Supernatural Horror in Literature

originality. She invented the mad scientist who locks himself in his laboratory and secretly, guiltily, works at creating human life, only to find that he has made a monster. That is very good horror, but what follows is more horrid still; Frankenstein, the scientist, runs…

Frankenstein, a unique story, at the time that gothic literature had been becoming more and more popular. Gothic literature is a modern genre, Frankenstein is not the first of this. This genre has been around since 1754 and Frankenstein was written in 1817. Gothic does not necessarily mean dark makeup and leather jackets, but more like castles, dungeons, creatures, or a damsel in distress. This genre of literature focuses on supernatural ideas, death, horror, mysterious conditions, or even…

been informed by its primary position in the Gothic canon, and discussions of Walpole’s text are usually subsumed into a broader analysis of the Gothic genre. This is unsurprising given how expansive the genre has become, including famous works of literature, like Jane Eyre, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber and branching off into sub-genres that include historical, romance, detective and science fiction. Therefore, it is perhaps understandable that current critical attitudes often see Otranto as a…

We live in a world that is diverse and around people that have issues whether it is mental physical or spiritual. In addition with people that suffered from abuse, domestic violence, and etc. I remeber in high school when my teacher was showing my class a video on the ending results of gun violence and crime at that time my cousin had just passed away and it brought back terrible flashbacks in my mind. Unfortunately I was not warned about what was going to be shown and it did have an negative…

The renaissance is often affiliated with the cultural rebirth in Europe during the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. However, from the 1830s to the 1850s, the progression of American literature seems to fit this description. Not only did the American Renaissance advance literature, but it also prompted advancements in democratization and individualism. The women of both the American and European renaissance had a remarkable impact on the nation’s progression and the progression of women…

Stephen King is an author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He is most well-known for his writing of horror stories and how scary and real they seem to be. One of Kings first novels known as Carrie was his first horror novel and was a huge success. In this essay assignment, the directions were to read Stephen King’s “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” and to define and focus in on nine points in which Stephen King talks about during his essay. Stephen Kings…

witches in the form of an alcoholic who entombs a cat in the corpse of his murdered wife. "The Black Cat" has become a classic Halloween tale, particularly among educators seeking Halloween entertainment. Poe, known as the first and best American horror storyteller, was almost destined to have his works associated with Halloween. Anthologies like Ruth E. Kelley's "The Book of Hallowe'en" (1919) and Robert Haven Schauffler's "Hallowe'en" (1935) include "The Black Cat" as a suggested reading for…

myths were part of European civilization since the Dark Ages. Science was a new concept and everyone turned to religion or the supernatural to try and make sense of the world around them. It is in Europe, specifically British literature, where the first literary vampire was introduced. In Robert Southey’s 1801 epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer, explores a wide range of supernatural…

which Ishmael or the crew does encounter more stereotypical supernatural-like beings, such as the ghostly sailors Ishmael saw in chapter twenty-one that vanishes when he and Queequeg boards the ship, and the unnoticed and disembodied “low laugh from the hold” in chapter thirty-six (Melville 140). All this adds to the dreadful, gloomy suspense of the Pequod’s setting, which is not uncommon for a Gothic novel. But perhaps the most supernatural being in the story is Moby Dick. In the minds of the…

Many American Gothic Fiction novels incorporate the same plot and structure. Gothic Fiction is a genre that utilizes fiction, horror, death, and Romanticism to tell a story. In Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Wieland, an insane man murders his wife and children because of his strict devotion to God. On the other hand, in Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator murdered an old man because the old man’s eye horrified him. Since both stories employ common ideas such as murder and…