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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Though Mike describes himself as more-or-less normal, Mattie is very beautiful. Max Devore and Rogette Whitmore, the villains, are both the scary-looking variety of old people.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Though Mike describes himself as more-or-less normal, Mattie is very beautiful. Max Devore and Rogette Whitmore, the villains, are both the scary-looking variety of old people.
* [[Big Bad]]: Max Devore.
* [[Big Bad]]: Max Devore.
* [[Bigger On the Inside]]: In a dream/living projection, Mike and Kyra are chased into a county fair's haunted house which is much bigger than it looks from outside.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: In a dream/living projection, Mike and Kyra are chased into a county fair's haunted house which is much bigger than it looks from outside.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Mike not only loses his wife at the outset, he also loses Mattie to an act of post-mortem revenge, the stupid brutality of which turns him off writing (though, ''Lisey's Story'' implies that he later changes his mind about that). All he has left in the world is Kyra, and at the end of the story, Mike is equally optimistic and frustrated about the process which will allow him to adopt her.}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Mike not only loses his wife at the outset, he also loses Mattie to an act of post-mortem revenge, the stupid brutality of which turns him off writing (though, ''Lisey's Story'' implies that he later changes his mind about that). All he has left in the world is Kyra, and at the end of the story, Mike is equally optimistic and frustrated about the process which will allow him to adopt her.}}
* [[The Cameo]]: Ralph Roberts and Norris Ridgewick. A few other King characters are mentioned in passing.
* [[The Cameo]]: Ralph Roberts and Norris Ridgewick. A few other King characters are mentioned in passing.
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* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Mattie Devore all over the place.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Mattie Devore all over the place.
* [[The Dragon]]: Rogette Whitmore is one of the more unlikely examples in literature.
* [[The Dragon]]: Rogette Whitmore is one of the more unlikely examples in literature.
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Mattie Devore's murder is sudden, brutal, and completely senseless. Michael later realizes he has written many fictional murders of this type, and is disgusted with himself.}}
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Mattie Devore's murder is sudden, brutal, and completely senseless. Michael later realizes he has written many fictional murders of this type, and is disgusted with himself.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The fate of most of Jared Devore's accomplices, though not Jared himself.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The fate of most of Jared Devore's accomplices, though not Jared himself.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Mike has an explosive and disturbing three-way orgy with Jo, Mattie and Sara Tidwell in one of his dreams.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Mike has an explosive and disturbing three-way orgy with Jo, Mattie and Sara Tidwell in one of his dreams.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Devore = devour.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Devore = devour.
* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: Max Devore, unfortunately for everyone on Mattie's house.
* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: Max Devore, unfortunately for everyone on Mattie's house.
* [[New House New Problems]]: Mike's life, none too good before coming to Sara Laughs, gets a whole lot more complicated once he does.
* [[New House, New Problems]]: Mike's life, none too good before coming to Sara Laughs, gets a whole lot more complicated once he does.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: How {{spoiler|Sara}} punishes the men who murdered her and her son.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: How {{spoiler|Sara}} punishes the men who murdered her and her son.
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Sara Tidwell, though she implies that it has happened to her before and it really is the least of her problems.}}
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Sara Tidwell, though she implies that it has happened to her before and it really is the least of her problems.}}
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: As with his other writer-characters, King uses Noonan to occasionally mock the habits and pretensions of writers.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: As with his other writer-characters, King uses Noonan to occasionally mock the habits and pretensions of writers.
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: TR-90.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: TR-90.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Michael fears that if he and Kyra can't make it out of their shared dream of the 1901 Fryeburg Fair, they'll be trapped in it forever. He even speculates about what he'd do for a living if it happened.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Michael fears that if he and Kyra can't make it out of their shared dream of the 1901 Fryeburg Fair, they'll be trapped in it forever. He even speculates about what he'd do for a living if it happened.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Sara Tidwell}}.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Sara Tidwell}}.
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