History Literature / GilsAllFrightDiner

The short story ''Literature/BigfootDreams'' is set after the events of the novel, where Duke and Earl hunt a rogue bigfoot, was published in the 2013 anthology book ''Robots versus Slime Monsters''.

The short story ''Literature/BigfootDreams'' is set after the events of the novel, where Duke and Earl hunt a rogue bigfoot.

* VegetarianVampire: Earl drinks animal blood, preferring to drink from cows. He prefers it fresh, turning his nose up at blood squeezed from raw meat at one point, and can feed without killing his prey. He also doesn't need to feed very often, which helps with that last bit.

''Gil's All Fright Diner'' is a 2005 comedic UrbanFantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez.

* VegetarianVampire: Earl drinks animal blood, preferring to drink from cows. He prefers it fresh, turning his nose up at blood squeezed from raw met at one point, and can feed without killing his prey. He also doesn't need to feed very often, which helps with that last bit.

* FurAgainstFang: Discussed. When Loretta brings it up Duke and Earl (and even she) aren't really sure why the trope exists, and the two of them are VitriolicBestBuds. At one point later, Earl reflects to himself about vampires (creatures of stealth and shadow) are a bad match-up against werewolves (killing machines) and about the time Duke easily killed five vampires at once.

* FurAgainstFang: They [[VitriolicBestBuds bicker constantly]], but are still best friends.

* VegetarianVampire: Earl can live off animal blood, but it's hardly his preference.

** Earl can become a wolf, a bat, or mist, but finds it difficult and uncomfortable, so he doesn't have much practice.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Earl and Duke, though Earl's hardly a weakling (nor terribly bright) and Duke isn't stupid at all.

* WrongGenreSavvy: As a newly-minted werewolf, Duke suffered from a number of misconceptions about his condition thanks to horror movies--one among them being that he needed to eat human flesh. Fortunately, his first "victim" was Earl, and the annoyed vampire set him straight. Especially fortunate as Duke had been contemplating suicide rather than living the life he thought he'd be forced into.

* TheBigGuy: Duke is a 6'5" pile of muscle and fat described as resembling a small planet at one point.

* DumbJock: Chad. Tammy would never choose someone like him to be her follower, but since he's the only one she's got, she makes due.

%%* HotWitch: Tammy is very attractive (but underage).

* VampiresAreSexGods: Less convenient than it sounds. Earl can't control who it affects and doesn't, wants to avoid trouble with jailbait like Tammy, and has encountered his share of angry boyfriends and husbands (including one who was handy with [[ChainsawGood a chainsaw]]).

** Duke can transform whenever he likes, but during the day when it's a New Moon his powers are much weaker. ** Earl can become a wolf, a bat, or mist, but finds it difficult and uncomfortable, so he doesn't have much practice.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Earl and Duke, though Earl's hardly a weakling and Duke's isn't stupid at all.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Duke can transform whenever he likes, but during the day when it's a New Moon his powers are much weaker. Earl can become a wolf, a bat, or mist, but finds it difficult and inconvenient.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: rm Rockwood's populace is rather blasé about the supernatural, with most people just accepting it as an annoying part of life. It's explained that humans have a natural WeirdnessCensor, and things have been getting increasingly weird in Rockwood for so long that everyone's used to it.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Earl has most of the classic traits, but averts CannotCrossRunningWater, MustBeInvited, and HolyBurnsEvil, isn't very good at shapeshifting, and only occasionally follows CastsNoShadow.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Rockwood's populace is rather blasé about the supernatural, with most people just accepting it as an annoying part of life. It's explained that humans have a natural WeirdnessCensor, and things have been getting increasingly weird in Rockwood for so long that everyone's used to it.

Gil's All Fright Diner is a 2005 comedic UrbanFantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez.

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* HotWitch: Tammy is very attractive (but underage).

* InterspeciesRomance: Vampire and Ghost.

* MsFanservice: Tammy.

* WolfMan: Duke's transformed shape. Ironically, he hates that movie. He prefers {{Film/Young Frankenstein}}.

* ZombifyTheLiving: One sign that things in Rockwood are getting bad is that a herd of cattle become zombies without dying first.

* JerkassWoobie: Earl can be an ''ass'' when he wants to be, and plenty still when he doesn't. It mostly stems from the fact that he genuinely believes that only four people in his life have ever liked him as a person, and one of them was his pet turtle. [[spoiler: [[DidYouThinkICantFeel He's genuinely surprised when Duke says that he considers him his best friend.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Earl can be an ''ass'' when he wants to be, and plenty still when he doesn't. It mostly stems from the fact that he genuinely believes that only four people in his life have ever liked him as a person, and one of them was his pet turtle. [[spoiler: [[DidYouThinkICouldntFeel He's genuinely surprised when Duke says that he considers him his best friend.]]

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Earl's asleep, he's basically dead, but terrible events of significant enough psychic power can briefly rouse him. Things like deadly earthquakes, the Nazis invading Poland, and {{Franchise/The Green Hornet}} being cancelled.