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After reading H.P.Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls, I was inspired to write this trilogy of short horror stories. It was the ending sentence that fully made me want to write thrilling and intense short stories, “the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.” – (The Rats in the Walls). I used prose-fiction as my literary form for Didn’t I, Click and Answer. These stories are for young adults and older because of the gory content the horror stories contain. My main purpose of writing this story collection is to offer a roller coaster of suspense and horror for readers to feel.
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill was the Novella that influenced me while to write Didn’t I. The way Hill used the setting, gothic …show more content…
The use of juxtaposition also is used to build tension by Hill. Words such as “banshee”, “ash” and “collapsed” these kind of images are juxtaposed to the christmas scene with descriptions such as “cheerfully” and “sparkle.” In my piece I gave a sound image “the wind whistles an anonymous tune,” which adds tension by giving the fact that Maria finds the window open in a mysterious and sinister quality. Indeed , in workshop, someone commented that it added a ‘ghostly vibe.’ This emphasises the dark undertone, specifically the idea of ghosts, they are not ordinary ghosts, they are a particularly malevolent kind. The ominous mood centres on the past as Mr.Kipps is talking about a past experience in The Woman in Black which shows the full features of Hill setting the story in Victorian
After reading H.P.Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls, I was inspired to write this trilogy of short horror stories. It was the ending sentence that fully made me want to write thrilling and intense short stories, “the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.” – (The Rats in the Walls). I used prose-fiction as my literary form for Didn’t I, Click and Answer. These stories are for young adults and older because of the gory content the horror stories contain. My main purpose of writing this story collection is to offer a roller coaster of suspense and horror for readers to feel.
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill was the Novella that influenced me while to write Didn’t I. The way Hill used the setting, gothic …show more content…
The use of juxtaposition also is used to build tension by Hill. Words such as “banshee”, “ash” and “collapsed” these kind of images are juxtaposed to the christmas scene with descriptions such as “cheerfully” and “sparkle.” In my piece I gave a sound image “the wind whistles an anonymous tune,” which adds tension by giving the fact that Maria finds the window open in a mysterious and sinister quality. Indeed , in workshop, someone commented that it added a ‘ghostly vibe.’ This emphasises the dark undertone, specifically the idea of ghosts, they are not ordinary ghosts, they are a particularly malevolent kind. The ominous mood centres on the past as Mr.Kipps is talking about a past experience in The Woman in Black which shows the full features of Hill setting the story in Victorian