Grasping Postmonderism

“She touches me and takes her hand away abruptly, it’s so clear that there is no one there. “But it’s always been like that!” Nervous laughter. The picture Of a headless man falling headlong hangs at the head of the stairs. “Why I must’ve been dreaming!” All this is in the tone of one” 

This quote is pretty chilling. This is only the first line and it already gives off a dark kind of feeling to the story. It is apparent that the person is talking to themselves in a way. When the first line says a woman touches him and then quickly takes her hands off, it is almost like it has happened before. It seems that it brings his hopes up that someone is finally there and then he snaps into a reality that he is in fact alone. He even admits it but when he does he masks the laugh for his sadness or scaredness.  So right off the bat, the reader will think it is a ghost and it makes the story even more so creepy. And as for the line of the headless man, it adds mystery. And finally, the last line him suggesting he must've been dreaming,I imagine his saying it in a kind of crazy voice with a smirk, hence the chills.

"I could bear to be left alone just yet. I don’t think I can stay here. These candles have a habit of going out. Ah yes, here’s that little something I’ve been telling you about. There, do you see that? And it’s headed In our direction." 

In these lines, I get the feel of the discomfort she feels staying in the house. Being left alone in that house is the worse thing she can experience, the memories of her loved one passing would be too overwhelming. And like the candles going out and making it pitch black, life there always goes out leaving the house just as lonely as before. And finally, in the last line, she sees is her future. Not a bright one but death, she does not want to be alone, she knows what is to come.