Short Horror Story Essay

In many of Poe's works, Poe uses many literary techniques to help contribute to the story. In the story "The Cast Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe uses; suspense, setting, and tone to help contribute to the story and set the mood of horror and dread in the story. In the text, the author's use of suspense drastically changes the mood, which is easily seen in the short story, and as found in the text, " It wasnotthe cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence.", which…

Perkins Gillman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which concerns a postpartum depressed woman experiencing life in a male dominant society struggling to find a voice for her own well-being. The author wrote the short story after a similar event occurred to her in her own life. A close textual study of the story from a Feminist Critical Approach shows oppression for women using symbolism with mundane and horror to camouflage feminist views, conveys the connections between the horror story and the…

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality” (Poe). Edgar Allan Poe harnesses the power of gothic horror literature in his disturbing“The Black Cat” and his famous “The Masque of the Red Death.” Both of these stories weave increasingly horrific tales of tragic consequences and altered states of mind. “The Black Cat” tells the tale of a frequent drunk who ends up killing both his cat and his wife in one such example of momentary insanity. “The Masque of…

Heart” is a short story of an unnamed narrator that claims he is nervous but not mad, and takes calmness for sanity. The narrator tells about a certain old man, that he loves, who has never hurt him, but he could not stand the sight of his filmy, blue, vulture eye. The narrator is so afraid of the eye he decides to kill the man so he would no longer have to see it. Poe reaches the greater theme in “The Tell-Tale Heart” by using three literary themes: tone, imagery, and point of view. A short…

King? “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day so bright”(King). Throughout the three short stories King use contrast and contradiction to develop this tense horror in the reader's mind. In the short stories “Strawberry Spring”, “The Boogeyman”, and “The Last Rung On The Ladder”, King uses techniques such as terror, horror, and gross details to captivate his reader. In the short story “Strawberry Springs”, Stephen King uses terror to captivate his reader. For one thing, the…

In the short story “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey, there are many different ways suspense was used. When an author tries to use suspense in a novel or a short story, book, magazine article, etc., the usual ways it shows is, mystery, foreshadowing, and plot twist such as sudden changes in the mood or story. These are usually the key things to making a suspenseful story. Mystery in stories are always fun and interesting because you never know what is going to happen next. “I rolled up the sketch,…

In the short story “ The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allen Poe creates a mood of suspense and horror. From the details to actions and words the suspense he creates from the symbolism and irony between the two characters, Montresor and Fortunado. The mood swings that Poe has inflicted in the story shows a deep meaning. The irony and symbolism makes us the readers wonder why he made so much horror. Also the effect that he has on us the reader. First, the imagery in this short story is…

person? Edgar Allan Poe wrote horror,poetry,fiction,mystery.He wrote evocative short stories.He married his cousin Virginia who died in 1847. Edgar Allen was born in January 19,1806 in, Boston,Massachusetts,and died October7,1849. Some of Edgar Allen Poe accomplishmentś are he wrote short stories,and poetry.He won a literary prize for “The gold Bug”,in 1843.”The gold Bug was a story of hunting treasure,and secret codes.Editor of the evocative poems and short stories that interested readers…

illness as a theme among many others. Many of his horror works, dealing with the existence of different parallel worlds and creatures in other dimensions are written in such a way that that it cannot be told if the story is confirming the existence of a world beyond our own or is just a hallucination caused due to mental illness or a tired mind. Maupassant’s stories like ‘’, 'Who Knows?', and ‘Letter from a Madman’ are the supreme examples. His famous horror tales ‘La Horla’ and ’The Terror’…

I have now written five short stories, several poems, and three unfinished novels. Yet, my passion for writing has not waned. However, this passion did not always exist. The catalyst that ignited the fire was an assignment. Despite it being school related, this was no ordinary homework. “Class, today we write a short story in honor of our poetry curriculum” those were the words that lit the path for a future I had never dreamed. For that assignment is one of the best occurrences to happen, it…