Desperation: Difference between revisions

{{quote| "Mi him, can de lach, mi him, min en tow. Tak!"}}

* [[Body Horror]]: The ancient spirit Tak is so powerful that it causes any body it possesses to expand and fall apart (animals will '''explode''' if it possesses them).

* [[Chinese Laborer]]: Chinese workers accidentally discovered the gate to Tak's dimension when they [[Dug Too Deep]].

* [[Demonic Possession]]

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that the [[Big Bad]] is an eternal [[Eldritch Abomination]] who can control the wildlife - the smaller and less complex the creature, the more absolute his control over it is. It's possible it could have called the spiders from hundreds of miles away.

* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: One of the main characters, Johnny Marinville, is a writer.

* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place]]: Desperation? Sounds like a great place to live.

* [[Religious Horror]]

* [[Sibling Switch Squick]] - Thanks to the alternate universe, the Carver family from one version of the story reverts who are siblings and who is married. In other words, David and Pie would be brother and sister in ''Desperation'', and their parents Ellen and Ralph, but in ''The Regulators'', they're married, and Ellen and Ralph are their children.

* [[Significant Anagram]]: The very tall sheriff is called Collie Entragian. Entragian is an anagram for "near giant".