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'''''Strange Eons''''' is a novel by [[Robert Bloch]]
Albert Keith, who has a collection of various objects including a shrunken head, sees a large painting of a dog-like creature holding a dead man and just has to buy it. His friend Simon Waverly arrives at his house and realizes the painting is the same as the one from "Pickman's Model". As unfolding events become increasingly strange and disturbing, Keith discovers that Lovecraft's fiction may really be something more...
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*[[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Bloch seems to like using this sort of phrase, such as "mountainous mass of masonry" and "frantic furry forms".
*[[Anyone Can Die]]: There are multiple protagonists throughout the book, and almost all of them die, as well as many other characters.
*[[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Mark becomes Cthulhu at the end and destroys everything.
*[[Death by Childbirth]]: Kay Keith is said to have died this way during the [[Time Skip]] after giving birth to Mark Dixon.
*[[Decoy Protagonist]]: The viewpoint characters are arguably all this, except Mark at the end.
*[[Dying Dream]]: Subverted. Mark thinks he's having one of these when he's taken away by the fish people, but it's real.
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*[[Hollywood Silencer]]: The revolver used to blow off the top of Fred Elstree's head is totally silent.
*[[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Mark.
*[[Informed Attribute]]: Kay Keith, the second protagonist, thinks to herself that she's "not the fainting kind" after we see her faint for the first time. She then goes on to do it several more times.
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