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Title: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Fountain, Richard Klaw ISBN: 1-885418-03-5 Publisher: Mojo Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Tell Tale Heart is more than a simple story of murder.
Comment: Edgar Allan Poe knows how bring the reader completly into the story. In the Tell Tale Heart the narrator, a mad man, kills a old man because of he hates the old man's eyes. But it's not only the story of a murder, it's a story of the man's madness. We see the scenes through his eyes. We realize how he is mad and we sink with him in his mistakes. It's his madness which makes him hear the old man's heart. But this noise wouldn't be the reflection of his conscience? Edgar Allan Poe explores the depth and the incomprehensibility of the human mind in a strange story of murder and madness.

Rating: 5
Summary: Best short story of his
Comment: It was a very good book. It is about the narrator who is convienced that this old man's eye is evil and it is going after him. His compulsive disoder takes him to go and see the eye every night. Until one night he goes to see it and the old man is up. The mad man shines the light in his wide open eye. the man kills the poor old man and does unmetionable things to him. The police finally get there and question him. To convience them that he is inocent he invites them in for tea. While sitting down he starts getting insane and hears his heart beating, but he thinks it is the old mans. He finally fesses and is sentenced to death.

Rating: 5
Summary: Madness
Comment: This is one of Poe's best short-stories.
It's about obsession, and how guilt can drive someone insane in a matter of hours.

I guess Poe himself had a huge guilt complex. Anyway, the fact is that Poe can write in a style that leave the reader in a "edge of the seat" condition in less than ten pages.

As with Poe's many other stories, we don't know the character's motivations or reason to do what he does, and it certainly helps to get the story a little more obscure. Poe is able to pass an atmosphere to his stories in very few pages, and the final effect is amazing.

Fast and good read.

Grade 8.8/10