In order to study pre 20th century coursework, we have analysed two short stories. I have chosen to write about "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Red Room" as examples of which create suspense and tension most successfully.
The story of 'The Monkey's Paw' features a mysterious talisman which has magical powers, it grants its owner three wishes that comes with an enormous price. The monkey's paw is given the White family of three, father, mother, and son. The father wishes for some money, and the next day an employee from their son's company arrives at the family's residence. The parents are told that their son has been caught in machinery whilst working and has died. They received a monetary compensation, the exact amount they wished for. About a week later, the mother wishes that their son would return home alive. When knocking is heard at the door, the father can not bear to face his decaying son and uses his last wish to send him away.
The Monkey's Paw (film)
Red Room, by Seaver, C. (Charles)
The Red Room after the redesign by McKim, Mead, an...The story of 'The Red Room' features a young man who stays in a castle in which three old people live. The elder three tells the young man the castle is haunted, the ghost lives in a room called the "Red Room". The young man decides to stay a night in this room to cast away any fears of the ghost. He sets himself up in the room and lights his candles. Just after midnight, the candles suddenly start going out and in a whirlwind of panic the young man fights with the 'ghost' desperately in the darkness. He tries to relight the candles as one by one they all go out. He violently crashes around the room throwing furniture and then faints when he strikes his head. When he...