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Elements of Horror Fiction
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Setting The time, place, environment, and historical
context of the story. Horror stories often include isolated locations,
stormy nights, old houses, graveyards, etc…
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Mood The underlying feeling of a story. Horror stories make careful use of mood
shifts to create suspense and advance the plot.
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Character Not all important characters are people,
sometimes they are houses, objects, or creatures.
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Unreliable Narrators Not all narrators are telling the truth. The
reader must determine whether the narrator is trustworthy by paying careful attention to his or her actions, attitudes, and statements.
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Irony (situational and dramatic) Situational Irony: the difference between
what the reader expects to happen and what actually happens.
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Irony continued… Dramatic Irony: the reader sees a
character’s mistakes and misunderstandings, but the character does not.
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Suspense Authors build suspense through careful
pacing of the plot, focusing the reader on key images through repetition, and the use of dramatic irony.