ABSTRACT
Horror literature's reliance on the monster as an object that exists on the level of the storyworld but is inevitably judged in terms of the reader's own world makes it a particularly fruitful subject for the research on eventfulness, narratability, and immersion. He look at how the dynamics of immersion allow readers to make sense of the events in the storyworld and their impact on characters on both a conceptual and an emotional level. He also look at the connection between the concepts of eventfulness, narratability, and immersion and their significance for the readers emotional response to the events of narrative fiction. Afterward he give a brief introduction to horror fiction, focusing on the presentation of the monster in particular. Narrative analysis often foregrounds the importance of events as a defining feature of narratives. Any change of state in a narrative can be considered an event, but some theorists suggest the distinction between different types of event.
