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    Landlady.Well I found out some information about the difference about the two stories were that they have different writers. One of them likes to make the story creepy at the beginning and the other hides the horror till the end of the story.The stories both have suspense, darkness, horror, and mysteriousness in the stories.Obviously the writers have different writing styles and have a different way of appealing the evil in the charachter and it make the story more interesting.The other way of…

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    The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is a gothic horror poem with a rather interesting point of view. The story is narrated in first person by an unnamed murderer who throughout the story displays symptoms of a severe mental illness, similar to that of schizophrenia. This narrative point of view is significant in the development of the plot because the narrator’s mental state causes him to be an unreliable narrator. This encourages the reader to consider the story through a psychological lens…

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    Edgar Allan Poe, there is a variety of elements that make it fit into the horror genre including suspense, setting, and the organization of the narrative. All these components are critical to the makeup of any narrative that is meant to thrill and scare. These three segments come together to create the feeling the author would like to radiate to the readers; horror. To begin with, suspense is included in mostly every horror based movie, book, and tale. As Sharon Russell explains, suspense…

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    The book, We All Fall Down, is a thriller written by Robert Cormier. Robert Cormier was an American author who was known for his negative, pessimistic writing. The story We All Fall Down is a thriller book that received high ratings for the suspense it brought. It received a rating of 3.8/5 stars and even received a nomination for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult. Some reviews of the book are from: Publishers Weekly, “Cormier surpass most other writers by the sheer force of his words,”…

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    The Shining

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    Get Out Do you want to read a book that is filled with horror and fright to the point where you can't put the book down? Then The Shining is the book for you. A horror action/ survival intense filled book that will scare you straight is good way to describe this Stephen King book Let me just quickly say that this is by far the scariest novel that I have ever read. King brings out all of his great of writing techniques and creative writing mind in The Shining. At 447 Pages it exhibits all of…

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    The Monkey's Paw

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    “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror” (Arthur Conan Doyle). In the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” by William Wymark Jacobs, our imagination certainly plays a part in our emotions while reading. The short story was about a man who uses a monkey’s paw to change his fate, sort of like a genie in a bottle. The man soon finds out that changing fate comes at a price. While “The Monkey’s Paw” is a typical horror story, it fits so well with the horror genre because of the suspense the…

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    Blood And Sulphur

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    I got a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Tales of Blood and Sulphur is a collection of short stories centered on the theme of the supernatural and human corruption. It opens with two men interrogating a Middle Eastern man whose name is Null. At the interrogation, Null offers to tell stories as he claims to be a story teller. One of the men, decided to take up on his offer. Then Null begins to tell stories, which later known as the tales of blood and sulphur. This is…

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    The Hollow 5387 are a series of novels by fantasy fiction, young adult, and horror novelist, the award winning Christopher Golden. The first novel in the Horror 5387 series was Horseman first published in 2005 and just like his previous novels went on to become very popular. After the first novel enjoyed much success, Golden went on to publish three more titles in the series with the last one published in 2006. Co-authored with Ford Lytle Gilmore the young adult author the series is derived from…

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    Margo Lanagan’s short story Singing my Sister down (2004) from Black Juice is a story set in fictional world which tells the tale of a young boy watching his sister Ikky, sink slowly into a tar-pit, publicly, as a form of punishment due to her potentially killing her husband, commanded by Chief Barnarndra. It becomes an intimate moment as her family tries to make her punishment of death peaceful and beautiful, not only for Ikky, but for themselves. The main themes and concepts found within the…

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    anyone reads a story, they become aware of many different types of elements of fiction. A writer can use elements of fiction to make their story move and read in a way that will make the story good and exciting to read. When using elements in the correct way, the writer can add an air of suspense within the reader, making them wonder what is going to happen next. Flannery O'Connor uses a number of elements of fiction in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Setting, plot, and point of view are just a…

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