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* HillbillyHorrors: It turns out that the "monsters" are [[spoiler:the cannibalistic descendants of a single family so heavily inbred they have all but turned into goblins]].
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* HillbillyHorrors: It turns out that HillbillyIncest: The Catskills locals in general are described as "gently descending the "monsters" are [[spoiler:the cannibalistic descendants of evolutionary scale," but the Martenses take it a single family so heavily inbred they step further. They have all but bred themselves among themselves until they've turned into goblins]].a race of tunnel-dwelling goblins.
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* AlbinosAreFreaks: [[spoiler: Invoked in the white shaggy coats of the monsters at the end, although they emphatically don't have pink eyes.]]
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* BrainBleach: The narrator is so traumatised by the events of the story that he wishes he could wipe the whole thing from his memory, and has - much like Thurber from ''Literature/PickmansModel'' - developed a phobia of tunnels, subways, and other underground spaces as a result.
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* BrainBleach: The narrator is so traumatised by the events of the story that he wishes he could wipe the whole thing from his memory, and has - much like Thurber from ''Literature/PickmansModel'' - developed a phobia of tunnels, wells, subways, and other underground spaces as a result.
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* DiedStandingUp: The narrator and another man, Arthur Munroe, are trapped in a cabin by a thunderstorm. When they hear lightning strike nearby, Munroe leans out the window to assess the damage, and dies without a sound when something ''chews his face off''.
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* DiedStandingUp: The narrator and another man, Arthur Munroe, are trapped in a cabin by a thunderstorm. When they hear lightning strike nearby, Munroe leans out the window to assess the damage, and dies without a sound when something ''chews his face off''. The narrator doesn't even realize until a FaceRevealingTurn.
* EvolutionaryLevels: The narrator describes the Catskill locals as "gently descending the evolutionary scale". Likewise, [[spoiler: the monstrous Martense heirs are described in terms of degeneration and de-evolution, hence their KillerGorilla vibes.]]
* EvolutionaryLevels: The narrator describes the Catskill locals as "gently descending the evolutionary scale". Likewise, [[spoiler: the monstrous Martense heirs are described in terms of degeneration and de-evolution, hence their KillerGorilla vibes.]]
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* HumanSubspecies: The monsters are a clan of subterranean, carnivorous, apelike sub-humans descended from [[spoiler:a bygone aristocratic family after generations of inbreeding]].
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* HumanSubspecies: The [[spoiler: monsters are a clan of subterranean, carnivorous, apelike sub-humans descended from [[spoiler:a a bygone aristocratic family after generations of inbreeding]].
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: The opening sentence of the story:
-->There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find [[TitleDrop the lurking fear]].
-->There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find [[TitleDrop the lurking fear]].
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* TheMorlocks: The monsters are a particularly animalistic version of this subterranean trope, as they are carnivorous, devolved, apelike humans. However, [[spoiler:it wasn't social class and evolution that turned them into this, but rather generations of inbreeding]].
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* TheMorlocks: The monsters are a particularly animalistic version of this subterranean trope, as they are carnivorous, devolved, apelike humans. However, [[spoiler:it wasn't social class and evolution that turned them into this, but rather generations of inbreeding]].inbreeding. They're actually decayed aristocracy, rather than working class.]]
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* RedRightHand: The Martenses were characterized by having heterochromia, one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this feature too, which is what clues the protagonist in to their identity.]]
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* RedRightHand: The Martenses were characterized by having heterochromia, [[TechnicolorEyes heterochromia]], one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this feature too, which is what clues the protagonist in to their identity.]]
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* WhamLine: When looking at the corpse of one of the monsters: [[spoiler: "One eye was blue, the other brown." The discovery of its TechnicolorEyes serves as TheReveal of what, exactly, the creatures are.]]
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In the Tempest Mountain region of the Catskills, homes are being destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered during severe thunderstorms. An unnamed reporter travels to investigate, and soon comes to suspect that the killings are somehow linked to the Martenses, a bygone aristocratic family whose decaying mansion remains nearby. But the truth is more bestial and horrific than he imagines...
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In the Tempest Mountain region of the Catskills, homes are being destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered during severe thunderstorms. An unnamed reporter narrator travels to investigate, and soon comes to suspect that the killings are somehow linked to the Martenses, a bygone aristocratic family whose decaying mansion remains nearby. But the truth is more bestial and horrific than he imagines...
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* BrainBleach: The narrator is so traumatised by the events of the story that he wishes he could wipe the whole thing from his memory, and has - much like Thurber from ''Literature/PickmansModel'' - developed a phobia of tunnels, subways, and other underground spaces as a result.
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* NightmareFetishist: The narrator has a strange fascination with horrible things, which drives him to continue investigating the murders around Tempest Mountain. Ultimately, what he finds is [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too upsetting even for him]].
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* DiedStandingUp: The narrator and another man, Arthur Munroe, are trapped in a cabin by a thunderstorm. When they hear lightning strike nearby, Munroe leans out the window to assess the damage, and dies without a sound when something ''chews his face off''.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Martense family somehow manages to [[spoiler:degenerate into inhuman beasts]] in less than 150 years. Even the oldest European colonies only dated back about 400 years by Creator/HPLovecraft's time, and the oldest English colonies only about 300 years, hardly enough time for anything in particular to happen, much less the kind of scale he was talking about.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Martense family somehow manages to [[spoiler:degenerate into inhuman beasts]] in less than 150 years. Even the oldest European colonies only dated back about 400 years by Creator/HPLovecraft's time, and the oldest English colonies only about 300 years, hardly enough time for anything in particular to happen, much less the kind of scale he was talking about. Perhaps there's something to all that curse talk after all?
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What's happening in this story is the opposite of race-mixing.
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* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: The monsters lie somewhere between this trope and TheMorlocks. [[spoiler:Specifically, they fall into the "Mutant Ghoul" category, being the degenerate CannibalClan descendants of an inbred backwoods family that retreated underground.]]
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* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: The monsters lie somewhere between this trope and TheMorlocks. [[spoiler:Specifically, they fall into the "Mutant Ghoul" category, being the degenerate CannibalClan descendants of an inbred backwoods family that retreated underground.]]]] Contrast with the actual, referred-to-as-such ghouls that appear in Lovecraft's other stories like ''Literature/PickmansModel'' and ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath''.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Martense family somehow manages to [[spoiler:degenerate into inhuman beasts]] in less than 150 years. Even the oldest European colonies only dated back about 400 years by Creator/HPLovecraft's time, and the oldest English colonies only about 300 years, hardly enough time for anything in particular to happen, much less the kind of scale he was talking about.[[note]]Hypothetically, this may have influenced by [[https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Racism_in_the_Works_of_H.P._Lovecraft Lovecraft's racist views]] and his documented AuthorPhobia that [[https://counter-currents.com/2010/08/h-p-lovecraft-aryan-mystic/ races shouldn't mix]], as Lovecraft likely believed that [[OneDropRule any "other" blood]] would degrade a whole bloodline in a few generations.[[/note]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Martense family somehow manages to [[spoiler:degenerate into inhuman beasts]] in less than 150 years. Even the oldest European colonies only dated back about 400 years by Creator/HPLovecraft's time, and the oldest English colonies only about 300 years, hardly enough time for anything in particular to happen, much less the kind of scale he was talking about.[[note]]Hypothetically, this may have influenced by [[https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Racism_in_the_Works_of_H.P._Lovecraft Lovecraft's racist views]] and his documented AuthorPhobia that [[https://counter-currents.com/2010/08/h-p-lovecraft-aryan-mystic/ races shouldn't mix]], as Lovecraft likely believed that [[OneDropRule any "other" blood]] would degrade a whole bloodline in a few generations.[[/note]]
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It was adapted twice with 1994's ''The Lurking Fear'' and 1997's ''Bleeders''.
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* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist, potentially murderous family which inbred to the point of [[spoiler:their descendants devolving into a CannibalClan of apelike monstrosities]].
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* CannibalClan: The monsters terrorizing the town turn out to be [[spoiler:descendants of a cannibalistic family who have devolved into subhuman creatures by generations of inbreeding and living underground]].
* HauntedHouse: The Martenses' house. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out not to be ghosts that are causing all this trouble.]]
* HillbillyHorrors: It turns out that the "monsters" are [[spoiler:the cannibalistic descendants of a single family so heavily inbred they have all but turned into goblins]].
* HumanSubspecies: The monsters are a clan of subterranean, carnivorous, apelike sub-humans descended from [[spoiler:a bygone aristocratic family after generations of inbreeding]].
* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist,potentially murderous once-prominent family which retreated underground and began marrying their own once their reputation got too ugly. [[spoiler:Their descendants inbred to the point of [[spoiler:their descendants devolving into a CannibalClan of apelike monstrosities]].monstrosities.]]
* HauntedHouse: The Martenses' house. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out not to be ghosts that are causing all this trouble.]]
* HillbillyHorrors: It turns out that the "monsters" are [[spoiler:the cannibalistic descendants of a single family so heavily inbred they have all but turned into goblins]].
* HumanSubspecies: The monsters are a clan of subterranean, carnivorous, apelike sub-humans descended from [[spoiler:a bygone aristocratic family after generations of inbreeding]].
* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist,
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* TheMorlocks: The monsters are a particularly animalistic version of this subterranean trope.
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* TheMorlocks: The monsters are a particularly animalistic version of this subterranean trope.trope, as they are carnivorous, devolved, apelike humans. However, [[spoiler:it wasn't social class and evolution that turned them into this, but rather generations of inbreeding]].
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: The monsters lie somewhere between this trope and TheMorlocks. [[spoiler:Specifically, they fall into the "Mutant Ghoul" category, being the degenerate CannibalClan descendants of an inbred backwoods family that retreated underground.]]
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: The monsters lie somewhere between this trope and TheMorlocks. [[spoiler:Specifically, they fall into the "Mutant Ghoul" category, being the degenerate CannibalClan descendants of an inbred backwoods family that retreated underground.]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Martense family somehow manages to [[spoiler:degenerate into inhuman beasts]] in less than 150 years. Even the oldest European colonies only dated back about 400 years by Creator/HPLovecraft's time, and the oldest English colonies only about 300 years, hardly enough time for anything in particular to happen, much less the kind of scale he was talking about.[[note]]Hypothetically, this may have influenced by [[https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Racism_in_the_Works_of_H.P._Lovecraft Lovecraft's racist views]] and his documented AuthorPhobia that [[https://counter-currents.com/2010/08/h-p-lovecraft-aryan-mystic/ races shouldn't mix]], as Lovecraft likely believed that [[OneDropRule any "other" blood]] would degrade a whole bloodline in a few generations.[[/note]]
* SharedUnusualTrait: The horribly inbred Martense clan all have this as a distinguishing mark. They have brown-and-blue eyes, apparently. [[spoiler:This is the tip-off that the swarm of apelike sub-humans haunting the area actually consists of their offspring.]]
* SharedUnusualTrait: The horribly inbred Martense clan all have this as a distinguishing mark. They have brown-and-blue eyes, apparently. [[spoiler:This is the tip-off that the swarm of apelike sub-humans haunting the area actually consists of their offspring.]]
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* MorePredatorsThanPrey: The monsters number in the dozens, if not hundreds, while their abode is rather isolated and the number of people who fall victim to them is small. However, it's hinted that they have no problem with preying on each other...
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In the Tempest Mountain region of the Catskills, homes are being destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered during severe thunderstorms. An unnamed reporter travels to investigate, and soon comes to suspect that the killings are somehow linked to the Martenses, a bygone aristocratic family whose decaying mansion remains nearby. But the truth is more bestial and horrific than he imagines . . .
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* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist, potentially murderous family which inbred to the point of [[spoiler:their descendants devolving into a CannibalClan of apelike monstrosities.]]
* HauntedHouse / OldDarkHouse: The Martenses' house. [[spoiler: The HauntedHouse part is subverted, though, when it turns out not to be ghosts that are causing all this trouble.]]
* HauntedHouse / OldDarkHouse: The Martenses' house. [[spoiler: The HauntedHouse part is subverted, though, when it turns out not to be ghosts that are causing all this trouble.]]
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* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist, potentially murderous family which inbred to the point of [[spoiler:their descendants devolving into a CannibalClan of apelike monstrosities.]]
monstrosities]].
* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: The protagonist hires a team to dynamite the Martense mansion, a significant portion of the surrounding forest, and any caves or tunnels they can find. He still worries that it won't be enough.
* HauntedHouse / OldDarkHouse: The Martenses' house.[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The HauntedHouse part is subverted, though, when it turns out not to be ghosts that are causing all this trouble.]]
* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: The protagonist hires a team to dynamite the Martense mansion, a significant portion of the surrounding forest, and any caves or tunnels they can find. He still worries that it won't be enough.
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* KillerGorilla: [[spoiler: The last Martenses are described as distinctly apelike.]]
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* MismatchedEyes: The Martenses were characterized by having MismatchedEyes, one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this feature too, which is what clues the protagonist in to their identity.]]
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* VillainousIncest: The aristocratic Martenses eventually began practicing incest among themselves. See InbredAndEvil above for the results.
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* RedRightHand: The Martenses were characterized by having heterochromia, one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this feature too, which is what clues the protagonist in to their identity.]]
* VillainousIncest: The aristocratic Martenses eventually began practicing incest among themselves. See InbredAndEvil above for theresults.results.
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* PerspectiveFlip: The ''Creator/DarkAdventureRadioTheatre'' version centers around two policemen sent to investigate the mysterious deaths while the writer, here identified as a tabloid reporter named Callum, is a secondary character treated by them as a potential suspect.
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* PerspectiveFlip: The ''Creator/DarkAdventureRadioTheatre'' ''Radio/DarkAdventureRadioTheatre'' version centers around two policemen sent to investigate the mysterious deaths while the writer, here identified as a tabloid reporter named Callum, is a secondary character treated by them as a potential suspect.
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* PerspectiveFlip: The ''DarkAdventureRadioTheatre'' ''Creator/DarkAdventureRadioTheatre'' version centers around two policemen sent to investigate the mysterious deaths while the writer, here identified as a tabloid reporter named Callum, is a secondary character treated by them as a potential suspect.
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* KillerGorilla: [[spoiler: The last Martenses are described as distinctly apelike.]]
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* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist, potentially murderous family which inbred to the point of [[spoiler:their descendants devolving into apelike monstrosities.]]
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* InbredAndEvil: The Martenses were an isolationist, potentially murderous family which inbred to the point of [[spoiler:their descendants devolving into a CannibalClan of apelike monstrosities.]]
* HauntedHouse / OldDarkHouse: The Martenses' house. [[spoiler: The HauntedHouse part is subverted, though, when it turns out not to be ghosts that are causing all this trouble.]]
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* LovecraftCountry: Scary happenings in the Catskills.
* MismatchedEyes: The Martenses were characterized by having MismatchedEyes, one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this featuretoo.too, which is what clues the protagonist in to their identity.]]
* MismatchedEyes: The Martenses were characterized by having MismatchedEyes, one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this feature
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The Lurking Fear is a November 1922 horror short story by American horror writer Creator/HPLovecraft.
Creator/HPLovecraft. It was first published in serial installments in the magazine Home Brew. It has been adapted to film and comics a few times, with little success for any adaptation.
In the Tempest Mountain region of the Catskills, homes are being destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered during severe thunderstorms. An unnamed reporter travels to investigate, and soon comes to suspect that the killings are somehow linked to the Martenses, a bygone aristocratic family whose decaying mansion remains nearby. But the truth is more bestial and horrific than he imagines . . .
In the Tempest Mountain region of the Catskills, homes are being destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered during severe thunderstorms. An unnamed reporter travels to investigate, and soon comes to suspect that the killings are somehow linked to the Martenses, a bygone aristocratic family whose decaying mansion remains nearby. But the truth is more bestial and horrific than he imagines . . .
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*MonstrousCannibalismLightningReveal: When the protagonist stays overnight in the Martense mansion, a flash of lightning reveals the shadow of a grotesque, inhuman being in the room with him.
* MismatchedEyes: The Martenses were characterized by having MismatchedEyes, one blue and one brown. [[spoiler:Their inbred cannibal descendants have this feature too.]]
* MonstrousCannibalism: The protagonist witnesses one of the beasts turning on and devouring a weaker compatriot, something that seems to be standard practice for the monsters.
* VillainousIncest: The aristocratic Martenses eventually began practicing incest among themselves. See InbredAndEvil above for the results.
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* MonstrousCannibalism: The protagonist witnesses one of the beasts turning on and devouring a weaker compatriot, something that seems to be standard practice for the monsters.
* VillainousIncest: The aristocratic Martenses eventually began practicing incest among themselves. See InbredAndEvil above for the results.
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