Supernatural Horror in Literature

The Raven presents several elements of traditional gothic literature. Poe starts the story off by presenting the gothic element of mystery. It starts with the strange tapping on the door, but when the narrator checks, “darkness there and nothing more” (Poe line 24). The poem only gets more mysterious from the point…

put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than just a killer joke, it's a conceit of undeniable logic — after all, when you've been alive for centuries, you've liked just about everything before it was cool. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton…

about the horror that will follow “I must pause here; for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to…

In Literature, the authors tend to create symbolic figures that the reader often catches, but it represents something totally different for everyone. The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte can be characterized as Gothic Fiction with a hint of Romanticism, and the Victorian Ideal. The novel centers around a “gypsy” like kid named Heathcliff, who is adopted and raised in Wuthering Heights, where he endures pain through abuse, the ideas of revenge and casting it on others, and finds love but…

Nothing screams classic horror novels like Frankenstein. A household name that, on its initial reveal, rocked the world. Since then there have been a multitude of adaptations recreated off of the base premise. 30+ movies inspired by Mary Shelley’s legendary novel. Most aren’t the best, but there are some diamonds in the rough. I really want to take this opportunity to compare the classic novel to an interesting adaptation called I, Frankenstein, directed by Stuart Beattie. The differences…

In 1809 a literary genius was born by the name of Edgar Allan Poe, impacting the world of literature using short stories, novels, and poetry that were all of a new style incorporating insanity, horror, and gruesome imagery beyond belief. In late 2004, a biography was developed by Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary Ruby, showing the true upbringing of Poe, the creative lifestyle, and the list of the rewards he received during his time as a writer. Napierkowski and Ruby went on to say, "His poems…

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…

victim of colonization, Ireland has a long history of patriotic writers that comment on the effects of British colonialism, as well as themes of nationalism and conservatism through their writings. The introduction of Gothic literature, and its fearful conventions of the supernatural and the uncanny, has allowed Irish writers to align nationalist motifs within their texts through a more analogous narrative. As Laura Doyle writes, “The Gothic text has been shown to represent colonialism 's crimes…

Horror films are movies that seek to bring your fears and nightmares to life. They to scare with the morbid and grotesque while entertaining also. They often involve an evil entity, event or person. Horror films feature supernatural creatures like werewolves, ghosts, vampires, witches, and zombies. They also dive into fears of death, of the unknown and loss of identity. They show the darker side of life and expose our vulnerabilities. Movies that push your buttons of anxiety and uneasiness.…

his literature. An emphasis on the importance of shortness in length of a literary work was expressed by Poe, who was considered the creator of the short story. “It appears evident, then, that there is a distinct limit, as regards length, to all works of literary art - the limit of a single sitting . . . “ (Poe). Poe’s approach to the lengths of his literary works is very uniform since the approach is based solely off of his personal literary ideologies. He believed that a piece of literature…