List of the Lost was a novel created by Morrissey. The plot revolves around a relay team in 70s America that has a deep emotional bond but after one of the members accidentally kills a rambling homeless man, they end up dropping like flies.
List of The Lost contains examples of:
- Author Tract: The book often halts the narrative to rant about a particular subject, be it sexual repression, nature's indifference, or how superior our main characters are to the average person.
- Department of Redundancy Department: At one point the book talks about how someone "Smiled a nod (?) of compassionate pity."
- Downer Ending: Ezra dies alone in a hospital bed with everyone he ever knows having died horribly and the last thing he sees is the mad vagrant
- Humans Are Bastards: Long rants are dedicated to humanity's relentless cruelty to animals.
- Pædo Hunt: The closest thing this story has to an antagonist is the dean of the boys' college, who rapes and murders a young boy, covers everything up and kills two of the protagonists by hitting them over the head with wine bottles.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: A prominent feature of this novel, which has seen it unfavorably compared to the works of Amanda McKittrick Ros. This trope is the book's bread and butter, so much so that it often becomes completely incomprehensible.
- The '70s: This is when the book takes place. However, it hardly matters since it barely contributes anything to the story.
