Horror fiction

The Repetition of History, and Why it Shouldn’t In Stephen Crane’s The Monster a doctor successfully prevents the death of Henry, the black man who serves the doctor’s family, from a house fire. In attempt to rescue Doctor Trescott’s son from the top floor, the house engulfed in flame burns and severely maims the Henry. Although Henry was not the one who ultimately pulled the boy from the fire, Doctor Trescott believes Henry was actually the man who saved his son. Overlooking the guidance given…

Frankenstein and Dracula are stories of monsters that cause destruction and stress for other people. Both stories are classic horror stories that present similar, yet different characters. The main characters in both fight to defeat the monsters. In Frankenstein, the protagonist Victor Frankenstein studied at a university in Ingolstadt, and became fascinated with the creation of life. Victor Frankenstein was very smart, yet very foolish. Trying to be godlike, he discovered how to bring…

Horror can be described as an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust caused by something frightful. This emotion is one that is used by the film industry to their advantage, by shocking and frightening the audience into being entertained. 20th Century Fox’s American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the horror genre television show. The show premiered in 2014, and follows a struggling freak show in the 1950s trying to make money by acquiring the most unique freaks in town. The…

This episode of the American Horror Story show can be considered to have a Female Gothic sub-genre. The Female Gothic sub-genre deals with women’s transition from an adolescent to adulthood and or post traumatic depression after child birth. This sub-genre has many conventions like a male heroine, Victorian homes, suspense, repressed emotions, complications while transitioning to motherhood or adulthood, dark, etc. Although this is series is marketed as a Horror show, it accurately falls under…

The problem with these types of movies is most often they depict people with different disabilities as scary, evil, or dangerous. A great example of this is the popular show of American Horror Story. This show has a character or many characters that have disabilities within every season. The first season showed a child who has down syndrome and they showed her as scary, socially inept, and someone who should wish to be a normal girl. For…

It kind of adds to the eeriness of the who thing. So, I would say that worked as well as the audience in this read as well. The audience helps us to maintain the act of entertainment, when you read horror this can be forgotten from time to time. You forgot that your listening to this dark scary thing sometimes, while your trying to take in all the information about the cast of characters, there plot lines and also how it all is connected, almost like…

Horror fiction has been a part of pop culture since the 18th century when it presented itself as Gothic horror, but the concept of mythical creatures and monsters is no modern day invention (Mullan para. 3). In fact, stories of horror and mythical creatures date back to the earliest of civilizations, like the Utukku of 2400 BCE Syria and its vampire like tendencies, believed to walk the earth dead but unburied, or the later borrowed Hebrew tale of Lilith, believed to hate the children of Adam…

compare and contrast were American Horror Story and Supernatural. Both of these TV shows are under the genre of horror and they both like to re-create the things that go bump in the night. Both of these TV shows are geared toward a large target audience of ages 18 through 50, and both have characters that the audience can grow with.Nevertheless, the networks that they are tied to, have a different opinion on how they scare their audiences in their seat. American horror story is a a non-…

similarities and differences. This essay will explain both stories, but in two different paragraphs, then it will contrast the two stories seeing what is different between The Tell Tale Heart and The Landlady. Let’s talk about the horror…

can see horror in a few ways, but a short story is one of the best. Everyone know that Stephen King is one of the best authors of horror short stories and novels. Students who have not read his shorts stories have seen movies based on them. Because of his popularity with young people, assigning a Stephen King short story to a class and make an essay about it attract the most unwilling readers. Students will read and like his work. His frequently strong language or the grossness of the horror in…