The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
>> Saturday, October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween!
This is a great story to enjoy on Halloween. It is another story of a homicidal maniac. This guy is beyond crazy he develops believes that his victim is a nice man he even says he loves him. He ponders why he killed him and comes up with "I think it was his eye".
He is not sorry for what he has done he feels he has plenty of justification. As he confesses he continually tells us he is not crazy. He believes no madman could plan this murder as he did. No madman could stand quietly in the mans room for hours waiting for the right opportunity. The more he pleads his case the more insane he sounds.
The best part of the story is how he got caught. He kills the man, cuts him up and hides him under the floor. He cleans up his mess and is quite pleased with himself. Then the police come to investigate a scream. He is so confident he wont get caught he entertains the police. He then begins to hear a heart beat. it keeps getting louder and louder until he finally confesses.
sounds awesome... once again my list grow longer of have to read stories... thx for posting
My daughter read the story the other day for the first time. It was one of those stories that stuck in my mind since highschool
I've read this Poe's short story. It's a classic, It's one of my favorite Poe's stories, next to The Black Cat.