Horror short stories

Human nature is a complicated subject that has been approached by multiple angles by a large number of people; one of them being Toni Morrison. In Beloved, Morrison utilizes color to explore her characters and to reveal their underlying emotions and feelings that cannot be easily represented with words alone; which reflects how the emotions of real people are hard to explain and further chips away at the popular question of what it means to be human. Three of the characters that she applies this…

two types of people in the world: those estranged from their culture, and those in tune with their culture. In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use” the use of a nostalgic tone--which slowly melts to an almost sarcastic and sensitive one--along with the implementation of a swelteringly tense mood builds up a compelling scene of a struggle for cultural identity. The story narrates a rift between a mother, Mrs. Johnson the narrator, and her younger daughter, Maggie, encountering her older…

Capote states that the visit to “the warehouse” was scheduled for “six weeks hence.” The use of a short time period supposedly left for the criminals to live unveils the severity of the situation and builds urgency. Furthermore, the author states that the execution will happen “one minute after midnight” on “May 13.” By providing a specific time and…

CHAPTER-2: Quest for Freedom Quest for freedom is the most eminent theme in the novels of Anita Desai. Due to its importance in her works, it is bound to find reoccurrence. The quest for freedom prevails as the most powerful and influential theme and all the major characters seem to be striving for something with which they cannot come in terms with. The society in which they live and cannot go away from it leaves a deep question mark in their minds. They are in quest for freedom…

with him after leaving home, and kept them until he was recruited into the army. As soon as his cassettes were gone, a part of him died as well. Beah writes, “I took off my old pants, which contained the rap cassettes. As I was putting on my new army shorts, a soldier took my old pants and threw them into a blazing fire that had been set to burn our old belongings” (110). His old life and hope for something better was gone when the cassettes went up in flames. The stripping away of his life is…

The book is so seamlessly written that it is not merely lifelike but also, in the best sense, novel like. It narrates a story in a skillful manner, with much attention to character. DeLillo makes us familiar with some peculiar habits of the characters. Like Everett cannot make himself go to bed at night without checking that the oven is off, and then sometimes double-checking, and reminding himself as he climbs the stairs that he has in fact completed his check. No doubt DeLillo has chosen such…

can see horror in a few ways, but a short story is one of the best. Everyone know that Stephen King is one of the best authors of horror short stories and novels. Students who have not read his shorts stories have seen movies based on them. Because of his popularity with young people, assigning a Stephen King short story to a class and make an essay about it attract the most unwilling readers. Students will read and like his work. His frequently strong language or the grossness of the horror in…

imagination, there is no horror” (Arthur Conan Doyle). In the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” by William Wymark Jacobs, our imagination certainly plays a part in our emotions while reading. The short story was about a man who uses a monkey’s paw to change his fate, sort of like a genie in a bottle. The man soon finds out that changing fate comes at a price. While “The Monkey’s Paw” is a typical horror story, it fits so well with the horror genre because of the suspense the story creates, the…

This author collector between popular romantic and horror and this is good because he feels the reader that before a celebrity story and does not go to the heart of fear and delve deeper into the story and looking for exciting positions. “There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart” itself to many popular genres and influenced many important writers such as Edgar Allan Poe Significance of research Benefits of reading this story is the excitement and pleasure, and enter into…

An enjoyable horror story gets our pulses racing and our skin tingling. The horror genre often revolves around the chaos of death, evil, demonic nightmares that tends to keep us up at night. When a story keeps us in suspense, we feel almost as if we are suspended in midair. We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends. Authors construct their horror stories to leave a great feeling of suspense as you continually read on. The author wants…