Carrion Comfort

Carrion Comfort is a fantasy/horror novel written by Dan Simmons.

This book provides examples of:

 * Affably Evil: Some of the mind vampires, particularly C. Arnold Barent.
 * Ancient Conspiracy: Averted. Though the mind vampires are able to mind control virtually anyone, they don't use governments or try to change the world.
 * The Chessmaster: Barent and the Oberst, both literally and figuratively.
 * Evil Versus Evil: Whenever the vampires fight each other.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: The Pawns.
 * Human Chess: To the death.
 * I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Tony Harod with Maria Chen.
 * Infant Immortality: Subverted in the first 50 pages of the book.
 * Karma Houdini:
 * Kill Em All: Well, not everyone, but close.
 * Mind Rape: Plenty of those. And in Tony Harod's case, literally.
 * Not So Different: The Oberst tries this on Saul. It doesn't work.
 * Psychic Assisted Suicide: All. The. Time.
 * Redemption Equals Death: