History Literature / DumaKey

* {{Blackface}}: PlayedForHorror, [[spoiler:at least initially]]. [[spoiler:One of the first of Elizabeth's creations that Perse employs against Edgar, Wireman, and Jack is a pitch-black man with big red lips who moves in a weirdly stiff manner, which manages to initially scare the crap out of all three of them. It turns out that it is based on Elizabeth's father's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_jockey lawn jockey figurine]], which she was afraid of as a child. Once they realize that the creature, aside from his scary looks, cannot physically harm them and is effectively little more than a glorified scarecrow, the trio cannot help but have a bit of laugh about the situation and the political incorrectness of the figurine.]]

* AfterlifeExpress: Soul Ship

* AmicableExes: Up to a point, at least.

* AnomalousArt: Edgar's paintings

* AxeCrazy: Perse.
* BigBad: Perse.
* [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Bogeyman]]: Charley. Also, [[spoiler: the Big Boy. WIF TEEF!]]

* DaddysGirl: Ilse
* DarkSecret: Of the Eastlake family, and you know, Perse, too.
* DontGoInTheWoods
* [[DoorStopper Doorstopper]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Perse. Oh man, Perse.]]

* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]
** French example: Linnie's boyfriend Ric.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Emery, Adie, and the twins certainly count.]]

* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Edgar and Wireman

* RedSkyTakeWarning

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[spoiler: The twins, Tessie and Lo-Lo.]] AAAAHHHHH.

* UndeadChild: [[spoiler: Tessie and Lo-Lo.]]

* UncannyValleyGirl: Perse is described as beautiful in her doll form, up until the moment one realizes she has a hidden third eye under the bangs. [[spoiler: Later in the seconds she attacks Edgar it is implied she also has an unnerving set of razor-teeth and claws.]]
* UndeadChild: [[spoiler: Tessie and Lo-Lo]]
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: After [[spoiler:Ilse Freemantle]] is murdered, Pam lets Edgar know that he should have died in the accident, which, to her at least, would have been a "Happy ending".

** [[spoiler:"My father was a skindiver.", the picnic basket in the attic, and the china dolls in the koi pond are among the most obvious. Some of her last words to Wireman also turned out to be helpful: The table is leaking," "Drown her back to sleep," "You will want to but you mustn't."]]

In this novel by Creator/StephenKing, a retired building company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Freemantle tells the story of events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. The prelude to this, happening some months before, occurs when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane. During the process, he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and becomes prone to intense and violent fits of anger, especially when his injuries are causing him trouble.

** [[spoiler:"My father was a skindiver.", the picnic basket in the attic, and the china dolls in the koi pond are among the most obvious. Some of her last words to Wireman also turned out to be helpful: "Drown her back to sleep," "You will want to but you mustn't."]]

* EveryoneIsSexierIfFrench: Linnie's boyfriend Ric.

* RedandBlackandEvilAllOver: Perse wears a red robe and has black...hair?

* ArcWords: "La Lotteria"; "I can do this"; "I win, you win."

** [[spoiler:"My father was a skindiver.", the picnic basket in the attic, and the china dolls in the choi pond are among the most obvious.]]

* LastNameBasis: Edgar calls Wireman on his last name.

* SilverBullet: [[spoiler: Oh, alright, it actually is Sliver Harpoon, but you get the point]].

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: After [[spoiler:Ilse]] is murdered, Pam lets Edgar know that he should have died in the accident, which, to her at least, would have been a "Happy ending".

* SpookyPainting

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead

In this novel by Creator/StephenKing, a retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Freemantle tells the story of events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. The prelude to this, happening some months before, occurs when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane. During the process, he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and becomes prone to intense and violent fits of anger, especially when his injuries are causing him trouble.

* AxeCrazy

* BungledSuicide: After his wife and his daughter died, Wireman shot himself in the head, but survived.

* [[spoiler:[[AfterlifeExpress Soul Ship]]]]

* [[spoiler:AsLongAsThereIsEvil]]: [[spoiler:Perse can not be killed, only weakened for a period, but Edgar is making damn sure that it will take her a while to return]].

* [[spoiler:OurZombiesAreDifferent]]: [[spoiler: Emery, Adie, and the twins certainly count.]]

* ChekhovsGift: The picture Edgar singed for Ilse. [[spoiler: Or curse, as the case may be.]]

In this novel by Creator/StephenKing, a retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Freemantle tells the story of events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. The prelude to this, happening some months before, occurs when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane. During the process, he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and becomes prone intense and violent fits of anger, especially when his injuries are causing him trouble.

* [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Bogeyman]]: Charley. Also, [[spoiler: the Big Boy. [[NightmareFuel WIF TEEF!]] ]]

* EvilHand: It is more of a Supernatural Hand, [[spoiler:but when you think about who is tapping into it's powers from the shadows]].

In this novel by Creator/StephenKing, the retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Freemantle tells the story of events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. The prelude to this, happens some months before, when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane, and as a result he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and is prone to having intense and violent fits of anger, especially when the latter is causing him trouble.

After the accident, Edgar's wife, Pam, leaves him after he harms her during his mood swings, and the depressed Edgar is playing with thoughts of suicide. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, advises him to try and settle down somewhere new for a year and cultivate his old hobby of sketching.

After browsing brochures Edgar feels strangely drawn to the island Duma Key, and with the help of Jack Cantori, a local college student, he moves into a rented house named Salmon Point (which Edgar nicknames "Big Pink"). As part of his healing process, he starts drawing pencil-sketches and taking walks on the island, during which he meets and befriends Jerome Wireman, a former lawyer and the caretaker and hired companion of Elizabeth Eastlake, the old woman who owns all the houses on Duma Key and suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

As he is drawing more and more pictures, Edgar starts feeling weird itchy sensations in his missing arm, and discovers that this is giving him the ability to make some really good, but also very {{spooky painting}}s, some of which appear to be windows into the past, while others can outright [[RealityWarper warp reality]] and [[ArtInitiatesLife initiate life]]. But is it really Edgar himself who is the mind behind these paintings, or is it something else? Something sinister? And could it somehow be related to the rumors about the terrible things that happened on Duma Key in the 1920s? And just who is the feminine figure in the red cloak who appears on Edgar's paintings?