In The Monkey's Paw written by W.W. Jacobs and The Red Room written by H.G. Wells, there are many similarities and differences in the ways the stories are written and suspense created. For example, both stories belong to the horror genre where the supernatural appears due to human interferences, and both have a fast and frantic climax where the characters' lives are put in jeopardy. However they do differ in places, one of …showed first 75 words of 3109 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3109 total…is due to the literary excellence of Wells. He personifies man's greatest fear - darkness creating a sense of dread and unease which Jacobs fails to do, he uses onomatopoeia more effectively than Jacobs to create an even more emotive text making things described in the story seem a lot more real and the climax that Wells creates in the story is a lot more frenetic and wild than the climax of The Monkey's Paw.