Speculative fiction

The book ‘The Gathering’ by Isobelle Carmody is a book the has many connections with society.The story of The Gathering is a story story of evil, a dark evil that is trying to take control of not only the town of Chestnut but also surrounding towns. Unlike other speculative fictions texts this book has several issues that relate to society, from Characters being similar to people from our society, ironic meaning such as characters names, and how the book relates to other speculative fiction, to issues that take place in the book that happen in our society as well. There are numerous characters in The Gathering that can be strongly connected to people from our society. Characters such Mr Karle, Buddha, and Nathanial are relatable to people…

The first question that you have to ask in talking about the horror genre is, what is horror fiction exactly? With what modern horror has become, it is very different from the original horror fiction. The way that the term “horror” is loosely thrown around in today’s society has greatly changed what people associate with “horror fiction” (Horror Writers Association, 1). In the article written by the Horror Writers Association, they say that now if you were to ask a person to write horror…

different models from other Pilot episodes of other shows to try to figure out how to construct my review. One thing that stood out from each review was that they often summarized what occurred in the first episode, which could be seen as a spoiler alert. But, one specific Pilot review that helped me was “iZombie: ‘“Pilot”’ Seizing the day is for suckers” by Carrie Raisler. This review came in handy when trying to distinguish how American Horror Story can be seen as a Drama even though its can…

Joshua An 71811473 Writing 39B 18 April 2013 The Evolution of Horror For centuries, stories of monsters, demons and other unholy abominations have brought fear to the hearts of audiences in commercially convenient doses. Noel Carroll, Ph.D., in his article “The Nature of Horror”, argues that the existence of monsters and supernatural entities alone do not define a horror novel or film “for monsters inhabit all sorts of stories, such as fairy tales, myths, and odysseys, that we are not…

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror” (Arthur Conan Doyle). In the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” by William Wymark Jacobs, our imagination certainly plays a part in our emotions while reading. The short story was about a man who uses a monkey’s paw to change his fate, sort of like a genie in a bottle. The man soon finds out that changing fate comes at a price. While “The Monkey’s Paw” is a typical horror story, it fits so well with the horror genre because of the suspense the…

What is horror? Before you can define the horror genre you need to define horror. Horror in my opinion is something that will leave you in a frightened state of being, something that will make your heart race in expectation, something that will put your guard down just to scare you. So the horror genre are stories, movies, television shows, news reports that will frighten you, make your heart race in expectation, or puts your guard down to spike it back up. In order for a story to be considered…

Gothic Literature is a genre which has many other smaller genres branching out from it. For example, there is traditional gothic, weird fiction, southern gothic, contemporary gothic, etc. Each one of these partial genres has different characteristics which vary from story to story. However, some stories which fall into a specific genre, also have many characteristics from other genres. For example, a contemporary gothic literature work may be in written in a sense that seems like traditional…

to such intense stories may come from what Anna Jackson wrote in The gothic in childrens literature “the appeal of course rests in the safe distance the reader has from the text (...) everyone likes a good shiver because it shakes us free of security but keeps our security in tact. The appeal is the appeal of danger, beckoning us to be just a bit more daring, a bit more wild than our normal lives might allow.” With this kind of genre there is room for error and only the good make it out alive;…

repeated loop. Whenever the economy is at a low point horror films become the popular genre. Furthermore, we discussed my subject for my plan b. I described my idea, and he assisted that the key to a successful paper is to narrow the topic down. That information was my main takeaway from the conversation. To focus my research to a certain subgenre, review a few movies, and concentrate on the female roles. Dr. J lent me a book called, Gendering Science Fiction Films written by Susan A. George. I…

In the world of horror fiction, the “monster” the most overtly associated with sexuality and eroticism is the vampire. The blood-sucking exchange between the vampire and the victim is often presented as a type of stand-in for “traditional” sexual encounters, seeing as both create a bond or a unity between two individuals. The goal of this essay is to analyze, and in doing so compare, both Dracula and I Am Legend as two key works of fiction in the tradition of viewing the vampire through an…