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* ThePowerOfRock: The spell covering the town and creating the Demon Nazis is weakened and ultimately broken by Jeperson arranging to have ''Music/LetItBe'' and ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' played through the town's civil defence system. Fred Regent muses privately that in his opinion Music/TheBeatles have been going downhill since ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' but, given that it's breaking the spell, concedes that maybe there's something to the "Maharishi Music-hall stuff."
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* EvilReactionary: More misguided than evil, but Brigadier Sir Giles Gallant and a committee of like-minded townsfolk attempt to restore the town to what they regard as the glory days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Too late they discover that they cannot bring back the good parts of the war without bringing back the bad parts as well.
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* PastRightNow: In the 1970s, a small seaside town is being artificially kept as it was during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Unfortunately, those responsible are about to be taught a very painful lesson: namely, if you chose to live in the past, you do not get to chose only the good bits of that past.
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* ShoutOut: The character Marshall Michaelsmith is named as a shout-out to Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith.
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"The End of the Pier Show" is a short story by Creator/KimNewman, the first published story in the Literature/DiogenesClub series. It is set in the early 1970s.
Undercover policeman Fred Regent's investigation of a criminal skinhead gang takes an unexpected turn when the entire gang is wiped out by inhuman creatures in an abandoned seaside amusement arcade. The Diogenes Club, in the person of Richard Jeperson and the glamorous Vanessa, investigates.
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!!This work contains examples of:
* CoolCar: The Rolls Royce [=ShadowShark=], only five of which were ever made -- and Richard Jeperson owns three.
* CostumePorn: Richard Jeperson wears two different eye-searingly-1970s outfits in the course of the story, each described in loving detail. There's also a detailed description of Vanessa's outfit, and less detailed descriptions of the fashions sported by several supporting characters.
* DiscoDan: Brigadier Sir Giles Gallant and a committee of like-minded townsfolk attempt to restore the town to what they regard as the glory days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Too late they discover that they cannot bring back the good parts of the war without bringing back the bad parts as well.
* EarAche: Richard, Vanessa and Fred are hassled by a group of UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}} at a roadside diner. Vanessa deals with one by grabbing his ear and twisting it till he falls out of his booth.
* GoneHorriblyRight: A group of old veterans perform a spell to revive the old World War II spirit. The supernaturally-imposed wartime atmosphere comes complete with demonic Nazis.
* HairpinLockpick: When Richard, Vanessa, and Fred are locked up by the Committee, Richard borrows one of Vanessa's hairpins and picks the lock.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Just ''reading about'' the retina-blistering color combinations of Richard's 1970s outfits can make readers' eyes water.
* MurderousMannequin: Caricature mannequins of the Nazi high command, in a display on the pier, come to life and attack.
* NaiveNewcomer: For the first story in the series, the viewpoint character is Fred, who's just discovering that the supernatural is real and that the Diogenes Club exists.
* NaziZombies: The skinhead gang that Fred was originally supposed to infiltrate is killed by the evil forces at the pier and resurrected as zombies, with each one dressed in a different sort of Nazi uniform.
* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: A group of old veterans have used magic to force an old seaside town to be as it was during the war because they don't like modern times and preferred the war, when everyone 'pulled together' and things were 'much better'. Curiously, the 'modern times' they can't get the hang of are the 1970s, and the hero bluntly tells them that whilst the decade isn't perfect, they have to suck it up and move on; they have no right to force their outdated ways on the present just because they can't get the hang of decimalisation. He also notes that in their rosy-eyed view of the war years, they've conveniently forgotten the rather nasty group of people over the channel who were the whole reason for the war in the first place -- and who also have a presence in their little fantasy-land...
* OnlyOneName: Vanessa.
* ThePowerOfRock: The spell covering the town and creating the Demon Nazis is weakened and ultimately broken by Jeperson arranging to have ''Music/LetItBe'' and ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' played through the town's civil defence system. Fred Regent muses privately that in his opinion Music/TheBeatles have been going downhill since ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' but, given that it's breaking the spell, concedes that maybe there's something to the "Maharishi Music-hall stuff."
* ShoutOut: The character Marshall Michaelsmith is named as a shout-out to Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith.
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Undercover policeman Fred Regent's investigation of a criminal skinhead gang takes an unexpected turn when the entire gang is wiped out by inhuman creatures in an abandoned seaside amusement arcade. The Diogenes Club, in the person of Richard Jeperson and the glamorous Vanessa, investigates.
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!!This work contains examples of:
* CoolCar: The Rolls Royce [=ShadowShark=], only five of which were ever made -- and Richard Jeperson owns three.
* CostumePorn: Richard Jeperson wears two different eye-searingly-1970s outfits in the course of the story, each described in loving detail. There's also a detailed description of Vanessa's outfit, and less detailed descriptions of the fashions sported by several supporting characters.
* DiscoDan: Brigadier Sir Giles Gallant and a committee of like-minded townsfolk attempt to restore the town to what they regard as the glory days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Too late they discover that they cannot bring back the good parts of the war without bringing back the bad parts as well.
* EarAche: Richard, Vanessa and Fred are hassled by a group of UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}} at a roadside diner. Vanessa deals with one by grabbing his ear and twisting it till he falls out of his booth.
* GoneHorriblyRight: A group of old veterans perform a spell to revive the old World War II spirit. The supernaturally-imposed wartime atmosphere comes complete with demonic Nazis.
* HairpinLockpick: When Richard, Vanessa, and Fred are locked up by the Committee, Richard borrows one of Vanessa's hairpins and picks the lock.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Just ''reading about'' the retina-blistering color combinations of Richard's 1970s outfits can make readers' eyes water.
* MurderousMannequin: Caricature mannequins of the Nazi high command, in a display on the pier, come to life and attack.
* NaiveNewcomer: For the first story in the series, the viewpoint character is Fred, who's just discovering that the supernatural is real and that the Diogenes Club exists.
* NaziZombies: The skinhead gang that Fred was originally supposed to infiltrate is killed by the evil forces at the pier and resurrected as zombies, with each one dressed in a different sort of Nazi uniform.
* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: A group of old veterans have used magic to force an old seaside town to be as it was during the war because they don't like modern times and preferred the war, when everyone 'pulled together' and things were 'much better'. Curiously, the 'modern times' they can't get the hang of are the 1970s, and the hero bluntly tells them that whilst the decade isn't perfect, they have to suck it up and move on; they have no right to force their outdated ways on the present just because they can't get the hang of decimalisation. He also notes that in their rosy-eyed view of the war years, they've conveniently forgotten the rather nasty group of people over the channel who were the whole reason for the war in the first place -- and who also have a presence in their little fantasy-land...
* OnlyOneName: Vanessa.
* ThePowerOfRock: The spell covering the town and creating the Demon Nazis is weakened and ultimately broken by Jeperson arranging to have ''Music/LetItBe'' and ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' played through the town's civil defence system. Fred Regent muses privately that in his opinion Music/TheBeatles have been going downhill since ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' but, given that it's breaking the spell, concedes that maybe there's something to the "Maharishi Music-hall stuff."
* ShoutOut: The character Marshall Michaelsmith is named as a shout-out to Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith.
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