What is the mood of the excerpt?
o terrified
O angry
O sorrowful
O disgusted
Read the excerpt from "The Monkey's Paw."
He went down in the darkness, and felt his way to the
parlour, and then to the mantelpiece. The talisman was in
its place, and a horrible fear that the unspoken wish might
bring his mutilated son before him ere he could escape
from the room seized upon him, and he caught his breath
as he found that he had lost the direction of the door. His
brow cold with sweat, he felt his way round the table, and
groped along the wall until he found himself in the small
passage with the unwholesome thing in his hand.
Even his wife's face seemed changed as he entered the
room. It was white and expectant, and to his fears seemed
to have an unnatural look upon it. He was afraid of her.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive