How Horror Writers Create Suspense Essay

We all know what a horror movie or story looks or feels like and sometimes scares the living soul out of us. The suspense and the strategies that these writer create are really fluently interesting, but the question is how do they use these strategies for our own story. These two pieces of literature, How Do Horror Writers Create Suspense? by Percy D’Aco and including the short story August Heat W. F. Harvey, will tell and show the strategies that are useful in writing a horror story, in which these strategies are very useful. There are at least 4 strategies that are included in the the article and I have chose the 3, foreshadowing, holding that information, reversal change in the character. Foreshadowing can play a big role in a horror story. First we need to know what foreshadowing means and it states in the article and I quote: “ Foreshadowing is the use of hints to suggest events later in the plot”. Now to put it into text, there are a few examples I would like to show that in the story, August Heat. In the story, the one example I can see that would be foreshadowing in on the lines 107-109 which it states “He passed away very suddenly on August 20th, 190-- “In the midst of life we are in death”. These quotes are stating that the narrator was supposedly died but at the end of the …show more content…
by Percy D’Aco and including the short story August Heat W. F. Harvey, are the ones who advise or suggest me to use these technique for my horror stories whenever I start creating them, but on the side note, these ideas of foreshadowing, holding the information from the character, and the role reversal are ways to keep the hell out of you and the character itself. Horror movies, shows and better more stories make a reputation to be something good for people by using some of these techniques, and I for one see these techniques in every horror story and well they make my spine wiggle with