Gothic & Haunted Houses
by Edgar Allan Poe
A narrator consumed by guilt attempts to convince the reader of his sanity while recounting a murder driven by obsession with an old man's 'vulture eye.' Poe's pioneering short story layers unreliable narration with visceral psychological horror, capturing the inexorable rhythm of a guilty conscience through the victim's imagined heartbeat.
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