* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: All over the place, regarding what characters may or may not be hiding and how responsible any of them is for Santiago's death.
* NightmareFuel: The descriptions of Santiago's murder and autopsy, as neither of them spares the reader any of the gory details.
* MemeticMutation: The original title in Spanish, ''Crónica de una muerte anunciada'' has seen [[TheJoyOfX a lot of use as a template]] as ''Crónica de una [X] anunciada'' ("Chronicle of a [X] Foretold").