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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]]:
*[[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. This is supposedly because Mark's father is Cthulhu, but he appears to be exactly like a normal human until Nyarlathotep shines the crystal on him.
*[[Decoy Protagonist]]: Keith seems like he's the protagonist in the first chapter, but at the end of it he dies. The second chapter is from Kay's point of view, but the third and last switches to Mark and reveals that she is also dead.
*[[Dying Dream]]: Subverted. Mark thinks he's having one of these when he's taken away by the fish people, but it's real.
*[[Emotion Eater]]: According to {{spoiler|the fake}} Orin Sanderson, the Great Old Ones created humans to feed on their emotions, especially fear.
*[[Hollywood Silencer]]: The revolver
*[[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Mark is the result of Kay being made the "bride" of Cthulhu.
*[[Informed Attribute]]:
*[[Literary Allusion Title]]: The title is part of a couplet from the Necronomicon, found in "The Nameless City" and "The Call of Cthulhu": "That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die". One of the last lines in the book is "Death died", though it's not stated what this means.
*[[Nuclear Option]]: Cthulhu is successfully nuked, but Mark becomes his replacement.
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