How do writers create suspense and mystery in a selection of stories from the genre '19th Century Gothic Horror'

Gothic Horror started to become popular. It is said to have been started by the novel ‘The Castle of Otranto’ by Horace Walpole. Until this time, Britain was very religious and God was a prominent feature in everybody’s life and night time was when unknown and mysterious things happened. But with the introduction of Sherlock Holmes, people started to apply logic and reason to seemingly impossible situations, as did Holmes. Each of the three stories – ‘The Red Room’ by H. G. Wells, ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by W. W. Jacobs and the ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ by E. A. Poe – follow the same conventions. They are all seta at night in a mysterious house or castle. These were designed to be abnormal so the reader knows that something strange is going to happen at one point during the story. Each of the stories are also set at night which creates a spooky and tense atmosphere as it was believed that strange things happened at night in Victorian times. They all have mysterious characters who we know only very vaguely, either by a description or their surname which keeps us in suspense about who they really are or what they are like