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* ShapeshifterLongevity: The Ancient Enemy is a gigantic VoluntaryShapeshifter that has existed since the time of the dinosaurs, tens of millions of years ago - and the only reason why this is discovered is because said Ancient Enemy is in the habit of transforming into extinct monsters to terrorize its victims.
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* CollectorOfForms: The Ancient Enemy is capable of reshaping its liquid body into just about anything that it's devoured over the course of its lifespan, unwittingly indicating that it's been alive for millions of years when it manifests as a giant Carboniferous moth. However, it also absorbs the memories of its victims, so it can actually take on shapes that exist entirely within the human imagination - hence the winged serpent that menaces the team at one point.
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* SadlyMythtaken: Flyte claims that the Ancient Enemy was the inspiration for the god Proteus, referring to him as a constantly shapeshifting monster that burrowed through the earth, devouring whatever he desired... except the mythological Proteus was actually a ''sea'' god who commonly served as a herdsman to aquatic life, and by [[JerkassGods Greek god]] standards, he was quite reasonable - to the point that even his famous shapeshifting powers were mainly used in order to escape heroes who wanted to make use of his prophetic knowledge.
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* SadlyMythtaken: Flyte claims that the Ancient Enemy was the inspiration for the god Proteus, referring to him as a constantly shapeshifting monster that burrowed through the earth, devouring whatever he desired... except the mythological Proteus was actually a ''sea'' god who commonly served as a herdsman to aquatic life, and by [[JerkassGods Greek god]] standards, he was quite reasonable reasonable; far from devouring anyone or anything in his path, the only point in which he interacted with mortals was when heroes sought him out for his prophetic knowledge - to the point that even his famous shapeshifting powers were mainly used in order to escape heroes who wanted to make use of his prophetic knowledge.avoid being bothered.
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* SadlyMythaken: Flyte claims that the Ancient Enemy was the inspiration for the god Proteus, referring to him as a constantly shapeshifting monster that burrowed through the earth, devouring whatever he desired... except the mythological Proteus was actually a ''sea'' god who commonly served as a herdsman to aquatic life, and by [[JerkassGods Greek god]] standards, he was quite reasonable - to the point that even his famous shapeshifting powers were mainly used in order to escape heroes who wanted to make use of his prophetic knowledge.
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* SadlyMythaken: SadlyMythtaken: Flyte claims that the Ancient Enemy was the inspiration for the god Proteus, referring to him as a constantly shapeshifting monster that burrowed through the earth, devouring whatever he desired... except the mythological Proteus was actually a ''sea'' god who commonly served as a herdsman to aquatic life, and by [[JerkassGods Greek god]] standards, he was quite reasonable - to the point that even his famous shapeshifting powers were mainly used in order to escape heroes who wanted to make use of his prophetic knowledge.
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* SadlyMythaken: Flyte claims that the Ancient Enemy was the inspiration for the god Proteus, referring to him as a constantly shapeshifting monster that burrowed through the earth, devouring whatever he desired... except the mythological Proteus was actually a ''sea'' god who commonly served as a herdsman to aquatic life, and by [[JerkassGods Greek god]] standards, he was quite reasonable - to the point that even his famous shapeshifting powers were mainly used in order to escape heroes who wanted to make use of his prophetic knowledge.
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* GhostTown: Snowfield.Snowfield, after the Ancient Enemy kills every living thing in the town.
* GiantEnemyCrab: The protagonists are in the lobby of the Hilltop Inn after dark. The Ancient Enemy sends two crabs, each the size of a car, to harass them. It has one climb up the side of the building and the other appear in the darkness at the limits of their vision to frighten them.
* GiantEnemyCrab: The protagonists are in the lobby of the Hilltop Inn after dark. The Ancient Enemy sends two crabs, each the size of a car, to harass them. It has one climb up the side of the building and the other appear in the darkness at the limits of their vision to frighten them.
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* BeingWatched
** While Jenny and Lisa are exploring the Santini's house, Jenny constantly has the feeling that they're being watched.
** While Sheriff Bryce Hammond is going through a dark passageway, he experiences a tingle along his spine and feels that he's under the observation of unfriendly eyes.
** While Jenny and Lisa are exploring the Santini's house, Jenny constantly has the feeling that they're being watched.
** While Sheriff Bryce Hammond is going through a dark passageway, he experiences a tingle along his spine and feels that he's under the observation of unfriendly eyes.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Discussed. Since the Ancient Enemy absorbs its victims knowledge and personality, it's implied its sadism and evil are learned behavior from humanity.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Demonstrated with Jake Johnson. He's given a backstory, explaining why he's a deputy and his pragmatic cowardice, making the reader think he'll be a major character. He's dead ([[NeverFoundTheBody or as good as]]) before the end of the next page, showing that even developed character are not safe.
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* NothingIsScarier: The it's over half way through the book before the Enemy reveals itself. Before that, we only see the aftermath of its rampage through Snowfield and its influence on the town. Lights going on and off, the church bell somehow ringing itself, and bodies appearing and disappearing. Then there's the dark alley where Bryce and Jenny feel something evil is watching them, but they can't tell what.
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* NothingIsScarier: The it's It's over half way through the book before the Enemy reveals itself. Before that, we only see the aftermath of its rampage through Snowfield and its influence on the town. Lights going on and off, the church bell somehow ringing itself, and bodies appearing and disappearing. Then there's the dark alley where Bryce and Jenny feel something evil is watching them, but they can't tell what.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted.
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* ArmiesAreUseless: Played with. The actual soldiers of the Army unit sent into Snowfield are no match for the Ancient Enemy, but the scientists and equipment they bring with them prove vital in finding the Enemy's weakness.
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* ItCameFromTheSink: Before the story starts, the Ancient Enemy (a gigantic Blob Monster) invades the homes of the people of Snowfield by going through the sewer system and coming out through the drains in their bathrooms. It then kills them and either eats them or leaves their bodies as a snack for later.
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* MistakenForDisease: After the entire population of a small mountain town is either killed by unknown means or completely disappears, a doctor investigating the situation considers the possibility that the cause of the disaster is a disease unknown to science. However, it actually turns out to have been caused by an EldritchAbomination feeding on the minds of living beings.
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* DirtyCoward: Jake Johnson panics when the lights go out and tries to run away, which leads to him being devoured by the Ancient Enemy.
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* FoodPorn: The meal Flyte orders during his talk with Sandler. He spends a good chunk of the chapter just ordering the food. He orders two bottles of Mumm's Extra Dry (he was originally only getting one but gets a second for Sandler), caviar, two kinds of fresh fruit, buttery, flaky croissants, two "rather soft" eggs, "a rasher" of bacon, pork sausages ("Of the highest quality"), potatoes and "an assortment" of pastries.
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* FoodPorn: The meal Flyte orders during his talk with Sandler. He spends a good chunk of the chapter just ordering the food. He orders two bottles of Mumm's Extra Dry (he was originally only getting one but gets a second for Sandler), caviar, two kinds of fresh fruit, buttery, flaky croissants, toast, two "rather soft" eggs, "a rasher" of bacon, pork sausages ("Of the highest quality"), potatoes and "an assortment" of pastries.
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* FoodPorn: The meal Flyte orders during his talk with Sandler. He spends a good chunk of the chapter just ordering the food. He orders two bottles of Mumm's Extra Dry (he was originally only getting one but gets a second for Sandler), caviar, two kinds of fresh fruit, buttery, flaky croissants, two "rather soft" eggs, "a rasher" of bacon, pork sausages ("Of the highest quality"), potatoes and "an assortment" of pastries.
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* AdaptationNameChange: For some reason, Jenny and Lisa's surname is Pailey in the film, and General Galen Copperfield's first name is now Leland.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dr. Flyte]] and [[spoiler: The Ancient Enemy]] survive in the movie but are killed in the novel.
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** [[spoiler: Dr. Flyte]] and [[spoiler: The Ancient Enemy]] survive in the movie but are killed in the novel.
**Ditto Wilson and Hawthorne. In the novel, their counterparts Isley and Arkham get killed.killed because they're with Copperfield's team when the Ancient Enemy cleans house and kills all of the military personnel and scientists. In the movie, Wilson and Hawthorne just drop Flyte off with Copperfield and then leave.
** Jenny and Lisa's mother. In the novel, she died quite suddenly at home, which is why Lisa has come to live with Jenny. In the movie, Mrs. Pailey is alive and well and living in L.A. and the circumstances of Lisa coming to live with her sister are a little unclear (beyond "it's just for a little while").
** Joe the deputy. A minor character from the novel, he is killed during Fletcher Kale's escape from jail. In the movie, not only doesn't Kale exist, but Joe takes Charlie Mercer's role as the police dispatcher and is the only cop besides Bryce to survive the story.
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** Jenny and Lisa's mother. In the novel, she died quite suddenly at home, which is why Lisa has come to live with Jenny. In the movie, Mrs. Pailey is alive and well and living in L.A. and the circumstances of Lisa coming to live with her sister are a little unclear (beyond "it's just for a little while").
** Joe the deputy. A minor character from the novel, he is killed during Fletcher Kale's escape from jail. In the movie, not only doesn't Kale exist, but Joe takes Charlie Mercer's role as the police dispatcher and is the only cop besides Bryce to survive the story.
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* CompositeCharacter: Several in the movie:
** Deputy Steve Shanning is a combination of several of the deputies who accompany Bruce to Snowfield in the novel, chiefly Tal (he's Bryce's second in command), Frank (he has a mustache and his being ex-FBI mirrors Frank being former US Army) and Jake Johnson (he dies first).
** Wilson and Hawthorne, the two FBI agents who come, to get Flyte in New York fulfill the dual roles of Flyte's publicist Burt Sandler (he's the one who fetches Flyte in the book) and have some traits of Isley and Arkham from the novel, although they [[SparedByTheAdaptation survive the movie]] by not remaining in Snowfield.
** Leland Copperfield. In addition to obviously being the movie's version of the novel's General ''[[AdaptationNameChange Galen]]'' Copperfield, he like Wilson and Hawthorne has some traits of Burt Sandler, particularly in the scene where Flyte is giving him the skinny on the Ancient Enemy during the hectic drive to Snowfield in the thunderstorm.
** Deputy Steve Shanning is a combination of several of the deputies who accompany Bruce to Snowfield in the novel, chiefly Tal (he's Bryce's second in command), Frank (he has a mustache and his being ex-FBI mirrors Frank being former US Army) and Jake Johnson (he dies first).
** Wilson and Hawthorne, the two FBI agents who come, to get Flyte in New York fulfill the dual roles of Flyte's publicist Burt Sandler (he's the one who fetches Flyte in the book) and have some traits of Isley and Arkham from the novel, although they [[SparedByTheAdaptation survive the movie]] by not remaining in Snowfield.
** Leland Copperfield. In addition to obviously being the movie's version of the novel's General ''[[AdaptationNameChange Galen]]'' Copperfield, he like Wilson and Hawthorne has some traits of Burt Sandler, particularly in the scene where Flyte is giving him the skinny on the Ancient Enemy during the hectic drive to Snowfield in the thunderstorm.
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* DevilComplex: The "Ancient Enemy" (a living mass of primordial protoplasm that has eaten entire towns throughout history) definitely falls under a broad definition of "EldritchAbomination" but it believes itself to be the actual Biblical Devil because so many of the ''populations'' of towns of people it has absorbed obviously thought it was something unholy as their final thoughts. The result is a tremendous arrogance that eventually brings its downfall.
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: The Ancient Enemy brutally kills Stu Wargle for daring to deny its existence.
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* AssholeVictim: Stu Wargle.
* BackFromTheDead: Stu Wargle, Copperfield (in the film adaptation), and anybody else The Ancient Enemy wants to use to demoralize or terrorize the protagonists with.
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* BackFromTheDead:Stu Wargle, Copperfield [[spoiler:Stu Wargle]], [[spoiler:Copperfield]] (in the film adaptation), and anybody else The Ancient Enemy wants to use to demoralize or terrorize the protagonists with.
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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The Ancient Enemy's idea of being funny is playing childish, petulantly cruel sleights of hand against its victims, such as posing dead bodies in ways designed to elicit spiritual horror, such as nailing the priest to the cross, or by switching things around in rooms that the protagonists have already through, like depositing Harold Ordnay's hand in the hotel lobby for the group to find when they come back through. That and making obscene phone calls. It finds ''those'' hilarious.
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* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The Ancient Enemy justifies preying on humans and other living creatures, including tormenting them for its own amusement, by claiming that its long life means it considers them inconsequential. Boasting of its seeming immortality, it insists that human lives are as brief and meaningless to it as the lives of mayflies are to them.
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* SuicidalOverconfidence: The Ancient Enemy is so assured of its own power and obsessed with terrifying the humans that it orders them to study pieces of it so they can tell the world how invincibly powerful it is. This ends up giving them an idea of how to kill it.
