The Tell Tale Heart And Ray Bradbury's

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” This idea is discussed in “What is the Horror Genre” and this essay will analyze “The Tell-Tale Heart” according to the criteria put forth by the author S. Russel. Edgar Allen Poe was one of the most famous horror story writers because he used his life experience and imagination to give us suspenseful characters and events. “The Tell-Tale Heart” provides suspense through the events of murder and disposing the body.

Therefore, the foreshadowing in the story creates suspense for both the characters and the readers.

In both the excerpts "Jams" and "Swimming with Nightmares" by Peter Benchley, the author creates suspense in many ways. The author utilizes descriptive words, character's choices, and dangerous situations for creating suspense.

Suspense is a detail that many horror writer use to catch the attention of many readers and keep them holding on till the end. Just as W.F. Harvey does when creating suspense in his story August Heat. Mr. Harvey used three methods to create his suspense for his story, foreshadowing, withholding information, and reversal. With these three methods he is able to make the reader feel like, “ We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends”(Source 1).

The first way the author creates suspense in the story is by foreshadowing. When Captain Torres walked into the barber’s shop, the barber, “Started to shake,” (Tellez 1) indicating that the barber felt instant fear, when his enemy approached. This foreshadows that the barber knows the man and that he will be deciding to kill him or not. Foreshadowing creates suspense because it is a clue given to the reader. It is the reader’s job to guess what is going to happen in the story and that is what makes it interesting. Without foreshadowing the reader won’t be able to prepare what is going to happen next. Another scene where the foreshadowing technique is used was when the barber came up with his reasons to not kill Captain Torres. The barber contemplated in his mind, “Don’t want to stain myself with blood. Just lather, and nothing else,” (Tellez 2) which foreshadows that the barber is not going to commit murder.

One example is when Sergeant Major Morris is chatting with the Whites, Morris says “If you keep it, don’t blame me for what happens” (Jacobs, 91). This is suspenseful and foreshadowing seeing something bad will happen and a reader does not quite know what. Herbert says after Mr. White makes the wish, “Well I don’t see the money...and I bet I never shall” (Jacobs, 134). This is foreshadowing Herbert’s death. This is suspenseful seeing Herbert says this as a joke, but later in the story when Herbert dies it seems more sinister. Lastly when Morris is telling the Whites about the paw he says the first person who had the paw on their third wish wished for death. This is foreshadowing and suspense seeing how whatever the first person’s two wishes were they had to very consequential if his last wish was for death. These examples state how suspense is created through

Foreshadowing is a vital ingredient to any suspenseful story. It hints at the idea that something is off-kilter, without ever revealing exactly what that something is. This leaves readers with an uneasy feeling about the plot, but they can’t quite figure out why. Because of that suspicious feeling, readers are left with a burning desire to find out what happens on the next page. Foreshadowing can be achieved many different ways, such as through eree names, unpleasant conversations, and odd occurrences.

Ever wonder what’s going to happen next in a story? Suspense is that literary element and it’s used in almost all cases of writing. Some authors use a lot of it to build up their stories, others, not so much. Ray Bradbury, an American author and screenwriter was one of those authors who used suspense to build up the tension and develop the plot of his stories. From beginning to end, genre to genre, suspense can be found all over his work. “A Sound of Thunder”, “The Veldt”, and “The Pedestrian” are just three examples of Bradbury’s work where he uses suspense all over the text to keep the reader on the edge of their seat and wondering what’s going to happen next.

During his first story it didn’t get my attention or for me to want to more. Then after that his stories started to get me more interested in it. He seemed at the beginning to be like every other writer in a sense. Then after reading a few stories of his he seemed different to me. I don’t know what made him different but something to me made him different. Bradbury’s stories where are different in its own way. Like the sun dome it all about life on a different planet. Then with “The Fog Horn” it’s about sea creatures that come out at a single day of the year.

Edgar Allan Poe has a dark sense of literary meaning. Within "The Tell-Tale Heart" it 's shown when Poe incorporates dark elements of literacy through the guilt of a murder. Which became forced out by the hypothetical beating of a heart.

Punctuation in the form of commas and dashes is used to slow the pacing of the story and create suspense or an unresolved tone. Poe uses these dashes in “The Tell-Tale Heart” to emphasize the narrator’s madness, allowing the reader to hear and understand the fragmentation of the narrator’s thoughts on a much closer level. This is exemplified in one passage, where the narrator states “TRUE! -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -- not destroyed -- not dulled them.” This adds to a jolting tone to the passage, as the narrator begins feverently, represented by exclamation points, then suddenly pauses for extended stretches, then starts again. The long pauses between statements caused by multiple dashes in a row evoke this aforementioned madness, due to the fact that, by normal standards, a “sane” person would not speak with such a disjointed

ll great writing has a form of suspense. If you were to ask a random person, they would define it as “anxiety” which, has some properties that deal with suspense. Dictionary.com defines suspense as “ a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety”. Authors display suspense by adding a weaker character to their writing (“Eleanor and Park” by rainbow Rowell), adding a mishap in their character's life which causes them to have breakdowns (“Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky), displaying the reasoning, thoughts, and plans in a story (“The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe), and putting the characters that are either the main characters or a character that is close to the heart in danger or jeopardy (“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury). In these stories I have claimed to have those specific types of suspense, “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Pedestrian” by

To begin with, Poe valued punctuation in its ability to make a point. Proper use of punctuation allowed the reader to feel the

In “The Landlady”, Dahl uses foreshadowing when he introduces the two characters, Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple, when he writes, “Gregory Temple…Christopher Mulholland. It rings a bell.” This example illustrates there will be more information on the two characters and that they are more important than they are thought to be. When the Landlady says “‘I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away.’” it foreshadows and lets the reader infer what she might have done to Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple, and what she might do to Billy, creating suspense. In “A Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe similarly uses foreshadowing to build suspense for the reader. The quote “Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded, with what caution.” as stated in the beginning of the story, foreshadows the idea that the reader will later on have a reason to believe the narrator is crazy, so he denies it towards the beginning. As the narrator is about to kill the old man, he hears a noise, “But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst,” which is what finally motivates him to kill the old man, not the “Evil Eye” he complained about. This event foreshadows that the sound the narrator heard is of more importance that it was perceived to be, as it irritates the narrator more than the eye

“The Tell Tale Heart”, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe which details the murder of an innocent old man with a “vulture” like eye that infuriates the unnamed narrator; he describes with a joyous excitement, the planning and execution of the killing as well as the hiding of the corpse in the floorboards. Poe uses literary devices such as authorial intrusion, italics, and cacophony to create a manic voice for the narrator.