Horror novels

FRANKENSTEIN: The True Monster Mary Shelly’s novel titled Frankenstein is the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Victor Frankenstein is a man obsessed with knowledge of the unknown. He played a dangerous game with the laws of nature, and creates his own form of man. Guilty of robbing dead 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;…

Monster Cinema: The Myth and History of the Spectacle In recent years, the monster genre has been dominated by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and supernatural creatures. Although these monsters terrify audiences, they don’t have the same impact as their larger, far more destructive counterparts. The kaiju, or giant monster, have been a neglected and misunderstood genre for a long time. It wasn’t until recently that these monsters started to make their way back on the silver screen. This paper…

What is horror? Horror is a type of extreme feeling of being afraid, disturbed and disgusted by something or a intense feeling of fear and shock. I believe that Frankenstein was written as a horror story, but when compared to all scary movies today by our standards today the movie is not really what we think as scary. Back when the movie Frankenstein was originally created horror was not to the full potential as it is today so then it was a extremely scary movie. Mary Shelly’s novel is mostly…

Steven King Biography Steven King is arguably one of the most influential horror writers in modern pop culture. With hits like “Carrie,” “It,” and “The Shining,” King has earned his spot on the New York Times bestseller list (biography.com) and as in inspiration for readers nightmares for years. Steven King was born on September 21st in 1947 to Donald and Nellie King in Portland Maine. After his parents divorced, King and his brother David bounced between his father’s family in Indiana and his…

The film is based on the 1971 novel, The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty. Based on true events, the movie is a story of a 12-year old and her movie star mother who is temporarily filming in Washington, D.C. and rent a house in Georgetown during the shoot. The daughter soon…

The focus on aesthetics, or more commonly known, the admiration of beauty, might seem abnormal when discussing monsters, after all, a monster is known for its lack of beauty. Early myths portrayed the monster as something to be killed, a brute that may have resembled humankind, similarly as their divine beings did, however as opposed to being worshiped, they were consistently kept in the cemetery of crushed enemies. Over the years, the monsters of myths have moved from the iconic literary works…

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…

we experience when watching a horror film is the relief that comes from knowing what we see is purely vicarious. As a culture, Hollywood has been able to push the boundary of “acceptable” in horrors and thrillers over the years as viewers, directors, and actors grow desensitized to the subject matter. The fainting and terror experienced in the first screenings of Nosferatu are no more; the 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, as directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on a novel by Anthony Burgess,…

like 28 Days Later and Zombieland. Zombies have even been largely popularized through the Resident Evil novels followed by video game and big screen adaptations. The most awarded video game, The Last of Us, is based on a post-apocalyptic world full of zombie-like creatures. The popularity that zombies still elicit in the media can be traced back to one film that changed the landscape of horror films to come after it. George Romero’s 1968 independent black and white classic film, Night of the…

create unity amongst the genre to instil the emotions of fear, horror and suspense. The ways in which The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Woman in Black directed by James Watkins portray the themes of isolation and madness through elements such as context, symbolism and tone. How each text presents these themes is integral to the diverse perspectives which make Gothic literature popular. The emotions of fear, horror and suspense emitted by isolation are achieved using…