I used to be a cowardly girl, being unable to sleep alone due to fear of darkness. I
took forever to brush my teeth, afraid that something would pop out and grab me. I
remember the first time I heard the chilling tale of Bloody Mary. It is a quiet night of
October with crisp air and cool breeze, a group of my older sister's friends. Seven or
eight people sitting together in the garden of our house. I can still remember they
called that night "Horror bedtime". The eldest boy named Jan, read the story to us
with deep voice from a book with the face of a sliced-up, gruesome, grinning face of a
skeletal woman on the cover. I believe it was called "Scary Stories to Read in the
Dark". As I sat on the carpet in the dark, dank corner,
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The woman, in her anguish, brutally
committed suicide in her bathroom. That night, her spirit haunted and killed the man
who took her son as he gazed into the bathroom mirror. But Bloody Mary's vengeance
is not complete.At midnight, if you say her name in front of your bathroom mirror three
times, she will come for you. Grant you a wish, or kill you.
There were many different tales over that October night, but Bloody Marry was the
one frightened me most with the imagination of how Bloody Mary would eat me from
the inside out, or how she would pluck my eyeballs out. It is still clear in my head the
feeling of a chill when Jan suddenly screamed at us at the end of the story. Story
time ended at around ten o'clock, my sister decided to sleep with her friend and I had
to sleep by myself. It was alone in my bedroom alone suffering from unreasonable,
irrational fear. I could not close my eyes without turning the lights on, and I couldn't
not even go to afraid to look at bathroom mirror for fear that I would see a mutilated
woman's face staring back at me. I tried to tell myself that the stories were just
words, just conjured up to give someone a cheap thrill of terror. But I
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It read something like
this: "If you do not forward this text to 20 people then Bloody Mary will come for you
at midnight and stab ur eyes out with a sharpen fork. " Normally, such a poorly written
text attempt to scare me would be laughable. However, what cemented the
truthfulness of this text was the picture that came along with it. A grinning, bloodied,
pale woman's face stared at me from my phone screen. Finally, my nightmares had
taken on a real and terrifying shape and my breath came in staggered breaths. I came
crying to my parents, but they laughed out loudly and said it easily " It must
be your sister's work, just ignore it." . Suddenly, a sense of embarrassing grabbed me,
courage came out and I decided to overcome my fear, no one can make jokes on me.
That night, I went into the bathroom and turned on both sets of lights. I stared at
the mirror for a long time, afraid to do anything. I was utterly terrified, afraid that I
would anger Bloody Mary somehow, since I had not forwarded the text. But I kept
talking to myself, " I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid..." Slowly, I managed to open the
drawer and take out the toothbrush and toothpaste that may helpful to distract
Tim O’Brien can have you relate to fear so much that fear that he had in that book that you can relate to it. He was able to show this when he was driving in his hometown. “Beyond all this, or at the very center, was the raw fact of terror. I did not want to die. Not ever.
I was the only one that died that night. It was bit weird really, it was like going to sleep somewhere and waking up somewhere else. I remember the book I was reading, it was Jane Eyre, my mom wanted me to get into the 'classics'. Well mom you always said reading would be the death of me.
You can hear the excitement in his voice. As result, it reads as an fairy tale for bedtime. Not the dull, sugary kind, but the enjoyable kind that causes children to listen with tinkling eyes, and to fear to breathe out at the scary parts, and finally, to let out a cry of agony when the parent closes the
Night: Scary Story It’s approximately a quarter past 9, pitch black with only the luminance of the full moon beaming down on Earth, with just enough light to get us through the night. Grandpa never approved us leaving the house so late. Always with the same old stories about a monster who devours you alive as you search helplessly for your last breath. We always made fun of him behind his back.
N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2015. <http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/kingsandqueensofengland/thetudors/maryi.aspx>. The Life of “Bloody Mary” (1940; rev.
When I got to the 82nd floor, I saw her just standing there in panic. I quickly grabbed her she was scared to death. “PLEASE HELP ME” she
The main character thinks that she is safe in her own home but then… “Behind her in the living room, someone cleared his throat”(p 15). This is nightmarish because it is how the story ends and we are left to imagine what happened after that. It is definitely something I would have nightmares about. The mood of this story is nightmarish because it practically defines the word, it is frightening and unpleasant. The mood of “The Ravine” by Ray Bradbury is nightmarish because of the actions and dialogue of the characters that create this.
“At night, sleepless, I would roam the house, listening to the snores of the others, their yelps of nightmare.” (Norton 226). After a while, her family decided to fake her death by having
The rest of the day was spent in solitary. That night I did manage to get what some would call sleep, but it was far from pleasant. At first, all I could see was a thick veil of darkness. Then I began hearing crying in the distance, like a lost soul adrift in the abyss of darkness. Then it cut off abruptly, only a suspended echo remaining.
Examining the Legend of Bloody Mary as a Hoax Nikyra Capson Bibliography of Secondary Sources Armin, J.. “Anthropology and the Media.” Current Anthropology 51.2 (2010): 161–161. Web. 16 Mar. 2016. Armin brings up the interesting point that the legend came be seen in other forms in today 's entertainment like in horror films such as the movie The Grudge. In brings in the concept, that as legend evolved other stories may branch off from it under a new name.
Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
When a scary story is on the cusp of being believable, it is very frightening. When the reader is trying to fall asleep and trying to convince themselves that it is just a story that is supposed to create feelings of worry and fear, that is when it is horror. When the reader is repeating the phrase “It is not real. It is not going to happen” in order to calm themselves down, that is when it is horror. When we believe that the story could happen to us, it makes it all the more scary.
Roald Dahl successfully creates scary stories. One of the reasons that I have decided to research this is because they are interesting and give you a anderinolin reush. Another reason that this interests me is that there 's really no way to know what is going to happen next. There are details that are bloody and gruesome. For example from the story (Lamb of the Slaughter) “Mary swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head”.
My heart started pounding. “What are you trying to do with that!!!”I kept asking. My mom tried to calm me down by saying she just wanted to see something, but that did not calm me down as I continued to keep pulling my hand away. She pricked my finger, and I knew in three seconds my life would change drastically. “Beep!”
I was putting my Halloween costume on when I heard something moving in my closet. I turn to the closet door half dressed with a curious look on my face. In my mind, it being Halloween, I thought I was just hearing things or my little brother was playing a prank on me. I walk out the door to my room, down the stairs and as I was about to walk out the front door my father caught me, “Where are you going?” he asked “Out, it’s