History Literature / KnifepointHorror

** Father Hall appears in "possession" and is mentioned in "mother". The drug tangerine is taken by both the protagonist in “mother” and one of the narrators of “A Convergence In Wintertime”

** "pride" has the story's villain dressing in a large costume that looks similar to the demon in the school boiler room in "possession". Also, the narrator mentions seeing a report on the news concerning Garret Markish's final ritual that caused a sinkhole to swallow his school's entire soccer team in "outcast".

** The Poldrict house from "presence" is mentioned in "I Was Called Anwen".

* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Most of the stories take place in an urban or rural, modern day setting. However, a few take place in pretty out-there locales, including a medieval battlefield, a 1900's theater, a small French hamlet, and even space. There are also two stories not told in first person, but are rather research notes from the notebook of a character from "house".

** The book version of "compulsion" reveals the last names of the detectives interviewing the narrator as Mura and Thewlin.

** "pride" has the story's villain dressing in a large costume that looks similar to the demon in the school boiler room in "possession". Also, the narrator mentions seeing a report on the news concerning Garret Markish's final ritual that caused a sinkhole to swallow his school's entire soccer team from "outcast".

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Most of the stories take place in an urban or rural, modern day setting. However, a few take place in pretty out-there locales, including a medieval battlefield, a 1900's theater, a small French hamlet, and even space. There are also two stories not told in first person, but are rather research notes from the notebook of a character from "house".

* EyeScream: Wesley Harrod removes his own eyes with a broken liqueur bottle.

* HauntedHouse: The Poldrice House, the house from [[spoiler:"visitation"]], and you guessed it, the house from "house"

* ILoveTheDead: Irwin Settle is stated to have "a history of necrophilia", and that's the least creepy thing about him.

** Father Hall appears in "possession" and is mentioned in "mother"

** The narrator is "laborer" is co-workers with the son of the narrator from "tarp".

** The "Sixth Dictionary of Occult Manifestation" is a book mentioned in the concluding statement of "cellar" and the opening recording of "The Lockbox".

* NunsAreSpooky: The nuns in "sisters" are more victims then villains, but that doesn't stop the from being scary as crap.

* PocketDimension: The forest cemetery the coachman takes Sean to.
* ShowWithinAShow: The "Their Thousand Hands" series, a popular zombie movie series

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: John Gray discovers a gap in his memory was caused by [[spoiler: the trauma of seeing the devil appear over the horizon.]]

** The narrator is "laborer" is co-workers with the grandson of the narrator from "tarp".

** In "bells", a deranged woman causally mentions that she "swallowed a farmer's eye in Lancaster".

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Most of the stories take place in an urban, modern day setting. However, a few take place in pretty out there locales, including a medieval battlefield, a 1900's theater, a small French hamlet, and even space. There are also two stories not told in first person, but are rather research notes from the notebook of a character from "house".

** The Far-Spider is the source of power tapped into both by the narrator's family in "lighthouse" and Fiona Plauser in "elements". Fiona is the sister of Gretchen Plauser, whose death caused the terrible events occurring in Robin Song in "town". The 'attraction' performed by Forsch Cording in 'town' is the same ritual performed by Aramis Churchton in "house". Both Gantt in "house" and the Light-Herders in "cult" obtained their mastery over death from the same remote African tribe of the Gy Chulthu.

** In one untitled story, a deranged woman causally mentions that she "swallowed a farmer's eye in Lancaster".

* PocketDimension: The forest cemetery the coachman takes Sean to

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Most of the stories take place in an urban, modern day setting. However, a few take place in pretty out there locales, including and medieval battlefield,a 1900's theater,a small French hamlet, and even space. There are also two stories not told in first person, but are rather research notes from the notebook of a character from "house".

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The plot of ''possession'' is kicked off when a demented woman stabs the narrator in the leg one night. She's seemingly unrelated to the supernatural happenings that plague the narrator afterwards, but if she had chosen another victim on that night, he likely would have gone on to live a normal life.