In Julio Cortazar’s story, “House Taken Over”, Cortazar creates an atmosphere of fear by not telling us what took over the house. The house is taken over by something and the people who live in the house don’t know what is it that has taken over the house. First, Cortázar heard something in the library or dining room. “I went down the corridor as far as the oak door, then turned into the hall toward the kitchen, when I heard something in the library or the dining room. The sound came through muted and indistinct, or the muffled buzzing of a conversation. At the same time or a second later, I heard it at the end of the passage which led from those two rooms toward the door (Cortázar 39). It proves people’s ideas by how when you are alone when
