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    is a haunted house themed ghost story, which creates a thrilling atmosphere as Amenabar emphasizes a combination of uncertainty, tension, suspense and shock. Amenabar creates an atmosphere, which has the time and patience to generate a mood and create mystery to the characters. The setting Amenabar has chosen is very cliché and fits into the horror theme perfectly being a large house, which is trapped in fog. Amenabar also adds mystery to the characters as the two children are extremely sensitive to

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    threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male”, “supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events”, “an atmosphere of mystery and suspense” and, “setting in a castle”. (“Elements) For example, the setting for a gothic novel or movie is in a creepy house, or a scary castle that is built with sharp points and looks deserted, or a old abandoned area that is supernatural. For an atmosphere of mystery and suspense there could be a disappearance, unknown parentage, or some inexplicable event. (“Elements)”Supernatural

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    Suspense - The Signal Man The author of The Signal Man immediately creates suspense by using anonymous quotes, which gives a sense of mystery. Dickens begins by avoiding using terms that identify ownership, i.e. “When he heard a voice thus calling to him”. The 2nd person in the story is the signal man, who at this point is acting in a very peculiar manner. This produces suspicion amongst the reader and thus generates interest or suspense. Throughout the entire novel, Charles Dickens

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    What’s really out there past the Earth’s atmosphere? I’ve always wondered that as an adolescent. The mystery of the deep, the great unknown, is a concept that has always fascinated me and seized my attention. The implications of possible exploration of the far outreaches, seeing scenes and views no one else has ever laid their eyes upon, these adventures make my heart beat faster and my thoughts race. Outer space fascinates me because of the mystery, challenges, and possible exploration that are

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    Summer is more than a season its the time to create your story and live by carpe diem. A mixture of rhetorical devices are employed in Dandelion Wine to represent the visual of the characters atmosphere. The author applies personification when he states "ease bed" to illustrate how the town is in a calm environment. We can imfer that its before sunrise,and the town is still seized by the pillows' dreams. Furthermore, he creates a vivid image by implying that "the world had the proper touch, the breathing

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    The rings have earned Saturn the nickname of “The jewel of the solar system”. Saturn’s rings were first seen by Galileo in 1610. What the rings truly were remained a mystery until 1655, when Christiaan Huygens discovered they were planetary rings. These rings are made up of dust, rock and ice. The rings accumulate these items from passing comets, impacts on its moons from meteorites, and the planet’s gravitational pull

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    term gothic is used to describe a work of literature characterized by the elements of mystery, gloom, and fear. Combing the idea of gothic literature with Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘single effect’ yields a completely terrifying masterpiece. There are a multitude of themes and symbols that can be pulled from this work, but it is the narrator's description of his ambiguous setting that brings on the gothic undertones of mystery, gloom, and fear in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The first

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    Originally, Alan Bradley’s Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d is the eighth novel of the mystery series “Flavia de Luce.” This novel belongs to the category of suspense & thriller, and presents a puzzling murder mystery set in the English countryside. The main character is a twelve-year-old chemist and occasional detective Flavia de Luce who carries out the search for the murderer of discovered dead bodies. Bradley’s humorous narrative style along with Flavia’s intelligence, independent critical thinking

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    next. These stories use different characteristics to create a gothic atmosphere in the story. During the Victorian era, the idea of gothic literature grew in popularity. It is influenced by many ideas, including religious themes around this time period, and usually reflects on the characteristics of the people living in the Victorian era. For example, many people would like to be surrounded in a world containing plenty of mystery and suspense. Then again, a supernatural force can show what someone

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    without further adieu let us jump right into this anime.I hope you love mysteries as we get into Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace. Ranpo Kitan is an anime written by Makoto Uezu, produced by Lerche, and was directed by Seiji Kishi. The anime was inspired by the works of Edogawa Ranpo(Taro Hirai), who was a Japanese author who played a major in Detective Fiction on Japan. Edogawa is pretty up there with the classic mystery writers such as Doyle and Poe, but I digress. This is very interesting

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