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== Literature ==
* Inverted in [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s [[Father Brown]] story ''The Man in the Passage''. Three witnesses testify to seeing a man in the passage after a murder. Only the last, Father Brown, managed to see that it was his own reflection.
** Another Father Brown story, "The Mirror of the Magistrate," invokes a mirror scare. Police investigating a murder found a full-length mirror broken in the victim's front hall, but the man was actually murdered in his garden. They theorized that he'd struggled with the killer, breaking the mirror, and then fled into the garden before being killed. Father Brown realized that {{spoiler|the killer physically resembled his victim; he'd
* Used in a way in the [[Broken Sky]] series; the secret police of [[Big Bad|King Macaan]], the Jachyra, can see, hear, and even travel through mirrors, or anything sufficiently reflective. This causes a number scares with the mirror being stationary, as well as the main characters being incredibly paranoid around them. Any base which the [[La Résistance|Parakka]] make has no reflective surfaces whatsoever.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' has an [[Eldritch Abomination]] called "He Who Walks Behind." As his name implies, He is ''always'' behind you, no matter where you turn, so the only way to see Him is in a mirror. Harry first encountered Him while looking at an arcade game. [[Walking Techbane|It shorts out]], and ''something'' appears reflected in the screen. Harry turns around; nothing there. Harry turns back; He Who Walks Behind is now standing two feet closer ''and smiling''.
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