How Stoker, Poe, Wells and Conan Doyle Have tried to make their stories Horrifying

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How Stoker, Poe, Wells and Conan Doyle Have tried to make their stories Horrifying

Writers have several ways of making the stories they write, horrifying. One way in which they do this is through the atmosphere they create through the use of descriptive language. The writers can make everyday occurrences seem scary to suit the mood of the story such as weather and the time of day. Whenever something horrifying happens it always seems to be at night with bad weather! This all adds to the atmosphere. Writers also use the setting to their advantage; this is one of the most important things in a story. Very insecure places are often chosen to build up tension in a story.

Writers contrast places in their stories from a safe, secure place on a sunny morning to an isolated place at night. Writers also use Characterisation to make the story horrifying. Some writers use an unlikely killer like a polite American and others use a stereotypical person who would commit a murder but make the reader want to find out how the murder carried out.

The Squaw- By Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker has several ways to make his story horrifying and one of them is the way his characters develop the story to unravel the supernatural side of the Squaw. Stoker uses the typical gentleman (the narrator) to make the American seem like the bad guy of the story when he shows the Americans reaction when he kills the kitten. The American tells the story of the Squaw back in America:
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" Wall, I guess that air the savagest beast I ever see cept once when an Apache Squaw had an edge on a half breed"

This shows the supernatural side of the story and portrays that the Squaw might have been reincarnated as a cat. Stoker's characters have no psychological uncertainties. Elias.P.Hutcheson is a very arrogant character and when he kills the cat's kitten the cat wants revenge fuelled by the hatred for Hutcheson.

Another example of how Stoker makes this story horrifying is the setting of the story and the contrasts Bram Stoker uses. ...

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