The Elements of a Good Horror Story as Exemplified in Frankenstein.

I believe the criteria for a good horror story is very diverse. A high quality horror story is realistic, and makes the reader believe that what is happening in the story could happen to them. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, explains how Victor Frankenstein, a student at Ingolstadt (28), grasps the idea of being capable of bestowing life upon an inanimate object (37). This novel is not an impractical vampire or alien story. It is a reasonable happening. …

…manner. To me, being strangled is not the scariest way for a murderer to kill his victims. The creepiest ways for people to die involve blood. Stabbings and shootings are easier for a writer to make terrifying. The author can describe the gash in the wounded, or the pool of blood around them. It is harder to elaborate a strangling. That is the only way I would change the story to possibly make it better.