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* KidsAreCruel: ''DrowningPalmer''.
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* KidsAreCruel: ''DrowningPalmer''.''Drowning Palmer''.
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* ScholarAndAGentleman: Ratcliffe in ''DrowningPalmer''.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Booth certainly couldn't tell you. He feels it in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''... but [[spoiler: contact with an incubus gives you amnesia, and he's forgotten the affair by ''The Wall of Clouds''.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Booth certainly couldn't tell you. He feels it in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''... but [[spoiler: contact with an incubus gives you amnesia, and he's forgotten the affair by ''The Wall of Clouds''.Clouds'']].
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* BackFromTheDead: What ''else'' do you think a horror story called ''Bringing Helena Back'' is going to be about?
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* BackFromTheDead: What ''else'' do you think a horror story called ''Bringing Helena Back'' is going to be about? about?
* BlueBlood: Booth has "the sort of genealogy that passes in America for aristocratic," although he prefers not to think about his past and the Simmonses probably took all his money.
* BlueBlood: Booth has "the sort of genealogy that passes in America for aristocratic," although he prefers not to think about his past and the Simmonses probably took all his money.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Helena]], although Booth isn't certain whether she's a DamagedSoul or really a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil.
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* DownerEnding: Most of them. [[spoiler: But none so much as Elegy for a Demon Lover. By contrast,''The Wall of Clouds'' ends pretty well for most of the sympathetic characters, and ''White Charles'' is more bittersweet than downer-ish.]]
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* DownerEnding: Most of them. [[spoiler: But none so much as Elegy ''Elegy for a Demon Lover.Lover''. By contrast,''The Wall of Clouds'' ends pretty well for most of the sympathetic characters, and ''White Charles'' is more bittersweet than downer-ish.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Booth and Blaine. Kind of. Not really.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Booth and Blaine. Kind of. Not really. really.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Poor Booth and Blaine.
* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Incubi, judging by Ivo.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Poor Booth and Blaine.
* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Incubi, judging by Ivo.
* KidsAreCruel: ''DrowningPalmer''.
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* MagneticMediumMacGuffinTitle: ''The Bone Key'', ''The Venebretti Necklace'', ''The Green Glass Paperweight'', ''Listening to Bone'', and ''The Yellow Dressing Gown''.
* MagneticMedium: Booth. Ghosts, ghouls, incubi, vampires, witches... you name it, Booth meets it.
* MementoMacGuffin: ''The Bone Key'' and ''The Green Glass Paperweight''.
* MineralMacGuffin: The titular Venebretti Necklace.
* MagneticMedium: Booth. Ghosts, ghouls, incubi, vampires, witches... you name it, Booth meets it.
* MementoMacGuffin: ''The Bone Key'' and ''The Green Glass Paperweight''.
* MineralMacGuffin: The titular Venebretti Necklace.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Ivo.
* ScholarAndAGentleman: Ratcliffe in ''DrowningPalmer''.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Booth certainly couldn't tell you. He feels it in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''... but [[spoiler: contact with an incubus gives you amnesia, and he's forgotten the affair by ''The Wall of Clouds''.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Ivo's are "not merely vivid blue"; they are "intense, blazing, as if they were lit from within," "full of fire and darkness," and in possession of "opalescent brilliance."
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Ivo's are "not merely vivid blue"; they are "intense, blazing, as if they were lit from within," "full of fire and darkness," and in possession of "opalescent brilliance."
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* EvilIsSexy: Booth's first (and, likely, last) sexual relationship is with [[spoiler: Ivo Balthasar, a life-force-leeching incubus that he meets in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''. Technically, Ivo may not be evil, since he seems unaware of his deadly effect, and even Booth is certain that Ivo truly loves him. On the other hand, he is a demon who inevitably causes the slow death of his long-term lovers.]]
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!! Works not currently in a collection
# ''[[http://www.apex-magazine.com/to-die-for-moonlight/ To Die For Moonlight]]''
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* EvilISSexy: Booth's first (and, likely, last) sexual relationship is with [[spoiler: Ivo Balthasar, a life-force-leeching incubus that he meets in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''. Technically, Ivo may not be evil, since he seems unaware of his deadly effect, and even Booth is certain that Ivo truly loves him. On the other hand, he is a demon who inevitably causes the slow death of his long-term lovers.]]
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* EvilISSexy: EvilIsSexy: Booth's first (and, likely, last) sexual relationship is with [[spoiler: Ivo Balthasar, a life-force-leeching incubus that he meets in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''. Technically, Ivo may not be evil, since he seems unaware of his deadly effect, and even Booth is certain that Ivo truly loves him. On the other hand, he is a demon who inevitably causes the slow death of his long-term lovers.]]
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**[[spoiler: Booth's father was likely a kind, loving man, but Booth believes that his mother, Thekla, loved him only as a reminder of his father, as in ''The Bone Key.'' However, compared with his guardians, the Siddonses, Thekla is an angel.]]
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* DownerEnding: Most of them. [[spoiler: But none so much as Elegy for a Demon Lover.]]
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* DownerEnding: Most of them. [[spoiler: But none so much as Elegy for a Demon Lover. By contrast,''The Wall of Clouds'' ends pretty well for most of the sympathetic characters, and ''White Charles'' is more bittersweet than downer-ish.]]
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* EvilISSexy: Booth's first (and, likely, last) sexual relationship is with [[spoiler: Ivo Balthasar, a life-force-leeching incubus that he meets in ''Elegy for a Demon Lover''. Technically, Ivo may not be evil, since he seems unaware of his deadly effect, and even Booth is certain that Ivo truly loves him. On the other hand, he is a demon who inevitably causes the slow death of his long-term lovers.]]
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I thought a couple of stories had happier endings than they got credit for.
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* DownerEnding: All Most of them. [[spoiler: But none so much as Elegy for a Demon Lover.]]
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* GothicHorror: Influenced by rather than straight-up ''is'', but when taking major inspiration from Creator/MRJames, it's inevitable.
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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Booth has literally no friends, and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the occult.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Booth has literally no friends, and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the occult.
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Mix Creator/MRJames, Creator/HPLovecraft, psycho-sexual themes, a heavy dose of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter The Statement of Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his supernatural mishaps in anxious first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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Mix Creator/MRJames, Creator/HPLovecraft, psycho-sexual themes, a heavy dose of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter The Statement of Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series by SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his supernatural mishaps in anxious first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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* AnachronismStew: Mostly avoided because of how nebulous the setting is, but one thing's for sure: [[http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=kyle&ms=false&exact=false Booth's a few decades too early to be named Kyle]].
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Mix Creator/MRJames, Creator/HPLovecraft, a creepy museum and a closeted gay protagonist who bears an eerie resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series of shorts by SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his supernatural mishaps in anxious first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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Mix Creator/MRJames, Creator/HPLovecraft, psycho-sexual themes, a creepy museum and a closeted gay protagonist who bears an eerie resemblance to heavy dose of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter The Statement of Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series of shorts by SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his supernatural mishaps in anxious first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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* AbusiveParents: This story is written by SarahMonette, after all. Compared to her [[Literature/DoctrineofLabyrinths other works]], Booth gets off light.
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* AbusiveParents: Guardians, in this case, but it's a given. This story is written by SarahMonette, after all. Compared to her [[Literature/DoctrineofLabyrinths other works]], Booth gets off light.
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Mix Creator/MRJames, Creator/HPLovecraft, a creepy museum and a closeted gay protagonist who bears an eerie resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series of shorts by SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his misshaps supernatural mishaps in belabored anxious first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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Mix [[MontagueRhodesJames M.R. James]], [[HPLovecraft H.P. Lovecraft]], Creator/MRJames, Creator/HPLovecraft, a creepy museum and a closeted gay protagonist who bears an eerie resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series of shorts by SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his misshaps in belabored first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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* GothicHorror: Influenced by rather than straight-up ''is'', but when taking major inspiration from [[MontagueRhodesJames James]], it's inevitable.
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* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: You look like you've just ran up three flights of stairs to avoid seeing a ghost!
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* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: You look like you've just ran up three flights of stairs to avoid seeing a ghost!ghost!
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The new introduction to the second edition includes a lengthy discussion covering each short story, written by the current senior archivist of Rare Books at the Parrington Museum, now that 'Dr Monette' has released the 'Kyle Murchison Booth Papers' to the public.
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The new introduction to the second edition of 'The Bone Key' includes a lengthy discussion covering each short story, written by the current senior archivist of Rare Books at the Parrington Museum, now that 'Dr Monette' has released the 'Kyle Murchison Booth Papers' to the public.
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* NoHuggingNoKissing: No touching at all, if Booth can help it. Notable exception in ''Elegy To A Demon Lover''.
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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:''The Venebretti Necklace'', ''The Replacement''.]]
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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:''The Venebretti Necklace'', ''The Replacement''.]]]] Arguably inverted in ''White Charles''.
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* DysfunctionJunction: [[spoiler: DeathByOriginStory parents and abusive legal guardians]] have left Booth unable to make lasting connections with other people, speak with any degree of confidence, or brave any kind of prolonged social interaction.
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* DysfunctionJunction: [[spoiler: This trope[[spoiler:, consisting of DeathByOriginStory parents and abusive legal guardians]] have guardians,]] has left Booth unable to make lasting connections with other people, speak with any degree of confidence, or brave any kind of prolonged social interaction.
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* DysfunctionJunction: [[spoiler: DeathByOriginStory parents and abusive legal guardians have left Booth unable to make lasting connections with other people, speak with any degree of confidence, or brave any kind of prolonged social interaction.]]
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* DysfunctionJunction: [[spoiler: DeathByOriginStory parents and abusive legal guardians guardians]] have left Booth unable to make lasting connections with other people, speak with any degree of confidence, or brave any kind of prolonged social interaction.]]
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DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler: Booth's parents.]]
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DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: [[spoiler: Booth's parents were apparently nice and loving people until they kicked it, and left him with a pair of abusive caretakers.]]
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* {{Woobie}}: If there's something bad that can happen to Booth, short of death, it will.
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* Necromancer: Hmm, I wonder.
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* AbusiveParents: This story is written by SarahMonette, after all. Compared to her [[Literature/TheDoctrineofLabyrinths other works]], Booth gets off light.
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Mix [[MontagueRhodesJames M.R. James]], [[HPLovecraft H.P. Lovecraft]], a creepy museum and a closeted gay protagonist who bears an eerie resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter Randolph Carter]], and what do you get? A series of short stories [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chronicling the necromantic mysteries]] of one Kyle Murchison Booth. Taking place in an ambiguous [[WordOfGod between the wars]] setting in an equally ambiguous American city, this series of shorts by [[Literature/TheDoctrineofLabyrinths Sarah]] [[ACompainionToWolves Monette]] SarahMonette follows the hauntingly haunted adventures of the aforementioned protagonist, who relates his misshaps in belabored first person as he watches otherworldly horrors unfold around him.
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The series of shorts are all collected in ''The Bone Key'', with the exception of the final four, which have yet to be collected into anything (except a limited run chap-book called ''Unnatural Creatures'').
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The series of shorts are all collected in ''The Bone Key'', with the exception of the final most recent four, which have yet to be collected into anything (except a limited run chap-book called ''Unnatural Creatures'').
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