“Believe only half of what you see and nothing you hear.” Do you know who said that? It was Edgar Allen Poe the author of Tell-Tale of Heart. William Wymark Jacobs the author of The Monkey’s Paw once said, “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.” The Tell-Tale of Heart and The Monkey’s Paw were two of the most astounding books that I have ever read that meet way beyond the criteria for the horror genre. They contain all for of the themes fear, suspence, surprise,and mystery. Most of the texts of the horror genre contain suspence. When Edgar says True!- nervous- very, very I had been and am! But why will you say that I’m mad? This makes you very suspicious of why he would say that he is nervous it makes you think that
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This is mysterious because the old man dosen’t know that he’s there or why he would be there. In The Monkey’s Paw they wondered if what Sergeant-Major Morris was saying about the paw was true because it seemed mysterious that a grown man would carry a paw for nothing. Wouldn’t you find that mystrious that a grown man is in your house talking about a magic paw that works you’re going to want to find out for yourself. In The Monkey’s Paw it’s mysterious that only a single eye could cause you to kill a man. Isn’t it mysterious that he would do something like that, but then turns around and says you’re not mad, like who does that? He says “ I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never gave me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes it was this! He had the eye of a vulture a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell over me, my blood ran cold, and so by degrees very gradually I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” Know when he says this it’s just mysterious how he says he loved the old man but made up his mind to kill him apperently you didn’t if you had the audacity to kill
This is mysterious because the old man dosen’t know that he’s there or why he would be there. In The Monkey’s Paw they wondered if what Sergeant-Major Morris was saying about the paw was true because it seemed mysterious that a grown man would carry a paw for nothing. Wouldn’t you find that mystrious that a grown man is in your house talking about a magic paw that works you’re going to want to find out for yourself. In The Monkey’s Paw it’s mysterious that only a single eye could cause you to kill a man. Isn’t it mysterious that he would do something like that, but then turns around and says you’re not mad, like who does that? He says “ I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never gave me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes it was this! He had the eye of a vulture a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell over me, my blood ran cold, and so by degrees very gradually I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” Know when he says this it’s just mysterious how he says he loved the old man but made up his mind to kill him apperently you didn’t if you had the audacity to kill