The Haunted House

A Haunted House

  Poe has many interesting stories that are spooky as well as find a way to entertain that part of us that longs for a good scare now and then. The techniques I would most copy from him would be his use of personification, his grammatical skills, his use of diction, the way he structures his writing, and finally how he uses metaphors. There are many ways to use all of these things in an essay for example, if I were to talk about a tree and say it's branches screached as the wind blew past that could be a use of personification. I would apply the use of structuring my essay by planning ahead and figuring out how I should write the thesis, topic sentence and the rest of my body paragraphs.

   I can use grammar skills that are strong and tie my information back to the thesis in order to give more of an effect, and by doing this I can better my essay. Finally I would use metaphors that can be understood like comparing a black raven to a lonsome person. Now that I have told you of the ways I would use his techniques and how I would use them it's time for a spooky story about a HAUNTED HOUSE....

   There once was a house on Oakridge Lane that everyone in town knew all to well about, it was dark, isolated in a deserted part of the town and it seemed as though the clouds were set dark and gloomy right above that particular spot. It had overgrown weeds all around and even the animals kept away from what might've been the scariest house in the whole state! Ashley and mike two young high school students heard stories about the spooktacularr house and in utter curiosity decided to check it out. They drove 40 miles out of town ready and prepared for what could happen in a place that no one would ever go near if they were to be lost, they pulled up to the house and parked in an abandoned barn.

    "Let's go inside!" said Mike, Ashley was brave but even a house like this sent chills down her spine. They neared the house and opened the creaky wooden door that would lead them inside, slowly but surely all seemed well. Walking from room to room they noticed porttraits of the family that used to live there, they were a small family who lived moved there from Eastern Europe around the early 1900's, they were all murdered by a greedy man that sought to take their land.  Ashley noticed the young girl that looked similar to the girl decribed in all the stories she'd heard, long brown hair, pale face and black eyes. Eager to move on Ashley stepped down stairs and saw a figure standing at the foot of the stairs. It was a girl, covered in blood who once had her back turned was now at ashley's level of the stairs. Her teeth were sharpended to a point and she looked as if she just devoured an animal and by the smell a dead one, Mike still clueless headed to ashley and what he saw was truly horrifying... There he saw the girl smile with a grin as blood dripped down her chin and blood splatters on the wall, ashley had just been turned into a human puzzle.
Hope you enjoyed the short story, and hope it was scary enough!