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3	''The Sorcerer’s House'' is a 2010 fantasy novel by Creator/GeneWolfe, told via a series of letters and correspondences between its various characters. In it, recently paroled ConArtist Baxter Dunn, penniless and with no friends save his former cellmate, with whom he corresponds regularly, moves to the tiny Midwestern town of Medicine Man and discovers that he is the inheritor of a strange house on the outskirts of town which once belonged to a self-proclaimed sorcerer, the enigmatic Mr. Black.
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5	Moving into the house, Bax finds his life interrupted by a series of bizarre and clearly supernatural events, including a talking fox, an odd Japanese woman who visits him at night, the discovery of a device that apparently grants wishes, a mattress full of money, and a series of grisly murders committed by someone or something the local papers have dubbed the “Hound of Horror.”
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7	Naturally, this being a Gene Wolfe novel, things only get more complicated a difficult to follow as you go on.
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10	!This novel provides examples of the following tropes:
11	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lupine has a bad habit of leaving human body parts as tokens of her affection for Emlyn.
12	* AllMythsAreTrue: Everyone from TheFairFolk to Manjushri to Miyamoto Musashi can be found in the woods surrounding the house.
13	%%* AsianFoxSpirit: Winkle.
14	* BiggerOnTheInside: The house, which only gets bigger as the story progresses.
15	%%* CainAndAbel: Bax and George, as well as Emlyn and Ieuan.
16	%%* CuteMonsterGirl: Winkle and Lupine.
17	%%* DepravedDwarf: Qorn.
18	* EnchantedForest: The house’s windows look out on a forest with strange creatures living in the forest and a mage tower in the distance.
19	%%* EvilTwin: Played with.
20	%%* TheFairFolk
21	* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Bax remains with his father in Faerie. Or, more likely, it's a FakeTwinGambit, with George dead and Bax impersonating him to take over his life.]]
22	%%* JerkAss: George Dunn, and to some extent Bax as well.
23	%%* LandOfFaerie
24	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Bax and George are Zwart Black’s sons.]]
25	%%* OldDarkHouse: Justified at first, since Bax takes a while getting the power turned back on.
26	%%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lupine.
27	%%* PosthumousCharacter: Zwart Black.
28	%%* RuleOfThree: So subtle you’ll miss it, though it’s one of the rare occasions when Wolfe points it out after the fact.
29	%%* UnreliableNarrator: Bax, and possibly everyone else. It’s a Wolfe novel, after all.

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