Pre 1914 Short Stories Essay

GCSE: English Literature

In this essay I am going to write about pre 1914 short stories about the supernatural. I will be writing about the different effects which are used to project the stories. The stories I have read are: The superstitious man’s story, Trial for murder, The Ostler, Confessions found in a prison, The Red Room. Short stories were very popular in those times because they were published in magazines for house wives to read because they had nothing else to do other then clean the house while their husbands were working. Also the husbands would read them when they got home.

In ghost stories the typical setting is usually a dark place or somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

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