Although the authors, Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe written two complete different stories, both of the short stories evoke suspense to their readers. In the short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator hates and wants to get rid of the old man's eye. So the narrator waits upon the eighth night until entering the bedroom of the old man tries to poke the eye out so he doesn’t have to see it any more. But when the narrator made the slightest noise the man awakened and the eye was seeable again. The narrator freaked out the mentally went crazy. Even though he stood still for over an hour the anxiety got to him and he killed the man, leaving the eye stone dead. In, "The Landlady," Billy Weaver was a business man who needed a place to stay
