How do the authors create atmosphere and tension in The Monkeys Paw Ess

How do the authors create atmosphere and tension in The Monkeys Pawand The Red elbow room?A ghost base is a written report with intent to fright it usually builds uptension and suspense by using a potful of intense, exaggerated words.Usually in a ghost account there is a typical dark and gloomy settingand an cruel object almost always there is a non human multitude or asupernatural being in the story to endue it a scare factor.Supernatural means a power preceding(prenominal) the forces of nature which impliesthat it is not human. In the time that the two stories were written,the belief in the supernatural was a lot different to those of today.They believed in such things as ghosts and witchcraft where asnowadays there are only almost believers. This could be beca employment they hadless technology than todays world so we have more evidence to whetherthey are or arent authenticThe Monkeys Paw is a story about a distant friend who has possessionof a cursed shrivelled med dles paw that grants three offeres to eachman that obtains it. Every wish comes true but little do they knowthat the wish that they asked for would kick horrifically killingthere only child.The Red Room is another story that was written in the 19th century.However different to The Monkeys paw this story does not have asupernatural or inhuman power. The story is about a man thats unwrap isnot told and his quest to stay in a supposedly haunt room butunluckily for him, the room possessed a farthermost greater force than spiritsor monsters but the very thing that eats away at a mans emotions-FEARThe authors that wrote these stories riding habit a lot of special techniquesto make the audience scared and fearful afterwardsall the intent of thestory is to scare people. Some o... ... they both playwith your feelings and emotions. Both stories are written with theintent to scare and they do that. Also, they make you feel sad,disgusted and interested. I think that they do this by ther e powerfuldescriptions. And in which they use long and short sentences to buildup the tension and atmosphere in the beginning the ending.Whilst studying the two books I have realise that to write asuccessful horror story you have to use all of the techniques and inmy opinion the most important technique is descriptive language. Whendescribing, you have to use powerful and meaningful words to give aclear optic picture and so the reader is reacting to thedescriptions. I feel that if you have sober descriptions theneverything else will follow and if you draw the readers emotions into the book then they will be more scared after the ending scarefactor.