Compare And Contrast Tell Tale Heart And The Landlady

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Have You ever wondered the difference between Tell Tale Heart and The Landlady.Well I found out some information about the difference about the two stories were that they have different writers. One of them likes to make the story creepy at the beginning and the other hides the horror till the end of the story.The stories both have suspense, darkness, horror, and mysteriousness in the stories.Obviously the writers have different writing styles and have a different way of appealing the evil in the charachter and it make the story more interesting.The other way of writing is telling the bad stuff about the person from the begining. The similarities in these books are creepy in a sense because of the lady and how she acted.The way the butler

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