A importância da música na construção da atmosfera e do efeito em uma narrativa de terror

Abstract

Through the theories of Edgar Allan Poe regarding the ways of impressing a vivid effect on the reader and based on the teachings of H. P. Lovecraft about atmosphere in stories of the supernatural, this article aims to analyze how music may be a decisive factor in constructing a literary work of horror genre. Therefore, this article analyzes the ways in which music is an important element  to the setting of narrative tension in H. P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen King, providing details on writing strategies adopted by each author to highlight an imagined song as an essential part of a horror story atmosphere