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Most famous for being adapted into an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. See Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E91LittleGirlLost for that.
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Most famous for being adapted into an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. See Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E91LittleGirlLost Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E26LittleGirlLost for that.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* AdultFear: Your child wakes you up crying in the night, and you go to comfort her, only to find her missing. You check under the couch, but she's not there, and you hear her crying. Ruth becomes hysterical when she hears Tina crying for her. (This actually happened to the writer Richard Matheson and his wife, only they did find their daughter had rolled under the bed.)
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* MissingChild: Your child wakes you up crying in the night, and you go to comfort her, only to find her missing. You check under the couch, but she's not there, and you hear her crying. Ruth becomes hysterical when she hears Tina crying for her. (This actually happened to the writer Richard Matheson and his wife, only they did find their daughter had rolled under the bed.)
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [=CalTech=] clearly has some open mouth members. "They said the thing was gone. Some said worse things."
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [=CalTech=] clearly has some open mouth members. "They said GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the thing was gone. Some said worse things."future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* ShaggySearchTechnique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
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* ShaggySearchTechnique: LuckBasedSearchTechnique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
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Genre Savvy is about characters gaining savvy from stories, not from personal experience. Papa Wolf is about a father doing action heroics to protect his child.
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* GenreSavvy: At the end of the story they start taking more precautions. Bill blocks off the couch with card tables and afterwards the family show signs of having realized this and puts the television where the couch used to be.
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* PapaWolf: After going into the portal, Chris calls out for Mack to bring Tina to her, and he hugs them tightly as Bill and Ruth pull him out.
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the adaptation has its own page, so tropes added by the adaptation go on that page
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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the short story, Bill is a [=CalTech=] engineer. In the television adaptation, he is a physicist.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: Chris, Ruth and Tina were given the surname Miller in the television adaptation.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the short story, Bill is a [=CalTech=] engineer. In the television adaptation, he is a physicist.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Chris, Ruth and Tina were given the surname Miller in the television adaptation.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Ruth and Bettina "Tina" Miller are named after Richard Matheson's wife and daughter.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer friend.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer friend.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Ruth and Bettina "Tina" Miller are Tina named after Richard Matheson's wife and daughter.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineerfriend.friend Bill.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer
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"Little Girl Lost" is a short story by Creator/RichardMatheson in 1953, inspired by his own terrifying experience of hearing his daughter cry and not being able to find her.
In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from [=CalTech=] named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth dimension.
When Bill turns out to be right, Chris goes through the portal to save Tina.
In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from [=CalTech=] named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth dimension.
When Bill turns out to be right, Chris goes through the portal to save Tina.
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"Little Girl Lost" is a short story written by Creator/RichardMatheson in 1953, inspired by his own terrifying experience of hearing his daughter cry and not being able to find her.
In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from [=CalTech=] named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourthdimension.
dimension. When Bill turns out to be right, Chris goes through the portal to save Tina.
In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from [=CalTech=] named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The [=CalTech=] clearly have some open mouth members. "They said the thing was gone. Some said worse things."
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The [=CalTech=] clearly have has some open mouth members. "They said the thing was gone. Some said worse things."
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Ruth and Bettina "Tina" Miller are named after Richard Matheson's wife and daughter.
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Little Girl Lost was a short story by regular scribe ''Creator/RichardMatheson'' in 1953. A freaky story inspired by his own terrifying experience of hearing his daughter cry and not being able to find her.
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Most famous for being adapted into an episode of ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone''. See Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E91LittleGirlLost for that.
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* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer friend.
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* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer friend.friend.
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* GettingCrapPassedTheRadar: The [=CalTech=] clearly have some open mouth members. "They said the thing was gone. Some said worse things."
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* GettingCrapPassedTheRadar: GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The [=CalTech=] clearly have some open mouth members. "They said the thing was gone. Some said worse things."
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Just for the record, looking right at the source story, it clearly goes with fourth dimension, while the episode leaves it a little more open, as when i got here the tv page used fifth, but here it should be saying fourth.
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* AscendedFridgeHorror: Chris and Bill have this reaction when Bill reveals that the portal was closing around Chris, and would have cut him in half if he hadn't gotten out in time.
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* AscendedFridgeHorror: Chris and Bill have this reaction when Bill reveals that AnotherDimension: Tina falls into a passage from the portal was closing around Chris, and would have cut him in half if he hadn't gotten out in time.third into the fourth dimension.
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* GenreSavvy: At the end of the story the family show signs of having realized this and puts the television where the couch used to be.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bill shows that the portal has closed shortly after Chris rescues Tina and Mack. If Chris hadn't gotten out in time, the portal would have cut him off by the legs.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bill shows that the portal has closed shortly after Chris rescues Tina and Mack. If Chris hadn't gotten out in time, the portal would have cut him off by the legs.
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* GenreSavvy: At the end of the story they start taking more precautions. Bill blocks off the couch with card tables and afterwards the family show signs of having realized this and puts the television where the couch used to be.
*HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bill shows that the portal has closed shortly after Chris rescues Tina and Mack. If Chris hadn't gotten out in time, the portal would GettingCrapPassedTheRadar: The [=CalTech=] clearly have cut him off by some open mouth members. "They said the legs. thing was gone. Some said worse things."
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* OhCrap: Chris when he realizes that she's not under the couch
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* ShaggySearchTechnique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
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* ShaggySearchTechnique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.luck.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer friend.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: While more in the dimensional sense than the ghost sense, here Chris calls his engineer friend.
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In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from CalTech named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth dimension.
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In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from CalTech [=CalTech=] named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth dimension.
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Most famous for being adapted into an episode of ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone''. See Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E91LittleGirlLost for that.
Most famous for being adapted into an episode of ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone''. See Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E91LittleGirlLost for that.
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* ShaggySearchTenique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
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* ShaggySearchTenique: ShaggySearchTechnique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
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Little Girl Lost was a short story by regular scribe ''Creator/RichardMatheson'' in 1953. A freaky story inspired by his own terrifying experience of hearing his daughter cry and not being able to find her.
In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from CalTech named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth dimension.
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* AdultFear: Your child wakes you up crying in the night, and you go to comfort her, only to find her missing. You check under the couch, but she's not there, and you hear her crying. Ruth becomes hysterical when she hears Tina crying for her. (This actually happened to the writer Richard Matheson and his wife, only they did find their daughter had rolled under the bed.)
* AscendedFridgeHorror: Chris and Bill have this reaction when Bill reveals that the portal was closing around Chris, and would have cut him in half if he hadn't gotten out in time.
* DamselInDistress: Tina Miller, who fell out of her bed and into a portal. Justified in that she's a child, and she has no idea where she is.
* EvilDetectingDog: The family dog Mack starts barking after Tina vanishes. When he's let inside, Mack runs under the couch and finds her in the fifth dimension.
* GenreSavvy: At the end of the story the family show signs of having realized this and puts the television where the couch used to be.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bill shows that the portal has closed shortly after Chris rescues Tina and Mack. If Chris hadn't gotten out in time, the portal would have cut him off by the legs.
* HeroicDog: Mack leads Tina back to her father, so that they all escape the fourth dimension.
* OhCrap: Chris when he realizes that she's not under the couch
* PapaWolf: After going into the portal, Chris calls out for Mack to bring Tina to her, and he hugs them tightly as Bill and Ruth pull him out.
* ShaggySearchTenique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
In the story, Chris and Ruth find themselves awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their daughter Tina. Tina sleeps on the pull out couch in the family's one bedroom apartment. However she's not anywhere to be seen but can be heard. The family dog Mack knows something is wrong. Chris ends up calling a friend from CalTech named Bill who theorizes Tina may have fallen into the fourth dimension.
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* AdultFear: Your child wakes you up crying in the night, and you go to comfort her, only to find her missing. You check under the couch, but she's not there, and you hear her crying. Ruth becomes hysterical when she hears Tina crying for her. (This actually happened to the writer Richard Matheson and his wife, only they did find their daughter had rolled under the bed.)
* AscendedFridgeHorror: Chris and Bill have this reaction when Bill reveals that the portal was closing around Chris, and would have cut him in half if he hadn't gotten out in time.
* DamselInDistress: Tina Miller, who fell out of her bed and into a portal. Justified in that she's a child, and she has no idea where she is.
* EvilDetectingDog: The family dog Mack starts barking after Tina vanishes. When he's let inside, Mack runs under the couch and finds her in the fifth dimension.
* GenreSavvy: At the end of the story the family show signs of having realized this and puts the television where the couch used to be.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bill shows that the portal has closed shortly after Chris rescues Tina and Mack. If Chris hadn't gotten out in time, the portal would have cut him off by the legs.
* HeroicDog: Mack leads Tina back to her father, so that they all escape the fourth dimension.
* OhCrap: Chris when he realizes that she's not under the couch
* PapaWolf: After going into the portal, Chris calls out for Mack to bring Tina to her, and he hugs them tightly as Bill and Ruth pull him out.
* ShaggySearchTenique: Chris manages to fall into the fourth dimension himself mid-sentence by sheer dumb luck.
