Carrion Comfort
Carrion Comfort is a 1989 fantasy/horror novel written by Dan Simmons.
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Tropes used in Carrion Comfort include:
- 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 Öberst wants that to change.
- 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. It Gets Worse.
- Karma Houdini: Melanie Fuller
- 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: Tony Harod.