The stories of mystery and suspense you have read present improbable events - How have the writers of these stories engaged and sustained your interest? Which of the two stories did you find more successful?

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The stories of mystery and suspense you have read present improbable events. How have the writers of these stories engaged and sustained your interest? Which of the two stories did you find more successful? Refer closely to the text and offer quotation to support your ideas.

The stories themselves are not scary to a modern audience but to the audience at the period that the stories were written the stories would have been horrific. Although a modern audience would still be scared of these concepts for example "fear of the unknown" or the "fear of a random logical murderer." I am to contrast these short stories "The tell tale heart" by Edgar Allen Poe and "The sea raiders" by HG Wells.

Poe's "Tell tale heart" opens with the exclamation of a mad man, which adds to the mystery and suspense, as we don't know whether or not to believe the mad mans logic and also the protagonist uses repetition of language such as "will you say I am mad?" Attempting to convince the reader that he is not insane but actually he confirms that he is insane by exclaiming lines like the afore mentioned. This use of