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Stephen King has a “bolt upright” boner. Haven’t read him in years, though, so hopefully it wore off.

Couldn’t agree more. I finally got around to reading this last year and it completely floored me.

The Eagleheart series by C.T. Westcott, published in the mid to late '80s. Read them as a teenager and loved them, really funny sci-fi saga. Super hard to find now but I tracked them down a few years ago and re-read them. Laughed my arse off and felt like a kid again, even though the writing isn’t something I’d be interested in nowadays.

Someone hearing screaming and then realising it’s coming from themselves.

I guess it’s not really a trope, but dreams really burn my shit. They’re almost always a lazy excuse to convey something about a character that the author should have been able to do without resorting to cheap symbolism.