Tim Burton's "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Edward Scissorhands" are great examples of what modern dark romantics might create. Dark romantic writers like Edgar Allen Poe of "The Black Cat" and Nathaniel Hawthorne of "The Birthmark" used their diction, or word choice to create haunting stories. "The Black Cat" focused on a man on death row for a heinous crime involving an unlucky cat. "The Birthmark" focuses on a married couple, but the madam has a strange mark on her cheek and her husband's attempts to remove it. By far the most significant technique used to create a suspenseful mood, or reader's feelings, would be diction.
Poe uses diction to create a suspenseful mood in "The Black Cat." His choice in words greatly affected the mood,
