History Literature / TheAdversaryCycle

''The Adversary Cycle'' is a seven-novel horror series by F. Paul Wilson. It runs parallel to the ''Literature/RepairmanJack'' series. It contains the following books:

%%* UltimateEvil: The Otherness.

* AndIMustScream: Lampshaded when [[spoiler:Hank Thompson]] gets a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong.
** In ''The Keep'', this is implied to be the fate of [[spoiler:Rasalom's victims. He can control the bodies of those he kills, and we see that Woermann is still conscious and thinking after being killed by Rasalom. Woermann even frantically tries to do something, anything, to stop the way Rasalom is using him but is helpless to so. So when Rasalom goes all NightOfTheLivingMooks toward the end of the book, there's a chance that every single dead soldier was desperately trying to resist being forced to kill their friends and fellow soldiers and were completely helpless to stop what they saw themselves doing.]] ''Creepy...''
* AndThisIsFor

* EmotionEater: Rasalom
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: In ''Nightworld''. Also, just in general, the Otherness and Rasalom's ultimate goal.
* EvilGloating: Rasalom enjoys this.

* HealingHands: In ''The Touch''.
* HumanoidAbomination: Rasalom.

* TheMedic: Dr. Alan Bulmer in ''The Touch''.
* MouthOfSauron: Rasolom is this for the Otherness.
* TheNeidermeyer: Kaempffer in ''The Keep''. Not as much as in [[Film/TheKeep the movie]] though.

* NoEndorHolocaust: Averted, as it's mentioned that even if the sun does return, there'll be mass famine from all the crops dying while it was gone.

* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil
* TouchOfDeath: See LethalHarmlessPowers above.
* UltimateEvil: The Otherness.

* WaterfallIntoTheAbyss: Played for horror in ''Nightworld''. Portals to AnotherDimension have opened sending nightmare creatures swarming across the Earth. Some of them open in mid-ocean, creating vast whirlpools during the day and reversing at night into mile-high fountains of water, littering the ground with dead fish and...[[TheSwarm other things]].

''The Adversary Cycle'' is a six-novel horror series by F. Paul Wilson. It runs parallel to the ''Literature/RepairmanJack'' series. It contains the following books:

* ActuallyNotAVampire: In "The Keep" the main antagonist is an Atlantean sorcerer/antichrist, but he pretends to be a Wallachian nationalist vampire in order to persuade an old professor to help him, and fakes a set of weaknesses different from his real ones.

''The Adversary Cycle'' is a six-novel horror series by F. Paul Wilson. It runs parallel to the ''RepairmanJack'' series. It contains the following books:

* GiantFlyer: RepairmanJack is flying through an ash cloud over the Pacific Ocean when he suddenly thinks they're flying too close to the ground, only to see a GiantEyeOfDoom staring back at him from a titanic flying leviathan several miles in diameter. Another protagonist heading over the Atlantic has a leviathan swoop down on their jet, [[spoiler:which escapes by flying close to the water then banking hard at the last second. The creature's huge wingspan causes it to clip the water and crash as it tries to follow.]]

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: In ''Nightworld'' the protagonists reforge a magic sword that's their last chance to defeat the Rasalom. RepairmanJack is the obvious candidate to replace the aging Glaeken who's wielded it in the past, but Jack balks at an eternity of servitude to the Ally, and so offers everyone else in the room a chance. [[spoiler:The sword fails to respond to them, so Jack bites the bullet and grasps it...only for it to fail to respond to him either. Turn out only the original hero (who hasn't died and therefore can't expect Jack to TakeUpMySword) is acceptable. After a millennium or so of service Glaeken definitely doesn't want to start all over again, but the sword rejuvenates him as the young warrior he was, and so Glaeken gets a chance to take out his frustrations on the BigBad.]]

** This was made into (poorly received) [[Film/TheKeep movie]] in 1983.

* SdrawkcabName: [[spoiler:Molasar's surname is actually "Rasalom" backwards.No word on whether this also applies to his given first name, Radu, in which case his ''really'' real name would be "Udar Rasalom."]]

* GiantFlyer: Portals to AnotherDimension have opened sending nightmare creatures swarming across the Earth. To defeat them the protagonists must go on a FetchQuest. RepairmanJack is flying through an ash cloud over the Pacific Ocean when he suddenly thinks they're flying too close to the ground, only to see a GiantEyeOfDoom staring back at him from a titanic flying leviathan several miles in diameter. Another protagonist heading over the Atlantic has a leviathan swoop down on their jet, [[spoiler:which escapes by flying close to the water then banking hard at the last second. The creature's huge wingspan causes it to clip the water and crash as it tries to follow.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: Rasalom

* UltimateEvil: The Otherness and Rasalom.

* TheNeidermeyer: Kaempffer in ''The Keep''. Note as much as in [[Film/TheKeep the movie]] though.

* TheNeidermeyer: Kaempffer in ''The Keep''. Note as much as in [[TheKeep the movie]] though.

** This was made into ([[BoxOfficeBomb poorly received]]) [[Film/TheKeep movie]] in 1983.

# ''Film/TheKeep''

* SignificantAnagram: [[spoiler:Rasalom]] loves using anagrams of his name.

# ''TheKeep''

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Subverted. Rasalom isn't a vampire, but he's happy to pretend to be one in ''The Keep''. That said, he is described as an AbstractEater[=/=]EmotionEater who feeds on war, death, painm misery and all such negative things, so he's not that different from being a "psychic vampire" as such creatures are sometimes called.

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: ''Nightworld'' has the threat of this trope, as every day the sun inexplicably rises later and sets earlier than the last.
* NoEndorHolocaust: It's mentioned that even if the sun does return, there'll be mass famine from all the crops dying while it was gone.