Horror short stories

Have you read or heard of the two short stories that are called The Tell a Tale Heart or the Short story that is called called There Will Come Soft Rains. They are both short stories written by authors with different writing styles that are quite unique. Both stories were very different written by very different authors The Tell a Tale Heart was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. The other story’s author that wrote the story There Will Come Soft Rains was named Ray Bradbury. The Authors…

Margo Lanagan’s short story Singing my Sister down (2004) from Black Juice is a story set in fictional world which tells the tale of a young boy watching his sister Ikky, sink slowly into a tar-pit, publicly, as a form of punishment due to her potentially killing her husband, commanded by Chief Barnarndra. It becomes an intimate moment as her family tries to make her punishment of death peaceful and beautiful, not only for Ikky, but for themselves. The main themes and concepts found within the…

“The Landlady” uses many techniques that identify it under the horror genre; such as imagery, foreshadowing, mood/tone, theme, plot/setting, and suspense. Roald Dahl uses imagery in this short story by vividly describing the events that occur. On page one, line 8, the author states, “But the air was deadly cold…” As a reader you can imagine the wind blowing onto your face, and feeling the bitterness, and the chill of the wind on a dark night. Page three, lines 261-263, show the comfort of the…

Are you Afraid? While both The Landlady and Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl are great stories; both were not scary as they were more creepy. One problem with both stories is that there is a disconnect between the reader and the main characters. In The Landlady, Billy is very naive and always figures things out a little too late compared to the reader, taking them out of the experience. In Lamb to the slaughter the reader follows the killer, slowly losing their mind. While interesting, it…

Gloomy, dreary, creepy, forbidding, dark, horror, and fear, are all words that describe gothic literature. Gothic literature is something that the writer Edgar Allan Poe has much knowledge about, for he has written many gothic short stories and poems. Such as the short stories like, “The Black Cat”, “Tell Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “Masque of the Red Death”. Also displayed in his poems, “Alone”, “Annabel Lee”, “The Raven”, and somewhat of “The Bells”. To a great extent, Edgar…

The short story “A Rose For Emily” was written by William Faulkner in 1930. Fifty-three years later, a movie adaptation was created based on Faulkner’s short story. The short story and the film both tell the story of Emily Grierson, but they are limited to what their mediums allow. This limitation inhibits the movie and the short story to be completely the same. The symbolism within “A Rose for Emily” and the plot remain alike; whereas, the chronological order and the mood are dissimilar between…

A Dead Man’s Battle It was a short battle, but it caused great devastation. “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch” is a short story about a federal army’s battle against the enemy. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. The story was first published by the San Francisco Examiner in October of 1889. Its main characters are the leaders of the Federal army: a colonel, a general, and Captain Coulter. “Do you think, Colonel, that your brave Captain Coulter would like to put one of his guns in here?” The…

at the two best-known horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King on a surface level, it is obvious that the two have similar styles in writing and genre. However, their biographies are far from similar. With analyzing the two, it is amazing to see how completely different the two truly is. The style of writing for Edgar Allan Poe was gothic writing. He started writing in his twenties and “continued to struggle living in poverty, got a break when one of his short stories won a contest in…

terrifying short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” a murder is described in the eyes of the perpetrator. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the murderer kills an old man because he believed that the old man’s milky eye was evil, whereas in “The Cask of Amontillado” a murderer kills a man who had previously insulted him. Edgar Allan Poe utilizes the narrator’s disturbing point of view and the cynical tone to entertain the reader with a suspenseful and horrific story. To begin…

an anthology of horror and humoristic stories all taken place on Halloween, it contains eleven short stories and one novella. The stories includes a large variety of horror topics such as zombies, sociopaths, dismemberment, a creepy town and Death. These stories try to get you to sympathize with the characters through stories of child abuse, bullying, cheating wives and deadbeat jobs, allowing you to perhaps understand the actions the takes. The anthology starts off with the story “The Express”…