Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

famous works are “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart." In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven” he uses context, symbols, forms and devices, and personification to show how to display emotion through writing. In “The Raven” Poe uses a lot of types of context to invoke emotion to the reader. He uses religious context to allude to heaven and hell (Dhahir). He uses symbols that could…

The fire blazed up with orange, purple, blue, and white flames intertwining together, and the moon started to slow creep its way over the mountain; it was finally as time to tell humorists or scary stories. “ All long time ago their was a myth ; a myth about a 8 foot, dark hairy creature called Sasquatch!” my dad told with a very deep voice. “ The town people say this beast tormented camps and eat the people. They say he lives in this woods, so you better be careful roaming…

personality to be threatening or scary. Others would say that the mere description of the Radley’s or their house would make people go crazy. The children would believe the mythical stories the adults would say and, that could cause them to be scared to try to have Boo come out. The elderly believed that when a bunch of animals became decapitated Boo was the suspect because, they were scared of that happening they would create fear of Boo in their children’s eyes. Stories of Boo formed fear…

direct argument with death, also he’s telling death not to be proud because of several reasons. First, death should not be proud even if it looks powerful, it itself is a slave and not scary like people think. Death is just like “rest and sleep” things that can’t be scary. However, the speaker “John Donne” is trying to tell death that he doesn’t have any power or control over people, so death is not mighty and dreadful as people think. Donne says that death is also a slave for fate, chance,…

Madmen may not be helped. “A Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a story in which a madman is overcome by guilt after his insanity provokes him to kill a man. Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem, “The City in the Sea” illustrates an ancient city at the bottom of the sea overcome by the presence of death. In a “Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe uses the plot, characters, and mood to portray insanity, and fear; with a moral battle in a man and his murder. For “The City in The Sea” Poe uses the mysterious plot line…

Fall of the House of Usher is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839.Whether one reads this story sincere expression of horror, or is Poe simply mocking as metaphysical speculation on the identity of matter and spirit, or as a psychological study of the powerful influence a deranged mind may have on a sane one, or even simply as a Gothic horror chiller, it remains a genuine masterwork of American fiction. The narrator of the story tells of an autumn visit to the House of…

Comparing and Contrasting Two Futuristic Stories Ever wondered what the future might look like, bright and wonderful, or gloomy and dark? Well in the story’s “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Bennett, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, they tell about the future and what seems to be in the stories future. The futures in both stories are equally creepy and equally interesting at the same time. The stories unquestionably are interesting as they are also scary, but it would be easier to…

The story takes place during World War I. An Italian nurse meets a wounded American soldier. They fall in love. Due to circumstance, they're separated from each other. The American soldier goes back to America to get a job. The Italian nurse, Luz, stays in Italy to open her own hospital in Pordonone. In the time that they’re apart, the Italian nurse has an affair with an Italian major. Luz writes to the American soldier telling him that their relationship was just a boy and girl love. The nurse…

this contradictory of the typical American Gothic writing? The opening lines many many years ago suggest that he is reading a story about a fairytale princess that lives in a kingdom by the sea. The story contradicts the writing of an American gothic novelist because he describes her death as “kingsmen coming to take her in the heavens”. American gothic writings are usually dark with a horrifying end. 5. How does the poem change to fit more into the Gothic mode? The poem fits the Gothic mode…

Praised for its gripping story and stellar acting, Stranger Things quickly became a monster hit over a little period of time. Starring a group of Dungeon & Dragons playing kids who bike around while communicating on their walkie-talkies, the series brought a heavy dose of eighties nostalgia with a rather rare authenticity. This stylish take on the tropes of the eighties with an undeniable amount of sci-fi and horror, not to forget homages, tells the story of a 12 year old named Will who will…