Compare The Ostler and The Darkness Out There Essay -- English Literat

differentiate The Ostler and The Darkness place ThereIn this essay I allow for comp are two stories - The Ostler, written in the19th century by a s grizzlyiery called Wilkie Coliins, and The Darkness OutThere, by genus Penelope Lively, written in the twentieth century. They are bothhorror stories, a genre which has been popular through come out the 19th, 20thand 21st centuries. This is perhaps because, since we are no longerscared on a daily basis, as would have been the case in medieval whiles, we need to find an kitschy fashion of creating the thrill.I will look at the similarities and differences between the way eachstory is structured, the build up of tension, the settings and the casings. First I will summarise each story and look at their 19thand 20th century features.The Ostler is more(prenominal) or less an unlucky, not very bright man who has a veryvivid dream on his birthday that a woman is trying to kill him. Yearslater, also on his birthday, he meets this woman a gain and getsengaged to her before he realises who she is. By the magazine his motherrealises, it is to late and he feels he has to marry her. She turnsout to be an alcoholic and one day, after she is particularly cruel tohim, Isaac hits her. She runs away, and comes back vii days later,on the night of his birthday, to try and attack him, in only thesame way as the dream-woman did. He manages to stop her and she runsaway again, this time never to be seen again, but Isaac continues tobe terrified that she will go by and kill him, especially on hisbirthday.The Darkness Out There is about two teenagers who are part of a groupwhich helps out gaga people with things like cleaning and gardening.They go to help one old lady and she tells them a how, in the war, shel... ...an peoplesminds.The stories are similar in that zero too horrific actually happensin either of them. They are more about the characters fears.Personally, I liked The Ostler less than The Darkness Out There, as itdea ls with a more supernatural horror which only affects the characterin the story, and so did not have such an impact on me. I liked TheDarkness Out There as it charters you think, and it applies to bothone,which makes it authentically chilling. At the end Sandra is changed forever.The wood is emptied of the fictional witches, wolves, tigers andprowling blokes, but this does not make her feel better. The old fearswere in a way comforting - It was tea cosy to think of Packers End,where you werent, but the new fear cannot be shut out or escapedfrom because it is a part of her, a part of every human that iscapable of unspeakable horror.