how do dickens and collins create suspense?
...ilway track, “…solitary and dismal a place as I ever saw.” The sides are steep and seem to separate the place from the rest of the world. To add to the atmosphere of horror and mystery their meetings are always set either after sunset or at nighttime, “in the gloomy red light.” The signalman is very mysterious and seems to be very wary of the narrator after his visits from the specter. It is a while before the signalman tells the narrator what he has been seeing; at first he is very shifty and nervous. He hints that something bad is going to happen and refers to previous incidents. The story is written in first person, which keeps us in the dark about a lot of the matters. He gets the audience wondering what is going on which altogether builds up the suspense very well. Now I will look at the second short story: The Ostler by Charles Dickens. The Ostler is written in third person and we already know that he will survive because we see him at the beginning. So suspense has to be built up in other ways such as the setting and the characters. Although the main part of suspense is if his wife is still at large and will she strike again? The ostler has his premonition in an inn at the edge of civilization that is perfect for an atmosphere of mystery and horror the inn is an isolated lonely place on the side of a gloomy wood. The innkeeper keeps his inn locked up securely but overdoes it with strong “bolts, bars…” on every door as though he is trying to keep something out, it is all very mysterious. The landlord is very precautious, he brings in a sense of isolation, which in turn makes the place seem like “another world.” The innkeeper is...