In all of the short stories there is an ideal amount of gothic elements that the authors use. The gothic elements the use are psychological issues, death, and magic. In Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children and The Raven both had dealings with psychological issues. In The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator is hallucinating when he is seeing a raven on his door. “But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word” (Poe 439). In the novel Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, Grandpa Portman was dealing with delusions “The irony was now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him” (Riggs 29). The two characters in this story were both dealing with psychological issues.…show more content… In Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, Grandpa Portman died when he ran into the woods and fell “Tell him what happened, Yakob” with that he sank back and fade in, I told him I loved him” (Riggs 37). In the short story Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga, The girl Alicia is suddenly dying and no one can figure out why, but there was a parasite biting her and no one knew until it was too late. ‘Night after night, ever since Alicia had taken her to bed, it had stealthily applied its mouth its snout rather to her temple, sucking out her blood’ (Quiroga 2). In both of these short stories both had encounters with
