Setting

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How Setting is used in Horror

The setting of a horror book plays a big role in the tone of the story. The setting is usually the area that the author focuses on first when they start adding elements of horror to the story. They, play on basic and deep-set fears, such as the fear of being alone at night, or hearing things when the narrator thinks that they are alone. Many horror stories take place in an isolated area, like a cabin in a forest, so that the reader has a sense that the main character/characters should be all alone.

How Setting is used in The Wife's Story

In The Wife's Story, the setting helps the reader imagine the story is taking place in a village in a forest. The house that the narrator lives in seems to be somewhat separated from the rest of the village, but not very far away. When the action happens, it is nighttime on a full moon, which the reader can then interpret that the story includes werewolves. All of this plays on common childish fears to begin the horror of the story.

How Setting is used in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

In the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, setting is used to add a fear factor to the story, all bad things happen on clear fine nights, illuminated by the dim glow of light in a nocturnal city, when there is a lack of spectators and when Dr. Jekyll roams the streets. The reader can associate with this setting if they have ever walked around a city at night and have been fearful of their dimly lit surroundings and what might lay waiting in the shadows.

How Setting is used in The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, the setting is used to set a creepy mood at the beginning of the poem and helps it become even creepier throughout the rest of the poem. It begins with the time being at midnight, in December. There was a dying fire in the fireplace, which the reader can imagine that it was casting long shadows throughout the room. The reader can infer that the narrator is alone, and in most horror stories, many bad things happen when a person is alone. Suddenly the narrator hears someone knocking on the door, but when they open it, there is nothing there. Most readers would assume that it was either a ghost or that the narrator imagined it. Later, the narrator said they felt the air grew denser, to which the reader can only assume something bad is about to happen.

How Setting is used in Silence by Edgar Allen Poe

In the short story "Silence" by Edgar Allen Poe the first 2 paragraphs were purely an in depth description of the scene, it portrayed details of yellowish still water in a dry and barren land, stopped by a forest with no wind. It laid an eerie tone where any amount of horrible things could happen. The water as I pictured it was riddled with hundreds of deadly disease. scene was used here to get the reader in the mindset of a horror story and give them just enough description to make the reader imagine any truly eerie still river that does not flow to the ocean, but enough description to where the scene couldn't happen at any old river, it had to be in a dry and barren land, near a dead forest, giving a truly horrifying scene.

How Setting is used in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

the setting in this short story was used to further develop the horrifying machine known as AM, the setting is AM, inside the layers of the earth turned into acess tunneles for the machine AM. every setting was dark, dim, and a faint hum of machines, computers talking to computers and thoughts flying through circuitry, as the setting changes so does the tortures the humans must endure. every new setting is a new abuse. There are caverns of rats, paths made of boiling steam, an entire country filled with the blind, and ice caverns.