Horror fiction

because many people were listening to NBC and tuned to CBS 8:12 and missed the last announcement because many may have fled and got to scared to listen anymore.To end,the war of the worlds was a radio drama that caused people to believe it brought fiction to…

Mankind has always had a fascination with monsters. That has lead people around the world to create on their imagination, creatures with strange and abnormal characteristics. The different kinds of monsters that can be found in the world says a lot about which culture created it, and can be seen as a reflection of some characteristics of the culture. Even though the belief in monsters has been lost in the evolution of time and modern monsters are not even similar as how they used to be, it is…

A ‘scary’ professor is not scary based upon their appearance, but how their teaching methods are complex, or in some cases stressful and intimidating. On September 27th of 2015, Christian Yapor wrote "Why You Should Take Classes with the 'Scary' Professor" to inform and persuade readers that choosing an intimidating and difficult professor for a class can benefit you in the future of your life. Yapor main focus in writing this opinionated article was to convince anyone in the general public that…

Tim O’ Brien was born in Austin Minnesota on October 1, 1946. He has received many notable awards such as the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. Tim grew up in the city of Worthington which allowed him to develop his creativity and served as a major inspiration for his works. As a child, he entertained himself by performing magic tricks and reading. He received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Macalester College in 1968. This was two…

The Tell Tale Heart is an interesting story and mysterious at the same time . The mystery is in the fact that you did not really know or have a clue about the narrator’s name or actual identity . You do not even know his/her gender or look . The narrator , or the killer of the story, was definitely keeping on trying to defend his sanity . But killing an innocent old man definitely proves otherwise . You can not be sane when your actions prove the opposite thing . Not to mention that he says he…

As other writers added to or built off of Lovecraft’s universe, his ideas spread, resulting in the creation of a subgenre of horror fiction that is known as Lovecraftian horror. The most efficient way to recognize the use of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s writing style is by searching for the incorporation of the beliefs of cosmicism: the absence of a god or the existence of the supernatural. In such…

fantastic example of this is Mikael Håfström’s The Rite. With this film, the main character is going to school to become a priest, but it is oddly twisted because he is in fact a skeptic of his own faith. This puts a twist to your average exorcism-horror film, since usually the priests are always 100-percent believers performing the exorcism. In addition, towards the end of the film the head priest that performs the exorcism winds up becoming possessed himself. This is so shocking, because he…

In the article “Spectacles of Death: Identification, Reflexivity, and Contemporary Horror,” Jeffrey Sconce compares two wildly different films (“Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” and “Freddy’s Dead”) as a way to explain how self-reflexivity and identification make the films all the more appealing to its demographic audience. In all films, the “enunciator” crafts a window of “psychological reality” where the spectator identifies with the visual field as a bona fide reality through the use of…

In Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the woods, five college students arrive at a cabin to vacation for the weekend, unaware of the horrific events that lie ahead. Each character portrayed a standard character type in the beginning of the film, but as the film continues the audience learns more about each character and their true identity. Curt “The Athlete”, Jules “The Whore”, Marty “The Fool”, Dana “The Virgin” and Holden “The Scholar” all play the leading roles. The film is set-up as the stereotypical…

The genre of horror films has evolved into an existence that would have once come across as sadistic and unoriginal to the people of the early twentieth century. Horror enthusiasts Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allen Poe would cringe in their coffins at what has come to the genre they influenced, perfected, and created for the world to experience. What once used to be a never ending, bloodcurdling screaming celebration has since turned into horror flicks that now seem to be more comedic…