Everybody loves a good scare, some people like it in person, others in books and movies. Masque of the Red Death by, Edgar Allen Poe, it uses many gothic elements to give you a very creepy vibe. In this short story an entire country has been hit with a plague that gives you a slow painful death. A rich prince gathers all of his friends into his big castle to hide for the plague but later during a masquerade ball the red death finds its way into the castle and kills everyone. By using many gothic elements, including a gloomy decaying setting, a supernatural being, a character in distress or an intense emotion, you can write a good gothic story. One of the story elements, a gloomy decaying setting, its usually describes how something is dark or what is frightening about it. A good example from the book Masque …show more content…
A supernatural being couldn't exist in the real world so you can create one using as many different elements that frighten you the most. “seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.” This is a supernatural being since the person is invisible you can't see him when they take off the mask. This can be apart of a gothic story since you can use your imagination to come up with what he looks like and you wouldn't be able to see this in the real world. A character in distress makes any story good but when you are stressed about being chased by a monster or you get lost in a creepy haunted house that makes it a gothic story element. “There was a sharp cry --and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero” The prince is in distress since he is