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How do H.G. Wells and Susan Hill create tension in their stories ‘The Red Room’ and ‘Farthing House’?
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... How do H.G. Wells and Susan Hill create tension in their stories `The Red Room' and `Farthing House'? `The Red Room' by HG Wells and `Farthing House' by Susan Hill are two ghost stories exploiting the cultural, social and historical aspects of the gothic ghost story genre. Cleverly, both writers create tension, to generate a sense of thrill and frission that engages the reader emotionally. Coleridge called this the `willing suspension of our disbelief' in that the reader's scepticism is set aside and we allow the fictional ghost and its presence to entertain us. Though `The Red Room' was written one hundred years before `Farthing House' it feels more modern with its psychological emphasis whereas `Farthing House' is more subtle in the way in which tension is created. Both of the tales are classic examples of gothic stories that have two very different outcomes of the ghost story genre.
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