Master to dominate New York. Eph is also a prominent figure because he uploads the first footage of a vampire, which is regarded as a hoax, since no-one fully understands the situations unfolding worldwide, or they are covered up. Factor in that he tried to shoot the richest man in the world in "The Fall", and his arrest would make the news.
** Actually, Eph is a wanted criminal because of events in "The Strain", where he is falsely charged with murder and stealing dead bodies, as part of the cover-up allowing the Master to dominate New York. Eph is also a prominent figure because he uploads the first footage of a vampire, which is regarded as a hoax, since no-one fully understands the situations unfolding worldwide, or they are covered up. Factor in that he tried to shoot the richest man in the world in "The Fall", and his arrest would make the news.
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of Dr. Dreverhaven. Setrakian dismembers him, places him in a coffin, and drops him in the sea, forever cut off from the Master. [[AssholeVictim And there couldn't have been anyone in this series more deserving of it than him]].
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* AndIMustScream: AndIMustScream[=/=]FateWorseThanDeath: The fate of the Nazi vampire, Dr. Dreverhaven. Setrakian dismembers him, places him in a coffin, and drops him in the sea, forever cut off from the Master. [[AssholeVictim And given the horrific implications of his crimes, there couldn't have been anyone in this series more deserving of it than him]].
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