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It was soon followed by Clown In A Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives!, with a third installment, Clown In A Cornfield: Cult Of Frendo, set to be published in the October of 2024. Adam Cesare has stated his intention to continue the series in an indefinite capacity, provided enough people continue to pick up the books.
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* KillEmAll: While there are other survivors of the party massacre, all other named characters aside from Quinn, [[spoiler: Cole, Rust, Dr. Maybrook, and Arthur Hill]] are dead by the story's end.
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* Unperson: At the end of the novel, Frendo is made this, [[spoiler: since no one in Kettle Springs wants their businesses associated with a massacre any more than they have to.]]
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* Unperson: At the end of the novel, Frendo is made this, [[spoiler: since no one in Kettle Springs wants their businesses associated with a massacre any more than they have to.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Several named characters over the course of the book are killed, such as [[spoiler: Janet and Ginger.]]
** [[spoiler: It's ''slightly'' justified later, when it's revealed that Arthur Hill - the millionaire people were hoping would reinvest in the town - was the ringleader of the plan, with the implication he'd reinvest in the town after it was said and done.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: Arthur Hill blames Cole for Victoria's death... even though as their ''father'', he really should have been keeping a better eye on his kids.]]
* ShipTease: Quinn gets this with both Rust and Cole, though it turns out that [[spoiler: they're interested in [[TheNotLoveInterest each other, not her.]]]]
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* ShipTease: Quinn gets this with both Rust and Cole, though it turns out that SmugSnake: [[spoiler: they're interested Sherrif Dunne is a ''bit'' too proud of his plan to murder the kids and pull a FrameUp, since it's revealed in [[TheNotLoveInterest each other, not her.]]]]the end that his own shoddy knowledge of technology was practically a confession note.]]
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* FinalGirl: Downplayed; [[spoiler:Quinn]] is the main character and has all of the hallmarks including GenderBlenderName. After she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], she manages to survive and kill [[spoiler:multiple Frendos]], but [[spoiler:[[PapaWolf her father]] and [[TheNotLoveInterest both of the leading men]] surive.]] Though, [[spoiler:[[PreserveYourGays Cole]]]] only survives because of [[BigDamnHeroes her efforts]].
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* FinalGirl: Downplayed; [[spoiler:Quinn]] is the main character and has all of the hallmarks including GenderBlenderName. After she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], she manages to survive and kill [[spoiler:multiple Frendos]], but [[spoiler:[[PapaWolf her father]] and [[TheNotLoveInterest both of the leading men]] surive.survive.]] Though, [[spoiler:[[PreserveYourGays Cole]]]] only survives because of [[BigDamnHeroes her efforts]].
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* FinalGirl: Downplayed; [[spoiler:Quinn]] is the main character and has all of the hallmarks including GenderBlenderName. After she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], she manages to survive and kill [[spoiler:multiple Frendos]], but [[spoiler:[[PapaWolf her father]] and [[TheNotLoveInterest both of the leading men]] surive.]] Though, [[spoiler:[[PreserveYourGays Cole]]]] only survives because of [[BigDamnHeroes her efforts]].
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* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facing prejudice when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try to warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, resulting in her death.]]
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* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facing prejudice when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try to warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, [[HeroicSacrifice resulting in her death.]]]]]]
* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler: [[TheNotLoveInterest Cole and Rust]] both survive.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unknown if [[spoiler: Janet's mother]] was in on the plan along with her husband, and Quinn briefly wonders this when she realizes [[Mr. Murray]] is one of the killers.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unknown if [[spoiler: Janet's mother]] was in on the plan along with her husband, and Quinn briefly wonders this when she realizes [[Mr.[[spoiler: Mr. Murray]] is one of the killers.
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* KillEmAll: While there are other survivors of the party massacre, all other named characters aside from Quinn, [[spoiler: Cole, Rust, Dr. may rook, and Arthur Hill]] are dead by the story's end.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facing racism when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try and warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, resulting in her death.]]
* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facing racism when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try and warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, resulting in her death.]]
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* KillEmAll: While there are other survivors of the party massacre, all other named characters aside from Quinn, [[spoiler: Cole, Rust, Dr. may rook, Maybrook, and Arthur Hill]] are dead by the story's end.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facingracism prejudice when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try and to warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, resulting in her death.]]
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* KillEmAll: While there are other survivors of the party massacre, all other named characters aside from Quinn, [[spoiler: Cole, Rust, Dr. may rook, and Arthur Hill]] are dead by the story's end.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facing racism when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try and warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, resulting in her death.]]
* LovableAlphaBitch: Janet. While she is catty and obsessed with popularity and looks, her attitude stems from facing racism when she moved to Kettle Springs as a child, and she admits to herself that she does like her classmates, [[spoiler: enough to try and warn them about there being multiple Frendo's despite being badly wounded, resulting in her death.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Every single adult in on the murder plot]], but especially [[spoiler: Trudy the Waitress, who acts cordial to Quinn and her father when they first meet, and then tells Dr. Maybrook later on that she "hopes his little slut dies slow in that field.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Every single adult in on the murder plot]], but especially [[spoiler: Trudy the Waitress, who acts cordial to Quinn and her father when they first meet, and then tells Dr. Maybrook later on that she "hopes his little slut dies slow in that field.]]"]]
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* PrettyBoy: Quinn's assessment of Cole, at one point likening him to Creator//JaredLeto.
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* PrettyBoy: Quinn's assessment of Cole, at one point likening him to ''Creator/JaredLeto''.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Just as Cole is about to suffocate, Rust comes bursting into the factory, driving the Tillerson's car, and he saves Cole's life by parking under him and cutting him down.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Just as Cole is about to suffocate, Rust (previously thought to have died) comes bursting into the factory, driving the Tillerson's car, and he saves Cole's life by parking under him and cutting him down.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Cole and Rust.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: It's mentioned that Cole has grown his hair rather long since the deaths of his mother and sister, being too depressed to care much about his physical appearance. After [[spoiler: surviving the Frendo massacre and inheriting his father's money]], Cole is mentioned to have started trimming his hair again.
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* OnlySaneMan: Mayor Jaffers serves as this to the adult cast, which explains why [[spoiler: he is murdered before the Frendos attack the teenagers.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Arthur Hill, [[spoiler: who wants to murder his son for the role he thinks he played in the death of his daughter.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Rust shoots [[spoiler: Trudy's]] hand off when she corners him and the others in the barn.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Every single adult in on the murder scheme]], but especially [[spoiler: Trudy the Waitress, who acts cordial to Quinn and her father when they first meet, and then tells Dr. Maybrook later on that she "hopes his little slut dies slow in that field.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Just as Cole is about to suffocate, Rust comes bursting into the factory, driving the Tillerson's car, and he saves Cole's life by parking under him and cutting him down.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Every single adult in on the murderscheme]], plot]], but especially [[spoiler: Trudy the Waitress, who acts cordial to Quinn and her father when they first meet, and then tells Dr. Maybrook later on that she "hopes his little slut dies slow in that field.]]]]
* CategoryTraitor: [[spoiler: Ronnie and Matt]], who sell out their classmates by working with [[spoiler: Sheriff Dunn and the other adults.]]
* CityMouse: Quinn, who grew up in Philadelphia.
* CorruptCop: [[spoiler: Sheriff Dunn, who spearheaded the whole Frendo plan.]]
* DistressedDude: Cole, who is kidnapped towards the end of the book, and he would have died [[spoiler: by hanging, were it not for Rust and the Tillersons' truck.]]
** Dr. Maybrook as well, who is kidnapped before the [[spoiler: clowns]] enact their plan.
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* CategoryTraitor: [[spoiler: Ronnie and Matt]], who sell out their classmates by working with [[spoiler: Sheriff Dunn and the other adults.]]
* CityMouse: Quinn, who grew up in Philadelphia.
* CorruptCop: [[spoiler: Sheriff Dunn, who spearheaded the whole Frendo plan.]]
* DistressedDude: Cole, who is kidnapped towards the end of the book, and he would have died [[spoiler: by hanging, were it not for Rust and the Tillersons' truck.]]
** Dr. Maybrook as well, who is kidnapped before the [[spoiler: clowns]] enact their plan.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Janet, badly wounded, manages to make her way to the barn and warn her classmates that [[spoiler: there is more than one Frendo.]] [[spoiler: She ends up being decapitated with a chainsaw shortly after.]]
* GunNut: Rust owns many different types of firearms and knows how to use them quite well. However, he is a more sympathetic example than most, since he emphasizes the importance of gun safety and lets Quinn know that he always eats what he hunts. His gun skills also come in handy many times over the course of the book.
* IHaveNoSon: Arthur Hill's attitude towards Cole.
* GunNut: Rust owns many different types of firearms and knows how to use them quite well. However, he is a more sympathetic example than most, since he emphasizes the importance of gun safety and lets Quinn know that he always eats what he hunts. His gun skills also come in handy many times over the course of the book.
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** Cole also accuses [[spoiler: his father]] of this, since he refuses to acknowledge that [[spoiler: his sister Victoria's death was an accident.]]
* MissingMom: Samantha, Quinn's mother, died of a drug overdose before the events of the book.
** Cole's mother died of cancer long before the story's events.
* MissingMom: Samantha, Quinn's mother, died of a drug overdose before the events of the book.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Arthur Hill outlived his daughter Victoria, [[spoiler: for which he unjustly blames his son, to the point of trying to murder him.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Despite being shot, Arthur Hill survived the events of the book, and still wants to wreak vengeance on his son.]]
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler: Tucker]] dies.
* ShipTease: Quinn gets this with both Rust and Cole, though it turns out that [[spoiler: they're interested in each other, not her.]]
* StraightGay: Neither [[spoiler: Cole]] nor [[spoiler: Rust]] show any stereotypically gay traits, with [[spoiler: the gun-toting farmboy Rust]] even crossing over into ManlyGay territory.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Despite being shot, Arthur Hill survived the events of the book, and still wants to wreak vengeance on his son.]]
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler: Tucker]] dies.
* ShipTease: Quinn gets this with both Rust and Cole, though it turns out that [[spoiler: they're interested in each other, not her.]]
* StraightGay: Neither [[spoiler: Cole]] nor [[spoiler: Rust]] show any stereotypically gay traits, with [[spoiler: the gun-toting farmboy Rust]] even crossing over into ManlyGay territory.
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* ActionSurvivor: Quinn and Cole fill this role once Frendo shows up. Quinn at least morphs into an ActionGirl.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Dr. Maybrook is generally a friendly, cordial man (not to mention a doctor), but when [[spoiler: Trudy]] threatens his daughter, he deliberately pinches a part of her [[spoiler: hand stump]] that causes her enough pain to black out.
** Crosses over with PapaWolf as well.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Every single adult in on the murder scheme]], but especially [[spoiler: Trudy the Waitress, who acts cordial to Quinn and her father when they first meet, and then tells Dr. Maybrook later on that she "hopes his little slut dies slow in that field.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: So the young people in your town don't show you "respect" and make prank videos? The solution: [[spoiler: '''BRUTALLY MURDER THEM ALL''']]. Makes perfect sense.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Cole calls out [[spoiler: Sheriff Dunn]] for having this when he is [[spoiler: told what the adults had planned.]]
* MissingMom: Samantha, Quinn's mother, died of a drug overdose before the events of the book.
* MonsterClown: Frendo, which is made quite clear in the title. [[spoiler: Actually, they're Frendo'''s''', all of whom count as monsters, since they're murdering teenagers.]]]]]
* [[OffWithHisHead OffWithHerHead]]: How poor [[spoiler: Janet]] meets her fate.
* OffingTheOffspring: It's unclear if [[spoiler: Mr. Murray]] kills [[spoiler: Janet, his stepdaughter]] personally, but it's still an example, since [[spoiler: he was in on the plan to kill her and her friends.]]
** [[spoiler: Arthur Hill]] had this planned for [[spoiler: Cole]], but his attempt is foiled.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The reveal that there are multiple Frendos]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Dr. Maybrook is generally a friendly, cordial man (not to mention a doctor), but when [[spoiler: Trudy]] threatens his daughter, he deliberately pinches a part of her [[spoiler: hand stump]] that causes her enough pain to black out.
** Crosses over with PapaWolf as well.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Every single adult in on the murder scheme]], but especially [[spoiler: Trudy the Waitress, who acts cordial to Quinn and her father when they first meet, and then tells Dr. Maybrook later on that she "hopes his little slut dies slow in that field.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: So the young people in your town don't show you "respect" and make prank videos? The solution: [[spoiler: '''BRUTALLY MURDER THEM ALL''']]. Makes perfect sense.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Cole calls out [[spoiler: Sheriff Dunn]] for having this when he is [[spoiler: told what the adults had planned.]]
* MissingMom: Samantha, Quinn's mother, died of a drug overdose before the events of the book.
* MonsterClown: Frendo, which is made quite clear in the title. [[spoiler: Actually, they're Frendo'''s''', all of whom count as monsters, since they're murdering teenagers.
* [[OffWithHisHead OffWithHerHead]]: How poor [[spoiler: Janet]] meets her fate.
* OffingTheOffspring: It's unclear if [[spoiler: Mr. Murray]] kills [[spoiler: Janet, his stepdaughter]] personally, but it's still an example, since [[spoiler: he was in on the plan to kill her and her friends.]]
** [[spoiler: Arthur Hill]] had this planned for [[spoiler: Cole]], but his attempt is foiled.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The reveal that there are multiple Frendos]]
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''Clown in a Cornfield'' is a 2020 horror novel by Adam Cesare.
Quinn Maybrook and her father, Glenn, have moved to the small town of Kettle Springs for a fresh start after the death of Quinn's mother. Ever since the town's corn syrup factory closed, Kettle Springs has been struggling, and the adults think it's the fault of the younger generation, who care nothing for hard work or making the town great, only making prank videos and leaving as soon as possible.
One night, Quinn is invited to a party in a cornfield, where Frendo, the town's mascot, comes wielding a crossbow. Now it's up to Quinn and her classmates to outsmart the clown and survive the night.
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* MonsterClown: Frendo, which is made quite clear in the title. [[spoiler: Actually, they're Frendo'''s''', all of whom count as monsters, since they're murdering teenagers.]]]
Quinn Maybrook and her father, Glenn, have moved to the small town of Kettle Springs for a fresh start after the death of Quinn's mother. Ever since the town's corn syrup factory closed, Kettle Springs has been struggling, and the adults think it's the fault of the younger generation, who care nothing for hard work or making the town great, only making prank videos and leaving as soon as possible.
One night, Quinn is invited to a party in a cornfield, where Frendo, the town's mascot, comes wielding a crossbow. Now it's up to Quinn and her classmates to outsmart the clown and survive the night.
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!!This novel features examples of:
* MonsterClown: Frendo, which is made quite clear in the title. [[spoiler: Actually, they're Frendo'''s''', all of whom count as monsters, since they're murdering teenagers.]]]
