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The Elements of a Good Horror Story as Exemplified in Frankenstein.
Title: The Elements of a Good Horror Story as Exemplified in Frankenstein.
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 627 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Elements of a Good Horror Story as Exemplified in Frankenstein.
I believe the criteria for a good horror story is very diverse. A high quality horror story is realistic, and makes the reader believe that what is happening in the story could happen to them. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, explains how Victor Frankenstein, a student at Ingolstadt (28), grasps the idea of being capable of bestowing life upon an inanimate object (37). This novel is not an impractical vampire or alien story. It is a reasonable happening. …showed first 75 words of 627 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 627 total…manner. To me, being strangled is not the scariest way for a murderer to kill his victims. The creepiest ways for people to die involve blood. Stabbings and shootings are easier for a writer to make terrifying. The author can describe the gash in the wounded, or the pool of blood
around them. It is harder to elaborate a strangling. That is the only way I would change the story to possibly make it better.
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