, and then deathly silence

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No one lives for very long in the houses they buy from Mr Vane. Neighbours complain of noises that chill the blood, and then deathly silence. Maybe the occupants have moved away. But then maybe they haven't... John has just joined Mr Vane's estate agency. He thinks houses are for living in happily-ever-after. He has no idea about the hidden forces inside Mr Vane's properties, nor about their strange appetites. But he's about to find out...

I think "there comes" is missing after ", and."
If so, I'd like to know why "there comes" is missing.
Thank you in advance for your help.

Deadrat · Accepted Answer

"The neighbors complain about scary noises and after the complaints make the nosies stop, then there is a deathly silence."

This is a work of fiction, a book in the horror genre called House of Bones by Graham Masterton. In fiction, the author employs words to make an effect. If noises bother you at home, say from inconsiderate neighbors, and your complaints lead to quiet, then you're happy to go on about your domestic life no longer disturbed. In this tale, when the complaints work, the silence is worse than the noise: the noises are chilling, but the silence is deathly. Masterton wants the silence to be shocking, and to achieve that effect, he makes the reader run into the words "deathly silence" immediately after the noises stop at the word "then," even before the reader knows what "then" means. But they know two words later.

Park sang joon · Answer

Thank you, deadrat, for your yet another kind answer.

I'd like to know if you agree with me about a subject and verb being omitted.

If noises bother you at home, say from inconsiderate neighbors, and your complaints lead to quiet, then you're happy to go on about your domestic life no longer disturbed.

I did't understand what "say from inconsiderate neighbors" meant.

Deadrat · Answer

This is a rhetorical device known as an aside. It means "If noises bother you at home (and as an example, let us say that the noises come from inconsiderate neighbors), and ...." I wanted to contrast the normal case of bothersome noise with the supernatural case of Masterton's noises. To do that, I gave an everyday example, bad neighbors.

An aside is not closely connected grammatically to the rest of the sentence.

Park sang joon · Answer

Thank you very much, deadrat, for your continuing to answer.

I can't find the usage of "say from" on Internet.
Please, give me several examples.

Fivejedjon · Answer

park sang joonI can't find the usage of "say from" on Internet.

'say from' is not an idiom. 'Say' here has a similar meaning to 'for instance'.

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