ALFRED HITCHCOCK

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

• What is his nickname? His nickname was Master of Suspense.
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• What was his most famous horror film? Psycho
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• What was his main contribution to horror? The scense are of suspense and he use subjective camera.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY:

• Who is Edgar Allan Poe? Edgar Allan Poe he was an american wirter, editor and literary critic.

• When and where was he born? He was borned in January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S

• What was he famous for? He was known for evocative short stories and poems captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world.

• Did he get married? Yes, he get married Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe.

• How did he die? On October 3, 1849, Poe was found delirious on the street of Baltimore. We will never know what was really happened with Edgar Allan Poe.

• Name some of his most famous works. 

          The black cat
          Hop-Frog
          Ligeia
          Morella
         The Oval Portrait

THE GOTHIC NOVEL

THE GOTHIC NOVEL:

1. Who invented the gotic novel? What was the title of the first novel? When was it published?

• It was invented for Horace Walpole, the first novel was "The Castel of Otranto" in the year 1764 and it was published in England.

2. Wich basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson?

• Omens, approaching, slamming shut, necromancer, sorcerer, goblins, ominous, afflicted, concern, dreading. despair, dismal, frantic, dismal.

3. Choose one of the topics on DISCOVERING LITERATURE and write a post:

Mary Shelly, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati:

•  This novel is a story of scientific transgerssion and a cautionary warning about the need to take responsibility for one's actions.
• The weather in the summer of 1816 was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
• The book gives a startling example of how the heightened consciousness of terror could be transformed into brilliant and inspirational creativity:
•  She would describe similarly desolate locations in her novel Frankenstein, a book that both begins and ends amidst bleak snowy wastes.
•  The summer of the following year was this dismal and damp, with low temperatures and torrential rain causing disastrous crop failures throughout North America, Europe and Asia.