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Edgar Allan Poe’s very short story from 1843 still packs a punch. Stories about the heart make love spring first to mind, even if those hearts are broken. With Poe, it's bloodier, both literally and metaphorically.
What makes a cold-blooded killer? Madness, badness, or both?
A narrator of unknown age, gender, and relationship to an old man, earnestly, urgently defends their own sanity, as they explain exactly how they planned and committed his murder:
“So you think that I am mad? A madman cannot pl ...more
What makes a cold-blooded killer? Madness, badness, or both?
A narrator of unknown age, gender, and relationship to an old man, earnestly, urgently defends their own sanity, as they explain exactly how they planned and committed his murder:
“So you think that I am mad? A madman cannot pl ...more
Short, classic, timeless piece of bare horror. A look into the abyss of madness when madness gloats right back.
Does it take a maniac to portray a maniac that way? I wonder.
Does it take a maniac to portray a maniac that way? I wonder.
WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
I'm giving it 5 for the technical mastery of the tale. I also love his economy of style in this story. He manages to pack so much into such a small space! (And, may I say in that respect a great improvement on The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales, an example of his other works that I have most recently read). That is a skill many people who write at all would do well to master...
I'd imagine that this story is one of the forerunners of the "psychol ...more
I'm giving it 5 for the technical mastery of the tale. I also love his economy of style in this story. He manages to pack so much into such a small space! (And, may I say in that respect a great improvement on The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales, an example of his other works that I have most recently read). That is a skill many people who write at all would do well to master...
I'd imagine that this story is one of the forerunners of the "psychol ...more
Apr 20, 2023
Traveller
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it was amazing
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WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
I'm giving it 5 for the technical mastery of the tale. I also love Poe's economy of style in this story. He manages to pack so much into such a small space! (And, may I say in that respect a great improvement on The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales, an example of his other works that I have most recently read). That is a skill many people who write at all would do well to master...
I'd imagine that this story is one of the forerunners of the "psych ...more
I'm giving it 5 for the technical mastery of the tale. I also love Poe's economy of style in this story. He manages to pack so much into such a small space! (And, may I say in that respect a great improvement on The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales, an example of his other works that I have most recently read). That is a skill many people who write at all would do well to master...
I'd imagine that this story is one of the forerunners of the "psych ...more
The Tell-Tale Heart - 4/5
The Fall of the House of Usher (1001-books) - 2/5
The Cask of Amontillado - 3/5
The Fall of the House of Usher (1001-books) - 2/5
The Cask of Amontillado - 3/5
Nov 13, 2013
Viji (Bookish endeavors)
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it was amazing
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Eerily wonderful.. To kill a man just because of one's hatred for his eyes.. The heartbeats of the dead man was clearly audible in those lines.. Well.. I have often find the sound of heartbeat disturbing.. It's a stupid thing,even though.. this story is bound to haunt you..
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reread this yarn from my youth and it still causes my heart to skip a beat - used to lie down asleep in those quainter, quieter days and feign frighten myself with the sound of my own heartbeat reverberating eerily in my ears, not like a normal sound, but a muffled beat as though that of a body buried alive, under the blankets that is, or sounding like some stranger ominously pacing just beyond reach or reason, but attached to my very being, which of course it was; and as for the eye association
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Cf. Gogol and Dostoevsky.
Jun 28, 2015
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Feb 03, 2020
Michael Finocchiaro
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Sep 24, 2021
Alex Ankarr
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Oct 29, 2023
Chahira Boudjema
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it was amazing
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