Short Horror Story Essay

what will happen next,” (D’Aco). A good horror story will make your skin tingle with suspense, there are four different methods to create suspense. One way is foreshadowing, another way is withholding information, putting a character in a situation where he/she must choose between two dangerous courses of action is also a great way to create suspense, and a sudden change of a character’s situation will certainly keep you interested. August Heat is a short story about a man who happens to draw a…

aspect of the paranormal is not relatable but these kinds of stories are just so intriguing. These works are great to me because most of them still have the romance aspect, which is relatable,…

The setting of a story is especially important when concocting a tale of mystery and intrigue. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe captures a dark and mysterious mood in order to introduce the plot. Poe uses graphic language and dramatic imagery to create a mysterious and foreboding atmosphere throughout his short story. Poe begins his tale with a long drawn out sentence that packs in every possible detail of the narrator’s current setting. By doing this Poe creates a picture of…

Though there are countless interpretations of the short story “Rappaccini's Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the most predominant is the parallelism to the Garden of Eden found in the Old Testament of the Bible. For example, the main character, Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, tends a beautiful garden full of lustrous colorful plants, much like God is the creator of the Garden of Eden. Similar to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the center of the garden contains a magnificent plant covered…

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer with a very tragic and sad life. His writing was deeply impacted by his difficult life. Poe was known for his short stories and poems filled with horror and suspense. Although Poe is very famous nowadays, throughout his life he was not known as the famous writer he is today. Poe had an unstable family, suffered from alcoholism and most of his life he dealt with poverty. One way Poe’s life impacted his writing was his unstable family. He dealt with the loss of his…

something dark and sinister about this word? Nowadays the lottery is seen as a mean of raising money by selling numbered tickets that are purchased by many for a chance to win a huge monetary prize. However, towards the end of Shirley Jackson´s short story, The Lottery, there proves to be an unusual implication for this concept since the victor gets a different form of “prize”. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the villagers start gathering in the town square to participate in a lottery run by…

gothic fiction author because in his short stories, the character and conflict do not fit the criteria to make it a gothic story. To start, in some of Poe’s stories, the evil is not always destroyed, but instead takes over the protagonist. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death” states that Prince Prospero was killed by the Red Death and then it killed everyone else, and the Red Death “held illimitable dominion over all” (4). In a gothic story, the conflict gets resolved…

nightmare box is a short fiction story, dealing with a box or more aptly worded an enigma which is beyond explanation and beyond comprehension held within a box. I think at its heart this story is one that tempts our imagination it forces us to speculate about the box and its contents to consume us with mystery. The unknown is referenced so greatly in this story it tries to show us something inexplicable then capitalize on it by forcing us to focus on it. In the short story The Nightmare Box…

Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone to his short story, “Tell Tale Heart.” Edgar Allan Poe used the literary devices of him when he stayed in the dark while he hid from the old man, when he used the lantern to cover it to only shine light on the vulture eye, and also his heart beat when the police arrived to the home. The man would go for 7 nights and spot the vulture eye of the old man. He went every night to check on the old man and on the…

Barber are two short stories with similar themes and genres. Themes such as suspense are used by both authors and are used in various ways by the two authors to engage readers. The plot structure of both of these stories are very similar, with the conventional plot structure up until the falling action and conclusion. Both stories use the same narrative perspective however, the way it engages with the reader is vastly different as well as the characterisation techniques used in the stories. Both…