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Moving all "Manitou" series tropes to that work's page.
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** ''Burial'' (1991
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** ''Burial'' (1991(1991)
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* AntagonistTitle: Various - ''The Manitou'', ''The Djinn'', ''Tengu''.
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* AntagonistTitle: Various - ''The Manitou'', ''The Djinn'', ''Tengu''.''Tengu'', referring to the evil demon.
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* BleachedUnderpants: averted, as he has never tried to conceal an early career in soft-core pornography.
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* BleachedUnderpants: averted, as he Averted -- Masterton has never tried to conceal an early career in soft-core pornography.pornography.
* CelebrityParadox: Harry Erskine, narrator and recurring character of the ''Manitou'' novels, is a fictional character in ''Black Angel''.
* CelebrityParadox: Harry Erskine, narrator and recurring character of the ''Manitou'' novels, is a fictional character in ''Black Angel''.
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* DontTryThisAtHome: a stickler for accuracy, Masterton added a disclaimer to ''The Devils of D-Day'':
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* DontTryThisAtHome: a A stickler for accuracy, Masterton added a disclaimer to ''The Devils of D-Day'':
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* TheEndOrIsIt: many of his stand-alone horror novels finish on [[SequelHook a hint that the evil is not vanquished]].
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* TheEndOrIsIt: many Many of his stand-alone horror novels finish on [[SequelHook a hint that the evil is not vanquished]].
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* GaiasVengeance: David gets a terrifyling glimpse of a polluted future world in ''Prey''.
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* GaiasVengeance: David gets a terrifyling terrifying glimpse of a polluted future world in ''Prey''.
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* HeManWomanHater: An entire organization of them in ''Edgewise'' - [=FLAME=], or Father's League Against Mother's Evil, who claim to be performing a holy mission when they target and murder (via [[KillItWithFire burning]]) divorced women who've gotten custody of their children, then deliver the children to their father. And they perform these murders whether or not the father ''wanted'' his ex dead.
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* HeManWomanHater: An entire organization of them in ''Edgewise'' - -- [=FLAME=], or Father's League Against Mother's Evil, who claim to be performing a holy mission when they target and murder (via [[KillItWithFire burning]]) divorced women who've gotten custody of their children, then deliver the children to their father. And they perform these murders whether or not the father ''wanted'' his ex dead.
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* IndianBurialGround: Literature/TheManitou.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Certainly Misquamacus. Also ''Charnel House'' 's George Thousand Names, and George Iron Walker (who quickly turns out to be an antagonistic version) in ''Edgewise''.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Certainly Misquamacus. Also ''Charnel House'' 's George Thousand Names, and George Iron Walker (who quickly turns out to be an antagonistic version) in ''Edgewise''.
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* MultipleNarrativeModes: Not all of ''Literature/TheManitou'' books are narrated by Harry Erskine; ''Burial'' switches between his point of view and third-person.
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* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: the leyaks in ''Literature/DeathTrance''.
* PenName: published a few as 'Thomas Luke' (including {{Novelization}} of movie ''Phobia'' - which mentioned another of his novels, ''The Hell Candidate'').
* PenName: published a few as 'Thomas Luke' (including {{Novelization}} of movie ''Phobia'' - which mentioned another of his novels, ''The Hell Candidate'').
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* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: the The leyaks in ''Literature/DeathTrance''.
* PenName: Masterton published a few as 'Thomas Luke' (including a {{Novelization}} of the movie ''Phobia''- -- which mentioned another of his novels, ''The Hell Candidate'').
* PenName: Masterton published a few as 'Thomas Luke' (including a {{Novelization}} of the movie ''Phobia''
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Literally so in ''Night Plague''. In ''Revenge of the Manitou'', a young schoolteacher is frozen to death - while being raped by a Native American spirit of ice and winter.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Literally so in ''Night Plague''. In ''Revenge of the Manitou'', a young schoolteacher is frozen to death - while being raped by a Native American spirit of ice and winter.
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** Harry Erskine. As well as the Manitou series, ''The Djinn'' and mentioned as a [[CelebrityParadox fictional character]] in ''Black Angel''.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: ''Maiden Voyage'' - of the SS ''Arcadia'', [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny the most luxurious ocean liner]] ever built.
* TheSavageIndian: Misquamacus is a ''very'' savage Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: Misquamacus is a ''very'' savage Indian.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: ''Maiden Voyage'' - -- of the SS ''Arcadia'', [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny the most luxurious ocean liner]] ever built.
* TheSavageIndian: Misquamacus is a ''very'' savage Indian.built.
* TheSavageIndian: Misquamacus is a ''very'' savage Indian.
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%%* TheSleepless: 1994 novel set in Boston.
* SpookySeance: In ''The Manitou'' and ''Black Angel''.
* SpookySeance: In ''The Manitou'' and ''Black Angel''.
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* SpookySeance: In
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In ''The Sweetman Curve'', ''Burial'' and ''The Sleepless''.
* WhiteMagic: How Harry Erskine first defeats ''The Manitou'', and used by the Pope against the Devil in ''The Hell Candidate''.
* WhiteMagic: How Harry Erskine first defeats ''The Manitou'', and used by the Pope against the Devil in ''The Hell Candidate''.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In ''The Sweetman Curve'', ''Burial'' Curve'' and ''The Sleepless''.
* WhiteMagic:How Harry Erskine first defeats ''The Manitou'', and used Used by the Pope against the Devil in ''The Hell Candidate''.
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* ''' ''Literature/TheManitou'' series:'''
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* ''' ''Literature/TheManitou'' series:'''''Literature/TheManitou''/''Harry Erskine'' series:
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* '''the ''Night Warriors'' series:'''
** ''Night Warriors''
** ''Death Dream''
** ''Night Plague''
** ''Night Wars''
** ''The Ninth Nightmare''
* '''the ''Rook'' series:'''
** ''Rook''
** ''Tooth and Claw''
** ''The Terror''
** ''Snowman''
** ''Swimmer''
** ''Darkroom''
** ''Demon's Door''
** ''Garden of Evil''
* '''the ''Sissy Sawyer'' series:'''
** ''Touchy and Feely'' (based on the Beltway snipers)
** ''The Painted Man'' (also published as ''Death Mask'')
** ''The Red Hotel''
** '''the ''Nathan Underhill'' series:'''
** ''Basilisk''
** ''Petrified''
* '''the ''Katie Maguire'' series'''
* '''the ''Harry Erskine'' series'''
* '''Standalone novels:'''
including:
* ''Literature/DeathTrance'' (1986)
* ''The Devils of D-Day''
** ''Night Warriors''
** ''Death Dream''
** ''Night Plague''
** ''Night Wars''
** ''The Ninth Nightmare''
* '''the ''Rook'' series:'''
** ''Rook''
** ''Tooth and Claw''
** ''The Terror''
** ''Snowman''
** ''Swimmer''
** ''Darkroom''
** ''Demon's Door''
** ''Garden of Evil''
* '''the ''Sissy Sawyer'' series:'''
** ''Touchy and Feely'' (based on the Beltway snipers)
** ''The Painted Man'' (also published as ''Death Mask'')
** ''The Red Hotel''
** '''the ''Nathan Underhill'' series:'''
** ''Basilisk''
** ''Petrified''
* '''the ''Katie Maguire'' series'''
* '''the ''Harry Erskine'' series'''
* '''Standalone novels:'''
including:
* ''Literature/DeathTrance'' (1986)
* ''The Devils of D-Day''
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* '''the ''Night Warriors'' series:'''
series:
** ''NightWarriors''
Warriors'' (1987)
** ''DeathDream''
Dream'' (1988)
** ''NightPlague''
Plague'' (1991)
** ''NightWars''
Wars'' (2006)
** ''The NinthNightmare''
Nightmare'' (2011)
*'''the ''Rook'' series:'''
series:
**''Rook''
''Rook'' (1997)
** ''Tooth andClaw''
Claw'' (1997)
** ''TheTerror''
Terror'' (1998)
**''Snowman''
''Snowman'' (1999)
**''Swimmer''
''Swimmer'' (2001)
**''Darkroom''
''Darkroom'' (2004)
** ''Demon'sDoor''
Door'' (2010)
** ''Garden ofEvil''
Evil'' (2012)
*'''the ''Sissy Sawyer'' series:'''
series:
** ''Touchy and Feely'' (based on the Beltwaysnipers)
snipers) (2005)
** ''The Painted Man'' (also published as ''DeathMask'')
Mask'') (2008)
** ''The RedHotel''
** '''theHotel'' (2012)
* ''Nathan Underhill''series:'''
series:
**''Basilisk''
''Basilisk'' (2009)
**''Petrified''
''Petrified'' (2011)
*'''the ''Katie Maguire'' series'''
series
** ''White Bones'' (also published as ''Katie Maguire'' and ''A Terrible Beauty'') (2003)
** ''Broken Angels'' (also published as ''Voice of an Angel'') (2012)
** ''Red Light'' (2014)
** ''Taken for Dead'' (2014)
** ''Blood Sisters'' (2015)
** "Eye for an Eye" (short story) (2015)
** ''Buried'' (2016)
** ''Living Death'' (2016)
** "The Drowned" (short story) (2016)
** ''Dead Girls Dancing'' (2016)
** ''Dead Men Whistling'' (2018)
** ''Begging to Die'' (2019)
** ''The Last Drop of Blood'' (2020)
*'''the ''Harry Erskine'' series'''
* '''Standalone novels:'''
including:
*Standalone novels:
** ''Literature/DeathTrance'' (1986)
* ** ''The Devils of D-Day''
D-Day'' (1978)
** ''Night
** ''Death
** ''Night
** ''Night
** ''The Ninth
*
**
** ''Tooth and
** ''The
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**
**
** ''Demon's
** ''Garden of
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** ''Touchy and Feely'' (based on the Beltway
** ''The Painted Man'' (also published as ''Death
** ''The Red
** '''the
* ''Nathan Underhill''
**
**
*
** ''White Bones'' (also published as ''Katie Maguire'' and ''A Terrible Beauty'') (2003)
** ''Broken Angels'' (also published as ''Voice of an Angel'') (2012)
** ''Red Light'' (2014)
** ''Taken for Dead'' (2014)
** ''Blood Sisters'' (2015)
** "Eye for an Eye" (short story) (2015)
** ''Buried'' (2016)
** ''Living Death'' (2016)
** "The Drowned" (short story) (2016)
** ''Dead Girls Dancing'' (2016)
** ''Dead Men Whistling'' (2018)
** ''Begging to Die'' (2019)
** ''The Last Drop of Blood'' (2020)
*
* '''Standalone novels:'''
including:
*
** ''Literature/DeathTrance'' (1986)
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: At least once in every novel.
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* ChestBurster: The very first novel in the Night Warriors series features womb-bursting eels tearing out of women who had sex with Yaomatil, the demon who's also known as Asmodeus. The eels are the malevolent, monstrous sperm cells of Yoamatil that planted itself to the uterine wall and grow until they're tear out and do some evil like bite off the face of one poor cop.
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* {{Magitek}}: The weapons and armor of the Night Warriors are powered by Dream energy and given to them by what's essentially {{God}}. These include a laser-shooting {{BFG}} and a hypersonic, flying skateboard. Over the centuries, the Night Warriors' powers and equipment have improved in line with human technology advancing.
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* SuperTeam: This is essentially what the Night Warriors are, they are a team of people assembled by [[{{God}} Ashapola]] and given unique powers (one guy was [[SuperSpeed a speedster]] with a hypersonic, flying skateboard!!) to safeguard humanity from the forces of darkness that haunt the dreamworld.
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* TheSleepless: 1994 novel set in Boston.
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->''"Some writers write stories that grab you by the throat. Graham Masterton tears out your thyroid, reaches down your esophagus, rips out your stomach, liver and some intestines, stomps on them and sets the remains on fire."''
-->-- Review of ''The Sleepless''
-->-- Review of ''The Sleepless''
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* HollywoodExorcism: The Pope against the Devil in ''The Hell Candidate''.
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* HollywoodExorcism: HollywoodExorcism:
** The Pope against the Devil in ''The HellCandidate''.Candidate''.
** Averted in ''The Devils of D-Day'' where it's pointed out that exorcisms are hardly ever used these days, and the only priest who actually believes in the danger is too old and feeble for the task.
** The Pope against the Devil in ''The Hell
** Averted in ''The Devils of D-Day'' where it's pointed out that exorcisms are hardly ever used these days, and the only priest who actually believes in the danger is too old and feeble for the task.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: ''The Devils of D-Day'' [[spoiler:inverts this, as it's the Allies who were in league with demons]]
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* {{Ghostapo}}: ''The Devils of D-Day'' [[spoiler:inverts inverts this, as it's the Allies who were in league with demons]]demons, using thirteen possessed tanks for the breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''Famine'', farmer Ed Hardesty is made to do a TV appeal that confirms the cover story for the impending crisis. Instead, he follows his conscience and tells the truth to the nation, triggering the collapse of society.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In ''Famine'', farmer Ed Hardesty is made to do a TV appeal that confirms the cover story for the impending crisis. Instead, he follows his conscience and tells the truth to the nation, triggering the collapse ofsociety.society.
** In ''The Devils of D-Day'', an American cartographer frees a demon trapped in a World War 2 tank because [[LeakingCanOfEvil its influence is poisoning the surrounding village]]. The demon murders the local priest before it can be exorcised, and forces him to travel to England to free the rest of its brethren.
** In ''Famine'', farmer Ed Hardesty is made to do a TV appeal that confirms the cover story for the impending crisis. Instead, he follows his conscience and tells the truth to the nation, triggering the collapse of
** In ''The Devils of D-Day'', an American cartographer frees a demon trapped in a World War 2 tank because [[LeakingCanOfEvil its influence is poisoning the surrounding village]]. The demon murders the local priest before it can be exorcised, and forces him to travel to England to free the rest of its brethren.
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* SealedEvilInACan: literally so in ''The Devils of D-Day''.
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* SealedEvilInACan: literally Literally so in ''The Devils of D-Day''.D-Day'', where a demon is welded up inside a World War 2 tank.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Literally so in ''Night Plague''.
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GABA is now about two affairs that are portrayed differently. Single "good" examples go under Sympathetic Adulterer. ZCE
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: In ''Famine'', ''Condor'' and ''Sacrifice'' to name just a few.
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* AntagonistTitle: Various - ''The Manitou'', ''The Djinn'', ''Tengu''.
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* TheXOfY: ''The Devils of D-Day'', ''The Wells of Hell''.
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* HowWeGotHere: Historical sagas including ''Railroad'', ''Solitaire'', ''Corroboree'' and ''Silver'' have prologues set after the rest of the story.
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* HeManWomanHater: An entire organization of them in ''Edgewise'' - [=FLAME=], or Father's League Against Mother's Evil, who claim to be performing a holy mission when they target and murder (via [[KillItWithFire burning]]) divorced women who've gotten custody of their children, then deliver the children to their father. And they perform these murders whether or not the father ''wanted'' his ex dead.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Certainly Misquamacus. Also ''Charnel House'' 's George Thousand Names.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Certainly Misquamacus. Also ''Charnel House'' 's George Thousand Names.Names, and George Iron Walker (who quickly turns out to be an antagonistic version) in ''Edgewise''.
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* ''' ''Literature/TheManitou'' series:-'''
** ''The Manitou'', (1976)
** ''Revenge of the Manitou'', (1979)
** ''Burial'', (1991
** ''Spirit Jump'' (short story), (1996)
** ''Manitou Blood'', (2005)
** ''Blind Panic'', (2009)
** ''Plague of the Manitou'', (2015)
* '''the ''Night Warriors'' series:-'''
** ''The Manitou'', (1976)
** ''Revenge of the Manitou'', (1979)
** ''Burial'', (1991
** ''Spirit Jump'' (short story), (1996)
** ''Manitou Blood'', (2005)
** ''Blind Panic'', (2009)
** ''Plague of the Manitou'', (2015)
* '''the ''Night Warriors'' series:-'''
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* ''' ''Literature/TheManitou'' series:-'''
series:'''
** ''The Manitou'' (1976)
** ''The Djinn'' (1977)[[note]]Featuring Harry Erskine from ''The Manitou'',(1976)
but no actual Manitou.[[/note]]
** ''Revenge of theManitou'', Manitou'' (1979)
**''Burial'', ''Burial'' (1991
** ''Spirit Jump'' (shortstory), story; collected in anthology ''Faces of Fear'') (1996)
** ''ManitouBlood'', Blood'' (2005)
** ''BlindPanic'', Panic'' (2009)
** ''Plague of theManitou'', Manitou'' (2015)
* '''the ''Night Warriors''series:-'''series:'''
** ''The Manitou'' (1976)
** ''The Djinn'' (1977)[[note]]Featuring Harry Erskine from ''The Manitou'',
** ''Revenge of the
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** ''Spirit Jump'' (short
** ''Manitou
** ''Blind
** ''Plague of the
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* {{Wendigo}}: One of the main antagonists of ''Edgewise'', along with the man who summoned it up.
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* SpookySeance: In ''The Manitou'' and ''Black Angel''.
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* TurnInYourBadge: Lieutenant Foggia is forced to in ''Black Angel''.
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* DemonicPossession: The U S [[PresidentEvil President]] in ''The Hell Candidate''.
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* WhiteMagic: How Harry Erskine first defeats ''The Manitou'', and used by the Pope against the Devil in ''The Hell Candidate''.
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* MadLibThrillerTitle: ''The Sweetman Curve'', ''The Hell Candidate'', ''The Chosen Child'', ''The Ninth Nightmare'', ''The Red Hotel''.
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* WeNeedADistraction: A few to get police looking the wrong way in ''Ikon''.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Taken UpToEleven in ''Tengu'':
-->...was only intended to be the start. Kappa planned to attack one nuclear-power station after another, year by year, until America's spirit was broken and her lands were glowing with radioactivity. She would never rise again. What Kappa wanted to do was to release so much nuclear energy into her atmosphere that her children would be born dead or deformed for centuries to come
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* SuddenDownerEnding: ''Tengu''.
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* DarkestAfrica: Setting for ''Solitaire''.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The hair of the Coyote demon in ''Charnel House'' [[spoiler:is entwined around a cable in the Golden Gate Bridge.]]
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* TreasureChestCavity: Painful hiding-place for the diamond in ''Solitaire''.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In ''Burial'' and ''The Sleepless''.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: 'Lamprey' in ''Sacrifice''.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: ''Lady of Fortune'' has early 20th Century investment bankers dismissing motor-cars and the Thompson machine gun as not worth investing in.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: At least once in every novel.
* HighClassCallGirl: Colleen Petley in ''Ikon''.
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* Franchise/CthulhuMythos: Misquamacus, of the ''[[Literature/TheManitou Manitou]]'' series, originates from Creator/AugustDerleth and Creator/HPLovecraft's ''The Lurker at the Threshold''. Several of his standalone novels and short stories also take inspiration from the Mythos, such as ''Prey'' and ''The Wells of Hell''.
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: ''Headlines'', set in the 1949 offices of a Chicago newspaper.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Could be the Cornelius family motto in ''Rich''.
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* GenuineHumanHide: What the Grays need in ''Family Portrait''.
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* MirrorUniverse: Martin Williams enters a literal one in ''Mirror''.
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* CreepyChangingPainting: One of many effects ''The Heirloom'' has on its owner's property.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: ''Rich'', the decades-spanning ''{{Series/Dallas}}'' -style saga of the Corbelius family, runs to over 700 pages.
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* DuringTheWar: The American Civil War takes place during ''Railroad'', World War One during ''Lady of Fortune'', World War Two during ''Lords of the Air''.
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* LandDownUnder: ''Corroboree'' is set in 19th-Century Australia. Protagonist Eyre Walker [[BoldExplorer leads an expedition]] into its uncharted deserts.
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* {{Prospector}}: Henry T. Roberts, protagonist of ''Silver'', is an unwitting one.
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* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: ''Lords of the Air'', about an aircraft-manufacturing family.
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* DayOfTheJackboot: The USA lets the USSR takes over Western Europe in a 1985 political thriller. Its title? ''Sacrifice''.
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* NaziHunter: Bill Bennett in ''Condor''.
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* StateSec: In 1982's ''Ikon'', learning that [[spoiler:the USSR is secretly running the USA]] is a death sentence.
* SyntheticPlague: Unleashed in ''Condor''.
* SyntheticPlague: Unleashed in ''Condor''.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: many of his stand-alone horror novels finish on [[SequelHook a hint that the evil is not vanquished]].
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* TheRoaringTwenties: ''Maiden Voyage'' - of the SS ''Arcadia'', [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny the most luxurious ocean liner]] ever built.
