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Context Literature / Lamplight

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2	''Lamplight'' (2017) is a modern-day ghost story by Benjamin Appleby Dean, following a group of young adults who receive mysterious anonymous messages on their phones when their friends begin to disappear, one by one. At the same time, the town of Crooksfield experiences a sequence of unexplained electrical faults - lights and lamps that cannot be turned off, even when disconnected.
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9	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Amy ultimately finds a new strength within herself, and drives the Lamp-Lighter back, but at the cost of all of her friends.]]
10	* DarknessEqualsDeath: {{Subverted}}. Total darkness is the ''only'' place safe from the book's antagonists, who [[spoiler:depend on artifical light in order to exist.]]
11	* EldritchAbomination: Both the grotesque shadow-creatures who make up the main antagonists, and, it's strongly hinted, [[spoiler:the Lamp-Lighter itself.]]
12	* TheHeartless: It's not clear whether the shadow-creatures are actually born out of fear and loneliness or merely prey on it, but [[spoiler:they only target those who have become socially isolated, both physically and electronically.]]
13	* NothingIsScarier: The un-named beings who infiltrate Crooksfield cannot be physically seen - only their shadows are visible.
14	* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:Amy, the only gay character, is also the sole survivor of the book's events.]]
15	* SurrealHorror: Especially towards the final third of the book, as reality begins to break down and the shadow-creatures come through into the material world.
16	* WeakenedByTheLight: {{Inverted}}. The creatures here aren't deterred by light at all - in fact [[spoiler:they need it in order to take physical form.]]

Context Literature / Lamplight