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1	'''Strange Eons''' is a novel by Creator/RobertBloch. It consists largely of references to Creator/HPLovecraft novels and short stories, which it neither expands on nor explains very much (for example, we are still left wondering what those odd things were that killed Harley Warren, and Bloch -- rather than telling us -- has one of his characters die in a similar fashion and doesn't explain that).
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3	Not to be confused with [[WebVideo/StrangeAeons the web video "Strange Aeons"]], or the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' mod ''VideoGame/StrangeAeons''.
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5	!! Tropes found in ''Strange Eons'':
6	* AnyoneCanDie: There are multiple protagonists throughout the book, and almost all of them die, as well as many other characters.
7	* TheBadGuyWins: Mark becomes Cthulhu at the end and destroys everything.
8	* DeathByChildbirth: Kay Keith dies this way after giving birth to Mark Dixon. Supposedly justified in that Mark's father is Cthulhu, but he appears to be shaped exactly like a normal human until Nyarlathotep shines the crystal on him.
9	* DyingDream: Mark thinks he's having one of these when he's taken away by the fish people, but it's real.
10	* HollywoodSilencer: The gun used to blow off the top of Fred Elstree's head is totally silent.
11	* InformedAttribute: Kay Keith, the second protagonist, thinks to herself that she's not "the fainting sort" after we see her faint for the first time. She then goes on to do it several more times.
12	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is part of a couplet from the Necronomicon, found in "The Nameless City" and "The Call of Cthulhu": "That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die". One of the last lines in the book is "Death died", though it's never stated what this means.
13	* NuclearOption: Cthulhu is successfully nuked, but Mark becomes his replacement.

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