How does Bierce's methodic writing style of providing detailed descriptions in a quiet, slow,
suspenseful manner affect the reader? Provide examples (like how he describes the rifles in “support" position, or the sound of his own watch ticking).

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.