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Book #13 in ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]''.
 
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.
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* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Thanks to Mab, Demonreach, Uriel, and the efforts of a certain "parasite", Harry is brought back at the end.}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: Daniel Carpenter takes after both of his parents in the badass department, knife fighting with a supernaturally fast warlock.
* [[Battle in Thethe Center of Thethe Mind]]: {{spoiler|Molly engages the Corpsetaker in a mental battle in order to rescue Waldo Butters, whose body Corpsetaker has stolen. Then Corpsetaker tried to steal Molly's body in turn and is almost successful; the battle itself is represented as an actual battlefield, with Molly waging her end of things from a mental copy of the bridge of the [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Enterprise]]. Molly plays a scorched earth policy to delay Corpsetaker, and almost suicides to prevent Corpsetaker from winning - until Harry convinces her to call for help, at which point Mort hits Corpsetaker point-blank with a swarm of ''very'' pissed-off spirits.}}
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: {{spoiler|At the very end we find out that Thomas has one as well, because of Harry's death in Changes.}}
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Mortimer Lindquist and his wraiths}} are this for {{spoiler|Molly}}.
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* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Harry, apparently.}}
* [[Enemy Without]]: {{spoiler|Evil Bob}}.
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: In Ghost Story Harry's friends have formed the [[BFS|Better Future Society]] it could have been a coincidence but then Butters mentions that he wanted to name it the [[BFG|Better Future Group]] for the sake of the [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|Acronym]]
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Played with in ''Ghost Story''. {{spoiler|Harry's ghost is fighting Corpsetaker's ghost, and she keeps trying to gloat at Harry, only for him to keep interrupting her with harder and harder spells. He mocks her for doing so, then he's reminded that as a ghost, his spells are [[Cast From Hit Points]], and Corpsetaker has a lot more energy to spare than he does. In addition to her ego, she was simply expecting him to weaken himself attacking her.}}
* [[Ghostapo]]: {{spoiler|Nazi-dressed Evil Bob commands a spirit realm shaped like the Nazi defenses on the beaches of D-Day, patrolled by werewolf Nazi soldiers called hexenwulfen.}}
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* [[Ironic Echo]]: One notable example, showing just how ''bad'' things have gotten. When we first see Harry trying to teach Molly about shielding spells, it's with her younger brothers and sisters throwing snowballs at her. Her shield fails, she's pelted with snow, and it's a hilarious and heartwarming moment. Cut to ''Ghost Story'', and she's again practicing shields. Only this time, it's {{spoiler|[[The Fair Folk|Leanansidhe]] throwing ''hunks of ice'' like a major league pitcher, and Molly's as far from her warm, safe, loving home as you get.}}
* [[The Kid With the Leash]]: Butters winds up holding Bob's leash by the end, and bob is happy to serve as his combination magical tutor and genie-in-a-skull.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: In ''Ghost Story'', Harry points out that the reason he uses fire is because it is universally useful. Even intangibles like ghosts recoil from fire as they have a hard time separating their memory of fire and flame from their current existence. Harry also points out that even though something might be invulnerable to death from burning, they almost always still feel pain from it and can be stalled with it.
{{quote| '''Harry''': "Fire '''burns'''."}}
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Present in some of the later books, but ''Ghost Story'' takes this to new heights: it is ''impossible'' to discuss its plot ({{spoiler|[[Who Dunnit to Me?]]}}) without giving away the last few pages of ''Changes''.
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