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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Cujo]]'' by ''[[Stephen King]]'' involves a woman and her son trapped in a car by a rabid dog. The stifling weather just makes things worse.
* A frequent device in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. ''Summer Knight'' makes the most use of the heat wave motif, feeding into Harry's irritability given his recent defeat and helping to highlight {{spoiler|how things are going seriously wrong with the Summer fae}}.
* ''[[Harry Potter and
** It may have been a symbolic use, but it's also very literal -- in the real world during the middle and late summer of 1995 (when ''OoTP'' starts), Great Britain was stuck in a record-breaking heat wave.
* ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' begins on an "exceptionally hot evening early in July".
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* The events recalled by Leo Colston in LP Hartley's ''[[The Go-Between]]'' take place in the long hot summer of 1900. The temperatures rise as the plot unfolds, but the weather breaks at the climax with a thunderstorm.
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* An episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' featured a catastrophic heat wave caused by the Earth moving closer to the sun. It turns out in the [[Karmic Twist Ending]] that {{spoiler|it was [[All Just a Dream]], but reality isn't much better: the Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun, resulting in the Earth gradually freezing}}.
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