Horror short stories

The short story “Sudden” written by Duncan Long and the poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen presents how war has corrupted our humanity throughout history. Writers reflect their belief on the tragedy of war. This is presented through Duncan Long’s story which shows the reality of war that is brutal and violent through imagery and characterisation, suggests that war destroys innocence in youth. Through the use of symbolization, the poet, Wilfred Owen explores the idea that deaths in…

My reaction to the stories this week was how they were all about a character, and what the character wants, and how the character gets or does not get what he or she wants and how the character changes and also about a world the author creates for me as the reader. In the short story “The Lottery,” the author was consistently giving the assumption that someone was going to win something; and also gave the sense of hope of nothing wrong was going to happen. But as the narrator calls what the…

popularized the American short story, and he attributed to invention of the science fiction, the horror story and the modern detective story. Many people remember Poe by one of his famous poems, “The Raven”. Also, many others have read his popular dim and horrific short stories like “The Tell-tale Heart”, “The Murders In the Rue Morgue”, and “The Black Cat”. Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories are prominent because they are unified and precisely create the connection between each story and Poe’s…

Stephen King is one of the most respected novelists in America. Aside from his horrifying novels King has a vast variety of short stories, which has inspired countless films. There is a certain selection of short stories that has revealed Stephen King’s view of Americans as a whole, a reoccurring theme that represents his view of Americans is that each individual has certain difficulties that causes great impact on their lives. For example, in King’s novella, The Body, each character, which are…

create a story that “tantalizes us with a variety of possible outcomes, that we read his novels and short stories eagerly to find out what happens in the end” (Acheson 1). This exciting twist on the horror genre requires both the imagination and interpretation of the reader. It is up to you to rely on your own analysis of both characters and their often contradictory stories, to piece together the novel that is The Collector. A majority of horror stories…

” was a story I did not expect to be as fascinated by as I truly was. By combining an authoritarian yet familiar tone with a realistic setting, Joyce Oates short story angles itself into an unexpected horrifying tale, fit for ones with a distinctly strong heart. “Her name was Connie.” Don’t be fooled by this simple setup. This is not a story about a girl and her jealousy for her perfect sister. This is not a story about Connie finding a warm, comfortable place in life. This is not a story about…

The short story, “The Dead Boy At Your Window” is about a stillborn baby boy who is given to his mother to hold; his mother refuses to believe her child was dead. The boy begins to kick his legs (even though he is actually dead) and his parents take him home and raise him as a living boy. Since the boy is dead, he does not eat, grow or have hair; he also has leathery skin, a raspy voice and his parents “stretch him” to make him as tall as children his age. When the boy turns six years old, his…

self. Montresor in the beginning of the story addressed “You, who so well knows my nature of my soul,” Montresor needed to tell someone and get out of his chest the revenge he had taken against Fortunato (Poe 1108). He wanted to let the person know he was confessing to that his actions he took…

It is difficult to argue that a short story from the mid-1800s could be considered scary, especially when it is compared to today’s gore-filled movies. Not many people understand how scary books can be. Edward Allen Poe’s story, “The Pit and The Pendulum” is about a man, who is trapped is a cell during the spanish inquisition. The man, while trapped, had to choose between death by a pendulum blade, and death by pit. He finds a way to prolong his death, until the story is brought to its abrupt…

created. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and literary critic who lived in the 1800s. Poe is best known as the poetry and the short stories that he created and people…