THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

1. What is the story of tell-tale heart about?

The story is about a mad man who couldn't bear the old man who he shared the house because of his eye. One day he killed him. The police came to his house, and he wasn't nervous. But then, he became more nervous and confessed the crime.

2. Who wrote the tell-heart and invented the first macabre story?

Edgar Allan Poe.

3. What was the first P.H.S?

Metzengerstein

4. When was it first published?

14th January 1832.

5. What other story types did the author also invent?

The modern detective story and the science-fiction.

GOTHIC NOVEL

1. Who invented the G.N?
The gothic novel was invented by Horace Walpole.

2. What was the first G.N?
The first Gothic Novel was The Castle of Otranto.

3. When was it first published?
It was first published in 1764.

4. Which basic elements of horror do they include in the list?
1- Setting in a castle
2-Athmosphere of mystery and suspense
3- Ancient propecy
4- Omens, portents, visions
5-Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events
6-High, even overwrought emotion
7-Women in distress
8- Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical mode
9- The metonymy of gloom and horror
10- The vocabulary of the gothic

VOCABULARY
Prophecy: profecía
Omen/Portent: presagio, augurio
Tyrannical: tiránico
Metonymy: Metonimia
Haste: prisa, apuro

MY FAVOURITE HORROR MOVIE

I don't like horror movies, so I haven't got a favourite one. But the only one I've ever seen is The Purge.

The film is about a night in the USA where every crime is legal, so everyone can kill or steal. It happens in a rich family's house, and they can protect themselves with a good security alarm. Then, a boy disarms the house to save a man, but then there are people that say that if they don't give them the man, they will die. It's more a killing movie than a horror movie, but I liked it because the concept is very original but also a bit weird that people wish to kill just to satisfy themselves.