by Edgar Allan Poe
TELL-TALE HEART – We’ve probably all read one of Poe’s masterpieces. If you haven’t, then the Halloween season is a perfect time to do so. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe is chockfull of mystery, horror, prose and poetry. The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe’s best work) describes the ...
bookshelves: boo-scary, classic, fraudio, victoriana, gothic, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, teh-brillianz, mystery-thriller, psychology Read in April, 2009, read count: 4+ 19/04/2009 Iggy Pop reads. ---31/10/2009 Re-read by Basil Rathbone
A very good book, a dark and twisted story of the descent into madness for a killer.
Heart touching
I'm not nearly refined enough to be reading Poe but this was pretty darn good.
Such a great story. The craziness is well-portrayed.
I've only ever read The Raven by Poe which I absolutely adored and although I didn't enjoy this short story with as much relish, it was still rather good. The suspense, the deed and the resulting guilt driving him to confess were all done rather well. I must read more by this author.
I've read this story, not the whole book. In my opinion, this is a masterpiece of suspense, and a powerful story about how a person's guilt will betray them in the end. I love the way Poe builds up the tension slowly but surely until the end, with a careful use of narrative. I believe this is the ...
19/04/2009 Iggy Pop reads.---31/10/2009 Re-read by Basil Rathbone
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