Foreshadowing In Horror Stories

An enjoyable horror story gets our pulses racing and our skin tingling. The horror genre often revolves around the chaos of death, evil, demonic nightmares that tends to keep us up at night. 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. Authors construct their horror stories to leave a great feeling of suspense as you continually read on. The author wants to create an atmosphere that cultivates fear. Authors tend to use foreshadowing, withholding information, and reversal to create this suspense readers feel. William Fryer Harvey was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the macabre and horror genres. One of his many well known short stories is August Heat. This chilling horror story demonstrates how one’s mind …show more content…
The year missing gives a major clue to a point later in the story. The narrator most likely did not include the year in the quote because he wanted the reader to figure out that it was not supposed to be a year but another date. The story is being told like a journal entry. The missing date at the end helps the reader determine the end for himself. In the end, it is portrayed that the character does. However, if the character did die, he does it after the story ends. This helps the reader infer what happened to the character. The foreshadowing creates suspense, which is important to the horror story. “August Heat” is a story that is made up of suspense with heated setting and evil foreshadowing. It has the suspense of a true horror story. The hot setting demonstrates the madness ter character feels and what the strong heat can make a man think. The hints of foreshadowing clue the reader in on the frighten ending of the