Horror Story Essay Examples
The girl stumbled and rolled down the grassy hill, pulling her fiance with her. For a few minutes they fell, rolling on top of each other before landing in a heap on the soft sand below. The woman looked at the man below her, affection filling her eyes as she smiled subconsciously. “What are you…
It was a wonderful day in southern Spain and Sara and Kevin was out for a walk in the mouintains on their last vacation day. The view was extrodernery, olive plantings turning the otherwise dry land green and small white houses forming tiny villages, everything bathing in the strong Andalusian sunlight. As they walked upon…
She collapsed in horror when…; wait let me start from the beginning. For Daisy Hicks her life was anything, but ordinary. She has a normal life like any other teenage girl. Daisy went to school, did her homework, had mostly A’s, and liked to sleep in. The only problem with Daisy is she has a…
“The author not only wrote this novel to present his views on human personality but also because he wanted to shock contemporary readers out of their complacency. Show how parts of Jekyll and Hyde read as a horror story.” There are many aspect of the horror genre that contribute to making a story scary in…
Mr and Miss Stapleton ‘claim’ to be brother and sister and as they live in Merripit House. These are some of the prime suspects as they lived right near Sir Charles- or now sir Henry. At first they seem pleasant folk although when Watson first meets them Mr Stapleton becomes distracted at one point and…
There are certain criteria to meet an effective horror story. You must find a way to make your readers pulse rate quicken and make then scan the room secretively just to satisfy their inner fears. A truly classic horror story would be “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe as people can relate to such…
In The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson not only captured his audience in a gripping horror/mystery story, but also conveyed a hidden message towards the Victorian readers. He attacks the Victorian standards and hypocritical tendencies subliminally in the novella. The story follows the events experienced by Mr Utterson, a quiet respected…
The story was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and was first published in 1886. The story originated from a dream he had and upon wakening, immediately wrote it down. The story is set in Victorian London and the focus of the tale is whether evil is more powerful than good. The Victorians were obsessed with…
