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* [[Descending Ceiling]]: In "A Terribly Strange Bed", some innkeepers murder (in order to rob) their guests by giving them a canopied bed where the canopy can be silently lowered to smother the sleeper.
* [[In the Blood]]: ''Armadale'' revolves around this trope; a young man who has (for unrelated reasons) adopted a pseudonym meets another young man who shares his birth name of Allan Armadale. They become fast friends, until the first young man discovers that his father had murdered the father of the other Allan Armadale. He spends much of the rest of the novel haunted by his father's conviction that the sons are destined to repeat the fathers' fatal feud.
* [[Inn of No Return]]: In "A Terribly Strange Bed".
* [[Made on Drugs]]: Collins was addicted to laudanum and later opium during the period during which he wrote what have been called "the best and most enduring novels of his career": ''The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale'', and ''The Moonstone''. By the 1870s, though, his opium addition (along with a general decline in his health and a growing problem with his eyesight) began to adversely affect his writing; it's hard to point to any particular feature of his later work which can be definitively attributed to the drug use, though.
* [[May-December Romance]]: ''Man and Wife'' concludes with the marriage of {{spoiler|Anne Silvester}} and {{spoiler|Sir Patrick Lundie}}, although {{spoiler|Sir Patrick}} is decades older.
* [[Murphy's Bed]]: In "A Terribly Strange Bed"
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