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* NeverSayDie: The story itself never directly mentions death, only alluding to it via characters suddenly disappearing [[spoiler:after meeting the man with the wide-brimmed hat]].
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* NeverSayDie: The story itself never directly mentions death, death after Beth realizes that her father has died, only alluding to it via characters suddenly disappearing [[spoiler:after meeting the man with the wide-brimmed hat]].
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* GlamourFailure: It's implied something is off with[[spoiler: Rebecca]] when their teeth seem to undulate while eating at dinner. We eventually learn this is because [[spoiler: the worms wearing her skin have replaced all the flesh beneath it, and the teeth are suspended in place by individual worms]]. Bell learns that they got to[[spoiler: her brother when his teeth do the same.]]
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* GlamourFailure: It's implied something is off with[[spoiler: Rebecca]] when their teeth seem to undulate while eating at dinner. We eventually learn this is because [[spoiler: the worms wearing her skin have replaced all the flesh beneath it, and the teeth are suspended in place by individual worms]]. Bell learns that they got to[[spoiler: her to [[spoiler:her brother Clarence when she sees his teeth do the same.]]
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* OddballInTheSeries: "The Nesting Place" clashes with the rest of the stories in the trade in a number of ways. All of the rest happen in a vague past, likely the 1800s or earlier. "The Nesting Place" pretty obviously takes place during the 1920s, maybe the 1930s. Most of the stories are either a NamelessNarrative or have an absolute minimum number of named characters, while every character who speaks in "The Nesting Place" has a name that is mentioned. In many of the stories there is at least an element of {{Mundanger}} that is an equal or greater threat to the protagonists, while the only threat to the protagonist in "The Nesting Place" is a fantastic one.
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* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The extreme winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last-ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on (notably, the narration does say that on the third day after their father left all three girls are hit by "a strange lethargy", and did little to nothing that day, which would be consistent with symptoms of hypothermia).]]
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* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The extreme winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last-ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. (Alternatively, Beth may have perished during the trek to the neighbor's house). The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on (notably, the narration does say that on the third day after their father left all three girls are hit by "a strange lethargy", and did little to nothing that day, which would may be consistent with symptoms of hypothermia).]]
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* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Bell manages to save herself and stop Rebecca from stealing her body with some quick thinking and TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, but afterwards when her brother Clarence is driving her to the train to leave their house, she suddenly sees that he has been taken over by the same parasites inside Rebecca. The story abruptly ends there. Is "Clarence" aware that she has noticed the truth? What are the long-term implications for Bell? Will "Clarence" talk "Rebecca" into revisiting the plan to steal more hosts for the "children" and move into the city or stay out in the countryside? If Bell gets away, will she try to take any action against them to stop more people from getting taken over? It's all left up to your imagination.]]
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* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Bell manages to save herself and stop Rebecca from stealing her body with some quick thinking and TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, but afterwards when her brother Clarence is driving her to the train to leave their house, she suddenly sees realises that he has been taken over by the same parasites inside Rebecca. The story abruptly ends there. Is "Clarence" aware that she has noticed the truth? What are the long-term implications for Bell? Will "Clarence" talk "Rebecca" into revisiting the plan to steal more hosts for the "children" and move into the city or stay out in the countryside? If Bell gets away, will she try to take any action against them to stop more people from getting taken over? It's all left up to your imagination.]]
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* TakeOurWordForIt: Yvonne's narration notes that all Janna does anymore is write, and describes what Janna writes as "nonsense". We get [[https://i.imgur.com/yKvUT4a.jpg a shot]] of Yvonne seeing the writing and looking alarmed by it, but not a look at the actual writing itself.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bell is warned away from the forest with a story that Rebecca fell down a cave and was lost for three days surviving on a pool of fetid water. Pools of water, especially standing pools, are often the breeding ground for parasites.
* GlamourFailure: It's implied something is off with[[spoiler: Rebecca]] when their teeth seem to undulate while eating at dinner. We eventually learn this is because [[spoiler: the worms wearing her skin have replaced all the flesh beneath it, and the teeth are suspended in place by individual worms]]. Bell learns that they got to[[spoiler: her brother when his teeth do the same.]]
* GlamourFailure: It's implied something is off with[[spoiler: Rebecca]] when their teeth seem to undulate while eating at dinner. We eventually learn this is because [[spoiler: the worms wearing her skin have replaced all the flesh beneath it, and the teeth are suspended in place by individual worms]]. Bell learns that they got to[[spoiler: her brother when his teeth do the same.]]
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* HelplessWindowDeath: [[spoiler: The story "My Friend Janna" climaxes with Yvonne watching helplessly from outside Janna's house as Janna is apparently murdered in front of her window by the "ghost" that has been haunting Janna.]]
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* RevenantZombie: [[spoiler: After the second wife reassembles the corpse of the first wife, the latter possesses it and proceeds to attack the former before later exacting brutal retribution on her killer ex-husband after he returns from a hunt.]]
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** "Our Neighbor's House" spends a lot of time and focus on the mysterious man with the wide brimmed hat, but the real danger to the children was lack of food supplies, the cold, and the snow storms that cut them off from possible safety/rescue. This goes double if you believe the implication that [[spoiler:the man with the hat is in fact TheGrimReaper, and only shows up to collect the children [[DeadAllAlong after they are already dead or dying]].]]
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** "Our Neighbor's House" spends a lot of time and focus on the mysterious man with the wide brimmed hat, but the real danger to the children was lack of food supplies, the cold, and the [[SnowedIn snow storms that cut them off from possible safety/rescue.safety/rescue]]. This goes double if you believe the implication that [[spoiler:the man with the hat is in fact TheGrimReaper, and only shows up to collect the children [[DeadAllAlong after they are already dead or dying]].]]
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** While their father is gone, the girls play games on the first day, do chores on the second, and spend the entire third day in a state of lethargy ([[spoiler:implied to be hypothermia]]). Unfortunately, that's when things start going bad for the girls, [[spoiler:starting with the realization that their father died hunting]].
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** While their father is gone, the girls play games on the first day, do chores on the second, and spend the entire third day in a state of lethargy ([[spoiler:implied to be due to hypothermia]]). Unfortunately, that's when things start going bad for the girls, [[spoiler:starting with the realization that their father died hunting]].
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* SnowedIn: This is a very real danger the girls face when their father doesn't come back and the winter weather gets worse. Beth wants to follow her father's plan and leave their house immediately, but Mary refuses to go, likely in denial about their father's fate. When Beth finally leaves several days later after both Mary and Hannah have disappeared, the conditions are much worse than they were when she first wanted to leave, but at that point she has no choice but to attempt the trip.
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--> ''There was a girl''\\
''& there was a man''\\
''And there was the girl's father who said,''\\
''"You will marry this man."''
''& there was a man''\\
''And there was the girl's father who said,''\\
''"You will marry this man."''
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& there was a
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And there was the girl's
''"You
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* {{Bookends}}: The story begins and ends with the same verse, except the last lines are changed.
-->''There was a girl\\
& there was a man\\
And there was the girl's father\\
Who said, "You will marry this man."''\\
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''There was a girl\\
And there was a man.\\
And there was a lady with cold hands.''
-->''There was a girl\\
& there was a man\\
And there was the girl's father\\
Who said, "You will marry this man."''\\
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''There was a girl\\
And there was a man.\\
And there was a lady with cold hands.''
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* MinimalistCast: Pretty much all the stories have an absolute bare minimum of characters who are depicted, named, or have spoken lines.
