Conventions Of Supernatural Horror

Imagine the world without fear, where everyone wouldn't be scared of anything, but without fear, you won’t be able to think twice about your decision and you can meet get yourself killed. Fear is always with you can't get rid of it even if you tried fear is a type of nerve and it needs to be exercised. If the horror movie would occur, then you would know what to do in that situation. The horror genre is right for young readers because it's fictional, and was basically young adults were 12-13 years old.

Horror is the genre that keeps the reader on their toes for nights upon end. It keeps them thinking. Thinking about how cruel and disturbing someone, or something, could possibly be. Thinking about what in the world happens to a character after the story drops off in a cliffhanger. Thinking about the probability that the events in the narrative could transpire in real life. Thinking about how likely it is for those things to happen to the reader. Refusing to look out their window in fear of seeing the glimpse of a murderous face, and listening to every sound with acute accuracy, praying that the noise is not one of a stranger creeping up the stairs. Scary accounts make the reader live in fear whenever the

To begin with,I researched and analyzed facts about the Haunting in Connecticut 2, a film that is based on a true story.It takes place in Georgia in a rural home and no one has previously lived on the land.The main Characters are Heidi,her mother(lisa),her father(Andy),her aunt(Joyce),Mr.Gordy(a nice ghost),the stationmaster(an evil ghost),and the ghosts of slaves.The writer was inspired to make this by the events surrounding the Wyrick house of Ellerslie, Georgia, which were published in the book The Veil: Heidi Wyrick's Story.

Since it’s infancy at the beginning of the eighteenth century, horror has followed certain conventions that results in an awakening of the senses, evoking intense emotions of fear and terror in the audience. Horror feeds off triggering the primal fears embedded within all of humankind, creating a sense of menace that is the very substance of this genre. Furthermore, the central menace of a piece tends to enlighten the human mind to the world of the paranormal and the enigmatic, dark side of the unknown. The movie “Psycho” directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a perfect example. Infamous for its shower scene, but immortal for its contribution to the horror genre, “Psycho” was filmed with great tact, grace and art in regards to horror conventions.

There are too many haunted houses to count, but this one might just be real. With thousands of haunted places in the US, it's easy to think that many are fake. But this one has convincing evidence about how a seemingly innocent man killed his entire family. It may just have been out of this world forces.

Type the word horror into google and you will receive the following definition on Merriam Webster: an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. Horror is different than fear in that it is more disturbing, disgusting, and creepy. Writers of horror stories take repulsive or unspeakable elements and turn them into a story that’s sure to make even the strongest of reader’s arm hairs stand on edge. One such writer spent a portion of his life writing these kind of stories. Edgar Allan Poe was influenced by his own life experiences, social normalities of the early 19th century, and used literary devices to write horrific works such as The Black Cat, The Raven, and Berenice.

Creepily it is also said to be haunted by a phantom who roams the halls looking for people to scare. There was also wagons that carried prisoners and if someone died they would just dump their body on the ground in the cemetery. This had created most of the ghost. and this Also it is most likely what explains the dead people laying on the ground during the night and then vanish. Before, most of the ghost appearances started there because a rain collapse and a lot of the caskets had came out of the ground. They put the caskets back to their resting places but some say that the ghost are permanently disturbed. Their begins the hauntings of the

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone says, haunted houses? Scary? Ghosts? Studies show that people hear and see things that aren’t there when they are scared or frightened. Leading them to report “paranormal” activity. Haunted houses make people do that. But, in order to successfully understand the Amityville haunting, one must know the murderer of the family, the other family who purchased the home, and how the haunting of the house started.

The story “The Haunting of Hill House” written by Shirley Jackson and “Rose Red” by Steaven King have many similar things that happen. In both the movie and book it talks about a group of people that are psychic that visit a haunted house that has had so many things happen inside. They believe the house is alive and they go inside to see it for themselves. Both houses had a family Crains and the Rimbauers that have died in the house or on the way to the house.

Definitions of horror tend to emphasize the psychological effect it has on audiences. Specifically, they highlight the internal terror that arises from encountering threats to existence. According to

When the family who purchased this home first moved in, they thought all their dreams had come true. The log home in a beautiful location seemed to be everything they wanted. Soon, however, they started seeing mysterious lights and hearing chains dragging and other noises. They spent a fortune trying to discover what was wrong with their precious home, only to have a medium confirm their suspicions that it was, in fact, haunted.

Countless works of literature have sentimentalized the house as a space of sanctuary; however, in time the house came to incorporate the mysterious also, as haunted houses allowed the supernatural to dwell alongside the living. Fictional narratives have long since utilized the house as a venue for character and situation to develop, dispersing opportunities for authors to bring symbolism and metaphor to their works. Julio Cortázar drew upon the house setting in his short stories “Bestiary” and “House Taken Over”, not just as a venue for his tales to play out, but as places that echoed the themes, character, and structure for the unusual could enter and abide. Cortázar’s treatment of the bizarre as a part of the natural family life of the house,

For this summer reading I decided to read the Scary Novels. Which included Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, and Stephen King’s The Shining. The Haunting of Hill House is about an 80 year old mansion built by a man named Huge Crain. Dr. Montague, a paranormal investigator, rents the house in hopes to experience the supernatural. He invites four people, Eleanor Vance, Theodora and Luke Sanderson, based on their pasts. From there they stay for the summer in hopes to explore the supernatural side. The Exorcist is about a young girl Regan MacNeil, a daughter of a famous actress, that gets possessed. After the actress, Chris, tries everything to help her daughter from the so called sickness, she calls in a priest.

Horror is designed to scare, cause alarm and dread, while also entertaining the audience at the same time in a cathartic experience (Dirk, 2016). Horror films are meant for a specific type of audience that enjoy scary films. Dirks (Tim, 2016) approach to genre horror, is that films went back as 100 years ago, from the earliest days our vivid imagination in seeing ghosts in the shadows to be connected emotionally of the unknown, and fear things that are improbable. You watch a horror film, it makes you aware of the scary surroundings, the essence of fear itself, without actually being in any sorts of danger. Dirks argues that there is a fun and thrill factor in being frightened, or watching something disturbing. It gives you that feeling of an adrenaline rush, as well as having that feeling someone is actually next to you lurking in the dark (Dirk, 2016).

Horror stories focus on creating a feeling of fear and shock using many sources. There are many sources of horror besides monsters and there are more factors involved in making stories part of the horror genre, including supernatural elements, hubris, and setting. Stories including the “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Outsider” by H.P. Lovecraft, and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs include these elements.