Use Of Suspense In Robert Dahl's Short Story 'The Landlady'

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Do you ever get frightened reading a grisly book? Robert Dahl used many methods to create suspense in the short story the LandLady. The writer gave many unique clues. Suspense is when the biggest moment, where you just wanna leap out of your chair. To begin with, In the short story the LandLady Robert gave her clues that the Landlady was alarming and suspicious. The Landlady has told Billy that she stuffed both the parrot and the dachshund. She’s also had said that she side the boys are there when they really aren’t which is suspicious. Normal humans wouldn’t act like that. The landlady is not normal in the passage it says “I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Another thing in the passage I saw that was suspicious was “But