Gothic Short Stories

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Gothic Short Stories

Gothic stories are usually dark and mysterious, set mostly at night, and frequently have the appearance of bad weather. Gothic stories hit a peak in Victorian times, when Jack the Ripper and other famous lawbreakers struck fear into peoples hearts.

This grim time was not helped by the very inefficient police force, this left people wanting to hear of more heroes in their world. I have read 3 famous gothic short stories, and in my essay I am going to explore them in detail to decide how suspense has been created, and how effective this is.

The three stories are:

The Body-Snatcher

The Red Room

The Adventure of the Speckled Band.

All of these titles start with "The"; this is to show it is a more definite article. All of these titles give away as little about the story as possible, adding mystery to the stories. The Red Room conjures up lots of different images, for example, blood, danger, evil and pain. But then again, it could just be about a room painted red! This makes the reader want to continue to find out how the title actually