A Walk Down Creepy Hollow

   The one technique that I would definitely use would be the fact that he had an open ended ending. He ends the story with not truly telling what happens to all of the characters. This makes you want to re read it to figure out what happened, to see if you missed something. Also you may have a theory about one way the book ended and someone else might have a theory of their own about how it ended. So they will go back and re read it and maybe even get more people to want to read just to settle the debate of what really happened in the ending.

  Edgar Allen Poe is an amazing author. He can create the scariest stories, you feel as though they are happening right before your eyes yet they are just words on a paper. He takes you into a world of his own. That is why I would look to his creepier works when trying to write a scary story.
   One technique Poe uses is imagery. Imagery is one of the main techniques that create a make or break story. If the imagery is not that detailed then the story will be bored. Poe uses this technique very well in "The Fall of the House of Usher". One of the best parts was when Roderick sees Madeline back from the dead still bloody from her struggle. The use of imagery allows us to imagine it happening, and feel the feelings of fear that Roderick would have felt. 

  Another technique he uses that I would use would be resurrection. With today's obsession with the dead it would be a key part to a scary movie. Poe uses resurrection when Madeline comes back from the dead and Roderick dies of fear. Using resurrection adds a completely new concept of fear, because of horror movies and short stories like these people fear death and everything about it. Can you imagine how scary it would be to open your door and see someone you have just seen dead standing there still covered in blood?

  Poe also uses personification and setting. Both of these strategies go hand in hand. Poe does a very good job of describing the house. He sets up an eerie tone even before the story has started by describing the house. Also using personification to exemplify this creepiness. By describing the house as a ghost-like thing. He does this to add another factor of scariness to the story.


   As you can tell Edgar Allen Poe is an amazing author. He was the beginning to all of the creepy stories, and even today you still see his techniques being used. He should be idolized more for his amazing work.