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Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist, best known for his early horror novels, although he branched out in later works.
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Robert R. [=McCammon=] (1952-) Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist, best known for his early horror novels, although he branched out in later works.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: In ''Stinger'', the alien antagonist and the biomechanical replicants it creates have segmented tails ending in a heavy ball of spikes which are used as brutal weapons (and in the case of the larger replicants, they are also used to demolish buildings and cars like a wrecking ball).
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* BringMyBrownPants: ''Stinger'' features a shell-shocked war veteran, Sarge Dennison, being among the victims of a small town to be kidnapped by an alien invader, and when Sarge gets a good look at the alien, he's so terrified that he wets his pants.
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* InitiationCeremony: In ''Stinger'', a group of boys initiate the only girl into their circle by chewing tobacco and spitting it into a cup. She drinks it.
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* SinisterScrapingSound: In ''Stinger'', one of the characters hears a scraping sound and only sees four twisted, alien claws by peering underneath a house that's on bricks. Prudently, he runs away.
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* VillainousValour: In ''Stinger'', the character Mack Cade, a sleazy, selfish, used-car dealer/chop-shop owner involved in organized crime and drug cartels, goes into a junkyard where an alien creature has just brutally killed at least one person, in order to find his dog that had bolted off into said junkyard. Before leaving, he gives his prized Mercedes to one of the protagonists and tells him, "You gotta know who your friends are, kid. Gotta stick up for them. Think on these things."
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* BigDamnHeroes: Train and Arden arriving [[spoiler:in a swiftboat]] just in time to save Dan’s bacon in ''Gone South''. It is truly a stand-up-and-cheer moment.
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* BringMyBrownPants: ''Stinger'' features a shell shocked war veteran, Sarge Dennison, being among the victims of a small town to be kidnapped by an alien invader and when Sarge gets a good look at the alien he's so terrified that he wets his pants.
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* BringMyBrownPants: ''Stinger'' features a shell shocked shell-shocked war veteran, Sarge Dennison, being among the victims of a small town to be kidnapped by an alien invader invader, and when Sarge gets a good look at the alien alien, he's so terrified that he wets his pants.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In ''The Wolf's Hour'', the werewolves mainly follow the standard man into full wolf pattern and can shift at will. The main difference is that the werewolves age as wolves while in wolf form, so it avoids the issue of everything being solved by turning into a wolf.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In ''The Wolf's Hour'', the werewolves mainly follow the standard man into full wolf man-into-full-wolf pattern and can shift at will. The main difference is that the werewolves age as wolves while in wolf form, so it avoids the issue of everything being solved by turning into a wolf.
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* SouthernGothic: Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (''Stinger''), and [=McCammon=] himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
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* SouthernGothic: Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (''Stinger''), and [=McCammon=] himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes such as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
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* VillainousValour: In ''Stinger'', the character Mack Cade, a sleazy, selfish used car dealer/chop shop owner involved in organized crime and drug cartels, goes into a junkyard where an alien creature has just brutally killed at least one person, in order to find his dog that had bolted off into said junk yard. Before leaving, he gives his prized Mercedes to one of the protagonists and tells him, "You gotta know who your friends are, kid. Gotta stick up for them. Think on these things."
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* VillainousValour: In ''Stinger'', the character Mack Cade, a sleazy, selfish used car dealer/chop shop selfish, used-car dealer/chop-shop owner involved in organized crime and drug cartels, goes into a junkyard where an alien creature has just brutally killed at least one person, in order to find his dog that had bolted off into said junk yard.junkyard. Before leaving, he gives his prized Mercedes to one of the protagonists and tells him, "You gotta know who your friends are, kid. Gotta stick up for them. Think on these things."
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Notable works include:
* ''Swan Song'': A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter."
* ''Boy's Life''
* ''Mine'': A love letter to TheEighties, and its ideological clash with TheSixties.
* ''Blue World'': A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'' in 1986.
* ''They Thirst'': Modern vampires take over L.A.
* ''Swan Song'': A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter."
* ''Boy's Life''
* ''Mine'': A love letter to TheEighties, and its ideological clash with TheSixties.
* ''Blue World'': A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'' in 1986.
* ''They Thirst'': Modern vampires take over L.A.
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!!Works by Robert R. [=McCammon=] with their own pages include:
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* ''Blue World'': A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'' in 1986.
* ''Blue World'': A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'' in 1986.
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''Literature/TheFurtherAdventuresOfBatman'': Contributed "Literature/OnABeautifulSummersDayHeWas"
*''Literature/TheyThirst''''Literature/SwanSong'': A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter".
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'': Modern vampires take over L.A.
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* ''Literature/TheyThirst'': Modern vampires take over L.A.
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* EyeScream: A particularly memorable story in ''Blue World''.
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* BabyDollBaby: In the suspense novel ''Mine'', a character, prior to kidnapping a baby, has a few of these. [[spoiler:Which she names for members of Music/TheDoors...and melts on the stove when they won't "behave."]]
* BewareMyStingerTail: In ''Stinger'', the alien antagonist and the biomechanical replicants it creates have segmented tails ending in a heavy ball of spikes which are used as brutal weapons (and in the case of the larger replicants, they are also used to demolish buildings and cars like a wrecking ball).
* BringMyBrownPants: ''Stinger'' features a shell shocked war veteran, Sarge Dennison, being among the victims of a small town to be kidnapped by an alien invader and when Sarge gets a good look at the alien he's so terrified that he wets his pants.
* ConjoinedTwins: Flint Murtaugh, a bounty hunter from ''Gone South'', has a parasitic twin (Clint) embedded in his torso.
* ElvisImpersonator: In ''Gone South'', a bounty hunter is unwillingly partnered with an apprentice who dresses like Elvis.
* EyeScream: A particularly memorable story in ''Blue World''. The title is "Pin", which gives you some idea.
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: In "He'll Come Knocking On Your Door", residents of a certain small town are all prosperous and successful. But a few days before Hallowe'en they receive a list from the Devil, requesting various treats from each house. A few of the treats are small pieces of their bodies, toes and the like. Refuse to provide them, and he'll come knocking...
* {{Ghostapo}}: ''The Night Boat'' features a U-boat full of very angry, very hungry Nazi zombies created by HollywoodVoodoo.
* InitiationCeremony: In ''Stinger'', a group of boys initiate the only girl into their circle by chewing tobacco and spitting it into a cup. She drinks it.
* InnOfNoReturn: In ''Speaks the Nightbird''.
* BewareMyStingerTail: In ''Stinger'', the alien antagonist and the biomechanical replicants it creates have segmented tails ending in a heavy ball of spikes which are used as brutal weapons (and in the case of the larger replicants, they are also used to demolish buildings and cars like a wrecking ball).
* BringMyBrownPants: ''Stinger'' features a shell shocked war veteran, Sarge Dennison, being among the victims of a small town to be kidnapped by an alien invader and when Sarge gets a good look at the alien he's so terrified that he wets his pants.
* ConjoinedTwins: Flint Murtaugh, a bounty hunter from ''Gone South'', has a parasitic twin (Clint) embedded in his torso.
* ElvisImpersonator: In ''Gone South'', a bounty hunter is unwillingly partnered with an apprentice who dresses like Elvis.
* EyeScream: A particularly memorable story in ''Blue World''. The title is "Pin", which gives you some idea.
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: In "He'll Come Knocking On Your Door", residents of a certain small town are all prosperous and successful. But a few days before Hallowe'en they receive a list from the Devil, requesting various treats from each house. A few of the treats are small pieces of their bodies, toes and the like. Refuse to provide them, and he'll come knocking...
* {{Ghostapo}}: ''The Night Boat'' features a U-boat full of very angry, very hungry Nazi zombies created by HollywoodVoodoo.
* InitiationCeremony: In ''Stinger'', a group of boys initiate the only girl into their circle by chewing tobacco and spitting it into a cup. She drinks it.
* InnOfNoReturn: In ''Speaks the Nightbird''.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Flint Murtaugh from ''Gone South'' is a bounty hunter with three arms: his own, and the single undersized limb of his parasitic twin, Clint. Clint is near-mindless, blind, and embedded in Flint's torso, yet has been trained by his brother to point a small pistol as a hold-out surprise. Subverted in that Clint can't aim or fire it properly, but Flint's quarry seldom realizes this.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In ''The Wolf's Hour'', the werewolves mainly follow the standard man into full wolf pattern and can shift at will. The main difference is that the werewolves age as wolves while in wolf form, so it avoids the issue of everything being solved by turning into a wolf.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the short story "Nightcrawlers", the main character is a Vietnam vet. The kicker: his nightmares have come to life and stalk him at a truck stop.
* SinisterScrapingSound: In ''Stinger'', one of the characters hears a scraping sound and only sees four twisted, alien claws by peering underneath a house that's on bricks. Prudently, he runs away.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In ''The Wolf's Hour'', the werewolves mainly follow the standard man into full wolf pattern and can shift at will. The main difference is that the werewolves age as wolves while in wolf form, so it avoids the issue of everything being solved by turning into a wolf.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the short story "Nightcrawlers", the main character is a Vietnam vet. The kicker: his nightmares have come to life and stalk him at a truck stop.
* SinisterScrapingSound: In ''Stinger'', one of the characters hears a scraping sound and only sees four twisted, alien claws by peering underneath a house that's on bricks. Prudently, he runs away.
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* ThisWasHisTrueForm: In ''The Wolf's Hour'', the body of a werewolf spasms at death, becoming a mishmash of wolf and human parts.
* TraintopBattle: ''The Wolf's Hour'' has the protagonist forced to fight his way from one end to the other of a train in Nazi Germany that has been rebuilt as a rolling death trap while the EgomaniacHunter stalks him from behind.
* {{Tuckerization}}: "Something Passed By" is set in a small town whose streets and landmarks are named for several contemporary horror authors.
-->''It floated over Grant Street, where the statues of town fathers stood, past the Victorian houses at the end of King's Lane that had burned with such beautiful flames, past the empty playground at the silent Bloch School, over Bradbury Park where paint flaked off the grinning carousel horses, down Koontz Street where the businesses used to thrive, over Ellison Field where no bat would smack another softball.''
* VillainousValour: In ''Stinger'', the character Mack Cade, a sleazy, selfish used car dealer/chop shop owner involved in organized crime and drug cartels, goes into a junkyard where an alien creature has just brutally killed at least one person, in order to find his dog that had bolted off into said junk yard. Before leaving, he gives his prized Mercedes to one of the protagonists and tells him, "You gotta know who your friends are, kid. Gotta stick up for them. Think on these things."
* TraintopBattle: ''The Wolf's Hour'' has the protagonist forced to fight his way from one end to the other of a train in Nazi Germany that has been rebuilt as a rolling death trap while the EgomaniacHunter stalks him from behind.
* {{Tuckerization}}: "Something Passed By" is set in a small town whose streets and landmarks are named for several contemporary horror authors.
-->''It floated over Grant Street, where the statues of town fathers stood, past the Victorian houses at the end of King's Lane that had burned with such beautiful flames, past the empty playground at the silent Bloch School, over Bradbury Park where paint flaked off the grinning carousel horses, down Koontz Street where the businesses used to thrive, over Ellison Field where no bat would smack another softball.''
* VillainousValour: In ''Stinger'', the character Mack Cade, a sleazy, selfish used car dealer/chop shop owner involved in organized crime and drug cartels, goes into a junkyard where an alien creature has just brutally killed at least one person, in order to find his dog that had bolted off into said junk yard. Before leaving, he gives his prized Mercedes to one of the protagonists and tells him, "You gotta know who your friends are, kid. Gotta stick up for them. Think on these things."
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Robert R. McCammon (1952-) is an American novelist, best known for his early horror novels, although he branched out in later works.
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Robert R. McCammon [=McCammon=] (1952-) is an American novelist, best known for his early horror novels, although he branched out in later works.
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'' : A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter."
* ''Literature/BoysLife''
* ''Literature/{{Mine}}'' : A love letter to TheEighties, and its ideological clash with TheSixties.
* ''Literature/BlueWorld'' : A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' in 1986.
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'' : Modern vampires take over L.A.
* ''Literature/BoysLife''
* ''Literature/{{Mine}}'' : A love letter to TheEighties, and its ideological clash with TheSixties.
* ''Literature/BlueWorld'' : A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' in 1986.
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'' : Modern vampires take over L.A.
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* ''Literature/SwanSong'' : ''Swan Song'': A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter."
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''Boy's Life''
*''Literature/{{Mine}}'' : ''Mine'': A love letter to TheEighties, and its ideological clash with TheSixties.
TheSixties.
*''Literature/BlueWorld'' : ''Blue World'': A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'' in 1986.
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* EyeScream : A particularly memorable story in ''Literature/BlueWorld''.
* MostWritersAreWriters : Laura from ''Literature/{{Mine}}'' is a journalist.
* SouthernGothic : Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (Stinger), and McCammon himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
* MostWritersAreWriters : Laura from ''Literature/{{Mine}}'' is a journalist.
* SouthernGothic : Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (Stinger), and McCammon himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
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* EyeScream : EyeScream: A particularly memorable story in ''Literature/BlueWorld''.
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* MagicRealism : Overtones of this in ''Literature/BoysLife''.
* MostWritersAreWriters : Laura from ''Literature/{{Mine}}'' is a journalist. Cory from ''Literature/BoysLife'' is a writer. Gayle works for a tabloid called ''The Tattler.''
* SouthernGothic : Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (Stinger), and McCammon himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
* MostWritersAreWriters : Laura from ''Literature/{{Mine}}'' is a journalist. Cory from ''Literature/BoysLife'' is a writer. Gayle works for a tabloid called ''The Tattler.''
* SouthernGothic : Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (Stinger), and McCammon himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
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''Literature/{{Mine}}'' : A love letter to TheEighties, and its ideological clash with TheSixties.
* ''Literature/BlueWorld'' : A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' in1986.1986.
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'' : Modern vampires take over L.A.
Some tropes associated with the author include:
* EyeScream : A particularly memorable story in ''Literature/BlueWorld''.
* MagicRealism : Overtones of this in ''Literature/BoysLife''.
* SouthernGothic : Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (Stinger), and McCammon himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
* ''Literature/BlueWorld'' : A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' in
* ''Literature/TheyThirst'' : Modern vampires take over L.A.
Some tropes associated with the author include:
* EyeScream : A particularly memorable story in ''Literature/BlueWorld''.
* MagicRealism : Overtones of this in ''Literature/BoysLife''.
* SouthernGothic : Many of his stories are set in the American South or Southwest (Stinger), and McCammon himself is from Alabama. This includes tropes as redemption, family secrets, creepy places, and so on.
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Robert R. McCammon (1952-) is an American novelist, best known for his early horror novels, although he branched out in later works.
Notable works include:
* ''Literature/SwanSong'' : A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter."
* ''Literature/BoysLife''
* ''Literature/{{Mine}}''
* ''Literature/BlueWorld'' : A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' in 1986.
Notable works include:
* ''Literature/SwanSong'' : A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel, set during the "nuclear winter."
* ''Literature/BoysLife''
* ''Literature/{{Mine}}''
* ''Literature/BlueWorld'' : A collection of short stories. "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into a segment of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' in 1986.
