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A supernatural fiction novel written by Cameron Summers and released on kindle in early 2015. The Behemoth is the story of Roger Harding, a librarian in a university library whose best friend (and the object of a long-standing crush) is ritually murdered. He is drawn into an informal investigation of this incident, and a subsequent revenge plot.
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A supernatural fiction novel written by Cameron Summers and released on kindle in early 2015. The Behemoth is the story of Roger Harding, a librarian in a university library whose best friend (and the object of a long-standing crush) is ritually ritualistically murdered. He is drawn into an informal investigation of this incident, and a subsequent revenge plot.
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* HealingFactor: All infectees -- Roger, Stephen,[[spoiler:and Jean]] -- possess this. It's the result of having a worm-like symbiote living in their bodies, though, and the symbiote grows more powerful with each healing.
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* HealingFactor: All infectees -- Roger, Stephen,[[spoiler:and Stephen, [[spoiler:and Jean]] -- possess this. It's the result of having a worm-like symbiote living in their bodies, though, and the symbiote grows more powerful with each healing.
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* AGodAmI: The villain's ultimate goal
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* GodhoodSeeker: The villain's ultimate goal.
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Can be bought from [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SMGOMD0 Amazon]], and the author is answering questions on [[http://http://cameronsummerswrites.com/?p=2112 his website.]]
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Can be bought from [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SMGOMD0 Amazon]], Amazon,]] and the author is answering questions on [[http://http://cameronsummerswrites.com/?p=2112 his website.]]
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* HebrewMythology: Some terminology is taken from this -- notably "Chayyoth ha-Qadesh."
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* HebrewMythology: Myth/HebrewMythology: Some terminology is taken from this -- notably "Chayyoth ha-Qadesh."
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* DesignatedHero: Roger Harding.
** ClassicalAntiHero: Roger is bitter, intellectually rigid, asocial, and obsessed with rules.
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* OurGiantsAreBigger: ''The'' Giant is more akin to the mythological conception of a primordial monster than a giant person.
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* BiggerBad: The thing Stephen serves. [[spoiler:The Giant, who seeks to use the infectees as a bridge into the real world.]]
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* ManBehindTheMan: The thing Stephen serves. [[spoiler:The Giant, who seeks to use the symbiotes as a bridge into the real world.]]
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* LovecraftianSuperpower: what the symbiotes grant.
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* TheCorruption: The symbiotes.
* DarkWorld: The Otherworld.
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* TheCorruption: The symbiotes.
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* DreamLand: The Otherworld.Otherworld, which is distorted by the thoughts of humans in corresponding locations in the "real" world, but which causes resonance on the other side.
* {{Epigraph}}: Every chapter opens with a vaguely thematic one.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: Bently, and those inhabitants of the Otherworld, occasionally refer to "the Truth", but have no more direct knowledge of it than garden-variety human beings.
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* TheHeavy: Stephen Burton.
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* TheHeavy: Stephen Burton.Burton and his murders drive the plot.
* TheJuggernaut: Roger fears becoming this, and even has a hallucination to this effect.
* Necromantic: [[spoiler: the epilogue features Professor Bently suggesting that there may be a way to restore someone to life.]]
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* PosthumousCharacter: Elly Watson.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Elly Watson.Watson is only alive in the prologue, but appears through several flashbacks throughout the story.
* RecursiveReality: Roger's brief visit to AfterlifeAntechamber implies this.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Roger has moments of this after developing his healing factor.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Elly can be considered a deconstruction of this for Roger. Their relationship has some MPDG qualities, but they're the result of him projecting them on to it over years of friendship, and he's unable to move from putting her on a pedestal to actually trying to have a relatinoship with her. Elly, for her part, has a great deal of affection for Roger, but considers them to be JustFriends.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Elly can be considered a deconstruction of this for Roger. Their relationship has some MPDG qualities, but they're the result of him projecting them on to it over years of friendship, and he's unable to move from putting her on a pedestal to actually trying to have a relatinoship relationship with her. Elly, for her part, has a great deal of affection for Roger, but considers them to be JustFriends.
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* FightingFromTheInside: [[Spoiler:Roger and the Giant.]]
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* FightingFromTheInside: [[Spoiler:Roger [[spoiler:Roger and the Giant.]]
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Can be bought from [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SMGOMD0 Amazon]], and the author is answering questions on [[http://http://cameronsummerswrites.com/?p=2112 his website.]]
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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:Roger and the Giant.]]]]
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* FightingFromTheInside: [[Spoiler:Roger and the Giant.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: As a result of Roger's asocial behavior.
* MrExposition: Professor Bently, the scholar who had a bad habit of GoingNative in the Otherworld.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Roger engages in this late in the novel.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Roger engages in this late in the novel.novel.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:Roger and the Giant.]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:Roger and the Giant.]]
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* BiggerBad: The thing Stephen serves. [[spoiler:The Giant]]
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* BiggerBad: The thing Stephen serves. [[spoiler:The Giant]]Giant, who seeks to use the infectees as a bridge into the real world.]]
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Why becoming the Behemoth is a PainfulTransformation.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Why becoming the Behemoth is a PainfulTransformation.
* CarvedMark: Stephen does this to [[spoiler: Jean]] later in the novel.
* TheCorruption: The symbiotes.
* DarkWorld: The Otherworld.
* TheCorruption: The symbiotes.
* DarkWorld: The Otherworld.
* DespairEventHorizon: Roger crosses it in chapter 2.
* DreamLand: The Otherworld.
* DreamLand: The Otherworld.
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* EldritchLocation: The Otherworld.
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* EldritchLocation: The Otherworld.Otherworld, for a hat trick.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Jean,]] late in the novel, due to [[spoiler:TheCorruption]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Given that Roger is crushed, eviscerated, subjected to {{fingore}}, vicious examples of EarAche -- essentially a rather heavy MutilationConga -- this is probably helpful.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Given that Roger is crushed, eviscerated, subjected to {{fingore}}, vicious examples of EarAche -- essentially a rather heavy MutilationConga -- this is probably helpful.
* HeroicHost: Roger, for certain values of "heroic."
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Elly can be considered a deconstruction of this for Roger. Their relationship has some MPDG qualities, but they're the result of him projecting them on to it over years of friendship, and he's unable to move from putting her on a pedestal to actually trying to have a relatinoship with her. Elly, for her part, has a great deal of affection for Roger, but considers them to be JustFriends.
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: It's implied that Roger's circulatory system might be BiggerOnTheInside.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Elly WatsonWatson.
* ThePowerOfBlood: The Behemoth has a carapace seemingly created from coagulated blood.
* ThePowerOfBlood: The Behemoth has a carapace seemingly created from coagulated blood.
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* SuperMode: The Behemoth, though Roger's normal form is simply gifted with a healing factor.
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* SuperMode: The Behemoth, though Roger's normal form is simply gifted with a healing factor.factor.
* TheSymbiote: the worm that crawls into Roger's ear and lives in his brain, causing him to gain superpowers.
* TalkingToTheDead: Roger engages in this late in the novel.
* TheSymbiote: the worm that crawls into Roger's ear and lives in his brain, causing him to gain superpowers.
* TalkingToTheDead: Roger engages in this late in the novel.
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* TheAntiNihilist: Roger's eventual outlook.
* ArcWords:
** "Don't take life so seriously all the time."
** "Life is serious."
** "You don't know what you're doing."
* ArcWords:
** "Don't take life so seriously all the time."
** "Life is serious."
** "You don't know what you're doing."
* TheEeyore: Roger has some elements of this character type, though his internal monologue features a bit of snark.
* EmergencyTransformation: The first time Roger becomes the Behemoth.
* GrandTheftMe [[spoiler:the Giant's plan for Roger.]]
* HealingFactor: All infectees -- Roger, Stephen,[[spoiler:and Jean]] -- possess this. It's the result of having a worm-like symbiote living in their bodies, though, and the symbiote grows more powerful with each healing.
* GrandTheftMe [[spoiler:the Giant's plan for Roger.]]
* HealingFactor: All infectees -- Roger, Stephen,[[spoiler:and Jean]] -- possess this. It's the result of having a worm-like symbiote living in their bodies, though, and the symbiote grows more powerful with each healing.
* HebrewMythology: Some terminology is taken from this -- notably "Chayyoth ha-Qadesh."
* HenshinHero: Roger's transformation into the Behemoth occasionally has shades of this.
* HulkingOut: Roger does this a number of times.
* InstantArmor: Roger's transformations functions like this.
* HenshinHero: Roger's transformation into the Behemoth occasionally has shades of this.
* HulkingOut: Roger does this a number of times.
* InstantArmor: Roger's transformations functions like this.
* PainfulTransformation: Part and parcel of Roger becoming the Behemoth.
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* TheSnarkKnight: Roger has some shades of this, when he isn't being TheEeyore.
* SuperMode: The Behemoth, though Roger's normal form is simply gifted with a healing factor.
* TheSnarkKnight: Roger has some shades of this, when he isn't being TheEeyore.
* SuperMode: The Behemoth, though Roger's normal form is simply gifted with a healing factor.
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A supernatural fiction novel written by Cameron Summers and released on kindle in early 2015. The Behemoth is the story of Roger Harding, a librarian in a university library whose best friend (and the object of a long-standing crush) is ritually murdered. He is drawn into an informal investigation of this incident, and a subsequent revenge plot.
This incident also released into the world a strange parasite that takes up residence in his skin, giving him a connection to the murderer, increased resilience, and an ability to perceive the parasite's home dimension, a strange otherworld that the murderer seeks entry into and mastery over.
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!! Behemoth contains examples of:
*BiggerBad: The thing Stephen serves. [[spoiler:The Giant]]
*BodyHorror: In spades!
*DesignatedHero: Roger Harding.
**ClassicalAntiHero: Roger is bitter, intellectually rigid, asocial, and obsessed with rules.
*EldritchAbomination: Several. [[spoiler:The Giant is described as a human-shaped "hole in the world" through which eyes and teeth float.]]
*EldritchLocation: The Otherworld.
*TheHeavy: Stephen Burton.
*LadyDrunk: Jean Burton. Interesting in that her drunkenness is never made an issue of -- it's simply a fact of her character.
*OverAndUnderTheTop: Comparing Roger (under) to Detective Logan (over), regarding adherence to rules and laws.
*PosthumousCharacter: Elly Watson
*SerialKiller: Stephen Burton, splitting the difference between mission-based and visionary.
This incident also released into the world a strange parasite that takes up residence in his skin, giving him a connection to the murderer, increased resilience, and an ability to perceive the parasite's home dimension, a strange otherworld that the murderer seeks entry into and mastery over.
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!! Behemoth contains examples of:
*BiggerBad: The thing Stephen serves. [[spoiler:The Giant]]
*BodyHorror: In spades!
*DesignatedHero: Roger Harding.
**ClassicalAntiHero: Roger is bitter, intellectually rigid, asocial, and obsessed with rules.
*EldritchAbomination: Several. [[spoiler:The Giant is described as a human-shaped "hole in the world" through which eyes and teeth float.]]
*EldritchLocation: The Otherworld.
*TheHeavy: Stephen Burton.
*LadyDrunk: Jean Burton. Interesting in that her drunkenness is never made an issue of -- it's simply a fact of her character.
*OverAndUnderTheTop: Comparing Roger (under) to Detective Logan (over), regarding adherence to rules and laws.
*PosthumousCharacter: Elly Watson
*SerialKiller: Stephen Burton, splitting the difference between mission-based and visionary.
