The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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Stephen King’s presumptuous article‚ "Why We Crave Horror Movies"‚ inspects the inner‚ mentally psychotic adaptation of human beings‚ and explores our obsessive attraction to gruesome and tantalizing horror movies. He believes that we are all secretly morbid and insist on using scary films to produce our psychotic relief from the demanding civilized society we live in; King states‚ " I think we are all mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it a little better ". He values the
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A Craving for Horror: Based on the Works of Stephen King Stephen King’s work asserts macabre and grim moods to support that we are intrigued by horror films because ‘we’re all mentally ill’ (King‚ “Why We Crave Horror” 1). King uses “Strawberry Spring” to provide the reader a rush to show “that we are not afraid” of whatever grim scenes are to follow (King‚ “Why We Crave…” 1). He opens the story with a narrative of Gale Cerman’s death in which the narrator describes the unusually spine-chilling
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Everyone Has a Little Manson Inside What is horror? Stephen King (a well-known author) a master of horror‚ he writes an interesting story in Why We Crave Horror Movies‚ which gives reasons why people crave‚ need‚ and want horror their lives. In Two horrific twisted flicks Misery written by Stephen King himself directed by Rob Reiner and “The Doll: Amelia” a short suspenseful story of three in Trilogy of Terror directed by Dan Curtis‚ these insane and psychotic reasons come to life with many similarities
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I was the only one allowed to touch him other than her. I still remember the day she wanted me to bunk school because she wanted to talk to me. I couldn’t refuse when my cute sister asked me. We spent the entire day telling stories to each other. I remember every story she told me. Most of them were about me‚ her and Fluffy going on a vacation. Tears were now rolling down my cheeks. What if something happens to her ? I was now 5 feet from the door. I was shivering. My sister was everything
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The lake closed over her nose and mouth as Sara sucked in a lung-full of cold‚ black water. Sarah barely managed to get in another breath‚ she glimpsed quickly‚ she saw the dreadful red light of its eyes still shining accompanied by the horrifying howls. Sara felt her body beginning to tremble out of utter fear‚ for the beast was still pursuing her. Sarah took a deep breath of living restoring air‚ and submersed herself under the water. She began to swim further and further away from it‚ being very
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exposing the single element of life that allows your business to strive? Well in Why We Crave Horror Movies Stephen King did and today were going to talk about why. Maybe he had a need to express a personal belief. Then again he could have tried to expose a part of everyone’s psyche that is often hidden from one another. Or maybe he is offering a semi-logical excuse for him to publish such horrendous stories. I will end this paragraph with how he started his “ we are all mentally ill: those of us outside
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pushing through. The formula in making a successful horror franchise is quite sensitive. Especially if the production is adapting a popular horror franchise. And it looks like MTV is struggling to make this nightmare live long enough. Which is why Scream season 3 is indeed coming back. But there is one big catch to this come-back. The series is only coming back for six episodes. Why the short run? It looks like the franchise does not have enough story to go on. With the Scream Halloween Special set
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For my reaction paper I chose to go watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Allen Theater on Friday night. I found the movie to be very interesting and hilariously funny. It is a spoof of monster‚ horror‚ and sci-fi flicks. The classic movie includes famous actors such as Susan Sarandon‚ Tim Curry‚ Barry Bostwick‚ Meat Loaf‚ and others and is definitely worth seeing. The movie begins with a woman named Janet accepting a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Brad. The happy couple drives away
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In Stephen Kings essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies" he claims that we are all mentally ill. According to King‚ people’s quirks are proof of this. The antidote to our mental illness‚ king says‚ is that we watch horror movies to "re-establish our feelings of essential normality". King also says that we watch them to satisfy the bad in us. We all do crazy things in our lives. Once in awhile we all want to thrash out on someone‚ to prove a point‚ or just to hurt them for the sake of hurting them. We
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