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Panganiban, Roman Cyril A.


2008 03955
Eng 11 X2
May 18, 2012

A Glimpse of the Mysterious


(Introduction to a Collection of Mystery Poems, Short Stories and Novels)

Mystery is an ages-old popular genre of tales dealing with the unknown as revealed
through human or worldly dilemmas; it may be a narrative of horror and terror, a
pseudoscientific fantasy, a crime-solving story, an account of diplomatic intrigue, an affair of
codes and ciphers and secret societies, or any situation involving an enigma. By and large,
mystery stories may be divided into two sorts: tales of the supernatural and riddle stories. In
poems, mystery often comes in a form characterizing the unknowns, the what could haappnes,
and things that cannot be logically explained. In short stories and novels, it is usually a story of
fiction in which a detective, either an amateur or a professional, solves a crime or a series of
crimes. Because detective stories rely on logic, supernatural elements rarely come into play. The
detective may be a private investigator, a policeman, an elderly widow, or a young girl, but he or
she generally has nothing material to gain from solving the crime. The cause/s of a mysterious
happening, often a crime, is gradually revealed by the hero or heroine; this is accomplished
through a mixture of intelligence, ingenuity, the logical interpretation of evidence, and
sometimes sheer luck. It can also be a story of the supernatural like aliens, ghosts and the likes
that is the focus and are tried to be explained rationally throughout the stories. In this collection,
you will see 5 poems, 5 short stories and 2 novels classified in the mysterious genre.

Poems

The Cemetery by Lucirina Telor Vevan


The Dead mans Tale by Xarl
Dawn by Lucirina Telor Vevan
I am by Anonymous
End of the World By Anonymous

Short Stories

Road Kill by Michael Cramer


Off the Grid by George Ebey
Dark and Stormy Night by Tom Larsen
The Face in the Window by Matthew Spence
Survivor: South Pacific by Tyler Mathis

Novels

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens


A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poems
Accumulated on this collection you can find various mystery poems that tell stories about
criminals, murderers, eerie places and dark secrets, or just engulf you with an atmosphere of

mystery. These are the poems that are out of this world or don't make much sense until you
really think about. Read and then try and find out what they mean.
The first poem is The Cemetery. This poem offers what happens in a cemetery and the
mysteries that cover it. It shows what emotions come and go there and says that the cemetery is a
witness to many things.
Next is The Dead mans Tales. This poem shows a murder that happened and that the
body of the victim tells a story and even tells what happened. The mystery here is finding out
who was the killer that apparently, the dead man was able to cut a finger from. There was also a
mention of death which can be also considered as mysterious.
Third is Dawn. Here in our country it is during this time that the weird things happen
like monster sightings and the likes. The poem describes the mysteries that happen during dawn
that it is even compared or described as death.
Next is the poem I am. This poem makes you wonder who is the I that is describing
himself/ herself or itself. It shrouds the reader with a mist of mystery and lets him or her think of
who or what is talking throughout the poem. The narrator divulges that he/ she it knows who you
are and even your deepest darkest secrets that makes it more mysterious.
Last poem is End of the World. This poem narrates or describes the mystery of how the
world can end. It shows that everyone and everything can die at the end but there will still be
some things like emotions that will never die.

The Short Stories


Mystery short stories are like regular in short stories in form and structure but usually a
crime of some kind is central to its plot. By that I mean the crime is a significant part of the story,

to the point that if you remove the crime from the story, the plot has no meaning. The point is
that a mystery story does not have to be a "who did it." It often is, but it doesn't have to be.
The first story in this collection is Road Kill. This story is of crime- mystery type that
happens on a now seldom used road to Las Vegas. It is about a murdered woman and the police
and feds are in the scene doing interviews trying to find out who killed the woman. It lets the
reader thinks of who did it and the answer is revealed at the end.
Next is Off the Grid that is a story about a man hiding in a cabin in the woods- Being
off the grid means not being visible to others and not having contact with anyone especially the
authorities. In this story a man is hiding from something supposedly killing someone even
though he is not convicted yet. He was also given instructions to kill whoever comes near the
cabin except for one person. At the end, he killed someone nearing the cabin to find out that he
must not have killed him/ her and the mystery is who was that he killed.
The third is Dark Stormy Night that is about a man visiting his daughter and wanting to
see her granddaughter. The mystery here is the job of the visitor and why he has a gunshot
wound and in a hurry. In the course of the story, the reader is taken into a place where he or she
wonders what will happen in the end.
Next is The Face in the Window. The story revolves an old woman that is somehow
ostracized from the society that shes in and what seems to be her only friend that visits him. At
the end, her friend gets killed and she was the only witness that have seen it through a window
were she usually hangs around.
Last sort story in this collection is Survivor: South Pacific. It is a story about what is
left of a ships crew that are stranded at the island after their ship sunk. One day, one of them gets

missing leaving nothing except drag marks that lead them to nothing. This happened again until
there was only one left and he discovers that indeed, they are not alone in the island.

The Novels
Every author, publisher, bookseller, reader, collector or any one that likes or loves to read
mystery books has their own definition of what is a mystery and of the genres that comprise the
category. Mystery novels do not differ that much from mystery poems and short stories except
for the fact that they are novels. These stories are often categorized further as Crime Fiction,
Detective Fiction, Police Procedural or simply Mysteries. The Mystery Novel has the story as its
main purpose. These novels usually let the readers think of who the possible suspects could be;
leaving clues and evidences along the story and at the end, and the story reveals who really is the
perpetrator.
The first novel is The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is said
to be the final novel by Charles Dickens. In fact, the novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens'
death thus; he was not able to give an ending for it. Consequently, the identity of the murderer
remains subject to debate until now. The story focuses on Edwin's uncle, John Jasper, who is in
love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud is Edwin's fiance who has also caught the eye of the
high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. Landless and Edwin take an instant dislike to
one another. Edwin later disappears under mysterious circumstances and was feared dead. It is
said that the murderer is Edwins own uncle, John Jasper.

The last next novel and last part of this collection is A Study in Scarlet. This novel
served as the debut of Sir Doyles most famous Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the

most famous literary detective characters. The title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his
sidekick Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder
investigation as his "study in scarlet": "Theres the scarlet thread of murder running through the
colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
This is how great a mystery novel can get. It includes almost all elements one wishes to find
from a detective mystery story from deductive reasoning, to police work, to crime and even to
Forensic Science.

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