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* SanitySlippage: Sarah and Constance, [[spoiler:if Constance was ever there in the first place]].
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* SanitySlippage: Sarah and Constance, [[spoiler:if [[spoiler:though with Constance was ever there in refusing to tell her side of the first place]].story, it is ambiguous how much of this she actually underwent and how much is Sarah projecting her own fraying sense of reality onto her]].
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* CreepyBasement: It's got a wall full of occult symbols and no one ever determines quite how big it really is. [[spoiler:Constance tries and ends up traumatized by something she can't remember]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Sarah, Amanda, and Harvey
* DrivenToSuicide: Sarah, Amanda, and Harvey
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* CreepyBasement: It's got a wall full of occult symbols and no one ever determines quite how big it really is. [[spoiler:Constance tries and ends up traumatized by something she can't remember]].
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* DrivenToSuicide:Sarah, Amanda, We learn out the gate that Sarah died from a suicide. In her account, Sarah already knew that Harvey had died from a mysterious suicide before she moved to the house. A bit into the story, we also learn that Amanda is dead from a suicide, though Sarah is initially very hesitant to admit this to herself and Harveywrites somewhat ambiguously about Amanda's status at first.
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* FirstPersonSmartass: Sarah
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* FirstPersonSmartass: SarahSarah, admitting upfront to being her own worst critic, includes several acerbic asides as she writes it down, mainly commenting on her flaws and limitations as a writer, such as digressions that drags out for too long.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Amanda Tyrell, Sarah's artist girlfriend who died by suicide.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Amanda Tyrell, Sarah's artist girlfriend who died by suicide. Much of the story is Sarah trying to process Amanda's death and her own grief over it.
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''The Red Tree'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel with CosmicHorrorStory elements written by Caitlín R. Kiernan presented in the form of an ApocalypticLog. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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''The Red Tree'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel with CosmicHorrorStory (with some elements of {{Cosmic Horror|Story}} and FolkHorror) written by Caitlín R. Kiernan presented in the form of an ApocalypticLog. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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''The Red Tree'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel written by Caitlín R. Kiernan presented in the form of an ApocalypticLog. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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''The Red Tree'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel with CosmicHorrorStory elements written by Caitlín R. Kiernan presented in the form of an ApocalypticLog. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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''The Red Tree'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel written by Caitlín R. Kiernan presented in the form of an ApocalypticLog. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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As it turns out, while wandering into the house's cellar looking for a cool place to read, Sara had discovered an incomplete manuscript written by deceased parapsychologist Charles L. Harvey, who was documenting a number of urban legends, accidents, and murders surrounding a red massive oak tree less than a hundred yards from the house (and the same tree he was found hanging from after apparently committing suicide). Curious, Sara started reading the unfinished text.
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As it turns out, while wandering into the house's cellar looking for a cool place to read, Sara had discovered an incomplete manuscript written by the house's former tenant, the deceased parapsychologist and anthropologist, Charles L. Harvey, who was documenting a number of urban legends, accidents, and murders surrounding a red massive oak tree less than a hundred yards from the house (and the same tree he was found hanging from after apparently committing suicide). Curious, Sara started reading the unfinished text.
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''The Red Tree'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel written by Caitlín R. Kiernan presented in the form of an ApocalypticLog. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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* UltimateEvil: Sarah becomes convinced the tree is merely a mask for some primordial, malignant entity capable of searing her mind.
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* UltimateEvil: UnseenEvil: Sarah becomes convinced the tree is merely a mask for some primordial, malignant entity capable of searing her mind.
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* TheLostWoods: Shortly after Constance moves in with Sarah, she asks if she can come with Sarah the next time she goes to check out the tree. [[spoiler:Half an hour into their little field trip, they realize that the tree supposedly only seventy-five yards away from the house doesn't seem to be getting any closer, and that they've passed that same small deadfall once before on this trip...]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: Lampshaded. Sarah notes in her entries that she's basically paraphrasing all of the dialogue she writes down from memory, which she admits isn't all that great (not to mention the fact that she ''might'' be going insane). She's also shown to be very familiar with the works of Lovecraft and related authors, and not to mention some of the dark folklore surrounding New England. She even drops the name of the trope:
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* UnreliableNarrator: Lampshaded. Sarah notes in her entries that she's basically paraphrasing all of the dialogue she writes down from memory, which she admits isn't all that great (not to mention the fact that she ''might'' be going insane).insane) and almost every time she writes down her dreams, she freely admits that she doesn't really remember them that well and is reflexively embellishing to the point she annoys herself. She's also shown to be very familiar with the works of Lovecraft and related authors, and not to mention some of the dark folklore surrounding New England. She even drops the name of the trope:
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* TheVerse: The last chapter, an excerpt from one of Sarah's stories, mentions an artist named Albert Perrault who may or may not have deliberately crashed his motorcycle. Perrault's artwork is important to the plot of Kiernan's later book ''The Drowning Girl''. Kiernan's short story "Houses Under the Sea" is set in the same universe. Additionally, all three include [[spoiler: the EldritchAbomination sea goddess, Mother Hydra, to varying degrees.]]
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* TheVerse: The last chapter, an excerpt from one of Sarah's stories, mentions an artist named Albert Perrault who may or may not have deliberately crashed his motorcycle. Perrault's artwork is important to the plot of Kiernan's later book ''The Drowning Girl''. Kiernan's short story "Houses Under the Sea" is set in the same universe. Additionally, all three include [[spoiler: the EldritchAbomination sea goddess, Mother Hydra, to varying degrees.degrees--Sarah's creepy dreams mention her, or at least Sarah ''writes'' they do.]]
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* TheVerse: The last chapter, an excerpt from one of Sarah's stories, mentions an artist named Albert Perrault who may or may not have deliberately crashed his motorcycle. Perrault's artwork is important to the plot of Kiernan's later book ''The Drowning Girl''. Kiernan's short story "Houses Under the Sea" is set in the same universe. Additionally, all three include [[spoiler: the EldritchAbomination sea goddess, Mother Hydra, to varying degrees.]]
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* FramingDevice: The book opens with a preface by Sarah's former editor, Sharon, who was mailed everything Sarah typed in the cottage, and chose to publish it. This is one of the only ways to know for sure what things really happened (the cottage is real, the tree is real, Constance is real but won't provide comment).
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The framing device is that Sarah's former editor, Sharon, was mailed everything Sarah typed in the cottage, and chose to publish it. Sharon's preface is one of the only ways to know what things really happened (the cottage is real, the tree is real, Constance is real but won't provide comment).
