The narrator in that story states that he is not crazy for wanting to kill the man with the vulture eye. (lines 12-14) This type of story can go any way depending on what point of view the reader looks at it from. From the narrator’s point of view, the horror is coming from within the crazy mind of the man as he wants to kill the old man. From the old man’s point of view, the story is coming from a person against another person as the narrator wants to kill him.
Settings play one of the biggest roles in my opinion in creating horror. The short story “The Monkey’s Paw” shows quite a few examples of how setting and time effects the overall story. “Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Laburnum Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.” Now, imagine the story on a bright sunny morning. The effect wouldn’t be the same. Our mood of the story depends greatly on the opening setting, in this case they are using a traditional setting as what we would expect it to