Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Gothic Literature Essay In short stories and novels there are many gothic elements that are either very nasty or violent. In Riggs novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” there’s multiple different types of gothic elements. That goes the same for the two short stories by Poe, “Black Cat” and “Masque of the Red Death”, as well as the story “Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga. Through all these short stories, one gothic element stands out more than the others. Pain, blood, and grotequeness are three very common gothic elements in novels and short stories in the time period of American Romanticism. The gothic element pain is a common element anytime an individual is facing difficult or physical problems. The novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and short story “Black Cat” both have the gothic element of

Jacob is looking through his grandfather’s desk when he finds a letter labeled “Emerson”. He picks it up and starts to read it and feels the “blood drain from [his] face” (Riggs 61) as he’s fighting back tears. There’s no actual blood coming out but this is talking about the blood inside is body moving all over his face while he reads this letter. Although the short story “Masque of the Red Death” is full of blood. There’s “scarlet stains upon the body, and especially upon the face of the victim” (Poe 446) as the masked man comes into the mansion and starts to kill everyone in his path. While walking through the mansion you could see “one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls” (Poe 452). Everyone is full of blood as this masked man makes his way throughout the mansion. Both stories have blood in them, but in this story there’s actual blood on the bodies and it’s not just inside the individual. Blood helps a story portray many different views such as blood internally and externally like