In “Secret in Slovakia” the narrator creates suspense from the very beginning with the title “Secret in Slovakia”. The word secret peaks our curiosity as to what the secret maybe. The author adds additional suspense when he writes “The wind came whistling through the trees that surrounded the house in a way that reminded me of an eerie fairy tale that my grandmother told me when I was a child. In the dark, with its front windows and double-arched doors, the house looked as if it were about to eat us”, telling of an unknown mystery ahead. The author then lets us know things would be ok by revealing “Two days later, when we left, I would look at the house in the daylight and think it was very charming. Right then, I wanted nothing more than to
