The 19th century tales of the supernatural Essay Example

a room that was told to be haunted. He bravely insists on that in spit of the warnings he got from the old couple from the castle.The narrator is experiencing the presence of something invisible, he is experiencing the worst fear.

Next day he is found hearth with blood all over, and than he confesses that there was a supernatural thing in that haunted Red room: " Yes,' said I; 'the room is haunted. ' But on a contrary this was not a ghost: " The worst of all things that haunt poor mortal man,... ,and that is, in all its nakedness-Fear! " All three stories are scary, with purpose of frightening the readers. Writer like Dickens was writing all sorts of stories, that people liked to read.

H. G. Wells was a man who believed in science, he was not superstitious, but he wrote this kind of stories only to entertain people. People liked stories like these ones because they believed in them. The people were very superstitious, they believed in most things they have only heard of.

They had religions , like we do now, they believed in heaven and hell, and all unexplainable things like ghosts or other sightings, they were considering as the Devils products. But today, people do not believe any more in stories like this. These are called stories for little children.Most people do not believe in things which are not scientifically proved. Still we have not lost our interest in supernatural.

A lot of other writers started writing books, on the idea of the ones from 19th century. A big part of literature is based on the genres, like

horrors, or science-fiction. And people are reading it to entertain themselves, and not to believe in them. The evidence of this includes the huge popularity of writers like Stephen King, who uses the same method like Dickens tension through the whole story and than twist at the end; or films such as The Blair Which Project.