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The Landlady And Lamb To The Slaughter
The short stories The Landlady and Lamb To The Slaughter were not scary because the stories were predictable, not that thrilling, and the plots were short and slightly dull. The two short stories were not scary because the plots turned out to be cliche`. Most horror stories include some sort of weird or crazy person who has a victim that is usually clueless. For example, in The Landlady, Billy noticed some of the strange characteristics of the old woman, but he didn’t know what she had in store and he wasn’t connecting the dots. However, this story created more suspense and creepiness than the other story. Other than that, the story was bland and not original. Another reason why the two stories weren’t scary is that the stories didn’t have
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