Poe . These facts speak to the popular (what we might call commercial ) application of the `` '93shock '94 ending in fiction . In Poe '92s works , the `` '93shock '94 ending and the building of suspense add not only to reader engagement , but psychological ambience , lending a sense of Shock Endings Page -4- allegorical events , which are largely psychological , rather than political or aesthetic , in their ultimate expression (Hoffman . The Gothic form found potent political expression via Ambrose Bierce , whose wry...











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