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"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl

"Lamb to the Slaughter" e-text [|Lamb to the Slaughter]

Literary Terms //An Occurrence at Owl Creek Short Stories[|An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]//

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//Alfred Hitchcock-//

“Consider the following quotation from Hitchcock, rightfully knighted as the Master of Suspense: ‘We come to our old analogy of the bomb. You and I sit here talking. We're having a very innocuous conversation about nothing. Boring. Doesn't mean a thing. Suddenly, boom! A bomb goes off and the audience is shocked – for 15 seconds. Now you change it. Play the same scene, show that a bomb has been place there, establish that it's going to go off at 1 p.m. – it's now a quarter of one, ten of one – show a clock on the wall, back to the same scene. Now our conversation becomes very vital, by its sheer nonsense. Look under the table! You fool! Now the audience is working for 10 minutes, instead of being surprised for 15 second.'”