A Horror Story

A Rose for Emily is a horror story. A horror story is a piece of work that involves excessive suspense and sometimes even morbid themes such as murder, supernatural haunting, and death. Scary stories are those that simply projects vivid imagery of something morbid, like monsters or the moment the character is about to get killed. Although usually horror stories share similar themes, the actual attribute of those two kinds of story is in truth, fundamentally very different. Horror stories doesn't aim to project vivid imagery but they wish to create suspense and cause a psychological impact on the readers. The very goals are different. In movies, however, both kinds are pretty much coexisting. Those scary/horror movies suggests a scary morbid image (scary novel attribute) and usually involves long and strong sense of suspense(horror novel attribute)  through music most of the time. Other stories usually provokes similar themes with different ways. Many horror stories apply innovative ways of introducing suspense, including vivid description of an epiphany kind of moment, suggest a list of things that all share something morbid in common. The later is the one applied into A Rose for Emily, Homer's disappearance, the purchase of rat poison and the unbearable odor from the house all suggest something unpleasant.