Horror Genre: The Tell-Tale Heart And Monkeys Paw

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Do You know why most of horror stories are alike? Most of them have suspense ,fear ,point of view, and the themes are scary .I will include four criteria how the Tell-tale heart and Monkeys Paw can be categorized in the horror genre .they can be categorized in horror genre because they have fear ,suspense, and intensity. First, all horror stories have intensity . for example ,in the tell-tale of hearts the story start out with intensity.it says ,True – nervous- very ,very dreadfully nervous I had been and am .He was saying he was nervous about he man catching him in his sleep .In example from monkeys paw when the man did the first wish ,and he said it twirled round in his hand. The man didn’t know it was going to do

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