It was the brightest night of the Halloween in Playland, suddenly in the distance people were screaming. A scream that was so terrifying that it made my hair strand stand on the back of my neck. The screams came from the enormous, creepy, and rickety vintage house. Bones and fake dead bodies everywhere; to the walls, to the windows, and at the front door. A blinding flash of white light came from the inside like a thunderstorm. As I stared at the horror house, it made me more frightened, but to overcome my fear I have to face my phobia.
On my first Halloween here in Canada, I went to a horror house in Playland. My cousin Edison, who had been here in Canada for five years asked me to go into the Fright Night with him. Edison and I
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The first that I noticed was the immense sinister humanoid like a bat hanged in the entrance. The entrance to the Playland could be seen in the distance and the long queues edged forward slowly. Customers were becoming increasingly excited and impatient as they took a few steps forward every so often. Faint music could be heard from the beyond the tall gates with mingled of happy and scared screams suddenly pierced the air. As we entered to the Playland, massive structures of the rides could be seen: a roller coaster, a big wheel, and a towering atmosfear. The rides were steel giants reaching for the moon. Hordes of terrifying zombies were lurking in the shadow of the night chasing and terrorizing people around. Their faces were rotted and had cuts; flesh hanged in their faces and oozed blood. The thing that I was afraid of was being in a horror house that we were about to …show more content…
Lots of the windows were broken and the door looked like a giant big mouth. People were screaming inside that made me exceedingly anxious. We were the next group that has gone inside. My heart was beating rapidly and I started to feel uneasy. As we opened the door, I peered into the corridor. It was dingy and it has this powerful weird smell like incense. The noises were disturbing and made the situation even more frightening. A loud continuously banging on the wall, weird growling, and a murmuring sound like they were behind us. As we walked into the gloomy corridor, a zombie just popped out of the wall. Edison held my arms on my back, facing the zombie in front of me. I could not move and fear escalated quickly. A piercing scream came out of my mouth. However, my fear slowly disappeared when I saw peoples’ reactions. People screamed their lungs out, their eyes bulged like a frog, and their face was devoured by terror. I imagined that I had the same facial expression as they
...ey walk out of a haunted house, ensuring that it is going to be a scary one. Nowadays it’s hard to find a place to go to on Halloween that isn’t overplayed and not scary at all, but there is a place and its Universal Studios.
...l sights fill the background of this story, and the details become more frightening and typical of both horror and action-adventure genres as the story progresses,” (158). Using horrible sounds, action, and adventure, Connell was able to transform this story into a suspenseful story.
When writing a story that is meant to scare the reader, authors use a variety of different literary elements to intensify fear. This is apparent in the stories “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “beware: do not read this poem,” and “House Taken Over”. It is shown through transformation in the character, setting, and sometimes even the story or poem itself, adding to the scariness that the reader feels when reading it. While there are some examples of transformation not being scary or not playing a role in stories meant to scare us, transformation plays a crucial role in making the reader of these stories scared.
It had finally gotten dark enough that all of the dazzling park lights had turned on. I heard screams of people in the distance as we walked across the park toward ‘Roar’, the wooden roller
Not so long ago, my sister and I went to a haunt attraction an amusement park was holding. We walked through a house where people would jump out of nowhere to scare you. From time to time, we’d walk through items that had either moved or rattled. These simple changes made both my sister and I very uncomfortable and left us terror-stricken all night. No one would feel comfortable to look at an object, blink, then see that the object wasn’t at it’s rightful place. That’s not normal, especially when you're by yourself. That would mean someone or something else is with you. You know what else would scare us? When people around us transform. It’s like meeting someone new and thinking hey, she’s cool… but once you get to know her, you realize you
I heard a blood-curdling scream and I jumped. I felt silent tears running down my heavily scarred face, but they weren’t out of sadness. Mostly. They were a mixture of pain and fear. I ran into the eerie, blood-splattered room and screamed as I felt cold fingers grab my neck.
For more than two centuries, the setting of the haunted castle or house has played with our emotions and psyches. They create tension and fear, while we wait for the ghost or bogeyman to jump out. Author H.P. Lovecraft, known for creating these emotions with his own works, states “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” (Lovecraft, 12). This fear of the unknown continues to make gothic novels as popular today, as when Horace Walpole took a romantic drama, added a few shiny bits, and called it gothic.
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There are many books involving horror, either identified as gothic, thriller, actual horror, fantasy, etc. To determine how this element is reached, one must look at scenes that are known to frighten the reader. Therefore I decided to choose two passages each from two books to analyze the elements that contribute to the horror and sinister features. Trying to pick an old and a rather new novel I chose Bram Stoker’s Dracula, one of the first modern gothic/horror novels that has been of great influence in horror culture and has inspired many film makers to realize the story on screen, and Stephen King’s IT, King might be the most celebrated horror writer since the originals like Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, HP Lovecraft, etc, and IT has been labeled
They revealed headless humans hung on chains and innumerous distorted faces. The sound of something similar to that of a disembodied spirit could be heard from all angles. I wasn't nearly as frightened as my sister, though, so I made it my sole responsibility to protect her. "We're going to make it out of here and then you won't have to come back any more." The vehicle turned yet another corner and we came to a standstill with the ancient concrete wall.
This story, although somewhat unique in its exact plot, contains many elements that make it a typical and traditional ghost story. These elements suggest common fears in today’s society of people in general, and children specifically.
Going through the “Gothic archway of the hall” (3), the narrator takes notes of the “many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio” (3). He walks down through the labyrinth of hallways with coat arms until he reaches the staircase. As the narrator climbs up the stairs, he meets “the physician of the family…[where he accosts the narrator] with trepidation” (3). On the second floor, “many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the scene” (4). No life seems to rise when the narrator walks around the house; everything feels like time has stopped, and no one seems to be alive in the
Settings are the fundamental element that create the allure of fear; without the presence of a setting, a reader's’ curiosity will begin to fade away. In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” the author, Edgar Allan Poe, demonstrates how our settings can become a part of us and show our subconscious emotions. This is also a critical element in the short story, “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar. This short story demonstrates that our homes can sometimes overtake us if we are left vulnerable. Both authors create a disturbing atmosphere in order to construct a sense of fear for readers; however, their writing contain elements that differ.
The events were not the only way readers can see the horror in this narrative. This narrative includes many themes that are reoccurring, by implying symbolism and imagery throughout this
Never ending queues weaved and meandered through the swarm of people away from the attractions in a random route. People, families, boyfriends and girlfriends stand idle and lethargic, waiting in line patiently for the hurricanes of fear and enjoyment to ride upon them, listening to the squeals of both horror and excitement increasing in volume as the ride turns and twists, goes round the loop-de-loop and curves in every direction.