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* [[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.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:
* [[The Cameo]]: Ralph Roberts and Norris Ridgewick. A few other King characters are mentioned in passing.
* [[Canon Welding]]: It's a [[Stephen King]] novel. What did you expect? Several of his works are referenced, including ''IT'', ''[[The Dark Half]]'', and cameos by the main character of ''Insomnia'' and Norris Ridgewick, who appeared in several Castle Rock stories in various capacities.
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* [[The Dragon]]: Rogette Whitmore is one of the more unlikely examples in literature.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The fate of most of Jared Devore's accomplices, though not Jared himself.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]:
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Mike has an explosive and disturbing three-way orgy with Jo, Mattie and Sara Tidwell in one of his dreams.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Max Devore provided well for his children and truly seemed to love his youngest son, Lance, though even that love had its limits.
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* [[It Got Better]]: Mattie's husband dies, leaving her a poor, single mother with few prospects. [[It Got Worse|Enter husband's father]], who intends to take away her daughter--mostly out of spite--and has more than enough money to make sure it will happen. Then, when things seem completely hopeless, a fortuitous encounter with Mike Noonan changes everything.
* [[Jerkass]]: Max Devore, again. Mike himself has a pretty cynical outlook, and his personal thoughts on people, even those he likes, have a tendency to be less than flattering.
* [[Living Bodysuit]]: When
* [[Magic Feather]]: Michael believes that it was discovering his old IBM typewriter which enabled him to start writing again. His superstition regarding the apparent defeat of writer's block is so strong that he's afraid to even take it out of his office, which has no air conditioner and is uncomfortably hot in mid-July.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Max Devore is throwing around scads of money at the townspeople of TR-90 to buy their good opinion and grease the skids for his custody battle.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Mike and Mattie.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Devore = devour.
* [[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.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: How
* [[Rape as Backstory]]:
* [[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.
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