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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLLHTdVSgU&t=413s&ab_channel=Trickpiraten This]] AnimatedAdaptation makes the story DenserAndWackier, where the harrowing events that unfold are over the top and played for BlackComedy, similar to cartoons like WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy and WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog.
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* NightmareFuel: Imagine being watched every night as you sleep by a paranoid lunatic plotting to kill you because of a deformity you were born with. Now imagine waking up and ''knowing'' that someone is in the room with you but [[NothingIsScarier you don't know where they are]].

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* NightmareFuel: ParanoiaFuel: Imagine being watched every night as you sleep by a paranoid lunatic plotting to kill you because of a deformity you were born with. Now imagine waking up and ''knowing'' that someone is in the room with you but [[NothingIsScarier you don't know where they are]].
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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, and can't stand it any longer, is he actually insane and having auditory hallucinations, or is he a raging narcissist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.

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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, crime and can't stand it any longer, is he actually insane and having auditory hallucinations, or is he a raging narcissist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.is?
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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, and can't stand it any longer, or is he a raging narcissist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.

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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, and can't stand it any longer, is he actually insane and having auditory hallucinations, or is he a raging narcissist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.
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* ItWasHisSled: The narrator loses it and reveals he killed the old man to the police by tearing apart the floorboards he buried him under.

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* ItWasHisSled: The narrator loses it and reveals he they killed the old man to the police by tearing apart the floorboards he they buried him under.

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* JerkassWoobie: The narrator murders an innocent elderly man out of the most petty reason possible, but it's made increasingly clear throughout the story that they are completely and utterly insane and have no rational control over their actions.



* TheWoobie: The Old Man. He allowed the protagonist to live with him out of the goodness of his heart, and paid the ultimate price all because of a deformity he had no control over.

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* TheWoobie: The Old Man. He allowed the protagonist to live with him out of the goodness of his heart, heart (possibly him even being a relative), and paid the ultimate price all because of a deformity he had no control over.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What is the protagonist's relationship with the Old Man? Is the Old Man their father? Their grandfather? Some other older relative? Their employer? Simply a kind old man who let them stay at his house?
** The hosts of the The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast point out how unlikely it would be for police to just be chatting amiably while the protagonist goes mad in front of them, making the narrator less reliable than ever.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
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What is the protagonist's relationship with the Old Man? Is the Old Man their father? Their grandfather? Some other older relative? Their employer? Simply a kind old man who let them stay at his house?
** The hosts of the The ''The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Podcast'' point out how unlikely it would be for police to just be chatting amiably while the protagonist goes mad in front of them, making the narrator already UnreliableNarrator less reliable than ever.
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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, and can't stand it any longer, or is he a raging narcisist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.

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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, and can't stand it any longer, or is he a raging narcisist narcissist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.
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** Why does the protagonist hear the sound of the old man's heartbeat? Is he wracked by guilt for his heinous crime, and can't stand it any longer, or is he a raging narcisist who's committed the perfect crime and can't stand having no one know how clever he is.
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** The hosts of the The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast point out how unlikely it would be for police to just be chatting amiably while the protagonist goes mad in front of them, making the narrator less reliable than ever.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What is the protagonist's relationship with the Old Man? Is the Old Man their father? Their grandfather? Some other older relative? Simply a kind old man who let them stay at his house?

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What is the protagonist's relationship with the Old Man? Is the Old Man their father? Their grandfather? Some other older relative? Their employer? Simply a kind old man who let them stay at his house?
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* NightmareFuel: See AnimatedAdaptation

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* NightmareFuel: See AnimatedAdaptationImagine being watched every night as you sleep by a paranoid lunatic plotting to kill you because of a deformity you were born with. Now imagine waking up and ''knowing'' that someone is in the room with you but [[NothingIsScarier you don't know where they are]].
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What is the protagonist's relationship with the Old Man? Is the Old Man their father? Their grandfather? Some other older relative? Simply a kind old man who let them stay at his house?
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* NightmareFuel: See AnimatedAdaptation

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* NightmareFuel: See AnimatedAdaptationAnimatedAdaptation
* TheWoobie: The Old Man. He allowed the protagonist to live with him out of the goodness of his heart, and paid the ultimate price all because of a deformity he had no control over.
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* ItWasHisSled: The narrator loses it and reveals he killed the old man to the police by tearing apart the floorboards he buried him under.

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* ItWasHisSled: The narrator loses it and reveals he killed the old man to the police by tearing apart the floorboards he buried him under.under.
* NightmareFuel: See AnimatedAdaptation
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* ItWasHisSled: The narrator loses it and reveals he killed the old man to the police by tearing apart the floorboards he buried him under.

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