Gothic Literature Techniques

Ransom Riggs uses similar techniques to many of the most popular Gothic Literature authors because blood can be seen between “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe and the book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. Riggs also uses similar techniques of the supernatural elements in the “Devil and Tom Walker”, and the use of mystery can be seen between “A Rose for Emily” and the book. Within the two works of literature, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children, the authors ingrains the gothic element of mystery into the story. Within Riggs’s novel the protagonist, Jacob, finds his grandfather in the woods and he has immense damages of his body. As Jacob tries to figure out what to do

Consequently this leads the reader to have many questions because there was the mystery of whom the mysterious face is. After Jacob sees the face his friend pulls out a gun and shoots in the general direction, but it is later discovered that he did not see anybody; henceforth the reader is left wondering why only Jacob saw the face and not his friend. To further allude to the mystery, Jacob's grandfather, Abe, told him to “Go to the island Yacob here it's not safe” (Riggs 37). Moreover, Jacob had been bullied growing up there were no significant signs of anything that would pose as a threat to Jacob, even though Abe felt as if Jacob was in grave danger. Meanwhile Jacob is perplexed by his grandfather’s words and what had possibly killed his grandfather. The mystery that Riggs implements at the beginning of the story helps bolster the overall gothic ambience. Faulkner also uses mystery within his story. Miss Emily never a normal character; Her disposition was introverted and abstracted compared to the norm. One day she decided to buy arsenic,

The novel Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, and the short stories “The masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allen Poe, are no different. Poe uses blood as a symbol for the red death. For the Red Death “Blood was its avatar and seal-the redness and the horror of blood” (Poe 446). Furthermore, during the story the people within the kingdom, though that they were unable to contract the plague that expanded over the city. In due time the people within the castle came face to face with their adversary. The Red Death “One by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their reveller” (Poe 452). He uses blood as a symbol and a way to describe things because blood is ideal to portray his gothic ideas. While in Riggs’s novel the bloody scenes painted a vivid picture through the gothic element. When Jacob's grandfather died there was copious amounts of blood described in the scene. Upon arrival Jacob grabbed his grandfather and held is depleted body “the blood soaked through was still warm” (Riggs 35). As he looked upon the scene “the ground where he’d lain was muddy was muddy from the blood” (Riggs 35). As seen both authors use the gothic element of blood within their