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* [[Broad Strokes]]: Newman's typical attitude to continuity. For instance, "Seven Stars" was apparently written with the continuity of "The Original Dr Shade" in mind, in which Shade is a pulp fiction character owned by Leech. Later Diogenes stories have him as a real person. So by the end of "Seven Stars", Genevieve has apparently forgotten meeting his sister (in "Sorcerer, Conjurer, Wizard, Witch") and son (in "Cold Snap") and thinks of him as entirely fictional.
* [[Canon Welding]]:
** While Kim Newman has seeded connections between his books since the beginning, "Cold Snap" seems to be a concentrated effort to tie them all together. Apart from featuring characters whose [[Alternate Universe]] selves appear in the ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' novels, it adds characters from his early work such as ''Jago'', and even features the villain from his ''[[
** One of the bidders at the [[Auction of Evil]] in "The Serial Murders" is the villain of Newman's non-series novel ''Bad Dreams''.
* [[Cool Car]]: The Rolls Royce ShadowShark, only six of which were ever made. [[The Cowl|Sinister vigilante]] Dr Shade has one. [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Derek Leech has one. Richard Jeperson has ''three''.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: "Cold Snap" has Derek Leech and the Diogenes Club joining forces to save the world.
* [[The Fair Folk]]: The antagonists in "The Gypsies in the Wood".
* [[Footnote Fever]]: All the more recent stories include footnotes or endnotes explaining obscure historical or cultural details that might not be familiar to foreign readers. The cultural notes are pretty reliable, but the historical notes are written from an [[In Universe]] perspective and have a habit of not distinguishing between genuine history and [[Shout
* [[Framing Device]]: In "The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train", Richard Jeperson tells Fred Regent the story of his first major mission for the Diogenes Club, and his first meeting with Vanessa, on the eve of what turns out to be Vanessa's departure.
* [[Kid Detective]]: Richard Riddle, Boy Detective, who assists the Diogenes Club in "The Gypsies in the Wood", and in whose honour Richard Jeperson was named.
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* [[Magicians Are Wizards]]: The Great Edmondo in "Sorcerer, Conjurer, Wizard, Witch".
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The psychiatrist in "You Don't Have to Be Mad..." is Dr. Ballance, which sounds like a good name for a psychiatrist -- but a slightly fuller rendition of his name reveals him as Dr. I. M. Ballance -- ''im''balance.
* [[The Men in Black]]: "The Undertaking", an Edwardian British group of MIBs, who are a rival organisation to the heroes (the Diogenes is, essentially, [[Doctor Who
* [[Mister Strangenoun]]: The Undertakers.
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Read]]: In "The Serial Murders", it's mentioned that as a schoolboy Richard Jeperson was horrified by how many of his teachers fantasized about massacring their students; after a while, he realised that the fantasies were a form of stress release and that the really dangerous ones were among who ''didn't''.
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* [[Phantasy Spelling]]: Mocked in "The Gypsies in the Wood", featuring a series of children's stories about faeries (including ''The Aerie Faerie Annual''). One character rhetorically asks what's wrong with the word "fairy".
* [[Phony Psychic]]: Played for laughs in "Angel Down, Sussex"; a young woman, Catriona, visits a psychic after [[World War I]], and the psychic divines that she is seeking contact with a soldier, Edwin; the psychic assures her that her soldier felt no pain when he died and that he sends his love to her from the afterlife, and a ghostly, indistinct image appears. After a moment, Catriona points out that there's one problem with the psychic's reading: Edwin, the soldier who the psychic has made such direct contact with? ''Isn't actually dead.'' Turns out Catriona's a particularly savvy paranormal investigator, and proceeds to deconstruct the psychic's act with devastating accuracy and reveal to her other patrons that she's a sham.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: Several are named as past members or allies of the Diogenes Club, including [[Carnacki, the Ghost
* [[Shout
* [[Two-Fisted Tales]]: "Clubland Heroes" is a deconstruction.
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