Comparing The Landlady And Tell Tale Heart

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In both of the story there was two murders from “The Landlady” and “Tell Tale Heart”. The murder who's in “Tell Tale Heart” is more horrific.
In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl page 8, paragraph 5, it says, “I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?”

This is the horrific sentence in the story because the landlady is kind of scary when she said that she stuffed all her pets when they passed away, and when she ask Billy for another cup of tea she might put the poison in the tea.
In the “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, paragraph 11 it says, “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned,

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