in which the narrator presents his/her story. In Dracula, Bram Stoker employed a multiple first person narrative style. His confusing yet attention grabbing novel is about a story of vamparism in England and Transylvania during the 1890s. Whereas Stephen King took a different approach and uses a single first person narrator and a 3rd person omniscient being to narrate his story. His story, Christine, is the story of love triangle between a man, his car, and a woman. Stephen King's Christine is more
illustration of violence with society has increased its numbness in normal people. The horror genre is an extremely popular of entertainment. It provides readers or viewers the opportunity to temporarily reside in a world of fear which the individual has control of either closing the book or their eyes in order to escape and grasp reality. Thousands of horror novels exist to create this alternate world of apprehension. Most horror novels achieve their goal of dread through portraying gruesome gore and
The Shining is Stephen King’s third novel published in 1977, two years after Salem’s Lot, and three years after his debut in 1974 with Carrie. Stephen Edwin King (born 1947) started his career as a 26-year-old, and has now, 41 years later, sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. Multiple films based on his novels have become box-office successes; some of these include The Shawshank Redemption, Misery and The Green Mile. The psychological horror story, which is the genre best defining The Shining
his living by writing, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe is most popularly well known for writing gothic content. His short stories are popular worldwide. He serves as an inspiration for the modern gothic writers namely, Stephen King, Joe Hill and Neil Gaiman. Out of his short stories, two of them are well known by the readers. These two shorts are ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Black Cat’. Although
can range from a setting of medieval times to another world or dimension in outer space. Often time fantasy as a genre allows the writer to imagine a place or time in the future, with a different landscape to what we would have ever have seen in present day reality. The beauty of fantasy is that, in most cases, the plot or story the author is trying to tell, is often inconceivable and would not be able to exist