History Literature / Motherland

* DeathBySex: Because of their touch based powers most of the psychics have a lot of issues about sex.

A 2013 survival horror e-book from Scottish author Graeme Penman. It was written as part of NanoWrimo and was available for only one year before being removed from sale. It deals heavily with anxiety, depression and their effects on memory. It also had strong sexual overtones combined with mythological and biblical references.

* BarredFromTheAfterlife: No wonder the Jackal is so grumpy. It is revealed that the ''BigBad'' 's primary motivation is to get out of this situation. [[spoiler: And it is heavily implied that the same thing will happen to Anthony as they share the same powers.]]

* DeathBySex: Because of their touch based powers most of the psychics have a lot of issues about sex and a lot of the bad things happening can be related back to the other characters sexual histories. Not to mention what is chronologically the first attack in the town happening just after some love making.

* GhostTown: Sandalwood Bay is not a thriving tourist attractor.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: That would be Vincent.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: The Jackal's endgame.]]
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The book was only available for a limited time. If you want to read it now, hope that you know somebody that bought it.

* OminousFog: All over the place.
* PsychicPowers: That would be Anthony, Vincent, Saint Abban, The Jackal... nearly everyone really.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Oh boy. Vincent has perfect future knowledge of nearly everything throughout the story, [[spoiler: He first looks into the future to see what the door code is going to be when he makes his escape from the institute then later touches the sickle that he knows Anthony will later pick up in his LastStand. His touch imbues the sickle with his memories of his visions of its future uses and by following the movements Vincent predicted Anthony is able to defeat all of his attackers.]]
* SignatureStyle: Penman's writing is always painfully concise, giving only the bare minimum of details that the reader needs to follow the story and he writes with archaic language that wouldn't have been out of place in the 20s.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Jura Codex seems like it will be this but it is later subverted [[spoiler: when the book has long since decayed to nothing.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Sandalwood Bay has a nasty skeleton in its closet.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: One of the major problems with this book.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The rest of the problems with this book. Unless you have suffered through depression and take notes the book is practically impossible to follow.

A 2013 survival horror e-book from Scottish author Graeme Penman. It was written as part of NanoWrimo and was available for only one year before being removed from sale. It deals heavily with anxiety, depression and their effects on memory. It also had strong sexual overtones combined with mythological and biblical references.
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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: No wonder the Jackal is so grumpy. It is revealed that the ''BigBad'' 's primary motivation is to get out of this situation. [[spoiler: And it is heavily implied that the same thing will happen to Anthony as they share the same powers.]]
* BellyMouth: The Cyclops has elements of this.
* CosmicHorrorStory: And what a downer.
* DeathBySex: Because of their touch based powers most of the psychics have a lot of issues about sex and a lot of the bad things happening can be related back to the other characters sexual histories. Not to mention what is chronologically the first attack in the town happening just after some love making.
* EvilIsVisceral: Yep, that horse covered in vaginas is probably not good news.
* GhostTown: Sandalwood Bay is not a thriving tourist attractor.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: That would be Vincent.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: The Jackal's endgame.]]
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The book was only available for a limited time. If you want to read it now, hope that you know somebody that bought it.
* LampreyMouth: Cyclops again.
* OccultDetective: That would be Anthony.
* OminousFog: All over the place.
* PsychicPowers: That would be Anthony, Vincent, Saint Abban, The Jackal... nearly everyone really.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: Isn't it funny how every single monster in the town has something to do with the characters deep rooted psychological problems.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Oh boy. Vincent has perfect future knowledge of nearly everything throughout the story, [[spoiler: He first looks into the future to see what the door code is going to be when he makes his escape from the institute then later touches the sickle that he knows Anthony will later pick up in his LastStand. His touch imbues the sickle with his memories of his visions of its future uses and by following the movements Vincent predicted Anthony is able to defeat all of his attackers.]]
* SignatureStyle: Penman's writing is always painfully concise, giving only the bare minimum of details that the reader needs to follow the story and he writes with archaic language that wouldn't have been out of place in the 20s.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Jura Codex seems like it will be this but it is later subverted [[spoiler: when the book has long since decayed to nothing.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Sandalwood Bay has a nasty skeleton in its closet.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: One of the major problems with this book.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The rest of the problems with this book. Unless you have suffered through depression and take notes the book is practically impossible to follow.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: This seems to be the inevitable result of seeing the future or past too much.
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A 2013 survival horror e-book from Scottish author Graeme Penman. It was written as part of NanoWrimo and was available for only one year before being removed from sale. It deals heavily with anxiety, depression and their effects on memory. It also had strong sexual overtones, mythological and biblical references.

A 2013 survival horror e-book from Scottish author Graeme Penman.

From its Amazon page:

"Anthony Calvino has not had the easiest life. His father killed himself before he was born, his mother had his whole life planned out for him down to the nearest second and his twin brother and the last vestiges of sanity had only a passing acquaintance with each other. He has been drifting along using his unique gifts to make a living for years but when the trail of a missing girl leads him to a little ghost town in the dampest corner of New England he is clearly out of his depth.

There are dark corners in the history of Sandalwood Bay, memories obscured from Anthony's talents and secrets buried deep. When night falls, there are unseen things moving in the mists and hunting the living. To survive he needs answers, but every touch just draws him closer to the madness that has plagued his family through generations and a living nightmare that is closer to his own life than he could have dreamt of."

Motherland revolves around an OccultDetective with touch based PsychicPowers searching for a missing girl in a GhostTown populated by night by Lovecraftian ghosts or monsters that prove EvilIsVisceral. It is not a cheerful book.