Compare and contrast two short stories, focusing on the techniques used to create a sense of mystery and tension? The two short stories I will be looking at are "A Terribly Strange Bed" and "The Whole Town Is Sleeping"
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Wide Reading Compare and contrast two short stories, focusing on the techniques used to create a sense of mystery and tension? The two short stories I will be looking at are "A Terribly Strange Bed" and "The Whole Town Is Sleeping" The setting of "The Whole Town Is Sleeping" is dark and dreary at night but during the day it is a completely normal town. The ravine is shadowy and creepy especially as there is a killer out. It says "Not with the lonely one strangling women" This makes the whole town even more isolated and frightening especially at night. The ravine is scary because it is out of the way of all civilisations even more so with the killer on the loose. The setting of the story is set at night so all shops are closed and people are peeping through there curtains making it all seem...

