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‘The Monkey’s Paw’ and ‘The Red Room’ are both horror stories written in the nineteenth century. ‘The Red Room’ is a psychological horror story, which deals with fear and tension and ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ is a factual horror story, which deals with mystery and death. Both authors set out to frighten the reader, but do…

Liz Lochhead’s poem ‘ Box Room ‘ clearly presents her contradictory thoughts and feelings about an experience. A first visit to a boyfriend’s hostile mother is first presented with great confidence but later becomes an experience of unease and despair. The first few lines of the poem show that the mother is very hostile :…