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And that's when things start getting weird.
'''''The Red Tree''''' is a [[Psychological Horror|Psychological]]/SurrealHorror novel written by Caitlin R. Kiernan presented in the form of an [[Apocalyptic Log]]. It has been nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Compare ''[[House of Leaves]]'' (which is also about a protagonist slowly driven mad after discovering a dead man's unfinished manuscript) as well as ''[[The Haunting of Hill House]]''. Not to be confused with Shaun Tan's picture book [[The Red Tree|of the same name]].
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Both Sarah's journal and the unfinished book she discovers.
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: The cellar below the farmhouse turns out to have some very unusual spacial properties.
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* [[Haunted House]]: Technically speaking, it's the tree that's haunted. The house is just in its area of effect.
* [[Hell Gate]]: {{spoiler|The red tree is implied to be one.}}
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* [[The Lost Lenore]]: Sara's late girlfriend, Amanda Tyrell, who committed suicide shortly after a really nasty fight between the two.
* [[The Lost Woods]]: Shortly after Constance moves in with Sara, she asks if she can come with Sara the next time she goes to check out the tree. {{spoiler|Half an hour into their little field trip, they realize that the tree supposedly only seventy-five yards away from the house doesn't seem to be getting any closer, and that they've passed that same small deadfall once before on this trip...}}
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* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: As Sara's journal entries progress, it becomes less and less clear if all the weird goings on are actually happening, or just in her and Constance's head. {{spoiler|In the final entries, Sara says that she's read the previous entries and doesn't recall even half of the events actually ever happening. She also notes that she checked the attic after Constance disappeared, only to find the place just as dusty and unused as it was before she moved in}}.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Lampshaded. Sara notes in her entries that she's basically paraphrasing all of the dialogue she writes down from memory, which she admits isn't all that great (not to mention the fact that she ''might'' be going insane). She even drops the name of the trope:
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* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Sara is rather fond of Constance's drowsy, red-brown eyes.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Sara is a lesbian author in her forties, much like the author.
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[[Category:Horror Literature]]
[[Category:The Red Tree (2009 novel)]]
[[Category:Literature]]
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