Autopsy Room Four (short story)
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"Autopsy Room Four" is a darkly comic horror short story by Stephen King about a man who wakes up paralyzed on an autopsy table, fully conscious as doctors prepare to dissect him.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
dark comedy work
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horror fiction work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
consciousness and paralysis
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fear of being buried or dissected alive ⓘ medical error ⓘ |
| conflictType |
man vs. body
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man vs. institution ⓘ |
| containsElement |
gallows humor
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irony ⓘ medical horror ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creatorOccupation | novelist Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
hospital staff
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medical examiner ⓘ pathologist ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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horror ⓘ suspense ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| intendedEffect | evoke fear and nervous laughter ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | short ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary horror fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
conversational prose
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internal monologue-driven ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Howard Cottrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| motif |
clinical detachment of medical staff
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misdiagnosis of death ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice |
limited internal monologue
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trapped conscious body ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Stephen King short fiction corpus ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man wakes up paralyzed on an autopsy table, fully conscious as doctors prepare to dissect him. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Howard Cottrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
autopsy room
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hospital ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
autopsy procedures
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misperception of death ⓘ paralysis ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| temporalSetting | contemporary period ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
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suspenseful ⓘ |
| usesHorrorTrope |
apparent death
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premature autopsy ⓘ |
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
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