Ghost Story (Literature) - TV Tropes. Warning! All spoilers for previous books are unmarked on this page! Ghost Story is book #1. The Dresden Files. After Harry's sudden death at the end of the previous book, he finds himself in the afterlife.
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Or a sort of waiting room of the afterlife. There, he meets Captain Collin .
One of those things Harry can help with, if he is willing to return to Earth as a ghost. It will be dangerous, though, and there will be no second chances.
Ghost Story provides examples of the following tropes: Abnormal Ammo: Sir Stuart uses a large gun to blast a wraith to oblivion. Harry finds out that, much like. Ghost Story By: Sting All Images From www.deviantart.com Arrnaged By: Sonia E. Ghost Story I watch the western sky The sun is sinking The geese are flying south It sets me thinking I did not miss you much I did not suffer. Ghost Story – Jim Butcher’s latest Dresden Files novel was pushed back from April to July. His explanation was that he wanted to give his fans the story they.
Oh, and if he fails, three people close to him will die. Ghost Story is book #1. The Dresden Files. Now has its own shout out page. Abnormal Ammo: Sir Stuart uses a large gun to blast a wraith to oblivion.
Harry finds out that, much like everything else a ghost can do, it is powered by memory. Stuart makes a great effort to recover that energy each time it is used. However, if Harry does not recover that energy he himself will eventually dissipate since, as a ghost, Harry is made of nothing ELSE but memory. Harry, being Harry, realizes this just a bit too late. Afterlife Express: Right at the start of the book, Harry narrowly misses the . When the Corpsetaker is destroyed by her own wraiths, her screams are drowned out by the sound of the same train.
All Love Is Unrequited: Harry finally realises that Molly's feelings for him go beyond a mere crush. He also feels sorry that he cannot reciprocate them. Alone in a Crowd: Harry suffers this more than once as he cannot be heard or seen except by maybe a dozen people in all of Chicago at the moment. He walks down a busy street and cannot even strike up a conversation with a person passing by or flip the bird at a bad driver. He fears for what might become of his mind if he must endure this a year or even ten years. And the Adventure Continues: In payment for all his years serving as Mortimer's protector, Uriel recovers a damaged Sir Stuart and offers him a new job among his forces.
Seeing how much his descendent has grown, Sir Stuart decides to take his leave and accepts the position of working for an Archangel. Back from the Dead: Thanks to Mab, Demonreach, Uriel, and the efforts of a certain . More or less happens to Butters too, when Corpsetaker boots him out of his body and he's stuck in ghostly form until Mort restores him to his body again. Kemmler gets a mention when Harry recalls it took the White Council seven times to make sure he stayed dead. Badass Boast: When Daniel is facing off against Aristides blade- to- blade, he sarcastically asks Aristides where he got his knife from. After the other replies that he got it 'from the last fool to try a blade against .
I'll give you this one. Badass Normal: Daniel Carpenter takes after both of his parents in the badass department, knife fighting with a supernaturally fast warlock. Balance Between Good and Evil: Archangel Uriel reveals to Harry that he was unduly influenced by a Fallen saying a lie with seven words that led him to wanting to die after becoming the Winter Knight. To balance things out in the end, Uriel is able to give Harry seven corresponding words of Pure Truth to help him see through Mab's manipulations. Barred from the Afterlife: Harry cannot get on a path to What- Comes- Next without solving his murder first. He can, however, get onto the Hell Express.
Batman Gambit: Uriel and Captain Jack play a mean game. Harry is needed and they ensure he will end up in the right place at the right time to help save his friends all because Captain Jack lied to Harry, with or without Uriel's knowledge is not clear. It worked out as Karrin is able to move on emotionally from her current rut, Molly is finally grieving over her actions in helping Harry commit suicide, Morty has become a stronger and better man, Chicago is free from some of its worst malevolent shades, and Corpsetaker is on her way to hell.
And while Harry is still the Winter Knight, Uriel's final act of Seven Words of Absolute Truth assures him he is not as screwed as he once thought. Battle in the Center of the Mind: Molly engages Corpsetaker in a mental battle in order to rescue Waldo Butters, whose body Corpsetaker has stolen. Then Corpsetaker tried to steal Molly's body in turn and was almost successful. The battle itself is represented as an actual battlefield, with Molly waging her end of things from a mental copy of the bridge of the Enterprise.
Molly plays a scorched earth policy to delay Corpsetaker, and almost suicides to prevent Corpsetaker from winning — until Harry convinces her to call for help, at which point Mort hits Corpsetaker point- blank with a swarm of very pissed- off spirits. Beard of Sorrow: At the very end we find out that Thomas has one as well because of Harry's death in Changes. Bequeathed Power: Harry witnesses Sir Stuart throw his pistol over a binding ring of fire to him. The only way this could be allowed is if the power was no longer Stuart's, to which Harry equates him having to amputate part of himself. At first Harry thinks he just got a powerful gun with one shot to it, but later comes to realize it is more than that. It is a symbol of power and authority over the protector spirits and the Lecter Specters. Once this happens, Stuart crosses over but now a weakened shade like the other protector spirits.
Beware the Nice Ones: Harry once again notes Uriel is the quietest and least known of the Archangels. To Harry, this makes him the most dangerous of the lot. Big Damn Heroes: Mortimer Lindquist and his wraiths are this for Molly.
Bittersweet Ending: Things in the world are better than when the book started. Molly is still mentally damaged. Murphy is still hurting.
Harry is alive but still Mab's Winter Knight. The Fomor are still out there and causing hell in the world. All that said, Molly, with her secret known to Harry, can start moving onto the long road of healing. Karrin can properly grieve what happened to Harry. Thomas will soon come out of his slump.
Maggie is safe and in good care. And lastly, seven words from Uriel helps Harry know that Mab may be his Master but she doesn't own him. She cannot turn him into something against his will and Harry informs Mab of this right when he wakes up. Bothering by the Book: Harry threatens to do this to Queen Mab if he even suspects that she has messed with his mind in any way.
He will follow the orders exactly, showing zero initiative, forcing the person to manage every detail of his missions. Brainwashed and Crazy: Aristides used subtle mind magic to convince his crew of children to do crazy things, like firing into the house of Karrin Murphy. Break the Cutie: Molly. Her overt madness is a Batman Gambit to scare away some of the nastier critters lurking around Chicago, but helping Harry arrange his own murder and then being as sensitive as she is at the battle of Chichen Itza — and close proximity to the spell that wiped out the Red Court — seriously hurt her, which is not being helped by Lea's . Harry mentions it's the accent Butters was using when GMing some villains.
Broken Bird: Molly. See Break the Cutie for details. The Bus Came Back: Ron Carmichael, last seen in Fool Moon, appears as a being working for Uriel helping fight the dark things Uriel fights. Call Back: Upon recognizing the first person he met was Ron Carmichael, Harry briefly thinks back to when he last saw him dying to fight a loup- garou to protect Murphy ten years ago. Harry has Fitz knock on the wall of Father Forthill's office, in the exact spot where he'd learned Forthill keeps documents of a secret priestly order he belongs to in the short story . Also with Forthill, he recalls Harry's fight with The Nightmare/Leonid Kravos in Grave Peril when Harry stayed inside the church for sanctuary. Forthill then notes he had presumed any ghost should be prevented from entering the holy ground and wonders what makes Harry different.
Similarly, when Murphy and crew are trying to determine if Harry is really Harry, most of the plots of the previous books are mentioned. When Molly uses a sleep spell on some mind- addled minions of the big bad, Harry notes to Murphy it's not too different from what he used on her like in Grave Peril. Harry doesn't tell Murphy that the spell Harry used took ten minutes of hard concentration to not break anything in Murphy.
Molly did it to multiple targets with more softness than Harry ever could in seconds. Call on Me: When fighting Corpsetaker in her mind, Molly is planning to destroy her own mind rather than it be taken over and used to harm her friends and loved ones. Before that can happen, Harry suggests this trope and has his ally send a message to Mort. He hears it and comes to the rescue vanquishing Corpsetaker's shade with the very horde of wraiths she used to torture him. Cast from Hit Points: It is revealed that just about every ability a ghost can have (other than simply existing and traveling) is fueled by memory.
Ghosts are composed of the memories of the person they were before. Use up all the memories and it is bye- bye. Harry comes dangerously close to this without realizing it. Character Development: Mort has always been the sort to run from Dresden and his problems, but Sir Stuart notes that Dresden has always had a positive effect on him, getting him to turn around his talents from a charlatan who could only speak with Sir Stuart, to what he is now: a guardian of many fettered spirits and the insane and homicidal shades that haunt Chicago. He found the courage and strength to reach Molly in time to save her from a fate worse than death.
He has grown so much, Sir Stuart believes he can finally move on to the next stage of his existence and help Uriel for a time. Chekhov's Gun: Similar to Small Favor, this book conspicuously lacks any mention of Thomas Raith until the end, when Harry reasons he must have subconsciously blocked himself from thinking about his brother to avoid the shame he would feel thinking about how much pain he caused must have caused him with his suicide.
Harry's first question to Lea with their deal, .