My own haunted story

      Edgar Allen Poe has a crazy imagination and his stories keep readers interested and confused. If I were to create my own story I would definitely look at his stories to get ideas of some things he incorporates  to create  the extreme sense of horror.
        Five things that caught my eye in "the house of usher" that I would copy for my own would be an abundant use of imagery, having some sort of perverted situation, use of suspense, having a psychopath of course , and  symbolism. These five things are crucial when creating a horror story and that's why  I'd choose them.
        First of all  I'd use imagery to go deeper into events and characters and create a mood that keeps readers interested. I also would use some sort of perverted incident that  is  unusual so that it freaks out the readers and  makes them want to continue reading because of its unholiness. I'd use suspense to provoke intense feelings and use it when the most important events are about to happen. Id definitely have a psychopath to be causing ruckus and doing all the messed up things. Lastly id use symbolism to show a web of cause and effect and id use it because everything would be done for reasons and it would all connect and also creating more suspense.  Incorporating these into my story wouldn't make it as great as Poe's but they are needed to create a story like his.
        Although this is what Poe is know for,  I would do some things in my story differently. One thing would be to make the deaths more clear and go into depth on what happens to the people for them to die and  more in depth about what happens after. Id do this because in "the house of usher" it was confusing to me about what happened with Madeline when she died. The second thing id do would make a person do all the haunting.  Yes having the house do it is original and creates a more spooky mood there's nothing the people can do to keep themselves safe. Therefore it will end in disaster since one person could not destroy the hauntedness of the house. Those are the two things I would want to do differently when creating my story.