Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King: a Comparison and Contrast of Their W

In the first part of the book, titled C.V., Stephen King discussed his personal stories and what led him to be the writer that he is today. In chapter sixteen he is describing his bedroom at his house in Durham that he lived in as a child. He says that every time he got a rejection slip from magazines that he had submitted his writing to, he would hang it on the nail that he had put in the wall. King mentions that by the time he was fourteen the nail was no longer supporting the weight of all of the rejection slips that had been hung on it over the years (40-41).

Have you ever wondered why you enjoy being scared? In Allegra Ringo’s interview, “Why do some brains enjoy fear?”, with Dr. Kerr, a scare specialist, he states that many enjoy being scared because the brain triggers “a flood” of adrenaline, dopamine, and endorphins. To enjoy the feeling of being terrified, our brains have to process that we are in a safe space. Scary movies, stories, roller coasters, and haunted houses all create a breathtaking response to fear. These experiences we have with fear are said to create self-confidence, relieve stress, and even bring us together. Americans spend over 7.5 billion dollars on Halloween activities and costumes. Dr. Kerr states in the interview, that people love Halloween so much because it constructs a strong emotional response and build stronger memories. Dr. Kerr also says that when we are happy, or afraid we release hormones that help those moments “stick” in our brain. We all love a good scare! “The Raven”, by Edgar Allen Poe, and “Beware: do not read this poem”, by Ishmael Reed both analyze the allure of fear through symbolism and descriptive imagery, which is a part of gothic literature. Both Poe and Reed signifies their themes differently but both themes allude to the fascination of fear.

It seems a simple task to create the potential of fear. People have grown to fear mainly similar things and ultimately anything that endangers the innocent part of human kind. Sadly, there is only a slight hint of true innocence that exists in us as humans. How come fear intrueges us, it is not the knowing of its unrealness, because for a moment there, it seems real. Therefore it is an art, how can one be freigthened and fascinated in its most beautiful way. How is it conjured, not just the fear of actual danger, but the art of darkness.

What makes people seek for experiences that make them feel scared? Fear is the expectation or the anticipation of possible harm, so why do people like it? There is a hormone called dopamine, that is released during scary and thrilling activities, according to David Zald, some individuals may get more of a kick of this hormone than others. Lots of people enjoy scary experiences, because of the feeling that they have after these situations. As reported by ABC News, in “Spooky Business American Economy”, people spend about 7 million dollars in Halloween, looking for costumes, decoration objects, and also in haunted houses. People enjoy scary movies, roller coasters, and haunted houses. Similarly, people enjoy thrilling literature, as Edgar Allan Poe and Louise Erdrich poems, “The Raven” and “The windigo” respectively. Both of these authors write and explore death and the ambiguity of what will happen after death, by using concrete examples of imagery and symbols, structured paragraphs, and a certain type of diction.

People nowadays love being scared in any way, shape or form. Wether it would be ranged from going to an amusement park to a haunted house. In the article King states, “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster”. In the article King compares horror films to roller coasters, to show that they are similar. They both have their element of surprise, you never know what is coming till it happens. Everyone loves the adrenaline rush they get when they get scared. It leaves them wanting more of what they are getting. Today the most popular type of films are horror, there is always that hype over the new horror film that will be coming out. No matter what the circumstances are, these things are done to

The basis of any good short story is the ability to grab the reader’s attention and keep it. In order to do this, the narrator must be able to pull the reader into their experiences. Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King both analyze the narrator’s characterization and the first-person point of view in similar fashion. However, they both have different purposes and reliabilities when writing their short stories. The narrators of “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Man in the Black Suit” are similarly characterized, however “The Man in the Black Suit’s” difference of reliability results in a scarier tone.

Edgar Allan Poe is still represented in our society today. The first evidence why Edgar Allan Poe is still represented in our society today is, According to the website “Knowing Poe”, “The house has changed ownership, been remodeled and renumbered 203 North Amity Street, and had an addition added outside. It has fallen into disrepair, been restored by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, and turned into a museum.” Baltimore has taken his Edgar’s home and turned it into a museum so people can learn about him for centuries to come. The second evidence why Edgar Allen Poe is still represented by society today is, Again from the website “Knowing Poe”, “Yet, somehow it makes sense that the National Football League 2000 Super Bowl champions

Many say that the hardest part of making a story, not just good, but spectacular, is not the conclusion, or title. The hardest part of writing successfully is the idea the author must generate in order to tell his or her tale. Steven King claims that “Our job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” Edgar Allan Poe, however, claims that to truly write it must be as precise as a mathematical equation. Although the difference between the way these to authors write is extreme, one letting the story control itself, and the other writing a ridged formula, they do have some similarities.

Casandra Crawford Mrs. Dean English 11 March 14, 2015 Poe and King What is thought of when the word ‘Horror’ is said. One would usually think of a scary clown, an ax murderer, and demons. Many minds would wander over to the brilliant horror author, Stephen King, and his many wondrous villains. Many intellectuals would have briefly wandered over to Edgar Allen Poe, and his gift to entice the readers into his stories. Poe and King are both monarchs of the Horror genre and it would be very easy to contrast the two icons. Many wouldn’t think that with King’s homicidal monsters, and with Poe’s causing his characters ' self-conflict, that the two iconic authors are in any ways similar to one another. Poe lived a melancholy life: His mother died of tuberculosis, his foster father openly thought he was not worth a penny, he got himself kicked out of the Military College, his wife Virginia also died of the same disease that claimed his parents ' lives and then later dying himself behind a bar with no clear reason on how he died. ( Childhood, Poe ) It is no wonder that Poe wrote his stories to vent out his pain and frustrations. He often wrote stories that included subtle clues to his life. In one example, Berenice, he wrote about a man who was engaged to his cousin and had an unhealthy obsession with her teeth as she succumbs to a deadly disease. ( Writer, Poe ) Minus the unhealthy obsession with teeth, the man who married his cousin who was dying of a deadly disease could be argued

We love feeling terrified of the unknown we feel the adrenaline traveling through our bodies. Slowly waking each vein are hands sticky with perspiration and when the moment comes we jump out of our skin. The scream that can be heard for miles. Most people love the rush from fear adrenaline pounding in our ears. We are so petrified when we watch a scary movie our brains have illusions that the evil doll, for example, is going to get us and most of us believe that the blanket will camouflage us or keep us safe.

Stephen King, the author, has published around 50 novels, seven of which were written under a pen name (Richard Bachman), as well as over 200 short stories throughout his career. What could have inspired him to create so many works? Stephen King was born in 1947 and read quite frequently as a child. His mother encouraged him to begin writing and his first published work was in a horror fanzine, under the title “In A Half-World of Terror.” His first published novel during adulthood was Carrie in 1974.

When I think of Edgar Allen Poe, I think of Stephen King. Poe and King both share an interest in horror, terror, death, and murder. They have a dark and mysterious style of writing. Both Poe and King wrote mostly in the horror genre. Stephen King has written novellas, short stories, novels and works of nonfiction, much like Poe.

Joel Delp Mrs. Dutcher English 11 4 December 2015 Poe vs. King The three things that make a horror story is the suspense, the psychological feeling, and the grotesque parts that are in the story. The suspense gives an anxious and intrigued feeling when you are reading the story. The psychological aspect messes with your mind in a way that you don’t know what is going to happen or what is happening. And the grotesque part of the story tells you about the ugly and bad things that have started to happen in the story.

In Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe states, “We loved with a love that was more than love.” This saying is used by thousands of people everyday to their soul mate. The American Renaissance, which began in 1828 through 1865. Poe was an Anti-Transcendentalist, he wrote mostly about self-destruction (sin). Edgar Allan Poe enjoyed writing about death, sinful acts, and how others felt towards sin.

I believe everyone is afraid of something, whether it be spiders, snakes, or even heights. But sometimes, we have to man up and face our fears. Everybody has to do this someday or else we will live our lives just being afraid of that one thing. Stephen King rightly claims that humans crave horror to face our fears; however, he is wrong to claim that humans crave horror to re-establish our feelings of normalcy and to experience a peculiar sort of fun.