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The Literature/AndrewDoran series is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos TwoFistedTales action adventure series by Matthew Davenport. Doctor Andrew Doran is an Adventurer Archaeologist in the employ of Miskatonic University during the build-up to World War 2. An expert on the Cthulhu Mythos and its various monsters, he is shocked and horrified to discover the Nazis have started using the occult in their plots to Take Over the World.
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The Literature/AndrewDoran series is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' TwoFistedTales action adventure series by Matthew Davenport. Davenport.
Doctor Andrew Doran is an Adventurer Archaeologist in the employ of Miskatonic University during the build-up to World War 2. An expert on the Cthulhu Mythos and its various monsters, he is shocked and horrified to discover the Nazis have started using the occult in their plots to Take Over the World.
Doctor Andrew Doran is an Adventurer Archaeologist in the employ of Miskatonic University during the build-up to World War 2. An expert on the Cthulhu Mythos and its various monsters, he is shocked and horrified to discover the Nazis have started using the occult in their plots to Take Over the World.
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[[caption-width-right:333:Winter is eternal.]]
The Literature/AndrewDoran series is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos TwoFistedTales action adventure series by Matthew Davenport. Doctor Andrew Doran is an Adventurer Archaeologist in the employ of Miskatonic University during the build-up to World War 2. An expert on the Cthulhu Mythos and its various monsters, he is shocked and horrified to discover the Nazis have started using the occult in their plots to Take Over the World.
Rather than a CosmicHorror story, the Andrew Doran series is a mostly BlackAndWhiteMorality tale of our arrogant protagonist working to engage in larger-than-life battles agaisnt supernatural monsters. The resemblance to Franchise/IndianaJones is deliberate and frequently homaged in-universe.
Promoted to the rank of Dean of Miskatonic University, Andrew Doran struggles with paperwork more than he ever did with Nazis or shoggoths. He is also haunted by a split personality that seeks to claim his body for their own. Encountering the daughter of an old friend breaking into his office, Andrew discovers that the Nazis want to claim the ancient and terrible weapons of the Elder Things. Seeking to find the lost Professor Dyer before the Nazis, they will journey to Antarctica to finish a mission into the Mountains of Madness.
It is followed by ''Literature/AndrewDoranAndTheScrollOfNightmares''.
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''Andrew Doran and the Mountains of Madness'' contains the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Nancy Dyer is every bit the fighter that Andrew is as well as a LegacyHero.
* ActuallyIAmHim: Nancy's lie that she was meeting with the Dean in her father's office failed due to the fact that Andrew Doran ''is'' the Dean of Miskatonic University.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: The shoggoths are very handily able to deal with the Nazis on their own.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Leo's physical body dies but Andrew arranges for him to be able to live in the Dream Lands.]]
* BigBad: Befehlsleiter (Command Leader) Erich Strobel is the Nazi seeking the Elder Things' ancient city.
** BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: Olivia actually proves to be a bigger threat than Erich.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Andrew trades [[spoiler: Olivia]] to the Timothy in order to get her out of his head. Possibly literally once we discover [[spoiler: Timothy is Nyarlathotep.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: Andrew heads into the Blasted Heath to recover William Dyer and is followed by the Nazis. The Color (or more precisely, its offspring) takes strong exception to the latter.
* FaceHeelTurn: Olivia has gone from a helpful [[spoiler: spirit]] to a constant tempting, nagging, and insulting presence. [[spoiler: She gets ''much'' worse once she's turned over to Timothy.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Olivia's primary ability is to possess people from the Dreamlands and use them to attack Andrew.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Leo makes one of these to try to stop Olivia in Nancy's body.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The Child of Dreams AKA Annie that Andrew and Olivia encounter in the Dream Lands terrifies even the locals.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Andrew Doran trades Olivia to Timothy despite the fact she's a sentient free willed entity born from his mind.]]
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler: Ammi from ''Literature/TheColorOutOfSpace'' is finally killed off.]]
** [[spoiler: Doctor Dyer doesn't survive his second trip to Antarctica.]]
** [[spoiler: Leo dies at the end of the book, though he also AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
* {{Macguffin}}: The quest for the Elder Things' technology is what motivates Andrew this time around.
* PollutedWasteland: The Blasted Heath, having had its reservoir drained away, is a hellish place avoided by the locals.
* PowerUp: [[spoiler: Strobel was actually intending to come to the city in order to transform himself into a primordial proto-shoggoth that was far more powerful than the current members of his kind.]]
* {{Precursors}}: As per ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the Elder Things used to be the most powerful race on Earth and predate humanity by billions of years.
* RealityWarper: Annie possesses the power to warp reality as a child born to the Dream Lands.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Strobel is actually a shoggoth rather than a Nazi.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Olivia spends an unknown amount of time in Timothy's care but apparently it is enough to drive her completely insane as well as make her obsessed with killing Andrew.]]
* WastelandElder: Ammi is the only human being who knows anything about the Blasted Heath and lives there.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: [[spoiler: An odd example as the Nazis and Andrew are desperate to find the Elder Things' armoyr. When they do, they discover the Elder Things' ultimate weapons were shoggoths. Which are more or less uncontrollable in large numbers as the Elder Things found out.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Strobel feels this way toward Andrew Doran. He doesn't return the favor.
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[[caption-width-right:333:Winter is eternal.]]
The Literature/AndrewDoran series is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos TwoFistedTales action adventure series by Matthew Davenport. Doctor Andrew Doran is an Adventurer Archaeologist in the employ of Miskatonic University during the build-up to World War 2. An expert on the Cthulhu Mythos and its various monsters, he is shocked and horrified to discover the Nazis have started using the occult in their plots to Take Over the World.
Rather than a CosmicHorror story, the Andrew Doran series is a mostly BlackAndWhiteMorality tale of our arrogant protagonist working to engage in larger-than-life battles agaisnt supernatural monsters. The resemblance to Franchise/IndianaJones is deliberate and frequently homaged in-universe.
Promoted to the rank of Dean of Miskatonic University, Andrew Doran struggles with paperwork more than he ever did with Nazis or shoggoths. He is also haunted by a split personality that seeks to claim his body for their own. Encountering the daughter of an old friend breaking into his office, Andrew discovers that the Nazis want to claim the ancient and terrible weapons of the Elder Things. Seeking to find the lost Professor Dyer before the Nazis, they will journey to Antarctica to finish a mission into the Mountains of Madness.
It is followed by ''Literature/AndrewDoranAndTheScrollOfNightmares''.
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''Andrew Doran and the Mountains of Madness'' contains the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Nancy Dyer is every bit the fighter that Andrew is as well as a LegacyHero.
* ActuallyIAmHim: Nancy's lie that she was meeting with the Dean in her father's office failed due to the fact that Andrew Doran ''is'' the Dean of Miskatonic University.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: The shoggoths are very handily able to deal with the Nazis on their own.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Leo's physical body dies but Andrew arranges for him to be able to live in the Dream Lands.]]
* BigBad: Befehlsleiter (Command Leader) Erich Strobel is the Nazi seeking the Elder Things' ancient city.
** BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: Olivia actually proves to be a bigger threat than Erich.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Andrew trades [[spoiler: Olivia]] to the Timothy in order to get her out of his head. Possibly literally once we discover [[spoiler: Timothy is Nyarlathotep.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: Andrew heads into the Blasted Heath to recover William Dyer and is followed by the Nazis. The Color (or more precisely, its offspring) takes strong exception to the latter.
* FaceHeelTurn: Olivia has gone from a helpful [[spoiler: spirit]] to a constant tempting, nagging, and insulting presence. [[spoiler: She gets ''much'' worse once she's turned over to Timothy.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Olivia's primary ability is to possess people from the Dreamlands and use them to attack Andrew.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Leo makes one of these to try to stop Olivia in Nancy's body.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The Child of Dreams AKA Annie that Andrew and Olivia encounter in the Dream Lands terrifies even the locals.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Andrew Doran trades Olivia to Timothy despite the fact she's a sentient free willed entity born from his mind.]]
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler: Ammi from ''Literature/TheColorOutOfSpace'' is finally killed off.]]
** [[spoiler: Doctor Dyer doesn't survive his second trip to Antarctica.]]
** [[spoiler: Leo dies at the end of the book, though he also AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
* {{Macguffin}}: The quest for the Elder Things' technology is what motivates Andrew this time around.
* PollutedWasteland: The Blasted Heath, having had its reservoir drained away, is a hellish place avoided by the locals.
* PowerUp: [[spoiler: Strobel was actually intending to come to the city in order to transform himself into a primordial proto-shoggoth that was far more powerful than the current members of his kind.]]
* {{Precursors}}: As per ''At the Mountains of Madness'', the Elder Things used to be the most powerful race on Earth and predate humanity by billions of years.
* RealityWarper: Annie possesses the power to warp reality as a child born to the Dream Lands.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Strobel is actually a shoggoth rather than a Nazi.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Olivia spends an unknown amount of time in Timothy's care but apparently it is enough to drive her completely insane as well as make her obsessed with killing Andrew.]]
* WastelandElder: Ammi is the only human being who knows anything about the Blasted Heath and lives there.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: [[spoiler: An odd example as the Nazis and Andrew are desperate to find the Elder Things' armoyr. When they do, they discover the Elder Things' ultimate weapons were shoggoths. Which are more or less uncontrollable in large numbers as the Elder Things found out.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Strobel feels this way toward Andrew Doran. He doesn't return the favor.
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