Archive: Story Experiences

The Thirty-Nine Steps
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"I was just fitting my key into the door when I noticed a man at my elbow. "Pardon," he said, "I'm a bit rattled tonight. You see, I happen at this moment to be dead."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
King Solomon's Mines
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say, especially considering that there's no woman in it--except Foulata. Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend. But she was a hundred at least, and therefore not marriageable, so I don't count her."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"But of all the British kings, I've heard tell that Arthur was the most noble. And so I will show you something that's astonished the eyes of many, an outrageous adventure of knightly wonder, and if you will listen to my song for oh just a little, I will tell it as I heard it in town."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Epic of Sundiata
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"Listen to my words, you who want to know; by my mouth you will learn the history of Mali. By my mouth you will get to know the story"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Call the Midwife
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
The fear of death during chilbirth combined with Vanessa Redgrave's wise retrospective narration (multiple times in almost every episode)
Contributed by: mi
January 9, 2025
Confessions
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Conversion Narrative
"My flesh stirred up steamy lust...I was in the sixteenth year of my flesh....O the blindness of flesh!"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Varney the Vampire
Experience: Connection
Narrative Technology: Second Method
"With a sudden rush that could not be foreseen--with a strange howling cry that was enough to awaken terror in every breast, the figure siezed the long tresses of her hair, and twining them round his bony hands he held her to the bed. Then she screamed--Heaven granted her then power to scream. Shriek followed shriek in rapid succession. The bed-clothes fell in a heap by the side of the bed--she was dragged by her long silken hair completely on to it again. Her beautifully rounded limbs quivered with the agony of her soul. The glassy, horrible eyes of the figure ran over that angelic form with a hideous satisfaction--horrible profanation. He drags her head to the bed's edge. He forces it back by the long hair still entwined in his grasp. With a plunge he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth--a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise follows. The girl has swooned, and the vampire is at his hideous repast"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025