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Plot Summary of Richmondtown
"Roy Hart, a 38-yr.-old ex-Manhattan professional assistant seeks some R&R from the city and decides to let a small apartment in Richmondtown on NYC's Staten Island. But he soon begins noticing unusual phenomenon there: ghost-like inhabitiants, strange green lights in the sky and Bigfoot creatures in the forestlands. On top of this, the sleepy hamlet begins having problems with vandals at night, who are eventually becoming sickly, murderous zombies. It is then learned that the city's water supply has become contaminated and is probably the source of the zombies. An "official" branch of the U.S. gov./intel come in to manage the situation, blockade and quarrantine the town and to deal with the last of the survivors... "
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 40%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%




Tone of book - depressing/sad
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Horror story? Yes
Horror plotlets - the zombie chased me!

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - unemployed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Retarded
Physique - physically sick

Setting
Terrain - Forests
Earth setting: - general past
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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