Horror and Suspense in Poe’s stories and movies

Name : Gausvami Surbhi A.

SEM : 3

Paper no : 11, American Literature

Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad,

Department of English,

MKBU university.

Roll No: 23

Enrollment No: 2069108420170008

Email id: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com

Batch-year: 2016-18

Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

• January 19, 1809 –October 7, 1849

• “Father of Short stories”

• considered part of the Romantic Movement

Poe’s short stories

Horror and Suspense in poe’s short stories

The Tell-Tale Heart

Horror

• Midnight

• Lightness and Darkness

• “Vulture Eyes”

• Mad Narrator

• Sound of Door

• Beating Heart

Suspense

• Irrational Behavior

• Vision for Murder

• Living together

• Relation between narrator and Old man

• Police investigation

• Narrator’s dilemma

The Fall of the House of Usher

Horror

• Darkness at the beginning

• Usher House

• The Storm

• Wall with hanging shield

• Barking of Dog

• Madeline wearing white clothes

• Entombing of Madeline

• The falling of House

Suspense

• Strange behavior of Roderick Usher

• Mysteries House

• Madeline’s death

• Narrator’s unawareness about his friend’s sister

The Black Cat

Horror

• Black Cat Pluto

• Psychological aspects

• Perversity of narrator

• Fantastic elements of cat

• Violence

• Murder

• Screeching of cat

Suspense

• Foreshadowing

• Unreliable Narrator

• Reason of his death

• Animal abuser

• Second cat

Horror and Suspense in Movies

Setting

• Haunted House

• Forest

• Graveyard

• Isolated buildings

• Basements

Atmosphere

• Dark night

• Loneliness

• Uneasy Atmosphere

• Unidentified Areas

Sound

• Create certain atmosphere

• Powerful impact

• Highlights

• Movements of characters

• Breathtaking

• Creaky Doors

• Eerie Music and whispering

• Sound of Animals

Lighting and Colour

• Dark lighting

• Low lighting

• Black

• White

• Gray

• Red

Fear

• Ghost

• Witch

• Fear of unknown

• Fear of loneliness

Mystery

• Crime Mystery

• Psychological Suspense

• Suspense

• Puzzle

• Secret

Themes

• Supernatural• Alien• Murder• Psychological• Suicide• Childhood problem• Nightmares• Demons• Good v/s Evil