In Julio Cortazar’s story, “House Taken Over,” Cortazar creates an atmosphere of fear by giving the illusion of the unknow. He does this by not letting the character or the reader know what is going to happen. For example on page 39 paragraph “ the sound came through the muted and indistinct a chair being knocked over onto the carpet or the muffled buzzing of a conversation he later the narrator describes hurling himself at the door to stop the intruder. The second way the author creates fear is by making the characters fearful of the intruder, on page 42 paragraphs 26-28 the narrator asks irene “did you have time to bring anything” and him remembering leaving behind fifth teen thousand pesos in his wardrobe. The third thing that the author