"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it --oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head."
Tell-Tale Heart
“I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
The old man's vulture eye haunts me, day and night. I must kill him and get rid of it!
The officers will never find out what happened because I hid the body well.
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"