Sandro listened with opened mouth. There was something utterly spooky about the whole thing. He had expected a steamy love triangle but the more Rumer spoke the more the story became a horror movie to him. The worst part is that not only he felt that this story could happen to him, but also that he could be any of the protagonists. His relationship with Rumer being what it is, would he follow her once she found someone else? The answer was yes, he could easily imagine himself creeping about in her life in hope that she changed her mind. What if he found someone? Surely he would want to have Rumer still very present in his life, But how would his love one see it? "So it's a ghost story, but with only living human being?" he asked at the end
“No I am perfectly fine thanks. But really I was in the upstairs room of the building you know and there was a mirror and a monster and…”
“All we do is travel to new places, and to places we’ve already been.” said the girl
“It’s not that bad. And you’re not that good with creepy and scary stuff are you?” Farren pushed a door open to see a old patient's room.
"Is it a homeless person", she asked, "why else would somebody be sleeping here", she continued.
“Whoever killed this girl is one sick psychopath.” Ben muttered to himself as he continued to look for clues.
"I found her lost in the woods surrounding my house, it was getting late, so I offered her a place to stay" Zach replies, a low tone to his voice.
“Sorry, I haven’t a clue,” he answered, smile smart. “Can’t help you out, so I guess I’ll see you around,” he stood up and watched Youma carefully, but the man just sighed and shook his head.
“You don’t have to talk. That pale face and haunted look tells me everything I need to know. It’s Joan, isn’t it?”
The novelette, "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin is a combination of horror and thriller that makes an interesting reading based on the theme of sandking battles. There are several motifs throughout the novelette that suggest deep violence and the entire approach of the storytelling is extremely disturbing due to it’s ever sense of blind panic and threats of violence. However, from the point of view of Formalism and New Criticism, the text is very interesting because the narrative gradually moves towards structuralism. Even though there is always a chance to focus only on the bigger picture under structuralism, it is fair enough approach to make an overall judgment (Dreyfus and Rabinow 65). From this perspective, the motifs, themes and the main characters reflect the horror of evil created out of power in the hand of man.
“I don’t know, but she hadn’t left her house, or answered her door for three days. And the lights remained on the entire time. So, I thought something must be wrong.”
“Are you sure you don't want to be Phantom?” Star asked. “Danny pulls it off.”
“Yes really, but it has always been intriguing to me…. maybe you can explain it to me?” Ollie asked
“So that’s the story. The Old lady shuts off all her lights then burns the house down?”
“So vampires have to drink blood like humans need food to survive?” Pearl asked after a pause.
We walked up the stairs of the lecture hall. She was just behind me. "Well, they 're very good stories. I mean, your know. They 're very good. I just wondered... I mean, they 're not real, are they? Those things the men do in there, the things they do to the women..."