Horror

What makes a story scary? What elements contribute to a tone of horror? There are many ingredients that make a story scary. The most classic type of method is the used of suspension and then an unexpected horrific scene that creates fear within people. Usually the story will be set in a dark and quiet night, with squeaky doors and weird sounds that follow through the plot line as the protagonist walk through the hunted house. Usually the author will use descriptive adjective to make the setting vivid as if the audience is looks at in a moving picture. To create fear in people, author usually describe unusual event such as people never came out of the hunted house once they entered to give the audience a hint that things are not normal and it can go wrong any second. Also as the protagonist goes through the event, he or she will usually make some stupid mistakes that if the characters are travel in groups, one by one the character will be attacked by monster or disappear until in the end only the protagonist survive and witness the biggest scary event. The use of foreshadowing creates a sense of insecurity in our mind that we know for sure that nothing is going to work out right and it can happen anytime before we know it.