“ Suspense is the uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will happen next,” (D’Aco). A good horror story will make your skin tingle with suspense, there are four different methods to create suspense. One way is foreshadowing, another way is withholding information, putting a character in a situation where he/she must choose between two dangerous courses of action is also a great way to create suspense, and a sudden change of a character’s situation will certainly keep you interested. August Heat is a short story about a man who happens to draw a detailed image of a man he thinks he’s never met, somehow he ends up at a workshop where that same man he drew is coincidentally making a gravestone with his name and date of birth on it with that
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So, you can kind of add up the pieces, like a puzzle, he drew this man which was a criminal and then he somehow ended up at his workshop where he was engraving James’s name and date of birth and date of death on there, the date of death happened to be that same day, then the uncanny man suggests that he stay over until 12 o 'clock as a safety precaution, then at the end of the story there’s a sudden turn of events where the character explains how the heat was enough to drive a man mad which could’ve been what happened and maybe the gravestone went to use with the appropriate information already on it afterall.
There are various methods with which you can create suspense in a story. In August Heat the author has it down to a science, in fact he manages to use all four methods in just one short story. W.F. Harvey manipulated foreshadowing, withholding information, placing a character in a dangerous situation in which he must make a choice, and a sudden change in a character’s situation in a great way.
“The word suspense is related to the word suspended. When a story keeps us in suspense, we feel almost as if we are suspended in midair. We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends.” (Harvey, August Heat, pg
So, you can kind of add up the pieces, like a puzzle, he drew this man which was a criminal and then he somehow ended up at his workshop where he was engraving James’s name and date of birth and date of death on there, the date of death happened to be that same day, then the uncanny man suggests that he stay over until 12 o 'clock as a safety precaution, then at the end of the story there’s a sudden turn of events where the character explains how the heat was enough to drive a man mad which could’ve been what happened and maybe the gravestone went to use with the appropriate information already on it afterall.
There are various methods with which you can create suspense in a story. In August Heat the author has it down to a science, in fact he manages to use all four methods in just one short story. W.F. Harvey manipulated foreshadowing, withholding information, placing a character in a dangerous situation in which he must make a choice, and a sudden change in a character’s situation in a great way.
“The word suspense is related to the word suspended. When a story keeps us in suspense, we feel almost as if we are suspended in midair. We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends.” (Harvey, August Heat, pg