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'''''Strange Eons''''' is a novel by [[Robert Bloch]]. It consists largely of references to [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] novels and short stories, which it neither expands on nor explains very much (for example, we are still left wondering what those odd things were that killed Harley Warren, and Bloch -- rather than telling us -- has one of his characters die in a similar fashion and doesn't explain that). The premise is that Lovecraft's works were actually true and a warning about the future.
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*[[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Bloch seems to like using this sort of phrase, such as "mountainous mass of masonry".
*[[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.
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*[[Hollywood Silencer]]: The gun 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
*[[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
*[[Nuclear Option]]: Cthulhu is successfully nuked, but Mark becomes his replacement.
*[[Time Skip]]: Mark is introduced in the last chapter after one of these, since he doesn't exist yet
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