Horror short stories

In the story “The Open Window”, a mischievous teen takes advantage of a mans gullability and has a little fun. The short story is filled with many plot twists. Deciphering these twists can be confusing, but isn’t impossible. Mr. Nuttel is a man of an unknown age that is for some reason moving to a rural environment without any knowledge of anyone who lives there. He has some sort of condition noticed when he states “ The doctors have ordered me complete rest, an absence of mental…

Authors often provoke a sense of suspense in readers by slowly foreshadowing future events but still holding back sufficient information for readers to become anxious to discover the fate of characters in a story. This can no better be demonstrated than in Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian”. In the book, the setting takes place at a desolate town, the streets totally deserted and barren but for a single solitary man walking among the multitude of silent houses. The man, Leonard Mead, is…

In this short story, it tells of a woman, Miss Emily Grierson, who refuses to accept change. Shortly after her father 's death and her love Homer Barron 's disappearance, she became reclusive. After 40 years of mystery and theories, Miss Emily died, and the people of the town finally put an end to all the talk. Behind the doors of her old, dusty home lie a not missing, but found Homer Barron. Throughout the story, a trail of evidence began to pile up. Faulkner presents a tale of horror with the…

Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic style of short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death” are two stories with insane protagonists that are motivated by the setting and their selfishness and both of these stories share the same tone and they share the same themes of time, death, sin, guilt, irony, fear, and disease. Both of these stories are very comparable and they have many similarities. The First comparison between the “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of The Red Death“ is…

case a short story, are composed of different literary motifs. They can help reveal a theme of a story, set a certain tone, or evoke a mood. In the story “Three Dirges” in Requiem Guatemala by Marshall Bennett Connelly is one short story that has many literary motifs. There’s the development of theme, use of time, point of view, foreshadowing, and more. This essay will focus on one of the many literary elements that can be found in the short story: image and symbol patterns. The short story…

The essay will also contain a description of the characters, the setting and symbols in the story. The text “Baglady”, written by A. S. Byatt, we are introduced to a fiction short story about a middle aged woman named Daphne and she’s attending a business trip with her husband and the company he is working in, to the Far East. Daphne then experiences some oddly things on a shopping trip. The short story starts in medias res, where we see Lady Scroop talking to the rest of the ladies about the…

excellent dark short stories with such intense feelings must come out of somewhere. It is a contradiction for a murderer to create a motive rather than finding reasons, blame, and intentions to end someone’s life. Several Edgar Allan Poe short stories such as, “The Tell Tale Heart”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Pit and the Pendulum” do pertain a person killing another individual in unclear narrative. Edgar Allen Poe mastered the art of creating perplexing, dark short stories, by using…

fortune from the very beginning; not only is he sick but he is literally going to die that day because he was too greedy to taste a fine wine. Also another example that is a fairly major point is that the title is even ironic, for the majority of the story the reader believes that Montresor and Fortunato and going to see a cask of wine. In this case however the cask stands for casket, and the casket of amontillado because that is where Fortunato will die. The walls that surround where this…

In response to an article written by Michael Burduck, author of “Another View of Faulkner’s Narrator in ‘A Rose for Emily’” he suggests that the narrator is a female. Throughout the short story the narrator relates to the females in the town through the use of the word “we”. The females in the story are concerned with Emily’s affair, and force the men to act to stop it. Similar to the ladies making the men stop the affair, the female narrator is making sure no one forgets Emily’s situation. Also…

narratives which repress the outright accusation of the society into a more subtle position. Shen’s short story, “Three Men and One Woman,” is an effort of such “critical lyricism.” Yet what makes this story even more unique is the effect of his lyrical narrative that destabilizes both the textual and meta-textual levels through retelling the story in an uncanny way. The uncanny feeling derived from the story is the result of Shen’s making use of writing to deal with his memory both…