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* HeroesLoveDogs: Charlie bonds with Radar almost immediately when caring for her after Mr. Bowditch's injury.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Charlie bonds with the elderly Radar almost immediately when caring for her after Mr. Bowditch's injury. The reason Charlie ends up going to Empis is find a magical device to make her young again.
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* 20MinutesIntoThePast: The book was published in 2022, but is set 9 years earlier in 2013.
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* ABoyAndHisDog: Charlie and Radar the German Shepherd.
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* CelebrityParadox: ''Literature/{{Cujo}}'', written by Creator/StephenKing, exists in the world of ''Fairy Tale'', written by Stephen King.
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* CelebrityParadox: ''Literature/{{Cujo}}'', written by Creator/StephenKing, exists in the world of ''Fairy Tale'', written by Stephen King. [[Literature/TheDarkTower This isn't the first time]] King has put his own fiction into a different work of fiction.
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* MakeSomeNoise: During one of Bowditch's visits to Lilimar, he provided Claudia with something to keep monsters away at night. It turns out to be a car alarm attached to a series of bullhorns around Claudia's home, which, when activated, sounds like thirty car alarms all going off at once. [[NoSell Because she's deaf, it doesn't hurt her.]]
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** The dwarf that Charlie keeps from killing the red grasshopper starts following him around and trying to put him in danger. Among other things, he causes Charlie to get lost in Lilimar by removing Mr. Bowditch's markings, resulting in Charlie getting killed, and later, during Charlie's escape, he alerts the skeleton guards and Red Mollie to Charlie's position. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma It gets him killed when Red Mollie runs him over]].]]
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** The dwarf that Charlie keeps from killing the red grasshopper starts following him around and trying to put him in danger. Among other things, he causes Charlie to get lost in Lilimar by removing Mr. Bowditch's markings, resulting in Charlie getting killed, captured, and later, during Charlie's escape, he alerts the skeleton guards and Red Mollie to Charlie's position. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma It gets him killed when Red Mollie runs him over]].]]
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In 2013, teenager named Charlie Reade comes across an old man one day who's fallen off a ladder and broken his leg. Charlie helps the old man, Howard Bowditch, through the recovery process, earning his friendship and trust in the process. It's during this time that Charlie learns that Mr. Bowditch has a secret: he's over 150 years old, and he has a portal to a fantasy world in his backyard.
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In 2013, teenager named Charlie Reade comes across an old man one day who's fallen off a ladder and broken his leg. Charlie helps the old man, Howard Bowditch, through the recovery process, earning his friendship and trust in the process. It's during this time that Charlie learns that Mr. Bowditch has a secret: he's over 150 years old, and he has a portal to a fantasy world in his backyard.
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* AlcoholicParent: Charlie's father George become one following his wife's death, to the point it cost him his insurance job. Thankfully, he was able to recover, get his job back, and later open his own agency.
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* [[DisappearedDad Disappeared Mom]]: Charlie's mother died in a car accident when he was 7.
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* [[DisappearedDad Disappeared Mom]]: Charlie's mother Janey died in a car accident when he was 7.
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* [[DisappearedDad Disappeared Mom]]: Charlie's mother died in a car accident when he was little.7.
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A teenager named Charlie Reade comes across an old man one day who's fallen off a ladder and broken his leg. Charlie helps the old man, Mr. Howard Bowditch, through the recovery process, earning his friendship and trust in the process. It's during this time that Charlie learns that Mr. Bowditch has a secret: he's over 150 years old, and he has a portal to a fantasy world in his backyard.
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* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler: Upon Charlie's reunion with his father after returning to the real world.]]
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* TheOldConvict: Charlie is imprisoned by the villains as part of their plan to gather thirty-two presumed descendants of the royal family [[spoiler:and make them fight to the death]]. There are thirty prisoners in the dungeon when he arrives, causing Charlie to spend a lot of time with those people as their captors hunt for a thirty-second prisoner, with several of his fellow prisoners sharing the old convict role.
** Charlie's cellmate Hamey gives Charlie some good advice about how to survive, while also helping to educate him about the history of the kingdom (although most of the others help with that as well), and recalls how there were only five prisoners (some of whom have since died) when he was brought to the dungeon.
** Jackah was brought to the dungeon at the same time as Hamey and is constantly challenging other prisoners to solve riddles.
** Bult has been locked up the longest out of those who survive to meet Charlie (although the two of them rarely interact directly) and says that when he first arrived the BigBad was hoping to get sixty-four prisoners for the games so there would be more rounds of the death matches (a notion he abandoned due to how long it took to catch people). He isn't a mean person, but is noticeably harder than Hamey or Jackah.
** Bernd is the only explicitly elderly prisoner in the dungeon, but he's far from the longest-serving one and rarely speaks up.
** Charlie's cellmate Hamey gives Charlie some good advice about how to survive, while also helping to educate him about the history of the kingdom (although most of the others help with that as well), and recalls how there were only five prisoners (some of whom have since died) when he was brought to the dungeon.
** Jackah was brought to the dungeon at the same time as Hamey and is constantly challenging other prisoners to solve riddles.
** Bult has been locked up the longest out of those who survive to meet Charlie (although the two of them rarely interact directly) and says that when he first arrived the BigBad was hoping to get sixty-four prisoners for the games so there would be more rounds of the death matches (a notion he abandoned due to how long it took to catch people). He isn't a mean person, but is noticeably harder than Hamey or Jackah.
** Bernd is the only explicitly elderly prisoner in the dungeon, but he's far from the longest-serving one and rarely speaks up.
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* AndroclesLion: On his way to Lilimar Charlie rescues a red grasshopper from an evil dwarf. Said grasshopper turns out to be a royal among his species and is essential to helping Charlie and the other prisoners escape the dungeon.
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** The dwarf that Charlie keeps from killing the red grasshopper starts following him around and trying to put him in danger. Among other things, he causes Charlie to get lost in Lilimar by removing Mr. Bowditch's markings, resulting in Charlie getting killed, and later, during Charlie's escape, he alerts the skeleton guards and Red Mollie to Charlie's position. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma It gets him killed]].killed when Red Mollie runs him over]].]]
* FountainOfYouth: The sundial in the city of Lilimar can restore the youth of anyone by sitting or lying on top of the dial and then spin it. Mr. Bowditch used this on himself once, hence why he is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]], and Charlie mainly travels to Lilimar to rejuvinate Radar.
* GiantEqualsInvincible; Averted; both Hana and Red Molly are taken out by the guns Charlie brought with him from his world.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Hana the giant eats human flesh. She is unique in this regard however, and Charlie even theorizes she was banished by the other giants because of it.
* MyGrandsonMyself: Mr. Bowditch admits to Charlie that after he rejuvenated himself with the sundial in Lilimar, he covered it up by pretending to be his own son and that the old Mr. Bowditch had apparently died during a trip.
* NoIndoorVoice: Claudia, due to being rendered deaf by the curse, speaks in a booming yet monotone voice.
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A dark fantasy novel written by [[Creator/StephenKing Stephen King]].
A teenager named Charlie comes across an old man one day who's fallen off a ladder and broken his leg. Charlie helps the old man, Mr. Bowditch, through the recovery process, earning his friendship and trust in the process. It's during this time that Charlie learns that Mr. Bowditch has a secret: he's over 150 years old, and he has a portal to a fantasy world in his backyard.
He gives Charlie a mission to complete: the fantasy world contains a magic device that, if used correctly, can make any living creature young again. To save Mr. Bowditch's beloved yet ailing dog, Radar, Charlie must take a journey through a magical yet incredibly dangerous world.
!!Tropes:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A running theme throughout the book. Charlie feels obligated to help a stranger in need because he knows what it's like to feel helpless in a bad situation. The good deeds he does throughout the book (even the ones that get him in trouble) always gain him either favors or allies.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: When Charlie first sees Hana the giantess, she's singing a fairly raunchy song, then gets up and lets out a [[ToiletHumor very loud fart]]. Charlie has to keep himself from laughing out loud. This same giantess was sitting on a throne of ''children's skulls'', and eats [[ImAHumanitarian human meat]] as casually as most people eat bread.
* BigBrotherBully: The older Gallien children were this to their two youngest siblings, especially the prince. It led to Leah and her brother being very close.
* [[DisappearedDad Disappeared Mom]]: Charlie's mother died in a car accident when he was little.
* DysfunctionalFamily: What the Gallien family was before Flight Killer murdered most of them in a coup. Apparently, the youngest prince and princess were mercilessly bullied by their older siblings, and none of the adults did anything to stop it. The remaining members seem to have accepted that they played a part in their own downfall, and all seem to regret their actions.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Despite eating ''literal children'', Hana cares deeply about her daughter, Red Molly. [[spoiler: When she dies, Hana howls in grief and swears to kill Charlie]].
** The Flight Killer [[spoiler: aka the former prince, still loves his sister Leah dearly, as she was the only member of their family who ever treated him with kindness. She's the only one who's able to reach him before he brings Gogmagog into Empis.]]
* EvilIsPetty:
** [[spoiler: The prince became Flight Killer because the abuse from his family left him susceptible to Gogmagog's manipulations, and he agreed to become his host in exchange for the death of the Gallien family]].
** The dwarf that Charlie keeps from killing the red grasshopper starts following him around and trying to put him in danger. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma It gets him killed]].]]
* FisherKingdom: Charlie is a brown-haired, brown-eyed individual. But, the longer he stays in Empis, the more his eyes turn blue and his hair blonde. [[spoiler: Once Gogmagog and the Flight Killer are defeated, his hair and eyes return to their normal color.]]
* GenreSavvy: Charlie starts becoming this for fairy tales after he learns about Empis from Mr. Bowditch. Learning about them actually helps him multiple times.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Charlie has to get tougher as the story goes on; he ends up [[spoiler: having to kill a man in a gladiator ring just so he can survive (although that was technically self-defense), then Red Molly, then Hana. By the time he and Leah kill Petra, he's become more-or-less desensitized to killing]].
* GreatEscape: Charlie and the other gladiators all manage to pull this off when Charlie learns what the guards' weakness is (see below).
* LovedByAll: Radar is loved by everyone who meets her. As is Leah.
* NiceGuy: The story kicks off because Charlie decided to be a GoodSamaritan and help Mr. Bowditch. He remains a genuinely nice person throughout the story (although he has to [[TookALevelInBadass change a little]] in order to survive the story)
* PreciousPuppy: Radar is this for pretty much everyone.
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: This is how Charlie saves Empis.]]
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Charlie is from Earth, but is stuck in Empis until he completes his mission.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Charlie, upon realizing that the skeleton guards have been reanimated with a type of electricity, figures out their one weakness: [[spoiler: the blow up when exposed to water.]]
A teenager named Charlie comes across an old man one day who's fallen off a ladder and broken his leg. Charlie helps the old man, Mr. Bowditch, through the recovery process, earning his friendship and trust in the process. It's during this time that Charlie learns that Mr. Bowditch has a secret: he's over 150 years old, and he has a portal to a fantasy world in his backyard.
He gives Charlie a mission to complete: the fantasy world contains a magic device that, if used correctly, can make any living creature young again. To save Mr. Bowditch's beloved yet ailing dog, Radar, Charlie must take a journey through a magical yet incredibly dangerous world.
!!Tropes:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A running theme throughout the book. Charlie feels obligated to help a stranger in need because he knows what it's like to feel helpless in a bad situation. The good deeds he does throughout the book (even the ones that get him in trouble) always gain him either favors or allies.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: When Charlie first sees Hana the giantess, she's singing a fairly raunchy song, then gets up and lets out a [[ToiletHumor very loud fart]]. Charlie has to keep himself from laughing out loud. This same giantess was sitting on a throne of ''children's skulls'', and eats [[ImAHumanitarian human meat]] as casually as most people eat bread.
* BigBrotherBully: The older Gallien children were this to their two youngest siblings, especially the prince. It led to Leah and her brother being very close.
* [[DisappearedDad Disappeared Mom]]: Charlie's mother died in a car accident when he was little.
* DysfunctionalFamily: What the Gallien family was before Flight Killer murdered most of them in a coup. Apparently, the youngest prince and princess were mercilessly bullied by their older siblings, and none of the adults did anything to stop it. The remaining members seem to have accepted that they played a part in their own downfall, and all seem to regret their actions.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Despite eating ''literal children'', Hana cares deeply about her daughter, Red Molly. [[spoiler: When she dies, Hana howls in grief and swears to kill Charlie]].
** The Flight Killer [[spoiler: aka the former prince, still loves his sister Leah dearly, as she was the only member of their family who ever treated him with kindness. She's the only one who's able to reach him before he brings Gogmagog into Empis.]]
* EvilIsPetty:
** [[spoiler: The prince became Flight Killer because the abuse from his family left him susceptible to Gogmagog's manipulations, and he agreed to become his host in exchange for the death of the Gallien family]].
** The dwarf that Charlie keeps from killing the red grasshopper starts following him around and trying to put him in danger. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma It gets him killed]].]]
* FisherKingdom: Charlie is a brown-haired, brown-eyed individual. But, the longer he stays in Empis, the more his eyes turn blue and his hair blonde. [[spoiler: Once Gogmagog and the Flight Killer are defeated, his hair and eyes return to their normal color.]]
* GenreSavvy: Charlie starts becoming this for fairy tales after he learns about Empis from Mr. Bowditch. Learning about them actually helps him multiple times.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Charlie has to get tougher as the story goes on; he ends up [[spoiler: having to kill a man in a gladiator ring just so he can survive (although that was technically self-defense), then Red Molly, then Hana. By the time he and Leah kill Petra, he's become more-or-less desensitized to killing]].
* GreatEscape: Charlie and the other gladiators all manage to pull this off when Charlie learns what the guards' weakness is (see below).
* LovedByAll: Radar is loved by everyone who meets her. As is Leah.
* NiceGuy: The story kicks off because Charlie decided to be a GoodSamaritan and help Mr. Bowditch. He remains a genuinely nice person throughout the story (although he has to [[TookALevelInBadass change a little]] in order to survive the story)
* PreciousPuppy: Radar is this for pretty much everyone.
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: This is how Charlie saves Empis.]]
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Charlie is from Earth, but is stuck in Empis until he completes his mission.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Charlie, upon realizing that the skeleton guards have been reanimated with a type of electricity, figures out their one weakness: [[spoiler: the blow up when exposed to water.]]
