August Heat Suspense Analysis

Views on horror stories are created range from the amount of suspense a story contains. Therefore we harveys literary work is examined to evaluate how does he create suspense in “August Heat”.Horror stories are designed to make our pulse race or skin tingle. They often revolve around mayhem and nightmare with death evil and demonic subjects revolve around horror stories. The horror genre has its roots in folktales and traditional tales but it did not truly blossom until the 19 century . All good horror stories feature a great deal of suspense. Suspense is the uncertainty or anxiety feeling about what will happen next. In august heat harvey uses different methods to create suspense. Such as foreshadowing he would withhold information from the
James goes on to say, “The one thing of which I was fully conscious was the awful heat, that came up from the dusty pavement as an almost palpable wave” Withencroft estimates that he “must have walked for five or six miles, when a small boy roused me from my reverie by asking the time.” this experience of the unfamiliar, while place is warmth and familiarity is quite weary suggesting that he did not know the boy a coincidence that the boy brought him to that place. During the six mile walk, Withencroft leaves the familiarity of “place” and enters a new sort of strangeness that Tuan would likely characterize as “space.” He finds himself outside the house of a man named Charles Atkinson. Withencroft’s unusual event that he is about to encounter would occur mostly in an unfamiliar place. As such, now that Withencroft has entered space, strange occurrences begin to unfold.. When Withencroft meets Atkinson, he notes: “There was something unnatural, uncanny, in meeting this man.This is the only line in the story