Horror monsters fundamentally transgress categories/binaries and reveal “truth” within the story’s world. How, then, might the monster be seen as the story’s moral centre? 2. Compare Ramsey Campbell’s “The Voice of the Beach” to ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” OR Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan.” Which cosmic horror tropes has Campbell chosen to repeat and which does Campbell avoid or reinvent? 3. Why are horror stories themselves often objects of cultural anxiety? Discuss using examples from a metahorror (a horror story about horror stories) that develops the theme that horror stories, authors, and/or readers are monsters. 1. Select either ONE of these stories: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” OR Dan Choan’s “The Bees,” and answer the following question: Is there an actual supernatural haunting taking place, or is the main character losing her/his sense of reality? Pick ONE side, support your position with evidence from the text, and explain the thematic significance of your position. 2. What haunts Hill House? Pick ONE possible source of haunting, support your position with evidence from the text, and explain the thematic significance of your position. 3. Select ONE of the assigned course readings that features an unreliable narrator. Explain how we know that this narrator is unreliable, how this complicates our ability to interpret the text, and what this means for the text’s thematic significance.
Compare Ramsey Campbell’s “The Voice of the Beach” to : H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”
