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* UrbanLegend: Rose is based on the well-known "vanishing hitchhiker" ghost story, and her story (as well as the stories told about her in the book) tie together several of the more popular variations of the legend. Other legends are referenced as well
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* UrbanLegend: Rose is based on the well-known "vanishing hitchhiker" ghost story, and her story (as well as the stories told about her in the book) tie together several of the more popular variations of the legend. Other legends are referenced as wellwell.
* VengefulGhost: Rose spends most of the series trying to stay ''away'' from Bobby Cross, but in the third book he's finally vulnerable and she goes on the offensive to take him down. [[spoiler:In the process, she becomes one of the Furies, whose job is literally being a spirit of vengeance.]]
* VengefulGhost: Rose spends most of the series trying to stay ''away'' from Bobby Cross, but in the third book he's finally vulnerable and she goes on the offensive to take him down. [[spoiler:In the process, she becomes one of the Furies, whose job is literally being a spirit of vengeance.]]
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** The crossover ''The Ghost of Bourbon Street'' notes that ghosts usually solve their violent murders by themselves and enlisting help, especially from among the living is considered gauche.
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* PomPomGirl: In ''The Pretty Little Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' a large team of them turn out to be {{Valkyries}} who Rose explains relates her {{Backstory}} to, this earns her their blessing.
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* GhostlyGoals: Type A mainly Ghosts can hang around long enough to find their killer and that **can** be it. Other times they fall into a pattern that prolongs their existence like giving directions, hitching rides or killing people. Bobby Cross makes the claim that Rose achieved all that she did because she had her "task" of dealing with him over the decades which is why she had to build herself into the force she was, Rose calls this bull of course.
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* GhostlyGoals: Type A mainly mainly. Ghosts can hang around long enough to find their killer and that **can** be it. Other times they fall into a pattern that prolongs their existence like giving directions, hitching rides or killing people. Bobby Cross makes the claim that Rose achieved all that she did because she had her "task" of dealing with him over the decades which is why she had to build herself into the force she was, Rose calls this bull of course.
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** A scene in the third book where a [[UndeadFossils ghost dinosaur]] attacks a car brings to mind ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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* TheCheerleader: A recurring theme in Ms. [=McGuire=]'s writing, but particularly prevalent in the Sparrow Hill Road series. One team of them turn out to be {{Valkyries}}.
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* LayeredWorld: Well layered afterlife there's the twilight, midnight and the starlight, the first is the afterlife but you tend to get more abstract and mythological as you go deeper.
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* LayeredWorld: Well layered afterlife Aside from the daylight (the living world) there's the twilight, midnight and the starlight, the first is the afterlife but you tend to get more abstract and mythological as you go deeper.deeper. Human ghosts don't tend to stray from the twilight, and for good reason. Some among the living, like routewitches and Bobby Cross, can travel through the twilight without dying.
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghost roads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is the first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads" Series. A sequel, titled ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021. There's also a short story, "Last Call at the Last Chance" available on the author's [[https://www.patreon.com/m/331362/posts Patreon]].
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghost roads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is the first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads" Series. A sequel, titled ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021. There's also a short story, "Train Yard Blues", published in the anthology ''Coins of Chaos'' and another, "Last Call at the Last Chance" Chance", available on the author's [[https://www.patreon.com/m/331362/posts Patreon]].
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* BoyMeetsGhoul: Played with. Rose does sometimes have sex with the living, but only when she's wearing a coat, which makes her functionally alive until sunrise (or she takes off the coat). The only boy she ever truly loved was Gary, her boyfriend before she died, and [[spoiler:after he dies they're TogetherInDeath]]. The FilkSong "On Dead Man's Hill" is from the point of view of a guy ''deliberately seeking out'' a ghostly romance.
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* SinisterSubway: In ''Angel of the Overpass'', Rose visits a spectral subway station in the starlight, where human ghosts aren't meant to go. While waiting for Persephone's messenger to return, she's attacked by [[TheWormThatWalks a creature made up of a swarm of flies]] and narrowly avoids being devoured by a demonic train.
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* CrossoverCosmology: The Greek afterlife is real, and it's implied the Egyptian one is too, plus there are appearances by ''bean sidhe'' and dullahans from Celtic mythology.
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* CrossoverCosmology: The Greek afterlife is real, and it's implied the Egyptian one is and Norse ones are too, plus there are appearances by ''bean sidhe'' and dullahans from Celtic mythology.
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* HeadlessHorseman: Pippa the dullahan, though she doesn't have a horse. Dullahans, like ''bean sidhe'', are beings that were never "alive" in the first place, and they take the form of a parasitic head that manipulates a headless corpse.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: The ghost dinosaur Rose meets in ''Angel of the Overpass'' is a patchwork of aspects from many different dinosaur species, all of which turned into oil over millions of years.
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* TheCheerleader: A recurring theme in Ms. [=McGuire=]'s writing, but particularly prevalent in the Sparrow Hill Road series.
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* TheCheerleader: A recurring theme in Ms. [=McGuire=]'s writing, but particularly prevalent in the Sparrow Hill Road series. One team of them turn out to be {{Valkyries}}.
* CuteGhostGirl: Corletta, seven years old when she died, spends a lonely afterlife at the ghost of her family's farm. After Rose meets her, she sends other ghostly children there to play with her.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Rose, who has met some of the divine creatures that hang out on the ghostroads, but refuses to believe just the same. She considers any beings that call themselves gods to be questionably sane and quite full of themselves.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Rose, who has met some of the divine creatures that hang out on the ghostroads, but refuses to believe just the same. She considers any beings that call themselves gods to be questionably sane and quite full of themselves. After she actually meets Hades and Persephone she shifts into more of a NayTheist.
* {{Irony}}: The reason Bobby wanted to live forever was the fame and glory he got from his youthful good looks. After making his DealWithTheDevil, he vanished, and most people assume he crashed somewhere in the desert.
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* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The bean sidhe seem to be the only ones that turn up in the series, considering the [[Literature/OctoberDaye other Urban Fantasy series]] [=McGuire=] writes this puts the two of them into firmly separate continuities.
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* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The bean sidhe ''bean sidhe'' seem to be the only ones that turn up in the series, considering the series. Considering [[Literature/OctoberDaye one of the other Urban Fantasy series]] [=McGuire=] writes this puts the two of them into firmly separate continuities.
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* SpeaksInShoutOuts: [[spoiler: Gary the car,]] Using radio songs and announcements.
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* WeirdSun: Despite its name, there is a sun in the Twilight, but it has a scary face and hisses at people.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Angel of the Overpass'', Rose insults Bobby (who ''is'' a murderer and arsonist) by saying he's a coward and a bully, and that his movies weren't that good, he was just wearing very tight pants.
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* HauntedFetter: An inverted version Called Ghost-Tokens, basically if the living keeps something of a ghost in memory of them and reminisces strongly enough about them it can be used to call and manifest an existing Ghost.
** Roses' is the corsage Gary was going to give her for Prom, soon as she's free she makes sure to destroy it.
** Roses' is the corsage Gary was going to give her for Prom, soon as she's free she makes sure to destroy it.
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* HauntedFetter: An inverted version Called Ghost-Tokens, basically if called Ghost-Tokens. If one of the living keeps something of a ghost in memory of them and reminisces strongly enough about them them, it can be used to call and manifest an existing Ghost.
**Roses' Rose's is the corsage Gary was going to give her for Prom, Prom. As soon as she's free she makes sure to destroy it.
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** The Ocean Lady is the semi-dormant ghost of the Old Atlantic Highway, whose power was broken by replacing her with dozens of smaller roads and cutting her off from the main highway network. She's still unbelievably powerful, and is the goddess of the routewitches.
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** The Ocean Lady is the semi-dormant ghost of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_1#History Old Atlantic Highway, Highway]], whose power was broken by replacing her with dozens of smaller roads and cutting her off from the main highway network. She's still unbelievably powerful, and is the goddess of the routewitches.
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* GeometricMagic: Rose gets trapped in a Seal of Solomon by a vengeful mage who blames her for her boyfriend's death. In the ''Literature/InCryptid'' series set in the same universe, Antimony summons her other ghost aunt Mary into a magic circle to protect her from the Crossroads that Mary is forced to serve.
* GodOfTheDead: The afterlife and spirits that end up there are managed by various deities, each ruling over their own version based on what mythology they come from.
* GodOfTheDead: The afterlife and spirits that end up there are managed by various deities, each ruling over their own version based on what mythology they come from.
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* GeometricMagic: Rose gets trapped in a Seal of Solomon by a vengeful mage Professor Laura Moorhead, who blames her for her boyfriend's death. In the ''Literature/InCryptid'' series set in the same universe, Antimony summons her other ghost aunt Mary into a magic circle to protect her from the Crossroads that Mary is forced to serve.
* GhostlyGoals: Type A mainly Ghosts can hang around long enough to find their killer and that **can** be it. Other times they fall into a pattern that prolongs their existence like giving directions, hitching rides or killing people. Bobby Cross makes the claim that Rose achieved all that she did because she had her "task" of dealing with him over the decades which is why she had to build herself into the force she was, Rose calls this bull of course.
* GodOfTheDead: The afterlife and spirits that end up there are managed by various deities, each ruling over their own version based on what mythology they comefrom.from, some can even give up their role and leave.
* GhostlyGoals: Type A mainly Ghosts can hang around long enough to find their killer and that **can** be it. Other times they fall into a pattern that prolongs their existence like giving directions, hitching rides or killing people. Bobby Cross makes the claim that Rose achieved all that she did because she had her "task" of dealing with him over the decades which is why she had to build herself into the force she was, Rose calls this bull of course.
* GodOfTheDead: The afterlife and spirits that end up there are managed by various deities, each ruling over their own version based on what mythology they come
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* HauntedFetter: The corsage Gary was going to give Rose. As soon as she's free she makes sure to destroy it.
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* HauntedFetter: The An inverted version Called Ghost-Tokens, basically if the living keeps something of a ghost in memory of them and reminisces strongly enough about them it can be used to call and manifest an existing Ghost.
** Roses' is the corsage Gary was going to giveRose. As her for Prom, soon as she's free she makes sure to destroy it.
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* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The bean sidhe seem to be the only ones that turn up in the series.
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* SpeaksInShoutOuts: [[spoiler: Gary the car.]]
* SpiritAdvisor: Emma is Rose's, and Rose is, however briefly, one to the souls she helps along.
* SpiritAdvisor: Emma is Rose's, and Rose is, however briefly, one to the souls she helps along.
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* SpiritAdvisor: Emma is Rose's, andRose is, Rose, however briefly, is one to for the various souls she helps along.
* SpiritAdvisor: Emma is Rose's, and
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* CrossoverCosmology: The Greek afterlife is real, and it's implied the Egyptian one is too, plus there are appearances by ''bean sidhe'' and dullahans from Celtic mythology.
** Explained in more depth in the [[CanonWelding related]] ''Literature/InCryptid'' series, [[AtTheCrossroads the Crossroads]] is an EldritchAbomination, a "dimensional parasite" that usurped the true Genius Loci of Earth, making its [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] much more [[JackassGenie malicious]] than before. It can show up wherever two roads cross, though old, established sites are the best for calling upon it.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Bobby Cross, the primary villain of the series and the one responsible for murdering Rose and turning her into a ghost, would be nothing without the powers given to him in his [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with [[EldritchAbomination the Crossroads]]. Rose hardly ever sees the Crossroads firsthand, and never faces them -- [[spoiler:they're actually KilledOffscreen in this series, though their defeat is shown in the ''Literature/InCryptid'' books set in the same universe]].
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* TheMourningAfter: Gary never gets over Rose. [[spoiler: In fact, he figures out a way to be reunited with her in the afterlife - as a car.]]
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** Gary never gets over Rose. [[spoiler: In fact, he figures out a way to be reunited with her in the afterlife - as a car.]]
** Gary never gets over Rose. [[spoiler: In fact, he figures out a way to be reunited with her in the afterlife - as a car.]]
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* InvokedTrope: In the second book, Rose is brought back to life through an UnwantedRevival, so she and her allies devise a plan to invoke and then subvert RescuedFromTheUnderworld. Rose will descend to the Greek underworld with a companion, ask Persephone and Hades to let her leave, and then have her companion deliberately look back at the last moment, returning her to her ghostly existence.
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* WriterOnBoard: The characters' comments are sometimes an obvious mouthpiece for the author's (admittedly valid) views on colonialism and archaeological repatriation (e.g. the repeated mentions of how most of the British Museum's collection is stolen from other countries).
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* TheArchmage: Apple, the Queen of the Routewitches, is naturally the most powerful among them.
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** And then it's revealed that [[spoiler:he enlisted Laura's help]] ''from the beginning'', knowing that Rose would [[spoiler:ask her for help if she got away from Bobby]], and the only reason she survives is [[spoiler:she's able to convince Laura to do a HeelFaceTurn]].
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** And then it's revealed that [[spoiler:he enlisted Laura's help]] ''from the beginning'', knowing that Rose would [[spoiler:ask her for help if she got away from Bobby]], and the only reason she survives his XanatosGambit is [[spoiler:she's able to convince Laura to do a HeelFaceTurn]].
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** The Ocean Lady straddles the line between this and GeniusLoci.
** The British Museum, thanks to all the Greek artifacts in it, holds the gateway to the Greek underworld. It's implied the Met is the same for the Egyptian underworld.
** The Ocean Lady straddles the line between this and GeniusLoci.
** The British Museum, thanks to all the Greek artifacts in it, holds the gateway to the Greek underworld. It's implied the Met is the same for the Egyptian underworld.
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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: Inverted in the second book. [[spoiler:Rose is brought back to life through an UnwantedRevival]], so she and her allies devise a plan where she will descend to the Greek underworld with a companion, ask Persephone and Hades to let her leave, and then have her companion deliberately look back at the last moment, returning her to her ghostly existence. Her boyfriend is already dead, and Apple can't leave her PlaceOfPower, so the only person who can be Rose's Orpheus is [[spoiler:Laura, her former (?) enemy]].
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** And then it's revealed that [[spoiler:he enlisted Laura's help]] ''from the beginning'', knowing that Rose would [[spoiler:ask her for help if she got away from Bobby]], and the only reason she survives is [[spoiler:she's able to convince Laura to do a HeelFaceTurn]].
* GreasySpoon: The Last Dance (Last Chance when it's feeling ominous) diner in the twilight is this for road ghosts, related entities and those that can get there. There are more mundane versions of them too which Rose visits as part of her own route, some of which the owners even know who she is and see her as a good omen.
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* GreasySpoon: The Last Dance (Last Chance when it's feeling ominous) diner in the twilight is this for road ghosts, related entities and those that can get there. There are more mundane versions of them too which Rose visits as part of her own route, some of which the owners even know who she is and see her as a good omen.
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* BilingualBonus: Apple escaped from Manzanar Internment Camp. Her name is likely a reference to that, since "Manzanar" means "apple orchard" in Spanish.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: A downplayed example in the second book. Rose has been dead since 1952, but in 2016 [[spoiler:is brought BackFromTheDead via an UnwantedRevival]]. She has some experience with the modern world, since she's been interacting with living people all that time, but she's never had a reason to carry money, or go inside, say, a Target, or on a plane. She also has [[UndeadTaxExemption no ID]] and everyone she knew in life is now dead.
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* GeniusLoci: Rose and Mary encounter a haunted stretch of highway that kills anyone who tries to travel on it. [[spoiler:They discover it's due to the ghost of a murdered hitchhiker who was buried beneath the road.]]
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** Rose and Mary encounter a haunted stretch of highway that kills anyone who tries to travel on it. [[spoiler:They discover it's due to the ghost of a murdered hitchhiker who was buried beneath the road.]]]]
** The Ocean Lady is the semi-dormant ghost of the Old Atlantic Highway, whose power was broken by replacing her with dozens of smaller roads and cutting her off from the main highway network. She's still unbelievably powerful, and is the goddess of the routewitches.
** Rose and Mary encounter a haunted stretch of highway that kills anyone who tries to travel on it. [[spoiler:They discover it's due to the ghost of a murdered hitchhiker who was buried beneath the road.
** The Ocean Lady is the semi-dormant ghost of the Old Atlantic Highway, whose power was broken by replacing her with dozens of smaller roads and cutting her off from the main highway network. She's still unbelievably powerful, and is the goddess of the routewitches.
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* CessationOfExistence: What happens to a ghost killed in the Halloween rites, or one who kills one of the living but fails to do so next year.
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** Routewitches who spend enough time in the twilight will age much more slowly, although they do eventually die. Apple, the Queen, looks about Rose's age, and has since [[spoiler: she escaped from Manzanar.]]
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** Routewitches who spend enough time in the twilight will age much more slowly, although they do eventually die. Apple, the Queen, looks about Rose's age, and has since [[spoiler: she escaped from Manzanar.]]]] Another routewitch, Paul, [[spoiler:is actually around 70 years old, but was reverted to a teenage body as penance for trying to overthrow Apple]].
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* TheProfessor: A Laura Moorhead, a magical female version of this this, shows up to make trouble for Rose. She blames Rose for the death of her boyfriend Tommy, and has built her entire career around becoming the premier expert on Rose.
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* BatmanGambit: Bobby [[spoiler:negating Rose's PowerTattoo with Dana's blood]] makes her vulnerable to him again, so she goes to the routewitches for help, who tell her to [[spoiler:become incarnate and "die"]] to reverse it. It turns out he knew she would do that, and [[spoiler:blackmailed the family overseeing her incarnation]] to make her [[spoiler:stay alive, and even more vulnerable to him]].
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* TheCharmer: Bobby Cross, although he's the nightmare version, who now uses it as a weapon. It's in ''Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' where you really see it, [[spoiler: given he's the main antagonist.]] Among other things, [[spoiler: he talks a young routewitch in ''killing herself'' so her blood can be used to damage Rose's protection against him. Then when Rose undergoes a dangerous ritual to restore it, he entraps the daughter of the family running said ritual to blackmail them into becoming his accomplices in hunting Rose.]]
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* CessationOfExistence: What happens to a ghost killed in the Halloween rites, or one who kills one of the living but fails to do so next year.
* TheCharmer: Bobby Cross, although he's the nightmare version, who now uses it as a weapon. It's in ''Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' where you really see it, [[spoiler: given he's the main antagonist.]] Among other things, [[spoiler: he talks a young routewitchin into ''killing herself'' so her blood can be used to damage Rose's protection against him. Then when Rose undergoes a dangerous ritual to restore it, he entraps the daughter of the family running said ritual to blackmail them into becoming his accomplices in hunting Rose.]]
* TheCharmer: Bobby Cross, although he's the nightmare version, who now uses it as a weapon. It's in ''Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' where you really see it, [[spoiler: given he's the main antagonist.]] Among other things, [[spoiler: he talks a young routewitch
** Likewise, Laura never gets over Tommy's death, though she eventually stops blaming Rose for it.
* MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: Laura Moorhead is the premier researcher on the Phantom Prom Date and ghosts in general. Despite not having any innate magical ability of her own, she is able to trap Rose in a Seal of Solomon.
* MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: Laura Moorhead is the premier researcher on the Phantom Prom Date and ghosts in general. Despite not having any innate magical ability of her own, she is able to trap Rose in a Seal of Solomon.
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* UnwantedRevival: Very much so, [[spoiler:Rose was only supposed to be alive for one Halloween night to shuck a curse,]] instead she has to deal with being alive again decades after her death and play catch-up even when she really doesn't want to in ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown''.
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* UnwantedRevival: Very much so, In ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'', [[spoiler:Rose was only supposed to be alive for one Halloween night to shuck a curse,]] curse, but instead she has to deal with being alive again decades after her death and play catch-up even when she really doesn't want to. And now, not only is Bobby Cross hunting her down to in ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown''.kill her again, ''she doesn't have any of her ghostly powers anymore'']].
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* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Subverted. Gary wanted Rose, and the queens of the school couldn't understand what he saw in the [[WrongSideOFTheTracks poor girl wearing thrift store clothes]].
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** Rose and several of the other ghosts and supernatural creatures she meets along the ghost roads. Rose has been 16 since 1952.
** Routewitches who spend enough time in the twilight will age much more slowly, although they do eventually die. Apple, the Queen, looks about Rose's age, and has since [[spoiler: she escaped from Manzanar.]]
** Rose and several of the other ghosts and supernatural creatures she meets along the ghost roads. Rose has been 16 since 1952.
** Routewitches who spend enough time in the twilight will age much more slowly, although they do eventually die. Apple, the Queen, looks about Rose's age, and has since [[spoiler: she escaped from Manzanar.]]
** Apparently there are people out there who love their cornfields, houses, and even ''spiders'' enough to create ghosts of them in the twilight, as Rose finds out when she makes her way through a ghost cornfield with ghost spiders.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Rose and several of the other ghosts and supernatural creatures she meets along the ghost roads. Rose has been 16 since 1952.
* SerialKiller: Bobby is an immortal murderer who's been hunting people for over 60 years.
* SinisterCar: Bobby Cross has a "car that never rolled off any assembly line", given to him by [[EldritchAbomination the Crossroads]] after he made a DealWithTheDevil with them for immortality. As long as he has the car, he's immortal and doesn't age. It runs on the souls of people killed on the road, [[CarFu usually by him]].
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* UnwantedRevival: Very much so, [[spoiler:Rose was only supposed to be alive for one hallowen night to shuck a curse,]] instead she has to deal being alive again decades after her death and play cachup even when she really doesn't want to in ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown''.
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* UnwantedRevival: Very much so, [[spoiler:Rose was only supposed to be alive for one hallowen Halloween night to shuck a curse,]] instead she has to deal with being alive again decades after her death and play cachup catch-up even when she really doesn't want to in ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown''.
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* BackFromTheDead: In the second book, Rose temporarily becomes alive again on Halloween, but then [[spoiler:can't turn back into a ghost]].
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The Halloween rites are a twisted version in which living humans hunt [[BackFromTheDead temporarily incarnated]] ghosts. If they kill a ghost, they get an extra year of life, and the ghost [[CessationOfExistence ceases to exist]]. However, ghosts can fight back (though they only have farm tools against guns), and if they kill one of the living, ''they'' get to stay alive for another year. However, they must repeat this the next year, or they will also cease to exist.
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* InvincibleBoogeymen: Bobby Cross. The only way to escape him is to run to somewhere he can't follow, or get a magic tattoo from the routewitches.
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* InvincibleBoogeymen: InvincibleBoogeyman: Bobby Cross. The only way to escape him is to run to somewhere he can't follow, or get a magic tattoo from the routewitches.routewitches.
* IWillWaitForYou: Tommy could move on, but he stays as a phantom rider, for which he can't stop moving, so he can be reunited with Laura when she finally dies.
* IWillWaitForYou: Tommy could move on, but he stays as a phantom rider, for which he can't stop moving, so he can be reunited with Laura when she finally dies.
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* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Bethany is Rose's great grand niece]].
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* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Bethany is Rose's great grand niece]].niece.
* MirrorCharacter: A dual example with the TogetherInDeath couples of Rose and Gary, and Laura and Tommy. Rose died young, and Gary [[TheLostLenore never stopped loving her]], [[spoiler:finding a way to be with her after he died 60 years later]]. Tommy also died young, but [[IWillWaitForYou refused to move on]] until he could be together with Laura again. Rose even lampshades how they're a dark mirror of her and Gary.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Rose and several of the other ghosts and supernatural creatures she meets along the ghost roads. Rose has been 16 since 1945.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Rose and several of the other ghosts and supernatural creatures she meets along the ghost roads. Rose has been 16 since 1945.1952.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:After Gary dies, he and Rose can be together on the ghostroads forever.]]
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* {{Valkyries}}: They show up as cheerleaders to hear Rose's OriginStory, they're a bit hard to deal with but they give her their blessing all the same.
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* {{Valkyries}}: They show up as cheerleaders to hear Rose's OriginStory, they're OriginStory. They're a bit hard to deal with but they give her their blessing all the same.
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* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For Free'', and the Patreon-exclusive short story "By Any Other Name". Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''[=InCryptid=]'' protagonists.
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* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The "The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' Street" (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For Free'', and the Patreon-exclusive short story "By Any Other Name". Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''[=InCryptid=]'' protagonists.
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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Partially, McGuire has an amazing vocabulary but someword have people reaching for the dictionary. Who ever heard of the word "palimpsest" before especially when poetically applied to America's road network?
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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Partially, McGuire [=McGuire=] has an amazing vocabulary but someword some words have people reaching for the dictionary. Who ever heard of the word "palimpsest" before especially when poetically applied to America's road network?
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* CanonDiscontinuity "Bad Moon Rising", a stand alone Halloween story, did not match the tone of rest of the series or fit into Rose's character arc so it was left out of ''Sparrow Hill Road''.
* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For Free''. Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''[=InCryptid=]'' protagonists.
* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For Free''. Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''[=InCryptid=]'' protagonists.
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* CanonDiscontinuity "Bad Moon Rising", a stand alone Halloween story, did not match the tone of rest of the series or fit into Rose's character arc so it was left out of ''Sparrow Hill Road''.
Road''. It was later incorporated into the sequel as a chapter.
* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks ForFree''.Free'', and the Patreon-exclusive short story "By Any Other Name". Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''[=InCryptid=]'' protagonists.
* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For
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** A much more powerful one shows up
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* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For Free''. Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''InCryptid'' protagonists.
** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of [[spoiler:the banishment of the Crossroads]], we find out their origin: [[spoiler:they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathematicans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters is almost certainly a reference to the Johrlac from [=InCryptid=]]].
** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of [[spoiler:the banishment of the Crossroads]], we find out their origin: [[spoiler:they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathematicans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters is almost certainly a reference to the Johrlac from [=InCryptid=]]].
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* CanonWelding: Rose's story takes place in the Literature/InCryptid universe. She guest-stars in the Incryptid short story ''The Ghosts of Bourbon Street'' (free on the author's website) and later appeared in book seven of the main series ''Tricks For Free''. Mary Dunlavy also appears in both series, and the "editor's note" in ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is by Kevin and Evelyn Price, the parents of the ''InCryptid'' ''[=InCryptid=]'' protagonists.
** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of [[spoiler:the banishment of the Crossroads]], we find out their origin: [[spoiler:they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathematicans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters is almost certainly a reference to the Johrlac from[=InCryptid=]]].''[=InCryptid=]''.]]
** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of [[spoiler:the banishment of the Crossroads]], we find out their origin: [[spoiler:they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathematicans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters is almost certainly a reference to the Johrlac from
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghost roads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is the first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads" Series. A sequel, titled ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021.
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghost roads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is the first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads" Series. A sequel, titled ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021.
2021. There's also a short story, "Last Call at the Last Chance" available on the author's [[https://www.patreon.com/m/331362/posts Patreon]].
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The crossguards guardians aren't evil, they just ''only'' care about the interests of the crossroads. Anyone who can pay can play. The crossroads ghosts are supposed to be a check on this, as having once been human they care about the damage bargains can do, but an inexperienced ghost can be taken advantage of. [[spoiler: Like Bobby took advantage of Mary Dunlavy]].
* CanonDiscontinuity "Bad Moon Rising" a stand alone Halloween story, did not match the tone of rest of the series or fit into Rose's character arc so it was left out of ''Sparrow Hill Road''.
* CanonDiscontinuity "Bad Moon Rising" a stand alone Halloween story, did not match the tone of rest of the series or fit into Rose's character arc so it was left out of ''Sparrow Hill Road''.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The crossguards crossroads guardians aren't evil, they just ''only'' care about the interests of the crossroads. Anyone who can pay can play. The crossroads ghosts are supposed to be a check on this, as having once been human they care about the damage bargains can do, but an inexperienced ghost can be taken advantage of. [[spoiler: Like Bobby took advantage of Mary Dunlavy]].
* CanonDiscontinuity "Bad MoonRising" Rising", a stand alone Halloween story, did not match the tone of rest of the series or fit into Rose's character arc so it was left out of ''Sparrow Hill Road''.
* CanonDiscontinuity "Bad Moon
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** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of the banishment with the crossroads we find out their origin, they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathmaticans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters sounds an awful lot like Dodger and Roger from Literature/Middlegame.
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** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of the [[spoiler:the banishment with of the crossroads Crossroads]], we find out their origin, they origin: [[spoiler:they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathmaticans" "mathematicans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters sounds an awful lot like Dodger and Roger is almost certainly a reference to the Johrlac from Literature/Middlegame.[=InCryptid=]]].
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghostroads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is the first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads" Series. A sequel, titled ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021.
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghostroads ghost roads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. ''Sparrow Hill Road'' is the first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads" Series. A sequel, titled ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021.
* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Partially, McGuire has an amazing vocabulary but someword have people reaching for the dictionary. Who ever heard of the word "palimpsest" before especially when poetically applied to America's road network?
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* CarFu: Bobby Cross' weapon of choice.
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** Further as ''Angel of the Overpass'' deals with the aftermath of the banishment with the crossroads we find out their origin, they stepped into the space that a series of resets in reality tore in the fabric of the universe, as the result of "mathmaticans" messing with them. According to the [[GeniusLoci Axis Mundi]], the soul of the earth, at least. Math obsessed reality resetters sounds an awful lot like Dodger and Roger from Literature/Middlegame.
* CarFu: Bobby Cross' weapon ofchoice.choice is his Diabolical car that never saw the inside of a factory.
* CarFu: Bobby Cross' weapon of
* ExtraDimensionalShortcut: Road entities like road ghosts can show people shortcuts that involve dipping into the twilight to cover the needed distance, they have to be careful not to break the Masquerade.
** A much more powerful one shows up
* GreasySpoon: The Last Dance (Last Chance when it's feeling ominous) diner in the twilight is this for road ghosts, related entities and those that can get there. There are more mundane versions of them too which Rose visits as part of her own route, some of which the owners even know who she is and see her as a good omen.
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* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Rose appears in the green silk prom dress she died in unless she concentrates otherwise and/or is wearing a borrowed coat. Her preferred appearance is the white tank top she once borrowed from Gary and the blue jeans her mother didn't like her to wear, and short brown hair. She reverts to the prom dress under stress, which is invariably means in the worst possible situations.
* LampshadeHanging: Rose, as a first person smartass narrator, does this constantly. Particularly in regards to her appearance, which reverts to a teenage girl in a prom dress at the most inconvenient times.
* LampshadeHanging: Rose, as a first person smartass narrator, does this constantly. Particularly in regards to her appearance, which reverts to a teenage girl in a prom dress at the most inconvenient times.
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* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Rose appears in the green silk prom dress she died in unless she concentrates otherwise and/or is wearing a borrowed coat. Her preferred appearance is the white tank top she once borrowed from Gary and the blue jeans her mother didn't like her to wear, and short brown hair. She reverts to the prom dress under stress, which is invariably means in the worst possible situations.
* LampshadeHanging: Rose, as afirst person first-person smartass narrator, does this constantly. Particularly in regards to her appearance, which reverts to a teenage girl in a prom dress at the most inconvenient times.times.
* LayeredWorld: Well layered afterlife there's the twilight, midnight and the starlight, the first is the afterlife but you tend to get more abstract and mythological as you go deeper.
* LampshadeHanging: Rose, as a
* LayeredWorld: Well layered afterlife there's the twilight, midnight and the starlight, the first is the afterlife but you tend to get more abstract and mythological as you go deeper.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Rose ends up on the bad end of this trope in ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown''. [[spoiler:When she is made flesh again during Halloween and then gets stuck that way, it’s only supposed to last the night, it's hard to deal with all the sensations and glands and sweat and the blushing and having to figure out the damn bathroom again.]]
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rose's self appointed duties as a Psychopomp has given her the reputation of a rapacious, malicious reaper of the unwary.
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* NakedOnRevival: Ghosts can become alive on Halloween for various reasons, there's other stuff but pertinent to this trope is that they can tumble from the fields clothed only in their 'birthday suit'.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rose'sself appointed self-appointed duties as a Psychopomp has given her the reputation of a rapacious, malicious reaper of the unwary.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rose's
* PositionOfLiteralPower: It seems that becoming a Fury is something that one chooses for themselves though it helps to have a sponsor or two to help you get there.
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* PowerTattoo: The Queen of the Routewitches gives one to Rose to protect her from Bobby.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Rose has ended up in this role more than once.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Rose has ended up in this role more than once.
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* PowerTattoo: The Queen of the Routewitches gives one to Rose to protect her from Bobby.
Bobby, sanctifying her to Persephone.
* TheProfessor: A magical female version of this shows up to make trouble for Rose.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Rose has ended up in this role more thanonce.once, [[spoiler:it eventually becomes part of her duty as a Fury]].
* TheProfessor: A magical female version of this shows up to make trouble for Rose.
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* TooDumbToLive: The college age ghost hunters put up by an enemy of Rose's. Know enough to get themselves in danger, but not enough to keep themselves alive.
* {{Valkyries}}: They show up as cheerleaders.
* {{Valkyries}}: They show up as cheerleaders.
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* TooDumbToLive: The college age college-age ghost hunters put up to it by an enemy of Rose's. Know enough to get themselves in danger, but not enough to keep themselves alive.
* {{Valkyries}}: They show up ascheerleaders.cheerleaders to hear Rose's OriginStory, they're a bit hard to deal with but they give her their blessing all the same.
* UndeadFossils: ''Angel of the Overpass'' applies this to gasoline, the distilled essence of all those dead animals had to have gone somewhere didn't it?
* {{Valkyries}}: They show up as
* UndeadFossils: ''Angel of the Overpass'' applies this to gasoline, the distilled essence of all those dead animals had to have gone somewhere didn't it?
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* UnwantedRevival: Very much so, [[spoiler:Rose was only supposed to be alive for one hallowen night to shuck a curse,]] instead she has to deal being alive again decades after her death and play cachup even when she really doesn't want to in ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown''.
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghostroads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. Sparrow Hill Road is the First Book in the now titled "Ghost Roads Series." A sequel to "Sparrow Hill Road" titled "The Girl in the Green Silk Gown" was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021.
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''Ghost Roads'' (previously ''Ghost Stories'') is a series of short stories (later collected into a novel) by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall, who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 and has been hitching the ghostroads ever since as an occasional {{psychopomp}}, trying to help wayward souls she meets along the way...and to get revenge for her own murder. Sparrow ''Sparrow Hill Road Road'' is the First Book first book in the now titled "Ghost Roads Series." Roads" Series. A sequel to "Sparrow Hill Road" sequel, titled "The ''The Girl in the Green Silk Gown" Gown'' was released on July 17, 2018. Book 3, ''Angel of the Overpass'', was released on May 11, 2021.
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As one might suspect from the story titles, music plays an important role in Rose Marshall's story, as Creator/SeananMcGuire is also a musician and songwriter. Rose has been the subject of several of her songs, including "Pretty Little Dead Girl.", "Graveyard Rose." "Waxen Wings." "When I Drive." "Counting Crows." "Hanging Tree." and "On Dead Man's Hill." Note that these songs mostly represent the UrbanLegend version of Rose so they don't correspond exactly with the stories.
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As one might suspect from the story titles, music plays an important role in Rose Marshall's story, as Creator/SeananMcGuire is also a musician and songwriter. Rose has been the subject of several of her songs, including "Pretty Little Dead Girl.", Girl", "Graveyard Rose." Rose", "Waxen Wings." Wings", "When I Drive." Drive", "Counting Crows." Crows", "Hanging Tree." Tree", and "On Dead Man's Hill." Hill". Note that these songs mostly represent the UrbanLegend version of Rose so they don't correspond exactly with the stories.
stories. You can read the lyrics on her website, or on the [[https://incryptid.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Ghost_Roads_Songs InCryptid Wiki]].
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* RetCon: ''Sparrow Hill Road'' resets Rose's death to 1952
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* RetCon: ''Sparrow Hill Road'' resets Rose's death to 1952 1952.
* SentientVehicle: [[spoiler:Gary Daniels]] has his soul bound to a custom-built car, then has the car destroyed when he dies, so he can [[spoiler:be with Rose again]] as the car's ghost.
* SentientVehicle: [[spoiler:Gary Daniels]] has his soul bound to a custom-built car, then has the car destroyed when he dies, so he can [[spoiler:be with Rose again]] as the car's ghost.
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*** Rose also says [[spoiler:Gary the car]] doesn't "go all Literature/{{Christine}}" on her.
