Suspense In The Stonemason

Suspense is what drives most horrors and is caused by what the readers fear most in their life. The story has many suspenseful details in it that eventually will lead to the end of the story. The story has a little twist to it all. The story is about a man named James and he is an artist who drew a criminal sketch of a man that is a murderer. James eventually finds a workshop with a stone carver named Charles and he has a gravestone with James’ name and date of birth and date of death and both men are shocked to see what each object symbolizes. James decides to stay at the shop with Charles. “Is for you to stay here till twelve o’ clock. We’ll go upstairs and smoke; it may be cooler inside.’ To my surprise, I agreed.”(page 97, W.F.Harvey).
The characters play a major role in this story since they are the ones needed in order to build the suspense.James, I am assuming is an criminal artist that obviously draws the criminals that people describe. I am also assuming that Charles is a
For example James already thinks that Charles is going to kill him at midnight since Charles already knows when James is going to die. “It is after eleven now. I shall be gone in less than an hour.”(page 97, W.F.Harvey). The foreshadowing also helps raise the suspense in the story as well. If people are foreshadowing then they can foreshadow something scary is going to happen and then it will get to other people and that is how the suspense rises. Suspense is so important when it comes to horror because without suspense no one will be on the edge of their seats craving more than what would be given without suspense. Suspense really helps for example “All good horror stories feature a great deal of suspense. Suspense is the uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will happen next.”(Page 90, Percy D’Aco)All everybody really wants in a horror is to be scared and the suspense makes it so much more satisfying than just any regular