Tomb of Horrors

In 1922, Howard Carter opened the Tomb of Tutankhamun and sparked a wave of popular and scholarly interest in Egyptology. After the Carter discovery, a team of archaeologists and their assistants arrived for the proper dig. Although Carter fared fine, six of the 26 members of the subsequent dig died within a decade of their participation in the endeavor. The leader of the archaeological expedition, Lord Carnaveron, died of blood poisoning. Because quite a few of the team members died within a relatively

Period 7 Edgar Allan Poe Picture this. The father of modern crime and detective stories, known as Edgar Allan Poe, is sitting down about to write a beautiful piece of writing and BAM! He whisks away into a story of love, death, and just plain out horror; either characters are losing someone near and dear to their hearts or they are plotting to kill. Edgar Allan Poe, at a very young age, lost both of his parents, and later on in life, lost his wife to tuberculosis, so in one way or another, these

“The Cask of Amontillado” is a story rife with symbolism, irony and psychological horror brought on by the writing that Edgar Allan Poe has been known for throughout literary history. The story follows Montresor, a man who was insulted by his friend Fortunato, as he enacts his revenge for the betrayal. Poe’s use of Gothic rhetoric adds to the horror and violence of the story as a whole but more so on a psychological level. The setting brings about a constant flickering of emotion between freedom

one of the greatest horror movies of all time. This quote in particular is the most chilling of all lines in the movie because it shows how insane Hannibal Lecter really is, not on an intellectual level but a barbaric one. The Silence of the Lambs and Edgar Allan Poe had very similar styles in their literary use. In the three stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe’s three main stylistic writing uses are the use of irony, horror, and covering up

When Karl Freund’s The Mummy (1932) was released, the horror genre was already ingrained by Universal Studios and other American studios. The 1930s are considered the beginning of the horror genre’s classic phase. Horror films “primarily engages us affectively and viscerally-its aim seems to be to scare and disgust us, to raise the hair on the back of our necks or make us cover our eyes”. The horror film of the studios years gives physical shape and specific presence to metaphysical, notions of

Testament as emphasized by Klyman (2014). However, the purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the position and roles of women in the New Testament, and more importantly on the responsibilities and the unique characteristics of the women at the tomb. Overview of the Position and Roles of Women in the New Testament For example, women are reprimanded to love their children and their husbands, to be homemakers, chaste, obedient, chaste, discreet, and more importantly to be obedient to their husbands

The gothic story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe contains horror and a moral to the story, but evil is not ultimately destroyed, nor does the protagonist find moral success, so this story somewhat fits the gothic conflict criteria. First of all, the story conveys, “on the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire” (Poe 2). This emphasizes the moral of the story. The moral of the story is crime will never go unpunished, because when the man

Margo DeMello begins her chapter, Theorizing the Body, by making reference to the history of horror films and their relation to how society interprets the human body (3). I found this aspect to be particularly engaging in that, when examining western culture, a high number of people consume a form of entertainment, whether it be film, television, music or books. With that in mind, it is crucial that one considers how a person is meant to navigate the storylines and imagery presented to us. What subconscious

sense of horror to the reader. The American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is just one master of the literary genre known as the Gothic story, and he makes great contribution to Gothic fiction. He inherits and develops the tradition Gothic fiction, and the American literature forms the background of his horror fictions and gives his fictions unique power and charm. To a certain degree, Poe’s horror fiction prepares the origin of Southern fiction. In his works, he reveals people’s horror towards

The unity of effect is all the elements in a story that channels the effect the author wants the audience to experience. Therefore, to achieve the “unity of effect” in the Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, and Annabel Lee, Poe used the elements of setting, alliteration, and unreliable narrator to help elicit the unsettling mood in the audience. For the sake of the “unity of effect”, Poe uses setting for the purpose of conceiving a sinister mood. As Montresor and Fortunato walked deeper into the catacombs