Robert Bloch's Psycho

Elsie May and the Winchester's are praying over dinner and the hear the back door fly open. 9. Mr. Winchester jumps up and gets his rusty shotgun, he shoots one of Midstate Church's Deacons as he comes through the back door. 10. Elsie May, baby Jane, the Winchester's baby daughter and Mrs. Winchester scatter through the house running away from the gunshots.

No broken windows, no broken locks, no outside evidence to prove that anyone else could have entered the home undetected. The police refused to believe it could’ve been anyone other than Michael. That same night there was a homeless man, Richard Tuite, who had been wandering the streets, was reportedly knocking on doors and peering through windows of homes in the Crowes’ neighborhood asking for a girl named Tracy. Tuite had also been seen standing in the Crowe family’s driveway staring at the house by a neighbor. Tracy had a very strong resemblance to Stephanie.

Mary was living with one of her coworkers, Lynn Guyette, and was dating a man named Art. Her landlord, Roy Ware, said that he received a letter dated April 9th containing a rent check and notice of Lynn living there, and Mary’s family in North Carolina also received a

When he woke back up, Sam looked for his wife and determined she was dead by checking her pulse. He ran down the stairs and saw the intruder running out of the house, and he chased him to the shore of his lake, where he was knocked out again. He said we went to his house and checked on his wife when he woke again, then called the mayor. The mayor's wife, Esther, checked the upstairs bedroom and saw that Sam's drawers in his desk were taken out and the contents of his medical bag were spread out on the floor. Esther saw bloodstains on the bedroom's walls, floor, and bedspread, with a pool of blood around Sam's wife Marilyn's body.

Mary knows with certainty that without bringing up her case again and fighting it, she will never be able to keep her own child. The narrative that Mary opens up with appears and sounds compelling, realistic, and shines a light on her innocence. Afterwards, the reader finds out only vague parts of the story were remotely true and was made in a vain effort to change her fate. Mary convinced many of those close to her that she was wrongly accused and only protecting her mother. “He doesn’t think I killed Alyssa.

Jeannette falls out of the family's car while travelling through the desert. Brian comes too close for comfort to falling out the back of a U-Haul. Maureen wakes up with a rat sleeping in her bed. The Walls move around often because Rex can't keep a job and Rose Mary thinks of herself as modern-day Picasso, although she can't sell a painting.

They thought it was going to be a normal investigation, but it turns out to be the scariest day of their lives. Bree and Neil are haunted by scary nightmares,visions and a ghost who wants people to know about her death. Wanting to find answer, they go to the extreme. Breaking into houses, going to the library and even going to a retirement home where Janet Reilly, or better known as Nurse Janet is living. Bree and Neil get an unsuspected twist when a friendly neighbor, Andy, turns out to be Rebecca's dad and is also the killer of Rebecca's mom, Alice, and even Rebecca.

It’s scary to think that there are certain things that will reveal itself only when the time comes. Being kept out of the loop, desperately trying to fit all the pieces of the puzzle, only to realize that there’s one piece missing, the last piece needed to construct the whole picture. That’s how Mary Boyne, the character from Edith Wharton’s short story “Afterward”, feels. Her husband suddenly disappears and she’s left alone to try and make sense of everything, only to discover the truth long after; a truth that shattered her reality. She was the one who “sent him to Ned”; she “told him where to go!”

When Mary was on the phone with the police, telling them that Patrick was dead, Mary was crying and in shock. When Mary got back from the grocery store, she saw that Patrick was lying on the ground. She called

In the bathroom, Lizzie finds pictures taped to the wall of herself as a much older woman and the man in the bed who tells her he is her husband. Lizzie is shocked and frightened, especially when a glance in the mirror tells her that the pictures are accurate even though she is convinced she is only twenty-five, not forty-seven. The man in the bed tells her he is her husband Derek, that they have been married for many years, and that she had an accident that has left her unable to retain new memories. After Derek leaves for his job as a teacher at a nearby school, Lizzie receives a call from a stranger who tells her he is Dr. Smith, a man who has been helping her attempt to recover some of her memories.

Alfred Hitchcock successfully performs suspense and shock in a number of ways. One way was when he reveals that the cop is following her, making us think that he found out concerning the money she stole. Another way is when we see Norman staring through the hole, examining her as if he is waiting to make his move. The last technique that Hitchcock constructed suspense is when we identify a shadowy character gazing at her take a shower, making us wonder who it could

Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcocks powerful and complex psychological thriller, horror film “Psycho” (1960) was classes as the first sub genre of horror, the slasher. The film ushered in the era of slashes with graphic content of blood-letting and shocking killings of the time. Although this was Hitchcock’s first horror film, he was labelled as a horror film director ever since. The film contains disturbing themes of corruptibility, confused identities, voyeurism, human vulnerabilities and victimisation. These themes symbolise the effects of money, oedipal murder and the dark histories.

“Patrick! She called. How are you darling. She put the parcel down and went into the living room and when she saw him lying on the ground.” Mary also creates an act that makes the detectives believe that she did not do anything to do with the murder.

They ask her questions. The detective have asked Mary if they can look around for the murder weapon. When they have searched the entire house they came back and Mary asks them for a drink. They all sip a bit of whiskey. One of the sheriff 's (Jack), tells Mary her oven is on with the lamb (the murder weapon) inside.

The author purposely structured this story so that the reader would be all-knowing of the routine circumstances that initiated the affair at the end of the story. “The House Behind” - Lydia Davis