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8	->''FRANCE, 1180 A.D.''
9	->''Judgment Has Come''
10	->''An ancient evil leads a rampaging army of demons and undead warriors across the countryside. Martin, a failed Templar, is slain on the field of battle only to be reanimated in service to the very evil he hoped to destroy. The Black Yew, the dark force that controls the undead army, considers him a gifted minion.''
11	->''But life is not done with him yet.''
12	-->-- From the back cover
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14	''Toothless'' is a 2010 historical fantasy/horror novel by J.P. Moore. The book features zombies, the Knights Templar, zombie Templars, visionaries, Irish monks, werewolves, demons, plague, and the Black Yew, an eldritch abomination in the form of a gigantic evil tree. It's also notable for its use of an undead, speechless protagonist, and for its medieval take on the zombie apocalypse.
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16	''Toothless'' originally appeared in 2009 as podfic, read by the author, and the whole audiobook is available [[http://www.podiobooks.com/title/toothless here]]. Read the first three chapters [[http://www.freado.com/player/bookplayer.php?contentid=5273&authorid=3708&preview=1 here]].
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18	This book is not to be confused with the [[Film/{{Toothless}} 1997 film]] starring Kirstie Alley, or with the character from ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon''.
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21	!!'''Tropes appearing in ''Toothless'':'''
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23	* ABoyAndHisX: A Girl And Her Zombie.
24	%%* AndIMustScream: Toothless, in an unusually literal way.
25	* AtrociousAlias: The cart demon gives the dead men demeaning new names when they're revived as zombies.
26	%%* AttackAttackAttack: the Black Yew's preferred method of combat.
27	%%* BFS: The angel greatsword.
28	%%* BlessedWithSuck: Lil, the deformed teenage seer.
29	%%* DemBones: Longinus and the other captains.
30	%%* EldritchAbomination: the Black Yew.
31	* FanDisservice: One character rips another's clothes off. It is... the polar opposite of sexy.
32	%%* FluffyTheTerrible: shades of this with the ironically-named Brother Francis.
33	%%* FullyEmbracedFiend: Spoiler; early on, Toothless himself.
34	* {{Gorn}}: Lots of detailed descriptions of battle and messy slaughter.
35	%%* TheKidWithTheLeash: Lil with Toothless.
36	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Breakneck and Curdle.
37	* LargeHam: Lots of characters in the audio version, in the best possible way. The voice of the Black Yew, for example. "FALLEN. ARRIIIIISE!"
38	%%* MoralityPet: Lil is this for Toothless.
39	%%* NotUsingTheZedWord
40	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The werewolves' transformations here only seem to work one way.
41	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: There are "shamblers" (mindless, lurching zombies) and "sentients" (fast zombies who can still think like humans). No one eats brains, but the sentients feed on the life force of humans whom they kill.
42	%%* ThePowerOfFriendship: a recurring theme, as is...
43	%%* ThePowerOfLove
44	%%* FreudianTrio: With Toothless as ego, Breakneck as id and Curdle as superego.
45	%%* TheSpeechless: Toothless.
46	%%* WaifProphet: Lil has elements of this.
47	* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Much of humanity is too busy fighting other humans to band together against the Yew.
48	%%* ZenSurvivor: Cedric.
49	%%* ZombieApocalypse: obviously.

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