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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crouch End (short story) canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Crouch End (short story) Context triple: [Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, basedOnWork, Crouch End (short story)]
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Ward of Cornhill
The Ward of Cornhill is one of the historic administrative and electoral divisions of the City of London, centered on the traditional commercial area around Cornhill.
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L’Affaire de Camden Town
L’Affaire de Camden Town is one of Walter Sickert’s Camden Town Murder paintings, depicting a tense, ambiguous domestic scene that reflects early 20th-century anxieties about crime, sexuality, and urban life.
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C.
The Long Walk to Finchley
The Long Walk to Finchley is a 2008 British television drama film that follows Margaret Thatcher’s early political career, with Andrea Riseborough portraying the future prime minister.
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Paternoster Row
Paternoster Row was a historic London street that served as the center of the English book trade and publishing industry until its destruction in the Blitz during World War II.
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E.
Number Three, Bagshot Row
Number Three, Bagshot Row is the hobbit-hole in Hobbiton that serves as the home of the Gamgee family in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Crouch End (short story) Target entity description: "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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A.
Ward of Cornhill
The Ward of Cornhill is one of the historic administrative and electoral divisions of the City of London, centered on the traditional commercial area around Cornhill.
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B.
L’Affaire de Camden Town
L’Affaire de Camden Town is one of Walter Sickert’s Camden Town Murder paintings, depicting a tense, ambiguous domestic scene that reflects early 20th-century anxieties about crime, sexuality, and urban life.
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C.
The Long Walk to Finchley
The Long Walk to Finchley is a 2008 British television drama film that follows Margaret Thatcher’s early political career, with Andrea Riseborough portraying the future prime minister.
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D.
Paternoster Row
Paternoster Row was a historic London street that served as the center of the English book trade and publishing industry until its destruction in the Blitz during World War II.
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E.
Number Three, Bagshot Row
Number Three, Bagshot Row is the hobbit-hole in Hobbiton that serves as the home of the Gamgee family in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction work
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short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | television episode ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cosmic indifference
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disappearance ⓘ loss of reality ⓘ urban unease ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationType | anthology ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
cosmic horror
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horror ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalLocation | otherworldly Crouch End ⓘ |
| hasTone |
claustrophobic
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ominous ⓘ surreal ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Cthulhu Mythos
NERFINISHED
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H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterCollectionPublicationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| laterIncludedIn | Nightmares & Dreamscapes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century American horror ⓘ |
| mainCharacters |
Detective Farnham
NERFINISHED
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Detective Vetter NERFINISHED ⓘ Doris Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Lonnie Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motif |
distorted geography
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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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N ⓘ The Mist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Crouch End, London, England
NERFINISHED
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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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