There is nothing more agonizing than allowing your imagination to take control and create irrational fears. It can result in decisions you may not like or feel comfortable with. It can happen to anyone at anytime. Furthermore, it makes us wonder how the victim feels and whether or not they brought it upon themselves. For this very reason, many of these events have been recorded in literature, media, and anecdotes that show how one lost control and displayed the consequences following it. Through the use of these accounts, whether non-fiction or fantasy, we cannot deny that when one is overwhelmed and uninformed on what they’re facing, they submit to their imagination.
Authors such as Julio Cortazar and Edgar Allen Poe have created chilling
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However, in the middle of the story, the narrator comes across a mysterious entity (which he and his sister have no knowledge of ) roaming around one side of his home. His response? He “hurled [himself] against the door before it was too late, shut it, leaned on it with the weight of [his] body… and ran the great bolt into place just to be safe,” (40). With this in mind, one can argue that this was a reasonable decision, but it is not. It is evident that he locked the entity on one side of his house because of his fear; his fear of facing the entity. He does not know what the entity is so he and his sister avoid it instead. Consequently, the siblings end up losing their home and their wealth to the entity, simply because they were too afraid to face the unknown. Coincidentally, Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” also involves two siblings living in a large house. By using the atmosphere setting, Poe was able to bring the house to life. The brother, Roderick Usher, takes note of this but does not know what to do. He fears that his sister will die because her health is worsening everyday. Furthermore, he is afraid of dying of fear. Eventually, as foreshadowed, his sister dies. Overwhelmed with the loss of