“Nothing is more retched than a mind of a man conscious of guilt.” -Platus. Edgar Allen Poe was a man who wrote very eerie mystery and detective novels. One of his most famous works was The Tell-Tale Heart. It is a story about a man, the narrator, that watches another old man that he lives with sleep at night then kills him out of madness. It is a very unique story that gives off an unsettling mood with it’s descriptive writing and characters. The painted picture of the story is that every night the narrator would look at the old man sleeping, and shine light from his lamp on him. One night the old man heard part of the lantern fasten and laid upwards in bed for an hour. As the narrator doesn’t move he decides to shine the light on the old