FINDING HORROR ELEMENTS ON FIVE STORIES IN HORROR IN PARADISE MIA FITRIA AGUSTINA, S.S, M.A. LIA AGUSTINA UNTARI English Department, FIB, UNSOED mia.fitria.agustina@gmail.com liauntari95@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper is going to find the horror features through intrinsic elements, namely setting, characters and plot of five short stories in Horror in Paradise. The title of those short stories are “Emma de Fries and Queen Emma of Hawaii ”, “Phantoms and Physicians on Tepuka”, “Wandering Spirits of Manga Reva”, “From the Faery Lands”, and “Siva and the Devil”. Horror in Paradise is a collection of short stories from Hawaii. The setting mainly takes place in Hawaii such as Honolulu, Contessa side of King Street, Kahoaloha Lane, Dole Street, Bachman Annex, Tepuka, Tuamotu, Rikitea, Makaroa, Kamaka and Manoui. In each story, some features of Hawaiian are exposed to support the distinct characteristics of Hawaii that help to build the horror circumstances in the story. Those reasons become the consideration to choose the stories to be the object of the paper. Moreover, as the purpose of horror genre is to promote horrific effects to the readers, it is very challenging to figure out the horror features through intrinsic elements that make the readers terrified. Therefore, this paper is trying to figure out the intrinsic elements that dismay the readers. Keywords: horror, horror elements, intrinsic elements, Horror in Paradise Introduction When Fifit and Lia were young, they often heard stories of ghosts. For them, cemetery is a very sacred place. They were afraid to point out where it was as it was forbidden. There was a sanction if they did it as they got fever and probably they got died because of it. Their grandpa had told them also that a family had been slaughtered because a cat entered their house at dusk, and at night it changed into a human killing all of the family. Thus, for a long time, they were always conscious every time they met a cat. Not only those, there are so many kinds ghost told by people surrounding them. It is a gendruwo if it is a very huge black creature with messy hair. That thing is described as a male ghost, and it often stays in the dark corner of an empty building. Some people especially children may get sick too because of it (Bruun and Kalland, 2014). Another example is a kuntilanak. This is a female ghost who has hole at the back. She has a long hair and always wears a white dress full of blood. The last example is a pocong. This is a very famous ghost in Indonesia. It is a corpse with white cloths wrapping the death body in Islamic ways. The face of pocong, somehow, is always white like