Short Horror Story Essay

INTRODUCTION The aim of this essay is to give an explicit overview of the gothic elements in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The main point of interest concerns the haunted house which is a typical feature of gothic literature. At the beginning the readers is introduced to the story through a summary. This will be followed by a general explanation of the gothic genre and its typical features. Furthermore the outer appearance of the mansion and the thereby upcoming unpleasant…

about morbid topics, such as death, ghosts and torture. They found ways to incorporate terror over horror in their works and opened the doors to a new genre that is still found today in modern works. In Edgar Allan Poe’s Tell Tale Heart gothic elements are shown by the author’s use of repetition and voice, which displays the fact that this style of writing exceeds the simplicity of an ordinary short story. Obsession with death and imprisonment show that this text can be considered within the…

descriptive passages. But they are vastly different due to the settings they use to develop their stories. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, written by Washington Irving and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, are both tales in which setting plays a powerful role. The setting helps create the central mood and tone, adds to the conflict and forms the symbolism in each short story. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, the setting is described as having “a drowsy, dreamy…

Jean Rhys is notorious for her horror series of stories and novels. Many of her stories were inspired from the emotionally, dark, social encounters she derived from witnessing less than pleasant experiences in the Caribbean during the remnants of slavery. Her short story ‘Used to Live Here Once’ gives testament to her fantasy of death, melancholy and helpless despair. The story gives a personal viewpoint of how she perceived life after death, through the eyes of a lost and lonely young woman,…

In Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Wing Biddlebaum and Doctor Reefy are the main characters of two separate short stories, excluded from each other geographically, but still related through the idea of grotesqueness introduced in the first story of the novel. In following the definition of the old writer in The Book of the Grotesque, grotesqueness is acceptance of truths, created by man, and the consequent modeling of one’s life around said truth(s). In such a sense, I believe that Doctor…

In the short stories, “ Brothers are the Same” and “ Through the tunnel,” both have completely different authors that portray a young boy attempting to pass some kind of ritual into manhood. Beryl Markham, the writer of “Brothers are the same”, creates a young, African warrior determined to enter the gateway of becoming a man. While Doris Lessing, generates a boy no older than eleven to experience his rite of passage of leaving his boyish self. To go in more depth, both stories share struggles…

for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. Faulkner’s story is told by an entire community within a town and narrates the development of a mentally-ill woman named Emily Grierson. The reader is shown the downfall of this woman and eventually the dark secrets that she bears inside the house that her father left her after his death. This writing is a prime example of a traditional southern gothic short-story. Faulkner uses various key things and events within the story to create a…

The landlady is a story written by Roald Dahl. The tell tale heart is written by Edgar Allen Poe. These two stories are very different but also in some ways similar. These two writers have written many stories and they were great. In these two stories there is a twisted and scary sort of theme. Also the main character in each book have the same kind of insanity. Edgar and Roald are also have created a theme of stories from their childhood which was not very good. So Edgar Allen Poe and Roald…

consciousness in the short story "A Rose for Emily," because I want learn how to create interesting fictional round characters in stories. Beck, Warren. "William Faulkner's Style," in American Prefaces. Spring 1941, pp 199. Web. Beck mentions that the special styles that William Faulkner used in His writing is he beautifully expressed the words in the story which made them more interesting and exciting. He said that the aim of William Faulkner is to let the reader understand his story by…

recognized for their successful use of personification in their short stories. Both the "The Yellow Wallpaper”, and "The Tell-Tale Heart," include non human objects forming identities, even points of perspective and reason through the means of their point of view, personification and syntax. Similarly, Edgar Allan Poe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman both chose to use first person narrators in their short stories. Much like other short stories, the use of a limited first person narrator gives…