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* ParanormalMundaneItem: During the final battle, Mrs. Zimmermann gives Rose Rita an enchanted object that will protect her from the dark spirit they're facing. Once Moss has been dealt with and Rose Rita can get a good look at it, it turns out to be a nasal inhalator, which Mrs. Zimmermann explains she had enchanted years ago -- it will only work in the hands of a child, but it'll protect them from evil creatures and is also supposed to have certain healing powers.
* HumanSacrifice: Adolphus Stoltzfuss attempts to sacrifice Rose Rita and Heinrich Weiss to the demon Aziel, who requires "human blood and hearts" in payment for the information he provides. [[spoiler: Stoltzfuss gets the information he wants, but it doesn't do him any good because he gets caught between two of the magical mirrors, and is taken by Aziel as a result instead of his intended victims.]]
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* ShoutOut: Late in the book, Mrs. Zimmermann quotes ''Literature/TheLadyOfShalott'' when she says "The mirror crack'd from side to side".
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* ShoutOut: Late in the book, Mrs. Zimmermann quotes ''Literature/TheLadyOfShalott'' when she says "The mirror crack'd from side to side".[[note]]''Not'' the Creator/AgathaChristie novel of that title; said novel was published in 1962, and this book is set in 1951.[[/note]]
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* TreasureHuntEpisode: Part of the plot revolves around the hunt for the Donniker treasure, a chest of money from the town of Donniker meant to be given to the American army. When the British found out about it, they sent a group of Hessian soldiers to retrieve it for their side, but a trio of men from Donniker managed to hide it away to keep it out of their hands. The treasure is hidden somewhere on what, in 1828, is the Weiss family farm, and young Heinrich Weiss (grandson of one of the men who hid the treasure) is sure that if the family finds it, they won't have any more problems. The search for the treasure is also what motivates Adolphus Stoltzfuss, the book's lead villain, as his father was one of the Hessians who captured the elder Heinrich Weiss; Stoltzfuss is convinced the treasure belongs to him because of this, and needs it so he can pay off the mortgage on his land. Ultimately, the Weiss family locates the treasure, and between this and the evidence they've found that proves Stoltzfuss was the real evil wizard causing trouble in the valley, their troubles are ended.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Gnomon Island has some pretty odd architectural features'. Mrs. Zimmermann also considers the mansion on Ivarhaven Island to be this, commenting that "I like a house to look like a house, not a jumble of rectangles and squares."
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Gnomon Island has some pretty odd architectural features'.features, {{justified|trope}} with the reveal that [[spoiler: the entire island is actually a giant sundial]]. Mrs. Zimmermann also considers the mansion on Ivarhaven Island to be this, commenting that "I like a house to look like a house, not a jumble of rectangles and squares."
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* ShoutOut: Features a shadowy, yellow-eyed monster based on the demon from [[Creator/MontagueRhodesJames "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book."]]
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* ShoutOut: Features ShoutOut:
** One of the villains is a shadowy, yellow-eyed monster based on the demon from [[Creator/MontagueRhodesJames "Canon Alberic'sScrap-Book."]]Scrap-Book".]]
** One of the villains is a shadowy, yellow-eyed monster based on the demon from [[Creator/MontagueRhodesJames "Canon Alberic's
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* SnakePeople: The lamia, a blood-drinking magical spirit serves as the villain.
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* SnakePeople: The lamia, a snake-like blood-drinking magical spirit spirit, serves as the villain.
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* ReligionOfEvil: Discussed in ''The Figure in the Shadows'', when explaining what Eliphaz Moss was up to.
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* ReligionOfEvil: Discussed in ''The Figure late in the Shadows'', book when explaining what Eliphaz Moss was up to.
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* AndIMustScream: If Mrs. Zimmerman is right, Gert got her wish to be young and beautiful forever, and to live for a thousand years - [[spoiler:by being transformed into a willow tree.]]
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* AndIMustScream: If Mrs. Zimmerman is right, Gert got her wish to be young and beautiful forever, and to live for a thousand years - -- [[spoiler:by being transformed into a willow tree.]]
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* RePower: [[spoiler:Florence Zimmermann recovers her powers, stronger than before, as a result of her and Rose Rita's time travel adventure (in no small part due to Rose Rita's desire to help her do so)'.]]
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* RePower: [[spoiler:Florence Zimmermann recovers her powers, stronger than before, as a result of her and Rose Rita's time travel adventure (in no small part due to Rose Rita's desire to help her do so)'.so).]]
* ShoutOut: Late in the book, Mrs. Zimmermann quotes ''Literature/TheLadyOfShalott'' when she says "The mirror crack'd from side to side".
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* CreepyCemetery: Full of [[Series/DoctorWho weeping angels]].
* FogOfDoom: Cuts off New Zebedee from the rest of the world'.
* FogOfDoom: Cuts off New Zebedee from the rest of the world'.
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* CreepyCemetery: Full of The New Zebedee Cemetery, which Lewis still remembers as the place where he'd raised Selenna Izzard from the dead, and which is occupied by a living statue that behaves like the [[Series/DoctorWho weeping angels]].
* DreadfulMusician:
** Played for laughs early on -- Rose Rita hears a terrible sound, which Lewis suddenly recognizes as Jailbird, the librarian Mrs. Greer's cat, and explains that the previous spring, Jonathan had cast a spell on him just for fun that allowed the cat to whistle. He sounds ''terrible'' though, which Lewis says is because, according to Jonathan, cats "don't have much of a sense of pitch".
** Late in the book, when facing Henry Vanderhelm, Lewis and Rose Rita call ''both'' Vanderhelms this, insulting their musical talents (calling the modern Vanderhelm "flat" and "so far off-key, you couldn't find it with both hands") as a way of distracting him as he's conducting, allowing Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmermann and Mrs. Jaeger to cast the spell that defeats Vanderhelm once and for all.
* FogOfDoom:Cuts Henry Vanderhelm performs a piece from the opera ''The Day of Doom'', which summons a wall of fog that cuts off New Zebedee from the rest of the world'.world.
* {{Golem}}: Henry Vanderhelm, the lead villain of the book, is actually a simulacrum of the late Immanuel Vanderhelm, made of sheet music and animated by the original Vanderhelm's "insane wish to become King of the Dead", as Jonathan puts it.
* NoOntologicalInertia: It's explained in the final chapter that years ago, after Lucius Mickleberry defeated Immanuel Vanderhelm in a magical duel, he placed a spell on Vanderhelm that prevented any nasty surprises Vanderhelm had left from becoming active. The spell lasted until Lucius himself died of natural causes, after which it became possible for the duplicate he'd created to be brought to life.
* OhCrap: Mild version when Henry Vanderhelm shows up right as the mayor, Mr. Paulson (owner of ''The New Zebedee Chronicle'') and a few other adults are discussing performing the opera ''The Day of Doom''. Mr. Paulson reacts with an "Uh-oh" and "There goes our bright idea" when he hears the new arrival's name, thinking that Mr. Vanderhelm owns the rights to the opera and will oppose them wishing to perform it. Vanderhelm assures them, however, that he would be happy to help them stage a performance.
* DreadfulMusician:
** Played for laughs early on -- Rose Rita hears a terrible sound, which Lewis suddenly recognizes as Jailbird, the librarian Mrs. Greer's cat, and explains that the previous spring, Jonathan had cast a spell on him just for fun that allowed the cat to whistle. He sounds ''terrible'' though, which Lewis says is because, according to Jonathan, cats "don't have much of a sense of pitch".
** Late in the book, when facing Henry Vanderhelm, Lewis and Rose Rita call ''both'' Vanderhelms this, insulting their musical talents (calling the modern Vanderhelm "flat" and "so far off-key, you couldn't find it with both hands") as a way of distracting him as he's conducting, allowing Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmermann and Mrs. Jaeger to cast the spell that defeats Vanderhelm once and for all.
* FogOfDoom:
* {{Golem}}: Henry Vanderhelm, the lead villain of the book, is actually a simulacrum of the late Immanuel Vanderhelm, made of sheet music and animated by the original Vanderhelm's "insane wish to become King of the Dead", as Jonathan puts it.
* NoOntologicalInertia: It's explained in the final chapter that years ago, after Lucius Mickleberry defeated Immanuel Vanderhelm in a magical duel, he placed a spell on Vanderhelm that prevented any nasty surprises Vanderhelm had left from becoming active. The spell lasted until Lucius himself died of natural causes, after which it became possible for the duplicate he'd created to be brought to life.
* OhCrap: Mild version when Henry Vanderhelm shows up right as the mayor, Mr. Paulson (owner of ''The New Zebedee Chronicle'') and a few other adults are discussing performing the opera ''The Day of Doom''. Mr. Paulson reacts with an "Uh-oh" and "There goes our bright idea" when he hears the new arrival's name, thinking that Mr. Vanderhelm owns the rights to the opera and will oppose them wishing to perform it. Vanderhelm assures them, however, that he would be happy to help them stage a performance.
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* AmoralAttorney: Played with -- Mephistopheles P. Moote is unquestionably evil, wanting to bring the Great Old Ones back to rule Earth (and to become one of them while he's at it), but there's no direct evidence that he ever acted this way when actually practicing law (having retired by the time of ''The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge'').
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* AmoralAttorney: Played with -- Mephistopheles P. Moote is unquestionably evil, wanting to bring the Great Old Ones back to rule Earth (and to become one of them while he's at it), but there's no direct evidence that he ever acted this way when actually practicing law (having retired by the time of ''The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge'').this book).
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* MeaningfulName: Gnomon Island'. [[spoiler:Ishmael turned the top of the island into a gigantic sundial to use in his spell to end and recreate the world, and "Gnomon" is the name for the projecting piece at the center of a sundial, which shows the time by the position of its shadow.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Gnomon Island'.Island. [[spoiler:Ishmael turned the top of the island into a gigantic sundial to use in his spell to end and recreate the world, and "Gnomon" is the name for the projecting piece at the center of a sundial, which shows the time by the position of its shadow.]]
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** The fluttering scrap of paper from the same book may be a Shout Out to "Casting the Runes," also by James (but perhaps better known as ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'').
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** The fluttering scrap of paper from the same book may be a Shout Out to "Casting the Runes," Runes", also by James (but perhaps better known as ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'').
