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''Thirteen Storeys'' is a 2020 British horror novel written by Jonathan Sims, known for writing the Creator/RustyQuill podcast ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives''.
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''Thirteen Storeys'' is a 2020 British horror novel written by Jonathan Sims, Creator/JonathanSims, known for writing the Creator/RustyQuill podcast ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives''.
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* ParanormalInvestigator: Cari dabbles in ghost hunting, but apparently just as a hobby.
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* CapitalismIsBad: Tobias Fell and the hauntings embody everything wrong with late-stage capitalism, from poor workman protection to pollution.
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Tobias seems to have at least some members of the London police under his control, getting Jason out of interrogation when he is linked to the death of James Andre and getting some to be on stand by to protect him during the dinner]].
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* LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding jewelry.
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* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:Violet and Cari are mentioned to be a couple in the epilogue; before that, they only met briefly at the dinner and Cari had thought Violet was cute when she saw her in security footage]].
* LipstickLesbian:Carrie Cari is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding jewelry.
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* TransTribulations: Damian is mentioned to be a trans man, and this is implied to be the reason he lived on the streets for years and fell into addiction; his parents were clearly not supportive and even deadnamed him in his father's obituary.
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* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:When everyone at the dinner comes after Tobias, Donna, Carter's haunted AI, joins in and blocks the panic button app on Tobias' phone from reaching the police]].
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** Edith Kinney is Violet's unnamed next-door neighbor but appears properly [[spoiler: as a posthumous ghost]] in "Sleepless."
** James Andre first appears in "Night Work" but [[spoiler: his death]] is the climax of "Round the Clock."
** James Andre first appears in "Night Work" but [[spoiler: his death]] is the climax of "Round the Clock."
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** Edith Kinney Kinney, mentioned in the prologue, is Violet's unnamed next-door neighbor but appears properly [[spoiler: as a posthumous ghost]] in "Sleepless."
** JamesAndre Andre, also mentioned in the prologue, first appears in "Night Work" but [[spoiler: his death]] is the climax of "Round the Clock."
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* FunWithHomophones: The title plays on Banyan Court having 13 floors (storey in UK English) and the book being divided into 13 chapters (not including the prologue and epilogue).
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* OutDamnedSpot: Leon Copeland's story ("A Stubborn Stain") is centred around his obsession with a strange, grey blotch on his apartment wall that grows worse over time no matter how hard he tries to clean it.
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* MoneyIsNotPower: [[spoiler:Tobias attempts to persuade his guests to kill Diego by promising them a billion pounds each. They don't take the bait.]]
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: In the end, Tobias Fell overestimated how willing his guests would be to kill another person just to receive a billion pounds in exchange]].
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: In the end, Tobias Fell overestimated how willing his guests would be to kill another person just to receive a billion pounds in exchange]].exchange, and underestimated how willing they would be to risk their own lives to save an innocent man]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: The residents who have actually done something bad end up getting hauntings related somehow to their crime. Leon does PR for a company with a long history of pollution, so he gets a stain he can't clean out. Carter, a hypocritical tech bro, has his electronic assistant take over his life and make him do all the things he ''claims'' to do but doesn't (eat healthy, donate to charity, etc). Finally, [[spoiler: Tobias Fell is destroyed by the very ritual he set up to get out of punishment for all his horrible acts.]]
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* TheNightOwl: Violet Ng is this by necessity of her night occupation, as she works from evenings until mornings in a soulless, gruelling office job.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Ironically, Tobias Fell setting up [[spoiler: the ritual the way he does is exactly what dooms him. He ''thinks'' he's getting rid of a thorn in his side and saving his soul by making Diego a HumanSacrifice who will channel the power of the hauntings into the protagonists. But because Diego is now the locus of all the ghosts who hate Fell's guts, when the protagonists instead choose to ''free'' Diego, that also explosively unleashes the ghosts. Right inside Fell's apartment.]]
* TheNightOwl: Violet Ng is this by necessity of her night occupation, as she works from evenings until mornings in a soulless,gruelling grueling office job.
* TheNightOwl: Violet Ng is this by necessity of her night occupation, as she works from evenings until mornings in a soulless,
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Characters' names are dropped here and there in earlier stories before they properly feature in later ones.
** David Erikson is the writer of the op-ed that comprises the novel's prologue, and is a central character in "A Foot in the Door" and "Round the Clock."
** Edith Kinney is Violet's unnamed next-door neighbor but appears properly [[spoiler: as a posthumous ghost]] in "Sleepless."
** James Andre first appears in "Night Work" but [[spoiler: his death]] is the climax of "Round the Clock."
** David Erikson is the writer of the op-ed that comprises the novel's prologue, and is a central character in "A Foot in the Door" and "Round the Clock."
** Edith Kinney is Violet's unnamed next-door neighbor but appears properly [[spoiler: as a posthumous ghost]] in "Sleepless."
** James Andre first appears in "Night Work" but [[spoiler: his death]] is the climax of "Round the Clock."
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* SadisticChoice: Tobias Fell's proposal to the twelve guests: [[spoiler: eat a sliver of his flesh and become complicit in his wrongdoings by participating in the murder of an innocent man (Diego Santi) at Tobias's request and they will be handsomely rewarded with a billion pounds each]]. If any of them refuse this offer [[spoiler: Max, a violent behemoth of a ghost, will beat them to death]]. Fortunately the guests TakeAThirdOption by [[spoiler: dispatching Max and choose to murder Tobias instead]].
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* SadisticChoice: Tobias Fell's proposal to the twelve guests: [[spoiler: eat a sliver of his flesh and become complicit in his wrongdoings by participating in the murder of an innocent man (Diego Santi) at Tobias's request and they will be handsomely rewarded with a billion pounds each]]. If any of them refuse this offer [[spoiler: Max, a violent behemoth of a ghost, will beat them to death]]. Fortunately the guests TakeAThirdOption by [[spoiler: dispatching Max and choose choosing to murder Tobias instead]].
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* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Overlapping with OminousTelevision, Alvita Jackson discovers a peculiar late night talk show that among other things advertises sleep as a new product, directly addresses her inner thoughts, [[spoiler: features her deceased elderly neighbor]] as a guest. Alvita appears as a guest herself later on, [[MindScrew while she is sitting at home watching the show]].
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In spite of the protagonists' previous stories ending in trauma and fright by the building's various ghosts, everyone who attends the fateful dinner not only survives but defies Tobias's attempts at corrupting them into killing an innocent man. Tobias himself, the villain of the novel is rightfully punished for his crimes]].
* SwitchingPOV: The final story "The Builder" introduces Tobias Fell but also freely switches from him to the other previous narrators as they all gather at the penthouse dinner party.
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Overlapping with OminousTelevision, Alvita Jackson discovers a peculiar late night talk show that among other things advertises sleep as a new product, directly addresses her inner thoughts, [[spoiler: features her deceased elderly neighbor]] as a guest. Alvita appears as a guest herself later on, [[MindScrew while she is sitting at home watching the show]].
* SwitchingPOV: The final story "The Builder" introduces Tobias Fell but also freely switches from him to the other previous narrators as they all gather at the penthouse dinner party.
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Overlapping with OminousTelevision, Alvita Jackson discovers a peculiar late night talk show that among other things advertises sleep as a new product, directly addresses her inner thoughts, [[spoiler: features her deceased elderly neighbor]] as a guest. Alvita appears as a guest herself later on, [[MindScrew while she is sitting at home watching the show]].
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* TwistedEucharist: [[spoiler: In a perverted reversal of the biblical Last Supper, by making his guests eat his body Tobias Fell forces them to take on ''his'' sins instead of the other way around]]. Jesús is even quick to note the corrupted Last Supper imagery in his narration.
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* TwistedEucharist: [[spoiler: In a perverted reversal of the biblical Last Supper, by making his guests eat his body Tobias Fell forces them to take on ''his'' sins instead of the other way around]]. Jesús is even quick to note the corrupted Last Supper messianic imagery in his narration.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Banyan Court, which on the surface seems like an ordinary tenement building is home to layer upon layer of supernatural happenings: a plethora of hauntings, [[spoiler: corridors that appear out of thin air]], [[spoiler: shifting walls and apartments]] and a network of [[spoiler: of pipes that physically make no sense]].
* BodyHorror: A number of the ghosts are hideously warped and their features are lovingly described in painstaking, grotesque detail. Special ghosts of note include [[spoiler: Max]], whose major traits include a [[spoiler: rotting, skinless face which becomes worse when Jason's skin is stretched over his massive body]], the [[spoiler: broken corpses blocking the pipes]] and [[spoiler: Penny and the being she calls her "mother"]].
* CreepyBallet: The conclusion of [[spoiler: Caroline Fairley]]'s story ("[[spoiler:A Foot in the Door]]"). After discovering the [[spoiler: hidden ballroom]] that is the heart of Banyan Court, [[spoiler: Caroline]] begins a manic dance as the walls of the jewel-encrusted room start to weep blood.
* CreepyChild: The eponymous Penny of Anna's story "Bad Penny". Those besides Anna who can see her are disturbed by her sickly, uncanny appearance. She is also violently obsessed with food ([[spoiler: being the ghost of a child who starved to death]]) to the point she pushes another child down the stairs to get at a candy bar. Her idea of fun games are macabre to say the least and in one instance [[spoiler: hovers over Anna's sleeping parents, threatening to eat them until she is told to stop]].
* CreepyChild: The eponymous Penny of Anna's story "Bad Penny". Those besides Anna who can see her are disturbed by her sickly, uncanny appearance. She is also violently obsessed with food ([[spoiler: being the ghost of a child who starved to death]]) to the point she pushes another child down the stairs to get at a candy bar. Her idea of fun games are macabre to say the least and in one instance [[spoiler: hovers over Anna's sleeping parents, threatening to eat them until she is told to stop]].
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* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: The fate of poor James Andre. Max, after cruelly assaulting James, throws him out the twelfth floor window]].
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* TheInsomniac: Alvita Jackson has trouble falling asleep and spends the entirety of the novel in a dreamy, half-awake fugue state.
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* TheInsomniac: Alvita Jackson Jackson, the protagonist of "Sleepless," has trouble falling asleep and spends the entirety of the novel in a dreamy, half-awake fugue state.
* OminousKnocking: Two major examples:
** The first is in Jesús Candido's story, appropriately titled "The Knock": Jesús buys an ominous painting and begins to hear a strange knocking outside his door. [[spoiler: The knocking is a portent of his fate after being kidnapped by the evil painting]].
** The second is in Janek Kowalczyk's story "Old Plumbing." Janek is hired to look into a series of mysterious blockages that are inconveniencing the richer tenants of Banyan Court. Once he starts investigating on his own and opens up an access pipe, revealing [[spoiler: the mangled corpse of a repair worker]]. The [[spoiler: animated body]] leads him to the source of the block by tapping from ''within'' the pipe.
** The first is in Jesús Candido's story, appropriately titled "The Knock": Jesús buys an ominous painting and begins to hear a strange knocking outside his door. [[spoiler: The knocking is a portent of his fate after being kidnapped by the evil painting]].
** The second is in Janek Kowalczyk's story "Old Plumbing." Janek is hired to look into a series of mysterious blockages that are inconveniencing the richer tenants of Banyan Court. Once he starts investigating on his own and opens up an access pipe, revealing [[spoiler: the mangled corpse of a repair worker]]. The [[spoiler: animated body]] leads him to the source of the block by tapping from ''within'' the pipe.
* ParanoidThriller: Gillian Barnes's story ("Inbox") has her uncovering a vast web of conspiracy related to Tobias Fell and becomes convinced she is being watched and followed. Her vignette is a dip into this genre with a supernatural edge to it.
* SpookyPainting: The locus of Jesús Candido's haunting in "The Knock." He purchases a captivating painting that seems to have a woman's face hidden within the brush work, but morphs into [[CreepyChangingPainting a screaming face]] as he finds himself staring at the piece for days on end. [[spoiler: The painting ends up kidnapping him into an abyssal pocket space after he attempts to destroy it, and he returns later shell-shocked and is left absently knocking at his own apartment door]].
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Overlapping with OminousTelevision, Alvita Jackson discovers a peculiar late night talk show that among other things advertises sleep as a new product, directly addresses her inner thoughts, [[spoiler: features her deceased elderly neighbor]] as a guest. Alvita appears as a guest herself later on, [[MindScrew while she is sitting at home watching the show]].
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Overlapping with OminousTelevision, Alvita Jackson discovers a peculiar late night talk show that among other things advertises sleep as a new product, directly addresses her inner thoughts, [[spoiler: features her deceased elderly neighbor]] as a guest. Alvita appears as a guest herself later on, [[MindScrew while she is sitting at home watching the show]].
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Downplayed. Tobias Fell was charismatic and very good at never being associated with the excesses of his businesses, but after his disappearance cracks began to show.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Downplayed. Tobias Fell was charismatic and very good at never being associated with the excesses of his businesses, but after his disappearance cracks began to show.show.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: Janek Kowalczyk, the protagonist of "Old Plumbing," was a freelance engineer and repairman in his native Poland and did contracts for major construction firms, one of which was affiliated with Insegur Group (one of Tobias Fell's international companies). He works as a small-time plumber when he moves to England, and is hired to look into the mysterious blockages plaguing Banyan Court.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: Janek Kowalczyk, the protagonist of "Old Plumbing," was a freelance engineer and repairman in his native Poland and did contracts for major construction firms, one of which was affiliated with Insegur Group (one of Tobias Fell's international companies). He works as a small-time plumber when he moves to England, and is hired to look into the mysterious blockages plaguing Banyan Court.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Unsurprisingly, the number 13 is a major motif of the novel. There are thirteen floors to Banyan Court (including Tobias Fell's penthouse), twelve invited guests at his dinner party with him as the host and thirteen segments, not including the prologue and epilogue.
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* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent people.'
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* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically built to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent people.''
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Anna Khan, being a six-year-old girl is confused by the more disturbing traits of her imaginary friend Penny. She also [[spoiler: doesn't understand Tobias's explanation of the hauntings, and is the first to eat the cube of Tobias's cooked flesh when she mistakes it for bacon]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tobias Fell, one hundred per cent. He managed to keep a squeaky clean image as a wealthy philanthropist despite his businesses being complicit in everything from environmental destruction, to work-safety negligence to human rights violations until his death brought some of his shadier dealings to light.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: The fate of poor James Andre. Max, after cruelly assaulting James, throws him out the twelfth floor window]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Anna Khan, being a six-year-old girl is confused by the more disturbing traits of her imaginary friend Penny. She also [[spoiler: doesn't understand Tobias's explanation of the hauntings, and is the first to eat the cube of Tobias's cooked flesh when she mistakes it for bacon]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tobias Fell, one hundred per cent. He managed to keep a squeaky clean image as a wealthy philanthropist despite his businesses being complicit in everything from environmental destruction, to work-safety negligence to human rights violations until his death brought some of his shadier dealings to light.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: The fate of poor James Andre. Max, after cruelly assaulting James, throws him out the twelfth floor window]].
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* EatTheRich: [[spoiler: What Penny and Anna do to Tobias as a karmic punishment for causing the deaths of children.]]
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* EatTheRich: [[spoiler: What Penny and Anna do to Tobias as a karmic punishment for his business practices causing untold numbers of children to starve to death]].
* EldritchLocation: Banyan Court, which on thedeaths surface seems like an ordinary tenement building is home to layer upon layer of children.]]supernatural happenings: a plethora of hauntings, [[spoiler: corridors that appear out of thin air]], [[spoiler: shifting walls and apartments]] and a network of [[spoiler: of pipes that physically make no sense]].
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: In the end, Tobias Fell overestimated how willing his guests would be to kill another person just to receive a billion pounds in exchange]].
* EldritchLocation: Banyan Court, which on the
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: In the end, Tobias Fell overestimated how willing his guests would be to kill another person just to receive a billion pounds in exchange]].
* ForegoneConclusion: Tobias Fell's death is reported on in the novel's prologue. The strange circumstances surrounding it and the fact that twelve other people were witness to his violent end but refuse to say what exactly happened, is another mystery entirely...
* KarmaHoudini: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Tobias Fell, as the entire reason for [[spoiler: gathering the other twelve main characters together for a dinner party is so he can pawn off the many hauntings threatening to destroy him onto them instead and not face any consequences of the many heinous actions committed in the name of becoming a billionaire]]. Becomes a KarmaHoudiniWarranty [[spoiler: when the guests become fed up with Tobias's manipulations and instead personally deliver the brutal punishment he rightly deserves]].
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* TheNightOwl: Violet Ng is this by necessity of her night job, as she works from evenings until mornings at a mindless office job.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: All James Andre wanted to do was return Violet's phone, and for his troubles gets murdered by a psychotic ghost]].
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: All James Andre wanted to do was return Violet's phone, and for his troubles gets murdered by a psychotic ghost]].
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* OutDamnedSpot: Leon Copeland's story ("A Stubborn Stain") is centred around his obsession with a strange, grey blotch on his apartment wall that grows worse over time no matter how hard he tries to clean it.
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* SadisticChoice: Tobias Fell's proposal to the twelve guests: [[spoiler: eat a sliver of his flesh and become complicit in his wrongdoings by participating in the murder of an innocent man (Diego Santi) at Tobias's request and they will be handsomely rewarded with a billion pounds each]]. If any of them refuse this offer [[spoiler: Max, a violent behemoth of a ghost, will beat them to death]]. Fortunately the guests TakeAThirdOption by [[spoiler: dispatching Max and choose to murder Tobias instead]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: The [[CruelTwistEnding twist]] of [[spoiler: Jason Brown]]'s story. [[spoiler: Max's entire existence is revealed to be Jason's darker thoughts and violent fantasies given corporeal form, and nobody who works with Jason has ever seen or met Max. This is to the point Tobias's invitation is addressed as Jason "''Max''" Brown]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: The [[CruelTwistEnding twist]] of [[spoiler: Jason Brown]]'s story. [[spoiler: Max's entire existence is revealed to be Jason's darker thoughts and violent fantasies given corporeal form, and nobody who works with Jason has ever seen or met Max. This is to the point Tobias's invitation is addressed as Jason "''Max''" Brown]].
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* UrbanSegregation: A smaller-scale version of this, limited to a singular apartment building. Those who live in the "front end" of Banyan Court are the rich folk who reside in well-kept luxury apartments, have access to a private gym and 24-hour concierge service. In stark contrast, the people in the "back end" of the complex are the poorer folk who live in squalid flats that need constant repair and whose security measures are designed to keep them in line rather than offer any sort of genuine protection. [[spoiler: This sharp class divide was in fact by design to exacerbate the hauntings that occur on the property]].
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* BigBad: Tobias Fell
* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent people.
* TheDragon: Max
* EatTheRich: [[spoiler: what Penny and Anna do to Tobias as a karmic punishment for causing the deaths of children]]
* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent people.
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* EatTheRich: [[spoiler: what Penny and Anna do to Tobias as a karmic punishment for causing the deaths of children]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Carter Dwight's prototype virtual assistant Donna is an interesting variation of the trope, in that she never tries to outright harm him. In fact, she proves [[spoiler: to be much better at impersonating Carter than the actual Carter when she traps him inside his apartment and proceeds to take over his life]].
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* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocentpeople.
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: All of the guests, who were in some way or another victimized by Tobias Fell all eagerly participate in dismembering him.]] Special mention goes to Jason in regards to Max, who he has spent his entire story intimidated by. [[spoiler: Jason stands up to Max and even manages to kill him in the climax, removing Tobias's main form of threat against his guests]].
* TheDragon:Max
Max, one of the concierges who is [[spoiler: Jason's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide dark]] [[EnemyWithout half]]]] and is later recruited by Tobias to serve as his muscle at his dinner party in the climax.
* EatTheRich: [[spoiler:what What Penny and Anna do to Tobias as a karmic punishment for causing the deaths of children]]children.]]
* FoundFootageFilms: Damian's story ("Point of View") is a transcript of the footage his camera captured in the days leading up to Tobias Fell's party.
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* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: All of the guests, who were in some way or another victimized by Tobias Fell all eagerly participate in dismembering him.]] Special mention goes to Jason in regards to Max, who he has spent his entire story intimidated by. [[spoiler: Jason stands up to Max and even manages to kill him in the climax, removing Tobias's main form of threat against his guests]].
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* FoundFootageFilms: Damian's story ("Point of View") is a transcript of the footage his camera captured in the days leading up to Tobias Fell's party.
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* TheInsomniac: Alvita Jackson has trouble falling asleep and spends the entirety of the novel in a dreamy, half-awake fugue state.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]], HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera. [[spoiler:Each one represents one of Tobias Fell's sins, being trapped by Banyan Court before they can reach him and latching onto the residents.]]
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* TheNightOwl: Violet Ng is this by necessity of her night job, as she works from evenings until mornings at a mindless office job.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Six-year-old Anna Khan has an imaginary friend named Penny, a sickly looking girl who is always hungry and has a disturbing, macabre sense of humor. She is shown to be very much real ([[spoiler:albeit a ghost]]) as certain other people are able to see her like Alvita Jackson and Diego Santi.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: As the story recounts roughly the same number of days from the point-of-view of multiple characters, some events are bound to overlap and are retold from different angles. Once such example is [[spoiler: James Andre's murder, which is first hinted at in Violet's story, is the centerpiece of Jason's story and further clarified upon in Damian's story]].
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Eachhaunt haunting manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]], HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera. [[spoiler:Each one represents one of Tobias Fell's sins, being trapped by Banyan Court before they can reach him and latching onto the residents.]]]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Tobias's ultimate fate, as each of his party guests take the opportunity to exact their revenge in a supernaturally brutal fashion.]] In order:
** [[spoiler: Gillian painfully sears and cauterises Tobias's mouth shut]].
** [[spoiler: Laura wills the floorboards and nails of Tobias's own home to impale his limbs and torso]].
** [[spoiler: Anna and Penny disembowel him and feast on his entrails]].
** [[spoiler: Alvita [[EyeScream removes his eyes]] with her bare hands]].
** [[spoiler: Caroline rips into his chest with her jewel-encrusted hands]].
** [[spoiler: Jason stomps on Tobias's face, crushing his nose and tearing open his fused jaw]].
** [[spoiler: Leon regurgitates a reservoir of toxins and pollutants down Tobias's re-opened throat]].
** [[spoiler: Janek crushes his skull with a machine-like grip]].
** [[spoiler: And finally, Jesús draws out every last drop of blood from his mangled corpse and returns it to the earth]].
* RotatingProtagonist: The novel consists of thirteen short stories, all featuring characters who either live or work in the same haunted apartment complex.
* TwistedEucharist: [[spoiler: In a perverted reversal of the biblical Last Supper, by making his guests eat his body Tobias Fell forces them to take on ''his'' sins instead of the other way around]]. Jesús is even quick to note the corrupted Last Supper imagery in his narration.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Six-year-old Anna Khan has an imaginary friend named Penny, a sickly looking girl who is always hungry and has a disturbing, macabre sense of humor. She is shown to be very much real ([[spoiler:albeit a ghost]]) as certain other people are able to see her like Alvita Jackson and Diego Santi.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: As the story recounts roughly the same number of days from the point-of-view of multiple characters, some events are bound to overlap and are retold from different angles. Once such example is [[spoiler: James Andre's murder, which is first hinted at in Violet's story, is the centerpiece of Jason's story and further clarified upon in Damian's story]].
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Tobias's ultimate fate, as each of his party guests take the opportunity to exact their revenge in a supernaturally brutal fashion.]] In order:
** [[spoiler: Gillian painfully sears and cauterises Tobias's mouth shut]].
** [[spoiler: Laura wills the floorboards and nails of Tobias's own home to impale his limbs and torso]].
** [[spoiler: Anna and Penny disembowel him and feast on his entrails]].
** [[spoiler: Alvita [[EyeScream removes his eyes]] with her bare hands]].
** [[spoiler: Caroline rips into his chest with her jewel-encrusted hands]].
** [[spoiler: Jason stomps on Tobias's face, crushing his nose and tearing open his fused jaw]].
** [[spoiler: Leon regurgitates a reservoir of toxins and pollutants down Tobias's re-opened throat]].
** [[spoiler: Janek crushes his skull with a machine-like grip]].
** [[spoiler: And finally, Jesús draws out every last drop of blood from his mangled corpse and returns it to the earth]].
* RotatingProtagonist: The novel consists of thirteen short stories, all featuring characters who either live or work in the same haunted apartment complex.
* TwistedEucharist: [[spoiler: In a perverted reversal of the biblical Last Supper, by making his guests eat his body Tobias Fell forces them to take on ''his'' sins instead of the other way around]]. Jesús is even quick to note the corrupted Last Supper imagery in his narration.
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* EatTheRich: [[spoiler: what Penny and Anna do to Tobias as a karmic punishment for causing the deaths of children]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: part of Tobias's ritual to have his dinner guests take on some of the weight of his sins]]
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* HowWeGotHere: The book opens with an Op-Ed on the mysterious disappearance of reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell after a dinner party he through. The rest of the book chapter by chapter introduces the books guests before ending in said dinner party.
* LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding jewellery.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]], HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera. [[spoiler:Each one represents one of Tobias Fell's sins, being trapped by Banyan Court before they can reach him and latching onto the residents.]]
* LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding jewellery.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]], HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera. [[spoiler:Each one represents one of Tobias Fell's sins, being trapped by Banyan Court before they can reach him and latching onto the residents.]]
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* HowWeGotHere: The book opens with an Op-Ed on the mysterious disappearance of reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell after a dinner party he through.threw. The rest of the book chapter by chapter introduces the books guests before ending in said dinner party.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]], HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera. [[spoiler:Each one represents one of Tobias Fell's sins, being trapped by Banyan Court before they can reach him and latching onto the residents.]]]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Downplayed. Tobias Fell was charismatic and very good at never being associated with the excesses of his businesses, but after his disappearance cracks began to show.
* LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]], HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera. [[spoiler:Each one represents one of Tobias Fell's sins, being trapped by Banyan Court before they can reach him and latching onto the residents.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Downplayed. Tobias Fell was charismatic and very good at never being associated with the excesses of his businesses, but after his disappearance cracks began to show.
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* HowardHughesHomage: Fell, being a recluse who never leaves his own apartment [[spoiler:because of the numerous hauntings seeking to tear him apart]].
* HowWeGotHere: The book opens with an Op-Ed on the mysterious disappearance of reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell after a dinner party he through. The rest of the book chapter by chapter introduces the books guests before ending in said dinner party.
* LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleedingjewellery.jewellery.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, CreepyChildren, HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera.
* HowWeGotHere: The book opens with an Op-Ed on the mysterious disappearance of reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell after a dinner party he through. The rest of the book chapter by chapter introduces the books guests before ending in said dinner party.
* LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each haunt manifests in different ways, from stains that won't go away, CreepyChildren, HumanoidAbomination manifestations of guilt, et cetera.
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* BloodForMortar: Reclusive billionaire Tobias Fell has Banyan Court specifically to his specifications, whilst also burying the many of the workers and other people he decides to dispose of (such as disagreeable business partners) in the foundations and walls of the building. This is entirely designed to create a "spiritual faraday Cage" to protect him from the ghosts of his victims instead passing their vengeance off on other innocent people.
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!!''Thirteen Storeys'' contains examples of:
*BigBad: Tobias Fell
*TheDragon: Max
*LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding jewellery.
!!''Thirteen Storeys'' contains examples of:
*BigBad: Tobias Fell
*TheDragon: Max
*LipstickLesbian: Carrie is a lesbian and is one of the more feminine attendants of the party, with even her haunting manifesting as bleeding jewellery.
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Banyan Court is a new, beautiful apartment complex, with a fully equipped, free-to-use gym and 24/7 concierges, ready to come at the beck and call of any of the residents. Around the front, that is.
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Banyan Court is a new, beautiful apartment complex, with a fully equipped, free-to-use gym and 24/7 concierges, ready to come at the beck and call of any of the residents. Around residents--for the front, wealthy few who live in the front part, that is.
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The debut novel of Jonathan Sims (Podcast/TheMagnusArchives and Music/TheMechanisms), "Thirteen Storys" is a horror story that begins as an anthology before coming to a single coherent narrative, told from the perspective of [[ArcNumber thirteen]] different people.
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[[caption-width-right:325:TOBIAS FELL cordially invites YOU to attend a dinner party at I Banyan Court...]]
The debut novel of Jonathan Sims (Podcast/TheMagnusArchives and Music/TheMechanisms), "Thirteen Storys" is a horror story that begins as an anthology before coming to a single coherent narrative, told from the perspective of [[ArcNumber thirteen]] different people.
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[[caption-width-right:325:TOBIAS FELL cordially invites YOU to attend a dinner party at I Banyan Court...]]
The debut novel of Jonathan Sims (Podcast/TheMagnusArchives and Music/TheMechanisms), "Thirteen Storys" is a horror story that begins as an anthology before coming to a single coherent narrative, told from the perspective of [[ArcNumber thirteen]] different people.
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