V Tropes

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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List of tropes

• Villain with Good Publicity: Doctor Baselard. In the sixties, he accidentally kills a woodcutter in Gloucester, but this does not stop him many years later from getting a job at Randall Children’s Hospital. And to make matters worse, when he eventually escapes Portland back to England, the American police see no point in pursuing him.
• Verbed Title: It’s a stretch, but the name itself is “Always Visible”.
• Vagueness Is Coming : The very first thing you read is Delia’s nightmare of five men killing an invisible man. This is a foreshadowing of what the story will tell later about her friend Jo, whom society has effectively “made invisible” from her own eyes.
• Violation of Common Sense: In the third act, Inspector Galbraith receives a phone number from a London taxi driver, but when he calls it, it ends up in his home police department in Portland. This is followed by a scene where he gets into a taxi and travels forward two months in time.