The following text will compare and contrast three short stories. The three stories are: Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat", Marghanita Laski's "The Tower" and lastly, "The Hitchhiker" by the ironically named Anthony Horrowitz. All three of these stories share the same genre and that is ‘horror'. Also they are all short stories.

Despite sharing the same genre these three stories are all very different and all use various techniques the help give the reader a sense of horror which is of course the goal of the writer in all horror stories. In "The Black Cat" it is evident that the writer is using shock as his way of scaring the reader. Edgar Allen Poe takes the unbelievable cruelty of the main character and combines this with the way the man is so desensitized and calm about his vicious acts. This not only creates a sense of shock and horror for the reader but is somewhat humorous in a very black comedy sort of way. In contrast "The Hitchhiker" at first uses a basic and normal......

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Title: Linking Texts
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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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