Caught on Tape: How Susan figures out Ahriman's the one who keeps breaking into her apartment and raping her without her knowledge-and how he does it.

To the point of literally trolling the reviews of his books on. The entire reason Ahriman set out to destroy him, Martie, and Skeet was because the stepfather had been trying to academically humiliate him for years.

Calling the Old Man Out: Dusty eventually does this with his mother and stepfather.

Dusty accuses their mother of intentionally killing her because of her condition.

Bury Your Disabled: Dusty's older sister Dominique, who had Down Syndrome, was officially a crib death.

Bulletproof Vest: Skeet and Fig are smart enough to put these on before they go Ahriman-hunting.

Brainwashed and Crazy: Most of Ahriman's patients, not just the ones we see.

He's wrong, fortunately for them and unfortunately for him.

Book Dumb: Ahriman makes the mistake of thinking Martie and Dusty are this, because she's a game designer and he's a house painter.

Averted with Dusty, Martie, and Susan, who are all genuinely good people. Likewise with Claudette, an utterly heartless knockout. He's handsome and most definitely beyond a bastard.

Author Tract: Koontz has a low opinion of the field of psychology and in psychiatric therapy in particular.

Averted, however, in that the child was brainwashed into making the tape and that neither he nor his partner would ever dream of hurting a child. Closterman fears his homosexuality would lead to this trope being put into play. Closterman is blackmailed with a tape of a child claiming to have been sexually abused by him, and Dr. Skeet even refuses to call his mother anything other than her first name.

Abusive Parents: Dusty and Skeet's are pretty damn terrible.

Their good doctor, they discover, is not what he seems….

The whole situation seems weird, almost supernatural, but the truth is even weirder and a good deal more twisted. Dusty himself has been experiencing odd bits of Missing Time, and his brother Skeet has recently tried to commit a rather bizarre suicide. She grabs everything that could conceivably be turned in to a weapon out of her house and throws it away in a complete frenzy, and is taken by her concerned husband, Dusty, to see the psychiatrist currently treating her best friend for agoraphobia. Martie Rhodes is a successful, Happily Married video game designer, who one day abruptly becomes terrified of her own reflection, and then of herself.

False Memory is a 1999 novel by author Dean Koontz.

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