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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In ''Hair Raising'', Dan needs to figure out who is scalping the full-time werewolves. In the end it turns out to be [[spoiler: Dr. Victor, the friendly coroner and another of Dan's clients Victor did it to perfect his hair-growth formula.]]
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* NotGrowingUpSucks: In ''Tastes Like Chicken,'' Alvina becoming a vampire at the age of ten is portrayed as sad and serious. She'll spend the rest of her potentially eternal life going through puberty without being able to get older and have a husband and kids one day. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Also, she'll never have a chance to try out for cheerleading.]]
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* NotGrowingUpSucks: In ''Tastes Like Chicken,'' Alvina becoming a vampire at the age of ten is portrayed as sad and serious. She'll spend the rest of her potentially eternal life going through puberty without being able to get older and have a husband and kids one day. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Also, she'll never have a chance to try out for cheerleading.]]
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* FriendlyZombie: Zombies in this universe retain their pre-mortem personalities and remain functioning members of society after coming back from the grave.
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* HonestCorporateExecutive:
** After Miranda Jekyll takes over her sinister husband's pharmaceutical company, she runs it a lot more ethically than he ever did and seeks to genuinely serve the Unnatural Community (albeit in an EnlightenedSelfInterest way) rather than [[spoiler:poison them for the sake of VanHelsingHateCrimes beliefs.]]
** Vincent "Goldfanger" Galdi from ''Bats in the Belfry'' professes to run an honest racetrack, seems to make good on that promise, and gives well-paying jobs to needy but unqualified walking headless corpses. [[spoiler:When he learns they were forcibly separated from their heads and want to return to their old lives, he releases them from their contracts, give them severance pay, and sponsors a media awareness campaign to reunite them and other victims of the same racket with their stolen heads.]]
** After Miranda Jekyll takes over her sinister husband's pharmaceutical company, she runs it a lot more ethically than he ever did and seeks to genuinely serve the Unnatural Community (albeit in an EnlightenedSelfInterest way) rather than [[spoiler:poison them for the sake of VanHelsingHateCrimes beliefs.]]
** Vincent "Goldfanger" Galdi from ''Bats in the Belfry'' professes to run an honest racetrack, seems to make good on that promise, and gives well-paying jobs to needy but unqualified walking headless corpses. [[spoiler:When he learns they were forcibly separated from their heads and want to return to their old lives, he releases them from their contracts, give them severance pay, and sponsors a media awareness campaign to reunite them and other victims of the same racket with their stolen heads.]]
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* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome:
** [[spoiler:Dr. Victor is just a quirky coroner in ''Unnatural Acts'', but is a major antagonist of the next book, ''Hair Raising'', where he inadvertently starts a werewolf war by not-so-inadvertently scalping several werewolves (albeit nonfatally) as part of a MadScientist experiment to cure his baldness.]]
** In ''Tastes Like Chicken'', [[spoiler:mail-order sorcerer Alterro may be a greedy scammer, but he is also a useful and underappreciated ally, inventing a useful combat spell that Dan uses in a fight against a SerialKiller and letting Dan know about the sinister truth behind some magic that the BigBad is using. When he returns in ''Bats in the Belfry,'' he is kidnapping zombies, decapitating them, and selling their still conscious heads as souvenirs.]]
** [[spoiler:Dr. Victor is just a quirky coroner in ''Unnatural Acts'', but is a major antagonist of the next book, ''Hair Raising'', where he inadvertently starts a werewolf war by not-so-inadvertently scalping several werewolves (albeit nonfatally) as part of a MadScientist experiment to cure his baldness.]]
** In ''Tastes Like Chicken'', [[spoiler:mail-order sorcerer Alterro may be a greedy scammer, but he is also a useful and underappreciated ally, inventing a useful combat spell that Dan uses in a fight against a SerialKiller and letting Dan know about the sinister truth behind some magic that the BigBad is using. When he returns in ''Bats in the Belfry,'' he is kidnapping zombies, decapitating them, and selling their still conscious heads as souvenirs.]]
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons (numerous kinds), golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, genies, feathered serpents, imps, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, nightmares, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons (numerous kinds), golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, dwarfs, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, genies, feathered serpents, imps, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, nightmares, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons (numerous kinds), golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, genies, feathered serpents, imps, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, nightmares, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* TrappedInTVLand: "Game Night" sees Dan, Robin and [=McGoo=] accidentally trapped in a pre-Big Uneasy board game. One about a ZombieApocalypse, no less.
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* LosingYourHead: Happened to the client of "Head Case"... twice. In this instance, it's ''not'' his original decapitation that needs solving, but where his disembodied, still-animate head wound up after it went missing, leaving his equally-animate body to seek Dan's help.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons, demons (numerous kinds), golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, genies, imps, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, nightmares, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* DeathIsCheap: Both Dan and Sheyenne return from the grave shortly prior to first novel's events, and at least two recurring characters {[[spoiler: Harvey Jekyll and Fletcher Knowles]]) do so in mid-series. Mild Bill, the ghost saloon keeper, is killed by ghost bullets only to revive as a ghost ''again'', against all odds.
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* BotheringByTheBook: Robin prevents the ghost outlaws in "High Midnight" from firing off another volley at Dan by pointing out that doing so would breach their contract with Mild Bill's Wild West show, ruining their budding careers as performers.
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** [=McGoo=] gets a chance to do this for Dan in "High Midnight", when he leaps into the line of fire from the ghost outlaws. He was ''fairly'' sure that ghost bullets couldn't hurt the living, but wasn't going to take the chance that his Best Zombie Friend - neither living nor ghost - was susceptible.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons, golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, imps, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, nightmares, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons, golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, imps, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons, golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), rock monsters, unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gremlins, harpies, banshees, goblins, demons, golems, hellhounds, witches, wizards, basilisks, elves, voodoo magic, bigfeet, yetis, fairies, gargoyles, medusas, liches, minotaurs, skeletons, cockatrices, animated lawn gnomes, talking animals (cats, rats, and sewer gators), unicorns, Senior Citizen Gods, Santa Claus, and the Phantom of the Opera all exist in this world.
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* NoFullNameGiven: Sheyenne is the only main character whose surname is unstated in the books. Her real ''first'' name is Anne, but her surname never crops up, even in the novel where her brother appears.
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* NoFullNameGiven: Sheyenne is the only main character whose surname is unstated in the books. Her real ''first'' name is Anne, but her surname last one never crops up, even in the novel where her brother appears.
