According to the old man, the monkey's paw was just a bit of what you might call

"Better where you are," said the sergeant major shaking. "Well, it's just a bit of what you might call magic, perhaps, " said the sergeant major, offhandedly

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d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

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the answer is: poetry.