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Alas, Poor Villain: Håkan might be the only time in history where you could cry for the death of a serial-killing pedophile, holding a sobbing Eli in his arms and letting her feed on him before falling out the hospital window to his death.He starts bugging him about it seemingly out of nowhere in a public library, with Håkan blatantly pretending to ignore him at first. The Aggressive Drug Dealer: The pimp who offers Håkan a child prostitute early on in the story.Acrofatic: Despite the fact that Oskar is described as being chubby several times hes athletic enough to perform a flip off the swings of the jungle gym that impressed Elia.Eli is so distracted by the sheer absurdity of what he's seeing that he doesn't have time to react when Håkan abruptly smashes him across the head and enters the room uninvited. Eli bursts out laughing when Håkan, now a mangled, feral, undead monstrosity, begins furiously masturbating at the sight of him.

Actually Pretty Funny: Played for Drama near the end of the novel.

For tropes from the English-language remake, see Let Me In. Although it has few outright scares, it can be a deeply disturbing novel, as the main characters' relationship invokes both young love and a temptation into darkness.įor tropes on the Swedish film, see Let the Right One In. Let The Right One In is most notable for being simultaneously heartwarming and horrifying. It's a love story mixed into a horror story with plenty of blood to flow from there. As Oskar befriends Eli, the truth starts to come out. Meanwhile said "dad" Håkan is revealed to be out murdering people to drain their blood for some reason. However, Eli isn't affected by the cold and weirdly isn't sighted in the daytime.

One night, he meets Eli, a girl who just moved in next door with her dad. It's the story of Oskar, a 12-year-old boy who is being bullied at school.

Låt den rätte komma in ( Let The Right One In) is a 2004 horror novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist.