“The Tell-Tale Heart” contains Poe’s efforts to make a non-traditional horror story. To make the story personal, Poe writes it in first person, as if the reader themselves is talking directly with the murderer. But to make the story even more interesting, Poe makes the narrator mad which contributes to the uniqueness of the narration. The made narrator presents the reader with an uncomfortable balance. On one hand, the narrator seems perfectly capable of reason as he recounts his execution of the murder was well planned. He carefully spies on the eye for seven nights before actually killing the man. After the murder, the narrator then explains how carefully he dismember the body, leaving no evidence behind. But on the other hand, the narrator