Answers MO-English Language Arts 11 ASuspense and Horror: Gothic Writing across Time

Suspense and Horror: Gothic Writing across Time Answers

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According to Stephen King, what is the purpose of horror writing?

to open the door at the top of the stairs

to magnify the 10-foot bug or other horror

to reverse the fall from womb to tomb

to temporarily free the imagination

According to King’s purpose of horror writing, how did Irving achieve the purpose of a horror story?

by taking us inside a haunted room

by making the portrait eerily lifelike

by making the narrator childlike in his fear

by ending his story with a door at the top of the stairs

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