Horror short stories

improve and beautify their poetry, but one of the greatest is imagery. Imagery is a descriptive language that helps the reader to visualize all the details surrounding the character. The more elements the writer uses the better understanding of the story readers have, and the more engaged with it they become. It relies on five senses, such as touch, smell, sight, taste and sound, to produce a wider and clearer picture in the reader’s mind. However, the advantage of imagery doesn’t just have the…

psychologically torturing him. There are many specific literary aspects, such as tone, symbols, and setting, that can give readers important insights toward understanding this dark and gothic tale by understanding Poe’s life and mentality. The tone in this short story is very ominous and dark. The narrator creates this sense of evil because he is filled with hate and anger, which in turn may possibly convey Poe’s own anger and hate at the hand life has dealt him, like losing his wife,…

milestones, in the end he wrote about fifty books and over a hundred short stories, adapting sixtyfive of those short stories for television. (“Ray Bradbury Biography.") Some of his most famous works being Fahrenheit 451, the Martian Chronicles, and Dandelion Wine. (“Ray Bradbury.”) He often denied the title of Science Fiction, describing his books as “based off the unreal”. (“Ray Bradbury Biography.") He wrote fantasy and horror in his descriptive and unique writing style, making them a more…

center, yet he still manages to do it quite subtly. One of many themes, inbreeding is key to fully understanding the plot and the deeper messages of the Fall of the House of Usher. The hints made throughout the text, add to the creepy undertones of the story. By utilizing the ominous penalties of inbreeding, both the psychological and physical, and drawing upon in in the characterization of Madeline, Roderick, and the literal…

three short stories The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, and A Rose for Emily, the stories take place during different times and have hardly any plot similarities. All three authors of these stories used literary devices; we will look at how they use these literary devices in each store. In the story The Lottery the author uses foreshadowing and The Yellow Wallpaper imagery and in A Rose for Emily metaphors. In the short story, The Lottery a foreshadowing event takes place very early in the…

Did you know that five members of Edgar Allan Poe’s family died of a disease called Tuberculosis? This could be why Poe wrote many stories that relate to his own life. In most of his short stories, the narrator wanted to solve a problem. But, they went about it in the wrong way. So people die, and the narrator gets caught. The theme in Poe’s short stories of think before you act, and it is shown through character, conflict, and setting. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of the…

Edgar Allen Poe and William Faulkner both wrote short stories on crippled minds to show that if bystanders do not do anything, people’s state of being will deteriorate. The idea of insanity and horror was very prominent during this timeframe in which both pieces were written, as the style from the period is called “Gothic Romanticism”. In Poe’s, Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator goes unnamed, as does the narrator in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily. By doing so, Poe contributes to the idea,…

readers that he stopped writing for the series because he, “ran out of stories” (Gibson). This was saddening for his devoted fans who were still craving more of the thrilling tales. However, in 2015 a new addition was published, Party Games, in response to what Stine felt was a new wave of demand for horror novels (Gibson). When asked why horror genre popularity was increasing again Stine replied, “I always think that in scary times horror becomes popular. I think it’s just a way that people…

the Pendulum” is a daring short story by Edgar Allan Poe. “The Pit and the Pendulum” is about a man who is captured by the Spanish Inquisition and thrown into one of their toughest prisons. There is little detail given of why the narrator is in this prison and the name of the narrator is another detail left unanswered. None the less there is an incredible amount of detail given in the story and each of these details culminate to form an amazing story of escape. This story is considered to be a…

"The Birth-Mark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, emphasizes how important standards are throughout his writing by focusing on beauty standards, psychological abuse and sacrifice. Hawthorne begins his short story by addressing the fact that Georgina has a birthmark and reveals that the main character and alchemist, Aylmer, with the help of his assistant, Aminidab, can remove it by making a potion to make his wife's imperfection disappear. Reaching out to Georgina about the birthmark and adding that he…