James Herbert/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Several notable ones; Dr Leonard K Wisbeech (Others), Nell Quick (Once...), Sir Max Hubble ( '48), Alexandria Moker (Nobody True), and Boris Pryslck (The Dark).
 * Designated Hero: Joe Creed of Creed. Lampshaded by the narrator occasionally referring to him as "our hero" in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: So, so many to list. Domain in particular, is pretty much nothing but High Octane Nightmare Rocket Fuel without any respite for either the characters or the reader.
 * Nausea Fuel/ Squick: Herbert is very, very good at invoking this reaction in the reader.
 * The Woobie: Several. Fluke is one, and so are most of the horribly deformed "patients" of Dr Leonard K Wisbeech that Nick Dismas encounters in Others.
 * Iron Woobie: Nick Dismas, the protagonist of Others.  you'd have to have a heart of stone to hear his life story and not feel sorry for him.