The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pagesPublished September 28th, 2004 by Bantam Classics
FTC: Purchased at a book sale
This story, more than any other, made me forever remember Poe. It's like a frenetic cadence of horror. Still, today when I hear someone mention reading it, I think about him being vexed by the old man.
The first time I read this - is the first time I ever saw the word "shriek" in a book. And the pointed and beguiling manner in which he spoke with the officers was alarming. In the end, he struggles with his own convictions, becomes obsessed with his guilt and turns himself in.
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