This page lists tropes of literary work Always Visible (Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre) by Russian author Vitaly Ivolginsky, starting with the letter A.
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Warning: detailed listing and analysis of tropes may partially or completely reveal the plot or other nuances. In addition, their number may be supplemented from time to time.
Denial of responsibility: possible strange language constructs are caused by translation from the author’s native language into English.
List of tropes
- Fetus Terrible: According to Nelissen, what the doctors cut out of Delia’s uterus could hardly even be called a parasite.
- Le Film Artistique: Literally. In the first act of the work, Galbraith watches Peter Fleischmann’s film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein in an bootlegger cinema.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Delia dies because her uterus is removed. Compared to the gory deaths from the original film, this seems rather over the top.
- Flashback: The entirety of Zero Act is essentially Delia’s memories of what happened to her two years ago.
- Facial Horror: The face of the second doppelganger Delia’s father, whom Galbraith sees in London, has a gray tint, causing the inspector to think that it is in fact an actor in make-up.
- Funny Background Event: When Galbraith places an order at “Orcinus Orca Osteria”, beggars come in and first ask the cashier for money and then try to sell him socks.
- Funny Fate Worse than Death: When Jordan Thurlow is suspected of molesting Delia, he thinks to himself that will he be good rather be killed outright than put through the knives of a bureaucratic meat grinder.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: The final chapters of the third act turn a detective story with a touch of mysticism into a fantastically unreliable story about a supercomputer that is being developed deep underground by Japanese scientists.