Horror novels are created to create fear,make your skin tingle but mainly to create suspense.Harvey presents a great amount of suspense within his story “August Heat” when he creates a connection between death and a far predictable event. Harvey leaves many blanks within his writing to make the reader foreshadow possible events. Harvey is quite the black sheep when it comes to horror movies/novels I've encountered due to the fact he makes things so obvious to the point you might think this is too much but then leaves you with a plot twist making again his next event unpredictable. In “August Heat” Harvey introduces the narrator's sister's death which would make any reader draw a conclusion that the story might end up being about his sister's ghost or such possible event regarding such matter”My only near relative, a sister, died five years ago, so that i am independent (92)”.The narrator then turns into this creep out of the ordinary as if he has some sort of visions, “I began to draw.So intent was I on my work that I left my lunch (92)”. The drawing resulted as a fat, bald, flesh hung in rolls, stumpy neck etc. whom appeared to be a criminal in his eyes(such accusation on a man he doesn't even know). …show more content…
Not so expected he finds himself “standing before a gate that led into a yard boarded by a strip of thirsty earth ,where there were flowers,purple stock and scarlet geranium.(93)” The words used in these lines have a connection to suspense when i think of “Thirsty Earth” i think of the earth in hungry which means needs a body to be dug up.So out of the blue the narrator then meets the man he had drawn although his face was the same his expressions where very distinct from what he imagined.At this moment we dont only meet the sketch in flesh but we find out the man makes tombstones so obvious the concern of be