Crouch End (short story)

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"Crouch End" is a horror short story by Stephen King that blends cosmic terror and urban unease as a couple becomes lost in a sinister, otherworldly version of a London neighborhood.

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instanceOf horror fiction work
short story
adaptedAs television episode
author Stephen King
centralTheme cosmic indifference
disappearance
loss of reality
urban unease
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPublicationType anthology
firstPublicationYear 1980
firstPublishedIn New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED
genre cosmic horror
horror
weird fiction
hasFictionalLocation otherworldly Crouch End
hasTone claustrophobic
ominous
surreal
inspiredBy Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED
H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED
language English
laterCollectionPublicationYear 1993
laterIncludedIn Nightmares & Dreamscapes NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod late 20th-century American horror
mainCharacters Detective Farnham NERFINISHED
Detective Vetter NERFINISHED
Doris Freeman NERFINISHED
Lonnie Freeman NERFINISHED
motif distorted geography
otherworldly dimensions
unreliable perception
narrativePerspective third-person narration
partOfSeries Cthulhu Mythos-related works by Stephen King
publisherOfFirstPublication Arkham House NERFINISHED
relatedWorkByAuthor Jerusalem’s Lot NERFINISHED
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The Mist NERFINISHED
setting Crouch End, London, England NERFINISHED
alternate reality version of Crouch End
targetAudience adult readers
televisionAdaptationFirstAirYear 2006
televisionAdaptationFormat anthology series episode
televisionAdaptationNetwork TNT NERFINISHED
televisionAdaptationSeries Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King NERFINISHED

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