History Creator / ChristopherPike

* YourCheatingHeart: Pepper slept with Betty Sue before he slept with Roxanne in ''Whisper of Death''. [[spoiler: Then he slept with her again after he slept with Roxanne. To make matters worse, he got Betty Sue pregnant as well as Roxanne. This doesn't make Betty Sue sympathetic, as her hideous actions are still treated with the horror they deserve. But the ending implies Pepper is still going to endure something horrible for cheating on the two of them.]]

** ''The Eternal Enemy'' %%details?
** ''See You Later'' %%details?
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Whisper of Death]]. %%details?

* SelfServingMemory: In ''Last Act''. [[spoiler: ''Final Chance'' was nothing more than Susan Trels' warped memory of what her friendship with Rindy and Clyde was like. Clyde himself calls Susan out on on her bullshit by saying her play was garbage compared to how things actually happened. This contributes to Susan's VillainousBreakdown.]]

* ''Series/{{Spooksville}}''

** ''See You Later'' involves some time travelers that accidentally got a girl pregnant. They find that the son she's carrying will destroy the world through nuclear war (and they'll cease to exist when they are forced to return to their time as a result). They find if one of her friends also gets pregnant (with a girl), it'll avert the disaster. [[spoiler:They succeed.]]

** ''See You Later'' involves a pair of time travelers attempting to stop a certain man and woman from getting married, as the marriage inexplicably leads to a BadFuture where the Earth is being torn apart by nuclear war.

** Nell and Nicole Kutroff of ''Slumber Party'', where [[spoiler: Nicole is the Abel and Nell is Cain, bitter about the burn scars on her face and how her sister, while needing to wear long sleeved clothes, can at least interact with people without getting scared at. Nell manipulates her sister into helping her stage the murder of the girls involved with the fire until Nicole turns on her and Nell attempts to kill her as well.]]

** Ilonka, Anya and Sandra in ''The Midnight Club''. [[Ilonka and Anya die, Ilonka from her cancer and Anya when she's smothered (at her request) by Spence. Sandra survives because it turns out her doctor made a critical error in her diagnosis and her disease isn't terminal.]]

** ''See You Later''. %%details?

%%* BuryYourGays: -- ZCE's
%%** ''The Midnight Club'' %%details?

* CoolBigSis: Jennifer to Ken (who prefers Gator) in ''The Lost Mind''. Even losing her memory couldn't stop Jen from loving Gator.

** Robin in ''Weekend''. [[spoiler:She gets better.]] %%details?
** Most of the female characters in ''The Midnight Club''. [[spoiler:They don't get better, except the one who was misdiagnosed in the first place.]] %%details?

** ''Last Act''. %%details?
* DreamWithinADream: ''Magic Fire'' %%details?
* EntertaininglyWrong: In ''Master of Murder'', Shelly thought Marvin killed Harry and was manipulating him the whole time in order to expose him. [[spoiler: Marvin had absolutely nothing to do with it, and to make matters worse Shelly had been working with Triad, the guy who ''actually'' killed Harry.]]
* EvilRedhead: Betty Sue from ''Whisper of Death''.

** [[spoiler:''Slumber Party'' (Nicole/Celeste)]]. %%details?
** ''Weekend'' [[spoiler: (Bert)]]. %%details?

** ''Fall Into Darkness'' [[spoiler: (Ann)]]. %%details?

* GoneHorriblyRight: ''Gimme A Kiss''. %%details?

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Played with in ''Whisper of Death''. %%details?

* LotusEaterMachine: ''Magic Fire'' %%details?

** ''Last Act''. %%details?
** ''Remember Me''. %%details?

** ''Magic Fire''. %%details?

** ''Sati''. %%details?
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Shari's dream about her brother and the balloon in ''Remember Me''. Which, naturally, she doesn't find out [[PropheticFallacy what it really means]] until the moment it becomes relevant.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** ''Last Act''. %%details?

* AuthorAppeal: Red hair and 'emerald' green eyes. Just try to count every example of an attractive character with those traits.

* GoodAllLong: [[spoiler: Lena]] from Weekend. She starts out seeming like a FemmeFatale and is even widely suspected of poisoning her sister [[spoiler: it turns out she cares deeply for her sister and is wracked with guilt over not being able to do anything to help her, and the whole weekend trip was deliberately set up as a sort of SecretTestOfCharacter to find out who really did the poisoning. Unfortunately, she and the rest end up caught in a GambitPileup when Bert shows up..]]

* ''Literature/{{Witch}}''

* NewAge: Many of Pike's science fiction and fantasy novels are based on (or take cues from) New Age concepts and beliefs. A number of plots center around [[AncientEgypt Ancient Egyptian]] and [[{{UsefulNotes/Hinduism}} Eastern]] mysticism, [[AncientAliens extraterrestrials]], [[{{Reincarnation}} transmigration of the soul]], and [[GodOfHumanOrigin humans evolving into gods]] (or [[GodInHumanForm gods taking human form]]).

* BuryYourGays:
** ''The Midnight Club'' %%details?
** ''Sati'' %%details?

** ''Weekend''. %%details?
** ''Last Act''. %%details?
** ''The Midnight Club''. %%details?
** ''Whisper of Death''. %%details?
** ''Remember Me 3''. %%details?
** ''Master of Murder''. %%details?
** ''Road to Nowhere''. %%details?

* {{Yandere}}: Jessa in ''Magic Fire''. She's consistently trying to make sure it is only Mark and herself with no one else getting in the way. [[spoiler: It turns out the entire novel up until the epilogue has been Jessa's prolonged dream thanks to a LotusEaterMachine. Mark was trying to get her to come back to the waking world but along the way he completely forgot his purpose. It was only after he realized how simplistic Jessa's dreamworld was and the subsequent pattern of it being just the two of them that he remembered his true purpose. Only Jessa wouldn't go with him.]]

* NewAge: A lot of Pike's science fiction and fantasy novels have very New Age feels toward them in terms of their discussions of spirituality and religion.

* ''[[{{Literature/Witch}} Witch]]''

* ClingyMacGuffin: In the ''Chain Letter'' books, the titular chain letter. Once the letter is sent to you and you are on the list, the only way to free yourself from eternally being commanded to perform tasks (each task progressively becoming more malicious and difficult) is death.

** [[spoiler:''Chain Letter'' (Neal)]]. %%details?

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Sati'' and ''The Starlight Crystal''. The connections lie in the use of mankind interacting with God or a higher force which talks about the path to enlightenment and the struggles of daily life. Both books use the term "Alosha", and while the phrase "starlight crystal" is never used in the novel, Sati refers to herself as such.

* SpiritualSequel: ''Sati'' and ''The Starlight Crystal''. The connections lie in the use of mankind interacting with God or a higher force which talks about the path to enlightenment and the struggles of daily life. Both books use the term "Alosha", and while the phrase "starlight crystal" is never used in the novel, Sati refers to herself as such.

** Lara in ''Slumber Party'' starts to believe someone in their group is either pyrokinetic or if it's the case of SpontaneousCombustion, in order to explain how these fires keep occurring. [[spoiler: It turns out she's wrong on both accounts, and Nell was secretly goading her beliefs just to screw with her.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In ''The Season of Passage'' and ''Monster'' the [[spoiler:vampires originate from Mars, people on Earth being infected by a virus from that planet.]]