compare and suspense
...that the setting is old because the castle has an open fire. “And I stood up before the fire with my glass in hand”. The room is cold and isolated and gives the reader an impression of seclusion and anxiety. The room is painted black and red, which are dreadfully distinct, this gives the awareness of vigour to the reader the room in addition seemed to be overflowing darkness which seemed to multiply throughout the room. “Germating darkness”. The setting in "The Darkness Under The Stairs" is set by the information that the house had by previously owned by an old woman named Mrs Bromley who keeps bad tempered cats, this tells us the woman is reminiscent of witch. The house is an old mansion, which has an old cluttered garden. Inside the house there is a colossal staircase and in the stair case there is a cupboard, which seems to germinate fear through out the story. The wall in the house are painted in brown this tells us that there is a aged sensation about the house, the garden furthermore reflects this. “Tangled wilderness of knee-high grass and unkept elder”. Lance Salway creates suspense in "The Darkness Under The Stairs" by the character for instance Mrs Bromley is an old woman who lives by her self all alone except for a few bad tempered cats which peruse the property. Her garden and house are exceedingly chaotic and this is extraordinarily odd for the reason that the story was written is the Victorian times and people in these times were tidy and neat, and to be untidy was very bohemian in these times. So this tells us that Mrs Bromley was an recluse. Andrew is a teenager and is shy of older people such as the Sharman’s and Mrs Bromley who he held a resentment for. At the start of the story Andrew is reluctant to visit the Sharman’s because he thinks the house is haunted. The writer uses Andrew as the main character to fabricate fear and suspense, Andrews’s real fear is himself, and being locked up in a small space. In "The Red Room" the three main characters are unnamed this makes us experience discomfort and fearful of these characters. Each one of the characters is old and each has a hideous infirmity, which makes us increasingly more apprehensive. One man has a decaying arm, which suggests he has an disease; another man stays in the shade signifying that he is an recluse like Mrs Bromley. An woman just sits examining the fire, this tells me that she is immoral and unhealthy; this woman on her own makes us feel apprehensive to the other characters. In "The Red Room" H G Wells uses personification to create suspense and trepidation. “Fashions born in dead brain”. This line adds to the idea of dying people and furthermore evokes that the clothes designers are dead....