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The shirks Paw by W. W. Jacobs, The Clubfooted Grocer by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, The Red Room by H. G. rise up and The Signalman by Charles Dickens dissect how the writers successfully use aspects of the supernaturalto create dramatic tension in the short stories you have read.The nineteenth century was an era of general belief in ghosts andspirituality. This is what made gothic stories even more appealing andsuccessful during this era the fact that they would be seen as beingrealistic. One major reason for the aerodynamic lift in spirituality during thisera was the fact that many people had started to lose their Christianfaith (mainly because the Church was unable to give an explanation asto wherefore ghosts existed) and so they started to search for a new way ofunderstanding and accepting death. I think that the Victoriansenjoyed reading horror stories because they offer a challenge to seewhether the reader can figure out who the ghost or spectrere pictures and what they are doing. By involving the reader, thewriters were able to declare them interested passim the story. Duringthe Victorian era, the short story became a very popular genre andghost stories were well-liked with the readers. It was therefore veryimportant for the authors to build tension and suspense to keep theirreaders interested. I will be studying The Monkeys Paw by W. W.Jacobs, The Clubfooted Grocer by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, The RedRoom by H. G. Wells and The Signalman by Charles Dickens. In thisessay, I will be exploring the ways in which the writers use thesupernatural to create dramatic tension in the above stories.The Monkeys Paw is a short story by W. W. Jacobs, written in 1902.The title of a sto... ...cause there is a lot of mystery present throughout thestory. The strangest thing is the fact that the Signalman himself isan educated man, yet he sees strange, unexplainable Apparitions whicheventually lead to his death.Overall, I believe that these short stories are effective inentertaining the reader and keeping them interested throughout thestory. The writers use many different techniques such aspersonification, metaphors, similes and imagery to create vivid imagesthroughout the stories. The trounce technique used is when there are manyquestions which are left unanswered at the end of the story. Thismakes the readers create their own conclusions about the reasons as towhy certain events occurred. Also, the use of the first personnarrative is effective in ghost stories because they give a clear viewof what happens and how the narrator feels.