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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Derby ends his days mentally trapped inside Asenath's rotting corpse, which he'd buried in a cellar the last time he was in his own human body. At least he manages to claw his way out, but by then he's done for, not going to last for much longer inside a literally dead, Innsmouth fishwoman's body.]]
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* TheNarrator: Derby's best friend Daniel Upton, who has a full name, unlike many of HPL's earlier unnamed narrators.
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* FemaleMisogynist: Asenath seems to be one; she expresses anger over being born a woman since she believes that the male brain has "certain unique and far-reaching cosmic powers". [[spoiler:But as it turns out, she's not really a woman, but a man in a woman's body]].
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* FemaleMisogynist: Asenath seems to be one; she expresses anger over being born a woman since she believes that the male brain has "certain unique and far-reaching cosmic powers". [[spoiler:But as it turns out, she's not really a woman, but a man in a woman's body]].body, and no, we don't mean in a transgender sense]].
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* DissonantSerenity: The story starts off with Upton explaining, perfectly calmly and cordially, explaining how he put a bullet in his best friend's skull.
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* DissonantSerenity: The story starts off with Upton explaining, perfectly calmly and cordially, explaining how he put a bullet in his best friend's skull. In a shout-out to Literature/TheTellTaleHeart, it doesn't last, and by the end he is shouting about how the body needs to be cremated and how his own will is not weak like Derby's, that he will not be sucked into that bullet-riddled corpse.
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* DissonantSerenity: The story starts off with Upton explaining, perfectly calmly and cordially, explaining how he put a bullet in his best friend's skull.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Ephraim [[spoiler: killing Asenath]] in some manner. His thoughts on her, as read by Derby, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance are always spiteful]] - for not being a man and fully human, as he desired.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Ephraim [[spoiler: killing Asenath]] in some manner. His thoughts on her, as read by Derby, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance are always spiteful]] - -- for not being a man and fully human, as he desired.
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* AerithAndBob: Edgar Derby and Asenath Waite. Asenath's odd name emphasizes her sinister, otherworldly nature. Though this would be more of a modern reinterpretation; a Biblical name wouldn't seem out of place at all among the East Coast Establishment in the 1930s. If anything, their names would be a class marker hinting that Asenath and her father Ephraim belong to a ''really'' old, established family going all the way back to the Puritans.
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* AerithAndBob: Edgar Edward Derby and Asenath Waite. Asenath's odd name emphasizes her sinister, otherworldly nature. Though this would be more of a modern reinterpretation; a Biblical name wouldn't seem out of place at all among the East Coast Establishment in the 1930s. If anything, their names would be a class marker hinting that Asenath and her father Ephraim belong to a ''really'' old, established family going all the way back to the Puritans.
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* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Asenath Waite.
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* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Asenath Waite. Specifically, [[EvilDetectingDog dogs dislike her]] and act fearfully if they have to be near her.
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* AerithAndBob: Edgar Derby and Asenath Waite. Asenath's odd name emphasizes her sinister, otherworldly nature. Though this would be more of a modern reinterpretation; a Biblical name wouldn't seem out of place at all among the East Coast Establishment in the 1930s. If anything, it would be a class marker hinting that Asenath and her father Ephraim belong to an old Puritan family.
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* AerithAndBob: Edgar Derby and Asenath Waite. Asenath's odd name emphasizes her sinister, otherworldly nature. Though this would be more of a modern reinterpretation; a Biblical name wouldn't seem out of place at all among the East Coast Establishment in the 1930s. If anything, it their names would be a class marker hinting that Asenath and her father Ephraim belong to an old Puritan family.a ''really'' old, established family going all the way back to the Puritans.
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* AerithAndBob: Edgar Derby and Asenath Waite. Asenath's odd name emphasizes her sinister, otherworldly nature. Though this would be more of a modern reinterpretation; a Biblical name wouldn't seem out of place at all among the East Coast Establishment in the 1930s. If anything, it would be a class marker hinting that Asenath and her father Ephraim belong to an old Puritan family.
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* AerithAndBob: Edgar Derby and Asenath Waite. Asenath's odd name emphasizes her sinister, otherworldly nature.
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* FemaleMisogynist: Asenath seems to be one; she expresses anger over being born a woman since she believes that the male brain has "certain unique and far-reaching cosmic powers". [[spoiler:But as it turns out, she's not really a woman, but a man in a woman's body]].
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* MadArtist: Derby achieved some renown as a great poet writing nightmarish verse, years before the events in the story unfolded.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Derby himself admitted both verbally and in his last letter he got involved in horrific black magic rituals, which were the Devil's business and [[NothingIsScarier too disgusting to describe]]. It took him 3 years to realize this led to AFateWorseThanDeath.
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Derby's consciousness is permanently trapped in a rotting corpse. The real Asenath suffered the same fate off-screen.]]
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Asenath and Edward, with the former the stronger and more assertive personality who dominates their marriage.
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* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Asenath Waite.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Ephraim [[spoiler: killing Asenath]] in some manner. His thoughts on her, as read by Derby, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance are always spiteful]] - for not being a man and fully human, as he desired.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Asenath is one of the Innsmouth fish-people, as evidenced by her bulgy eyes.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Asenath is one of the Innsmouth fish-people, as evidenced by her bulgy eyes. [[spoiler: Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, she never gets the chance to undergo the Change: she's murdered twice-over while still young.]]
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* {{Expie}}: There are enough similarities between the Waite family and the Marsh family from Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth to argue that this story may have originally been intended as a prequel.
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* AmbiguousEnding: Upton, whose will is much stronger than Derby's, is mentioned in a much later story to have been given a clean bill of mental health and released from the asylum. [[spoiler: What is ''not'' revealed is whether he has successfully managed to resist becoming the next body for Ephraim.]]
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* SplitPersonality: Derby seems to exhibit this after marrying Asenath. [[spoiler: It turns out be because Ephraim is swapping bodies with him.]]
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* MommasBoy: Derby's quite dependent on his parents, which makes him easy prey for Asenath.
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"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a story by Creator/HPLovecraft, published in 1937. The story starts with our narrator, Daniel Upton, explaining to the police why he's just shot and killed his best friend, Edward Derby.
Upton recounts his lifelong friendship with Derby, which took a turn for the sour when Derby married a creepy young Innsmouth woman named Asenath Waite. Asenath's father Ephraim dabbled in forbidden sorcery, and it looked like Asenath was following in her dad's footsteps, performing mysterious occult experiments that caused Derby to become more and more unhinged...
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!This short story provides examples of:
* BigBad: Asenath. [[spoiler: Until we find out "Asenath" has really been Ephraim the whole time.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Derby's consciousness is permanently trapped in a rotting corpse. The real Asenath suffered the same fate off-screen.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Ephraim achieves this by switching bodies with Asenath and then with Derby.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Asenath is one of the Innsmouth fish-people, as evidenced by her bulgy eyes.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Derby and Upton.
* HowWeGotHere: The whole story is Upton explaining why he shot his friend.
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: The only way to become immortal is to swap bodies with someone.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Derby suggests cremating his Ephraim-possessed corpse, since shooting Ephraim didn't do any good.]]
* OurLichesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Derby refers to Ephraim as a lich.]]
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Upton recounts his lifelong friendship with Derby, which took a turn for the sour when Derby married a creepy young Innsmouth woman named Asenath Waite. Asenath's father Ephraim dabbled in forbidden sorcery, and it looked like Asenath was following in her dad's footsteps, performing mysterious occult experiments that caused Derby to become more and more unhinged...
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!This short story provides examples of:
* BigBad: Asenath. [[spoiler: Until we find out "Asenath" has really been Ephraim the whole time.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Derby's consciousness is permanently trapped in a rotting corpse. The real Asenath suffered the same fate off-screen.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Ephraim achieves this by switching bodies with Asenath and then with Derby.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Asenath is one of the Innsmouth fish-people, as evidenced by her bulgy eyes.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Derby and Upton.
* HowWeGotHere: The whole story is Upton explaining why he shot his friend.
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: The only way to become immortal is to swap bodies with someone.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Derby suggests cremating his Ephraim-possessed corpse, since shooting Ephraim didn't do any good.]]
* OurLichesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Derby refers to Ephraim as a lich.]]
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