Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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    thrilling story, or tale. The history of children 's gothic literature goes just as far back as storytelling goes, and is marked by both classic gothic and gothic children 's literature characteristics. Classic gothic literature involves : romance, good versus evil, heroes and damsels; whereas today children’s gothic involves high tech computers, texting, the blurring line of good and evil, school grounds. But there are still similarities between the two that make modern day scary stories a…

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    Why Are Books Banned

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    book Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark: More Tales to Chill Your Bones.There are a many reasons why this book is banned but I will tell you three. The reasons for its being banned are gore, horror, and cannibalism. The first reason my story is banned is because of gore. One example of gore in my book is in the story The Dead Hand where it describes how Tom Pattison gets his hand ripped off by “The Dead Hand” and how “...there was nothing but a ragged stump oozing blood.” Also, in that story,…

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    suspense throughout their short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart’’ and “The Monkey’s Paw”. Three techniques these authors use to create suspense are the unpredictability, the setting, and different methods to scare the readers. Suspense is “ a feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by a reader” (Beers et.al) without suspense it wouldn’t be fun to read scary stories. Edgar Allen Poe and W.W Jacobs create dark and dreary settings to enhance the suspense in their short stories. One of the most…

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    The Landlady Story

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    In the story The Landlady a 17 year-old boy decides to stay at a bed and breakfast. Throughout the story we realize that the lady who is taking care of him starts to act a little bit weird. We know this because she is only interested in catering to young males. What gives us another reason for us to believe she is weird is that no one else staying at the bed and breakfast. Us readers care about Billy and don't want him to die or get hurt by the landlady. Not caring about the character(s) is one…

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    “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edger Allen Poe is a short story that has gone down in history. Edgar Allen Poe the author of “Cask of Amontillado” was a very deep, haunting writer who believed that people should be able to read a story in one sitting. Therefore he perfected the short story. In him believing this he wrote short stories like “Cask of Amontillado” that start in the middle of the story in the rising action. This is called “in medias res” or in the middle of things. Him doing this…

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    Slender Man Myths

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    Slender Man a fictional urban legend that was first created in 2009, the creature better known as slender man haves; no face, no hair, very...very thin and wears a dark black suit. Slender man sometimes for joking reasons portrayed like a boogeyman like creature. Basically his made in the horror stories, which many people can tell why. The Slender Man was made by something awful as internet meme, but technically made by some guy named Eric Knudsen. Unlike many urban legends Slender Man, people…

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    Edward Allan Poe. A horror story needs several horrifying elements. It needs a scary setting, a great deal of suspension, and a creepy source of horror. The “Tell- Tale Heart” by Edward Allan Poe has all of these. In the story a old man has been given a crazy caregiver. The insane man believes that one of the old man's eyes is stalking him. He is so convinced that the eye is out to get him he makes a plan to kill the old . Even though people think that all horror stories have some sort of…

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    The stories “up the slide” and “Glow in the dark” are two stories that use details in the story to create emotion that allude to the theme. While they use the same style of making the mood hint at the theme, their moods are completely different as well as the themes they are writing about. Up the slide and Glow in the dark use similar writing forms of forming strong themes in the reader's mind by using the mood of the story to foreshadow the themes. In the book “up the slide” the main character…

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    Edgar allen poe is a very unique writer. He tells stories that have a very scary setting. These stories are meant to be suspenseful. He puts characters in situations that we would only have nightmares about. Hd wrote the Pit and the Pendulum and Fll of the House of Usher. In pit and the pendulum,a man is trapped in a room and has no idea were he is. Its dark and he cant see very well. Using his hands to feel around, he uses a piece of cloth to measure the room. He find…

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    “The Flower” by Alice Walker is a short story that took place in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. This story tells us about a little girl named Myops, a little girl who is African American and her journey through the woods and fields that are behind her house. She loves to explore the land that her and her mom went on to find anything they needed but this time she went by herself. When Myop is on her journey, she makes her own path and goes into the woods about a mile or so from her house.…

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