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    The document summarizes two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart describes an unnamed narrator who commits murder but insists on his own sanity. He carefully plans and carries out the killing of an old man with a pale blue eye. However, he is ultimately undone by the sound of the dead man's heart, which he believes he can still hear beating. The Pit and the Pendulum tells of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is subjected to various tortures. The story creates a sense of real fear and terror through its focus on sensory details and emphasis on the reality of the prisoner's experiences, without relying on supernatural elements like some of Poe's other works

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    The document summarizes two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart describes an unnamed narrator who commits murder but insists on his own sanity. He carefully plans and carries out the killing of an old man with a pale blue eye. However, he is ultimately undone by the sound of the dead man's heart, which he believes he can still hear beating. The Pit and the Pendulum tells of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is subjected to various tortures. The story creates a sense of real fear and terror through its focus on sensory details and emphasis on the reality of the prisoner's experiences, without relying on supernatural elements like some of Poe's other works

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    The Tell Tale Heart


    Author: Edgar Allan Poe
    Country: United States
    Original Language: English
    Genres: Horror, Gothic and Literature
    Published in: The pioneer (a newspaper)
    Publication date: January 1843
    This book is related by an unnamed narrator who
    endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's
    sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the
    narrator committed. The victim was an old man with
    a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls
    it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of
    the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete
    with dismembering the body in the bathtub and
    hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately, the
    narrator's actions result in hearing a thumping sound,
    which the narrator interprets as the dead man's
    beating heart.
    The pit and the penfulum
    Author: Edgar Allan Poe
    Country: United States
    Original Language: English
    Genres: Horror
    Published in: The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present (a newspaper)
    Publication date: 1842

    The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of


    the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts.
    The narrator of the story describes his experience of being
    tortured. The story is especially effective at
    inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on
    the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike
    many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.

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