How Does W. F Harvey Create Suspense

If you’re like most people that wonder what make stories so “scary” or suspenseful, W.F Harvey and Percy D' Aco can help you answer some of those questions. W.F Harvey is a well known writer for writer scary novels. He wrote the famous novel called “August Heat” and in the story you can see the many different methods he used to make the story so suspenseful. He used three specific methods that helped make the novel so suspenseful, one was withholding information, the next was foreshadowing information and the last one was putting the character in peril. These methods are the reactants to the novel and the product was fear. Without suspense scary novels or even films wouldn’t have that hair straightening element to it. W.F Harvey creates suspense in “August Heat” using the method that is withholding information from the reader. You see an example of this on page 94 when the main character says “ There, was something unnatural, uncanny, in meeting this man” (Harvey). Here the character knows there’s something different about the about the man, however the information about the man he meets isn’t given. The author does this so that the reader

An example of this is on page 94 when the man says “but it certainly is hot, hot as hell” (Harvey). The heat in the story is ironically being ignored, by the main character because when the man told him that phrasing, the author completely ignored it. W.F Harvey did this for a specific reason, and the reason was because the heat played a huge role in the story he just wants the reader to pay little attention to that, so he can reference it later in the novel. This creates suspense throughout the story because a lot like the withholding information method this one is wanting the reader to forget about the heat, but not completely. This is why this is a vital part of creating the suspense in any horror