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Rio Small 10C2 English Mrs Fletcher Consider how the writers generate atmosphere and tension in a selection of Gothic Short Stories. In your answer, you should refer closely to the texts. I will be exploring the short stories, "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells, "The Monkey's Paw" be W.W. Jacobs and "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe. "The Monkey's Paw" is about a mysterious paw that grants wishes but with awful consequences and how it affects one family's lives. "The Masque of the Red Death" is about a horrific disease that kills almost instantly and about a prince who tries to prevent the disease from destroying him, "The Red Room" is about a mysterious room that is apparently haunted and it is an account of the protagonist and what happened to him when he ventured into "The Red Room". The introduction to "The Monkey's Paw" is already a bit of...

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