How do the Authors you have studied Present Fear, Suspense and Tension in their short stories?

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Hiten Shah

How do the Authors you have studied Present Fear, Suspense and Tension in their short stories?

The Landlady – Roald Dahl

The Red Room – H G Wells

The Black Cat – Edgar Allan Poe

Fear is a natural human emotion. Some people live lives devoid of joy, happiness and pleasure. But no one escapes the experience of fear and its companion is pain. We are born around fear and pain. They, as well as our efforts to avoid them, profoundly shape our lives. The authors we have studied are Roald Dahl, H G Wells and Edgar Allan Poe and they all present fear in many different fascinating ways.

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The Roald Dahl story “The Landlady” starts off with a boy called Billy Weaver looking for a place to stay for the night. The fact that it is night and the moon is up over a starry night, gives the town an eerie sense to it as if it’s a special night where something is going to happen. Also the point is that it is nighttime suggests that there are going to be few people on the streets.

It starts with a welcoming smile from the landlady, and it leads into a warm house with burning fireplace, animals ...

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