Short Stories - Genre Horror
Submitted by kbunner on June 30, 2009
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Short Stories - Genre Horror
I picked "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne as an example of the short story horror genre. Suspense is created within the text when the local minister, Mr. Hopper begins hiding his face behind a veil of black crape. The entire congregation is thrown into a tizzy trying to make sense of Mr. Hopper's adornment. Speculation runs rampant as reflected in the voice of a parishioner "But the strangest part of the affair is the effect of this vagary, even on a sober-minded man like myself. The black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghost-like from head to foot."(519) By placing a black veil over part of...
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