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| author = James Herbert |
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Before ''[[Black Gas]]'', ''[[Crossed]]'', [[Firefly|the Reavers]], and all of the other [[Hate Plague]]s that have been turning up lately, there was '''''The Fog''''', a 1975 horror novel by English horror author [[James Herbert]]. It concerns what happens when an earthquake [[Sealed Evil in a Can|cracks open a secret bioweapon buried underground for disposal]], and which causes people and animals who breathe it to go a little [[Ax Crazy]]...and Knife Crazy, and Gun Crazy, and Rape Crazy. The main plot surrounds Jon Holman, an Environmental Officer for the British government, who is present at the fog's dramatic entrance and spends most of the book trying to stop the fog; meanwhile, Herbert occasionally takes us on little side trips to see what horrible things the fog is making happen next. |
Before ''[[Black Gas]]'', ''[[Crossed]]'', [[Firefly|the Reavers]], and all of the other [[Hate Plague]]s that have been turning up lately, there was '''''The Fog''''', a 1975 horror novel by English horror author [[James Herbert]]. It concerns what happens when an earthquake [[Sealed Evil in a Can|cracks open a secret bioweapon buried underground for disposal]], and which causes people and animals who breathe it to go a little [[Ax Crazy]]...and Knife Crazy, and Gun Crazy, and Rape Crazy. The main plot surrounds Jon Holman, an Environmental Officer for the British government, who is present at the fog's dramatic entrance and spends most of the book trying to stop the fog; meanwhile, Herbert occasionally takes us on little side trips to see what horrible things the fog is making happen next. |
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Unrelated except in title to [[John Carpenter]]'s 1980 film [[The Fog|of the same name]]. |
Unrelated except in title to [[John Carpenter]]'s 1980 film [[The Fog|of the same name]]. |
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: A lot of the characters who get killed in the vignettes are jerks, or worse (as in the case with the deviants at the boarding school). |
* [[Asshole Victim]]: A lot of the characters who get killed in the vignettes are jerks, or worse (as in the case with the deviants at the boarding school). |
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Latest revision as of 22:11, 25 August 2021
| Written by: | James Herbert |
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| Genre(s): | Horror |
| First published: | 1975 |
Before Black Gas, Crossed, the Reavers, and all of the other Hate Plagues that have been turning up lately, there was The Fog, a 1975 horror novel by English horror author James Herbert. It concerns what happens when an earthquake cracks open a secret bioweapon buried underground for disposal, and which causes people and animals who breathe it to go a little Ax Crazy...and Knife Crazy, and Gun Crazy, and Rape Crazy. The main plot surrounds Jon Holman, an Environmental Officer for the British government, who is present at the fog's dramatic entrance and spends most of the book trying to stop the fog; meanwhile, Herbert occasionally takes us on little side trips to see what horrible things the fog is making happen next.
Unrelated except in title to John Carpenter's 1980 film of the same name.
Tropes used in The Fog (novel) include:
- Asshole Victim: A lot of the characters who get killed in the vignettes are jerks, or worse (as in the case with the deviants at the boarding school).
- Ax Crazy: The natural result of exposure.
- Face Heel Turn: Happens repeatedly when characters get a whiff of the gas; in a few cases, it then results in a Heel Face Turn after the effects wear off.
- Hate Plague: One of the earlier examples.
- The Virus: Actually, a mycoplasma.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia