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uc1.b5298882	Locher, Edward William.	A study of the elements of mystery and terror in the tales of E.T.W. Hoffmann and E.A. Poe	1908		.txt	text/plain	15392	1134	73	offers the following suggestive discussion of the subject of tales of mystery and terror: is explained away on purely natural grounds; yet the mystery and its effect of terror are none the less present. of mystery and terror, and, in a somewhat empirical manner, to explain the nature of their effectiveness on the of our modern tales of terror, our feelings of fear, the appetences of our nature by means of ideas, calling forth feeling with its excitements and attachments, that tales have been invented; first recited, people feel that it is not proper to delight in stories that arouse fear and terror. to the reader's mind the same elements in that most striking of Hoffmann's tales, "Das Majorat". Both Hoffmann and Poe have made full use of the element of suspense in these tales. the case oL Poe. In some of Hoffmann's tales it is	./cache/uc1.b5298882.pdf	./txt/uc1.b5298882.txt