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* [[Enemy Without]]: This should be self-explanatory.
* [[Enemy Without]]: This should be self-explanatory.
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: A policeman inspecting the car George Stark had used earlier notes that it smells hostile and animalistic. Stark also falls into this trope later in the book, being followed by the stench of his own decaying body.
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: A policeman inspecting the car George Stark had used earlier notes that it smells hostile and animalistic. Stark also falls into this trope later in the book, being followed by the stench of his own decaying body.
* [[Evil Twin]]: If Stark was really Thad's vanished twin, he could be considered this.
* [[Evil Twin]]: If Stark was really Thad's vanished twin, he could be considered this.
* [[Eye Scream]]: During Thad's childhood his foetal twin begins to regrow ''in his brain'' including an eyeball and several teeth. A surgeon lances the eyeball and extracts it. Cut to the future where the Thad is an author writing crime fiction about a character who—you guessed it—lances someone's eyeball with a paperclip.
* [[Eye Scream]]: During Thad's childhood his foetal twin begins to regrow ''in his brain'' including an eyeball and several teeth. A surgeon lances the eyeball and extracts it. Cut to the future where the Thad is an author writing crime fiction about a character who—you guessed it—lances someone's eyeball with a paperclip.
* [[Impaled Palm]]: Stark at one point makes Thad stab himself through the hand with a pencil. See [[Poke in the Third Eye]].
* [[Impaled Palm]]: Stark at one point makes Thad stab himself through the hand with a pencil. See [[Poke in the Third Eye]].
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* [[Psychopomp]]: The sparrows, mentioned by name.
* [[Psychopomp]]: The sparrows, mentioned by name.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Sheriff Pangborn. After Stark leaves a bloody fingerprint perfectly matching Thad's at a crime scene, Pangborn arrives to arrest Thad. But when Thad produces an ironclad alibi, Pangborn believes him and does all he can to help catch Stark.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Sheriff Pangborn. After Stark leaves a bloody fingerprint perfectly matching Thad's at a crime scene, Pangborn arrives to arrest Thad. But when Thad produces an ironclad alibi, Pangborn believes him and does all he can to help catch Stark.
* [[Rise From Your Grave]]: Stark manifests himself by digging out of his fake grave.
* [[Rise from Your Grave]]: Stark manifests himself by digging out of his fake grave.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: After Stark is "killed", he begins to exact revenge on everyone he views as being responsible for his death.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: After Stark is "killed", he begins to exact revenge on everyone he views as being responsible for his death.
* [[Serial Killer]]: Alexis Machine, the arch villain of George Stark's crime novels, is one of these.
* [[Serial Killer]]: Alexis Machine, the arch villain of George Stark's crime novels, is one of these.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Some see the story as this in light of what happens to Thad afterwards (See [[Bittersweet Ending]]).
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Some see the story as this in light of what happens to Thad afterwards (See [[Bittersweet Ending]]).
* [[Split Personality]]: George Stark started out as this.
* [[Split Personality]]: George Stark started out as this.
* [[Slashed Throat]]: Stark uses a straight razor to slash his victims' throats.
* [[Slashed Throat]]: Stark uses a straight razor to slash his victims' throats.
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Played with and subverted when Thad has a mock photo shoot in front of Stark's grave.
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Played with and subverted when Thad has a mock photo shoot in front of Stark's grave.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: A plot point.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: A plot point.
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