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Full Dark, No Stars

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83 feature instances
8 referencing feature instances

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Full Dark, No Stars	label	Full Dark, No Stars
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Full Dark, No Stars	comment	Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King that all deal with the themes of vengeance and retribution.As of 2020, three of them have been adapted into tv movies: 1922 (in 2017, starring Thomas Jane); Big Driver (in 2014, starring Maria Bello), and A Good Marriage (2014, starring Joan Allen and Anthony LaPaglia).
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_10cb9a31	type	Axes at School
Full Dark, No Stars / int_10cb9a31	comment	Axes at School: Bob planned a school shooting when he was younger with his friend Brian Delahanty, several decades before Columbine.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Full Dark, No Stars / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: 74 year old Holt Ramsey has a reputation for solving difficult crimes with his hunches, is the one cop who came close to catching Beadie, and visits Darcy to confirm his suspicions. He retires to Florida to enjoy his last few months after the story.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Full Dark, No Stars / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Probably one of King's bleakest works. It starts off grim and only gets worse (King even discusses this in his afterword, rather ruefully noting that all the stories in the collection are incredibly bleak).
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
Full Dark, No Stars / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: Bob enjoys biting his victims.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Full Dark, No Stars / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Perhaps, given some hints that portions of the narrative could be Through the Eyes of Madness.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_18729bf8	type	Swarm of Rats
Full Dark, No Stars / int_18729bf8	comment	Swarm of Rats: And how.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Full Dark, No Stars / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: The actual reason for Dave Streeter's hatred toward Tom Goodhugh.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Full Dark, No Stars / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Everything that can go wrong does.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Full Dark, No Stars / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Full Dark, No Stars / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Bob is a doting husband and a pillar of the community. He's also the serial killer known as Beadie.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
Full Dark, No Stars / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Darcy discovers that her husband has a collection of extremely dark sadomasochistic magazines. And then it gets worse.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Full Dark, No Stars / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Dave Streeter enjoys watching the horrible things that happen to Tom Goodhugh's family, delighting in Tom's suffering while telling him it will get better. Meanwhile, Dave becomes more and more prosperous and happy. At the end of the story, looking at Venus, he makes a wish - for more.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_329cce08	type	Significant Monogram
Full Dark, No Stars / int_329cce08	comment	Significant Monogram: Bob's serial killer alias 'Beadie' was derived from his childhood friend Brian Delahanty's initials. Bob believes that Brian 'infected' him.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Full Dark, No Stars / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: Arlette is dumped in a well.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Full Dark, No Stars / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Full Dark, No Stars / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: When Darcy discovers Bob's secret, he often acts like a teenager with severe personality issues.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Full Dark, No Stars / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Darcy gets Bob drunk, then pushes him down the stairs so it looks like a drunken fall. After ringing for an ambulance as a delay would look suspicious, she smothers him.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Full Dark, No Stars / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Bob is dead, ending his murder spree for good. Holt Ramsey becomes convinced of Darcy's innocence and agrees to leave her alone, and Darcy seems mostly at peace with killing Bob and being a widow. However, the families of Beadie's victims will never get the full closure of knowing that their loved one's murderer is dead; Bob's children and friends mourn him as a loving father and respected member of the community, and will never know the truth; and Darcy will always wonder if she could have stopped him sooner.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Full Dark, No Stars / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Wilfred's son gets the neighbor's daughter pregnant. It doesn't go well. For anyone. Arlette implies that Henry himself (and thus her unhappy marriage to Wilfred) is the result of this.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Full Dark, No Stars / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: While Bob usually just killed women, he also at one point killed one of their children. He later tells his wife that it was an accident, saying that he had to do it once the child witnessed him murdering his mother. Although that's put into doubt when it's revealed that he had bitten off the boy's penis.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Full Dark, No Stars / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: Brad is keeping everybody in the dark about what happened to Ellen, and is most of all fooling himself.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Full Dark, No Stars / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Par for the course with a Stephen King story.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Full Dark, No Stars / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Of the darkest sort.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_4ab35cdc	type	Dead TV Remote Gag
Full Dark, No Stars / int_4ab35cdc	comment	Dead TV Remote Gag: When Darcy's looking for batteries for hers, she finds a lot more than she intended...
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Full Dark, No Stars / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Bob believed that he was so careful and smart that the police were nowhere near catching him, but Holt Ramsey's hunch might have led to an arrest eventually.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
Full Dark, No Stars / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: The one of the major points of the story is how loved ones can hide secrets. The fury on Bob's face strips the mask away further, showing that he never loved Darcy.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Full Dark, No Stars / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Tom Goodhugh steals Dave Streeter's girlfriend and gets rich off of an idea that Dave helped him implement...and Dave decides to get revenge by more or less making a Deal with the Devil to cause a massive Trauma Conga Line in Tom's life while Dave's life improves immensely and takes great pleasure in his best friend's suffering.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Full Dark, No Stars / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Bob is prepared to the point of paranoia, which is why he lasted decades without being caught. He always places his box of trophies in exactly the same place, and uses a sliver of almost invisible tape to see if its been opened.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Full Dark, No Stars / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: George Elvid is generally quite friendly, but he displays flashes of anger and impatience when Dave annoys him.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Full Dark, No Stars / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	The manuscript Wilfred writes concludes as he is attacked by the rats that have followed him and proceed to bite and tear at his body before he can finish himself off. When the police investigate his room later on, they find Wilfred dead of apparently self-inflicted bite wounds, suggesting a Through the Eyes of Madness account.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Full Dark, No Stars / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bob is a vicious serial killer, but he was nothing but nice to his wife and children. The look in his eye before Darcy pushes him implies that even this love is faked though.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Full Dark, No Stars / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Aside from Darcy's discovery that Bob is Beadie, two later moments greatly undermine most of what Bob says to Darcy in his confession: his look of hate after she tries to kill him, and Holt revealing that BD bit off his boy victim's penis.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Full Dark, No Stars / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Almost. After his life goes to shit, Tom tells Dave that if he could kill himself and make it look like an accident, he would. Dave, delighting in Tom's suffering, tells him it will get better. (It won't.)
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Full Dark, No Stars / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Tom Goodhugh's life after Dave's deal.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Full Dark, No Stars / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: Downplayed; Bob was a normal, loving husband, but he kept trophies from his days as Beadie, was still sending taunting letters to the authorities about his crimes, and his true, evil nature was always simmering just below the surface the whole time. When Darcy discovers his secret, he begins to backslide into his original personality.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Full Dark, No Stars / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Bob Anderson, a.k.a Beadie.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Full Dark, No Stars / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Henry was on the way to becoming this.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Full Dark, No Stars / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Oh yes.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
Full Dark, No Stars / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: George Elvid. Dave realizes this early on.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
Full Dark, No Stars / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: Henry and Shannon become this.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_80a7d3e2	type	Convicted by Public Opinion
Full Dark, No Stars / int_80a7d3e2	comment	Convicted by Public Opinion: A major reason Darcy is reluctant to go to the police: everyone would presume she knew about the murders.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Full Dark, No Stars / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: By the end of the story Streeter has become one.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_8a986cc7	type	The Great Depression
Full Dark, No Stars / int_8a986cc7	comment	The Great Depression: Wilfred states that for the farmers it started in 1923.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Full Dark, No Stars / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Wilfred thinks he has the plan to murder his wife and dispose of her all thought out, but when things start to go wrong he realizes how many factors he didn't take into account and how half-assed his plan actually was.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Full Dark, No Stars / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Played with. Dave sees Tom Goodhugh as one (he stole Dave's girlfriend, got rich off an idea that Dave helped implement, etc), but the reader never actually sees Tom acting like an asshole. Dave is something of an Unreliable Narrator, and tends to spin all of Tom's courtesy and friendliness as smarmy douchebaggery.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Full Dark, No Stars / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Bob dies a horrific death, smothered after having his neck, arms and back broken.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Full Dark, No Stars / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Bob is rather charming and a pillar of the community but is secretly a revolting Serial Killer who enjoys killing people.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Full Dark, No Stars / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Tess
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Full Dark, No Stars / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In a flashback we learn that, while they were on a plane to The Bahamas, Brad thought for a moment that Ellen had died while in fact she was just sleeping. When he told her about this later, he promised he would never accept her death, but just use his imagination to keep her alive. By the end of the story, we find out that Ellen has died and Brad is doing exactly what he promised.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Full Dark, No Stars / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Tess initially has one of these after accidentally killing her rapist's brother and believing him to be innocent. It turns out he was in on it with his brother, so she stops feeling guilty.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Full Dark, No Stars / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Betsy Neal's stepfather would hold a butterknife to her face while raping her. The knife slipped.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
Full Dark, No Stars / int_a6ff7243	comment	Hates Being Touched: Betsy Neal, likely due to her past sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Full Dark, No Stars / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Dave Streeter is cured of his cancer and lives a happy life. He ends the story wishing for more.
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Brad just canâ€™t accept that his wife has died at least a week prior to the start of the story. He keeps her corpse in their apartment, and goes out of his way to convince himself that she is just sleeping a lot because she has a bout of bronchitis, and that the foul smell everybody complains about (and which he pretends not to notice) must be from a dead rat in the neighboring apartment
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Full Dark, No Stars / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic / Protagonist-Centered Morality: Wilfred uses this to explain how murdering someone is an act of good. To elaborate, they're murdering the wife because, in his eyes, she's a terrible person and a sinner. Thus, by killing her before she can redeem herself, it gets her into Heaven automatically because she was never given the chance.
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