Horror fiction

Stephen King is a widely acclaimed author in not just American culture, but around the world. He is commended for his significant contributions to the horror novel genre and the various movies and TV shows that have resulted from his books. In his book, On Writing, King outlines some his theories about why he was able to achieve the success he has. In the essay “On Stephen King,” author Gary Hoppenstand also presents his ideas as to why King has been so successful in his writing career. However…

bodies of their parts to build his creation piece by piece he has the nerve to feel disgust at what he created. “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelly 30). This statement from Victor describes how he feels about the creature he created. His words make it seem like he thinks of…

Stephen King’s novels The Shining and It are incredible examples of the exploitation of children in the 20th century horror-gothic genre. As American cultural historian David Skal notes, King’s novels “brim with fantasies of sacrificial children” (1993: 362). In The Shining and It, children play a significant role as victims who are being threatened by terrifying monsters. These monsters take very different forms but are nonetheless horrifying. The presence of the child in King’s novels must be…

Stephen King is an author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He is most well-known for his writing of horror stories and how scary and real they seem to be. One of Kings first novels known as Carrie was his first horror novel and was a huge success. In this essay assignment, the directions were to read Stephen King’s “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” and to define and focus in on nine points in which Stephen King talks about during his essay. Stephen Kings…

points that were relevant and essay to interpret. One point she made was that the concept of a zombie apocalypse scenario is a blown up, extreme representation of economic collapse. An addition point was that an apocalypse would be true white-collar horror because it will be a constant event with no end, which means that these skills will always be obsolete unless there is an immediate change. Through the analysis of this text there are three main techniques that directly affected the rhetorical…

If Kurtz had died with the Intended’s literal name on his lips rather than, “the horror, the horror” (Conrad 69), conclusions about Heart of Darkness would be vastly different. In the event that this had happened, Kurtz’s journey to Africa would have been for nothing because he would not have gained the self-knowledge that is required of that of a mythic hero. The Intended considers being Kurtz’s last thought before his death to be a triumph, displaying the shallowness and ignorance of the…

Monsters whether human or otherworldly parade through our nightmares and fears time after time. They appeal to our most primal fears. But what about these horrors and creeps truly makes them monsters? Exploring this question gives us insight into our fears and how terror plays with our emotions. Monsters are a common subject in both Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. In Mary Shelley 's novel the man Frankenstein creates his own monster by turning back…

moment forth I knew fiction writing would become a part of my life. It’s something about scaring people that make horror writing fun, and I want to go into the Creative Writing program because I am a storyteller, and once you give a storyteller pen and paper it creates magic. However, I want to strengthen the genre of horror writing, which is my specialty. Since genre writing isn’t a big trend for most MFA programs, and I want to change that. The amount of research I put into horror writing is…

The Pizza Lovers Series is a cozy mystery series by Chris Cavender, the penname used by Tom Meyers the Agatha nominated American author. This compelling novel has 7 primary works that Cavender published between 2009 and 2014. Eleanor Swift who is also a main character in several other novels by Chris Cavender is the lead character in these books. Eleanor on a small Pizzeria christened A Slice of Life in the small town of Timber-Ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina town. For Swift,…

Dracula as an iconic horror novel The strongest feeling of humans is fear. It exists as one of the primal instincts and as one of the most sophisticated, unknown phenomena. During all human history, fear follows people in the superstitions, dread before the dark, occult rituals. All these elements become an inseparable part of human culture. The so-called gothic literature founded the horror genre’s principles which should be followed in order to create a good horror novel. One of the brightest…