History Literature / TheDionaeaHouse

* BatmanGambit: The House pulls these from time to time to reel in new people, exploiting people's consciences and curiosities to get them to visit.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Loreen sounds like a huge jerk, but writes about the House so people will stop falling prey to it.

* TemptingFate: Anyone who goes up to the second floor.

* BadassBookworm: Loreen can beat up full grown men with clear size advantages over her and is also a teacher or professor. She is also both tough and shrewd enough to escape from the House, kill a flesh puppet AND stay off the House's radar for years. To boot, she even successfully records her experiences via Livejournal [[spoiler: before possibly being caught, which she even predicted.]]

* BadassBookworm: Loreen, can beat up people with clear size advantages over her, is also a teacher or professor and is both tough and shrewd enough to escape from the House, kill a flesh puppet AND stay off the House's radar for years. She also successfully records her experiences [[spoiler: before possibly being caught, which she even predicted.]]
** BadassTeacher:

** Referenced by Danielle: she becomes increasingly panicked after [[spoiler: Linney is almost carried away]] and contemplates leaving. As soon as this happens, she hears a trap door open somewhere and what sounds like a herd of people barreling down a staircase. Not soon after, Linney's parents come home from work.

* BatmanGambit: The House pulls these from time to time to reel in new people.

* CameBackWrong: Drew, and eventually [[spoiler: Danielle]].

* TheCorruption: [[spoiler: This happens to Drew after house-sitting for a week and also Danielle after spending her last night babysitting. It also happens to whoever the Twins and Sweatsuit Guy were in their previous existences.]]

* CreepyChild: Linney has colored one of the upper rooms of her dollhouse with red marker, and when asked, informs Danielle that, "It smells like cookies and candy."

* InfantImmortality: Likely averted [[spoiler: in Linney's case. It's almost assured she was

** [[spoiler: Linney's parents]] are implied to be the most convincing of the flesh puppets the house can exert its control over. [[spoiler:They appear normal, albeit tired, to Danielle and are capable of bargaining with her in order to force her to return to the house, so she can become a flesh puppet too.]]

* SmarterThanYouLook: Loreen. In addition to being a PintSizedPowerhouse, she was actually a teacher or more likely, a college professor before she became homeless.
** Of the four who've had run ins with the house, Loreen is also the only one who managed to compile detailed notes regarding the house's digestion habits.

* AlienBlood: The house bleeds a thick clear liquid, when Loreen hits the ceiling with an axe.

* AlienBlood: The house bleeds clear

* Batman Gambit

** Eric is a minor example. He chases a flesh puppet back to its home base.
** Loreen.

* {{Determinator}}: The Madsons leave the house behind and live a nomadic lifestyle, driving through the country nonstop for a whopping 5 or 6 years before finally being cornered by Drew. Lucy even gets pregnant and suffers a miscarriage but she and John just keep driving.

** It's implied that the Madsons were immune to the House's glamor, discovering exactly what it was and ran away to live a nomadic lifestyle.

* IndianBurialGround: Loreen implies in her last blog entry that the house was built by a man named Jared Lewis, [[spoiler:a disciple of the famous real-life occultist Jack Parsons]].

* AlienGeometries: The house in Boise has a second floor with "a really bizarre layout... lots of rooms." The second floor isn't visible from the outside. At all.

* ApocalypticLog: Mark's correspondence and phone calls, Danielle's blog.

* BiggerOnTheInside: The House has a second floor that isn't visible from the outside.

** Also, Loreen was able to stop herself at the last minute from [[spoiler:going up into the second floor of the House.]]

* NoEnding: While some of the blogs clearly end with [[ApocalypticLog bad things happening to the writer]], others just sort of... stop.

* [[spoiler:PeoplePuppets / MeatPuppet: "Flesh puppets."]] According to Loreen, [[spoiler:people partially-digested by the house are controlled via "strings."]] This is presumably the reason behind Danielle's final posts and Sweatsuit Guy.
** [[spoiler: Linney's parents are implied to be the highest quality of flesh puppet the house can control as they appear normal, albeit tired, to Danielle and are capable of bargaining with her in order to force her to return to the house, so she can become a flesh puppet also.]]

* [[MeatPuppet Flesh Puppet]]: The House can turn people into these. [[spoiler:It gets Danielle.]]

* [[spoiler:PeoplePuppets]]: According to Loreen, [[spoiler:people partially-digested by the house are controlled via "strings."]] This is presumably the reason behind Danielle's final posts and Sweatsuit Guy.

* GeniusLoci: The House is one
* GhostlyChill: The air inside the house is described as 'cold and metallic', but sometimes giving off strong whiffs of sweet things - fresh bread, sugary cakes. [[spoiler:Sometimes there's a smell of rotting decay, too - it's like the house is making the sweet smells to cover up the stench]].

** It's implied that the Madsons were somehow immune to the House's glamor, and that they somehow found out exactly what it was and ran away to live a nomadic lifestyle.

* {{Hobos}}: Mark has a few near encounters with a creepy one heavily implied to be one of the House's

But damned if that window didn’t break. Here’s what it did: [[spoiler: It stretched. Like it was made of see-thru skin.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Mark, Eric, Cam and Cam's friends are considered "missing," more than a year after their attempt to venture into the house.]]

* AlienGeometries: The house in Boise has a second floor with several rooms... which isn't visible from the outside. At all.

* HazardousWater: When Danielle leaves Linney alone in the bathtub for a couple of minutes, [[spoiler:one of the house's strings tries to [[AnkleDrag drag her away by her ankles]]]].

** This all started because a couple named John and Lucy Madson were somehow immune to the various effects of the house. The backstory isn't fully explained, but they abruptly left the House for unknown reasons and lived on the road for years to try and avoid the House's meat puppets, but they were eventually found and killed by Drew.
** Possibly Drew himself as he [[spoiler: commits suicide after killing the Madsons.]]

* [[spoiler:PeoplePuppets]]: According to Loreen, [[spoiler:people partially-digested by the house are controlled via "strings." This is presumably the reason behind Danielle's final posts and Sweatsuit Guy]].

* SanitySlippage: [[What happens to Mark leading up to him finding the house in Idaho.]]

** Mark: Whole reams of dialogue that he’d somehow memorized from one throwaway TV episode. Lyrics to entire songs. It went from odd, to funny, to disturbing in the first hour.

** '''Loreen''': I grabbed a chair from the little dining area and bashed it against the picture window that looked out on the front yard. Let me tell you, I swung that thing like the bases were loaded. I am no wimp. I once took down a guy a full foot taller than me outside a bar, and that was when I was a little tipsy. [[spoiler: But damned if that window didn’t break.]]

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Averted, no one is really close enough friends with Drew [[to stay with him and prevent his corruption at the hands of the house or get him help afterwards. Mark later laments this.]]
* TheCorruption: [[spoiler: Drew after house-sitting for a week, Danielle after spending her last night babysitting and whoever the Twins and Sweatsuit Guy were]].

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Drew, has a lot of loveable fanboy quirks [[which is why no one questions his even weirder behavior after he returns from the house.]]
* TheCorruption: [[spoiler: Danielle, after spending her last night babysitting]].

* NeverSleepAgain: The Madisons for the most part. They can and do sleep however as long as they can bundle up with several blankets (regardless of weather) and bar all the doors and windows of the bedroom they're in, even the closet doors.

** -->'''Loreen''': I grabbed a chair from the little dining area and bashed it against the picture window that looked out on the front yard. Let me tell you, I swung that thing like the bases were loaded. I am no wimp. I once took down a guy a full foot taller than me outside a bar, and that was when I was a little tipsy. [[spoiler: But damned if that window didn’t break.]]

* ActionHeroBabysitter/BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Danielle. [[spoiler: Except not.]]

* BadassCreed: A comment made by "Mark Hondrie," on Eric's last journal entry: "Those who know, we consume. To those who doubt, we appeal. From those who believe, we hide. Those who know, we are. Those who know, <i>we consume.</i> There is no escape."

* Cloudcuckoolander: Drew, has a lot of loveable fanboy quirks [[which is why no one questions his even weirder behavior after he returns from the house.]]

* IndianBurialGround: Loreen implies in her last blog entry that the house was built by a man named Jared Lewis, [[spoiler:a disciple of the famous real-life occultist Jack Parsons]].
* GuiltComplex: Mark blames himself for not speaking up about Andrew's weird behavior post house-sitting and his guilt is what causes him to go looking for Drew.[[spoiler: And later, Eric feels the same way about not being able to help Mark more. The house itself uses guilt to reel in new people.]]

* NeverSleepAgain: The Madisons for the most part. They can and do sleep however as long as they can bundle up with several blankets (regardless of weather) and bar all the doors and windows of the bedroom they're in, <i> even the closet doors. </i>

* EldritchLocation: Aside from the fact that the same house exists in multiple places, there's the second floor that's not visible from outside the house. [[spoiler:This is where it gets the name "Dionaea House" from. Mark compared it to a Venus flytrap, which may have multiple heads but they all connect to the same roots. The second floor may be comparable to the roots.]]

* GeniusLoci
* GhostlyChill: The air inside the house is described as 'cold and metallic', with a faint whiff of [[spoiler: both sickly sweet smells--fresh bread, sugary cakes--and rotting decay]].

* MeatPuppet: The House can turn people into these. [[spoiler:It gets Danielle.]]

* AlienGeometries - The house in Boise has a second floor with several rooms... which isn't visible from the outside. At all.
* AloofAlly - Loreen, to the rest of the cast.
* ApocalypticLog - Mark's correspondence and phone calls, Danielle's blog.
* AxCrazy - Drew, causing Mike to start investigating.
* BiggerOnTheInside - The House has a second floor that isn't visible from the outside.
* CameBackWrong - Drew, and eventually [[spoiler: Danielle]].
* TheCorruption - [[spoiler: Danielle, after spending her last night babysitting]].
* ConnectTheDeaths - What Mark attempts to do.
* CreepyBasement - And creepy second floor. And creepy attic and... you know what, let's just go with creepy ''everything''.
* CreepyChild - Linney has colored one of the upper rooms of her dollhouse with red marker, and when asked, informs Danielle that, "It smells like cookies and candy."
* CuriosityKilledTheCast - A major trope--in fact, it's largely how the antagonist works.
* DeadFic - The movie and related drama will presumably put an end to the original viral story.
* DistressCall - The House ''lets'' people find out about it so they'll want to explore it. Heck, just ''finding'' it puts you at risk of being lured in. In other words, it actually feeds on being a viral story. So keep sharing that link.
* EldritchLocation
* EmptyShell - Drew, after spending too much time in the house.
* EvilDetectingDog - From one of Mark's emails: "Andrew talked about it the weekend before. Dog had behavioral problems – whined, barked, scratched at the door, pissed on the carpet. Didn’t want to be inside, always wanted to be outside."

* GhostlyChill - The air inside the house is described as 'cold and metallic', with a faint whiff of [[spoiler: both sickly sweet smells--fresh bread, sugary cakes--and rotting decay]].
* GlamourFailure - Loreen took an axe to the ceiling. [[spoiler:It ''bled''.]]
* HazardousWater - When Danielle leaves Linney alone in the bathtub for a couple of minutes, [[spoiler:one of the house's strings tries to [[AnkleDrag drag her away by her ankles]]]].
* IndianBurialGround - Loreen implies in her last blog entry that [[spoiler: the house was built by a man named Jared Lewis, a disciple of the famous real-life occultist Jack Parsons]].
* IronicNurseryRhyme - "There was a crooked man / And he walked a crooked mile..." and "Red rover, red rover, let (person) come over."
* MadnessMantra / ArcWords - "The door is open."
* MeaningfulName - "Dionaea" is the genus name for the Venus flytrap. Much like the plant, the houses lure people in.
* NoEnding - While some of the blogs clearly end with [[ApocalypticLog bad things happening to the writer]], others just sort of... stop.

* [[spoiler:PeoplePuppets]] - According to Loreen, [[spoiler:people partially-digested by the house are controlled via "strings." This is presumably the reason behind Danielle's final posts and Sweatsuit Guy]].
* WhamLine - [[spoiler:ITS THE SAME ONE. THE HOUSTON HOUSE. SAME MARKS ON ROOF. SAME FENCE DAMAGE.]]

Evidently, it was supposed to be made into a movie, but it unfortunately was in DevelopmentHell, and was scheduled for release in 2011 under the title "The Occupants'', and at another point ''The Residents". According to the creator it's dead for now. Whether or not [[IncrediblyLamePun the door is still open]] for it to be made remains to be seen

Evidently, it was supposed to be made into a movie, but it unfortunately was in DevelopmentHell, and is scheduled for release in 2011 under the title "The Occupants'', and at another point ''The Residents". According to the creator it's dead for now. Whether or not [[IncrediblyLamePun the door is still open]] for it to be made remains to be seen

Evidently, it was supposed to be made into a movie, but it unfortunately was kept in DevelopmentHell, and is scheduled for release in 2011 under the title "The Occupants."

* WhamLime - [[spoiler:ITS THE SAME ONE. THE HOUSTON HOUSE. SAME MARKS ON ROOF. SAME FENCE DAMAGE.]]