In some stories, the reader may guess the conclusion before they even finish reading the introduction, but when authors add suspense in to their master pieces, the stories become far more interesting and keeps the reader wondering whether if the conclusion of the story would end like they thought it could, and therefore keeps the reader wanting to read more. ... Just in the first line, Poe creates suspense by repeating the word "very" and admits that he has been "dreadfully nervous". ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

King writes that Campbell produces a "cool, almost icy prose line, and his perspective is always a trifle offbeat, a trifle unsettling,"" (qtd. in "Horror Fiction-, 86). ... Campbell had to have mentally-weak and depressed characters in order to finish the story the way he did. ...

• Word Count: 1611
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Critical opinion over the years has tended to line up behind O'Connor's own explanations; however, O'Connor's analysis of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" still seems baffling, and occasionally a critic has questioned the theology of the fiction. ...

• Word Count: 2384
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School