"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

In this book there are three short stories. The Tell Tale Heart, the Fall of the House of Usher and the Casket of Amontillado. I have finished the first one. It was quite short (8 pages) and quite different but very good. The narrator remained anonymous through out the story and it was basically about him wanting to kill an old man who lived in his house as he did not like his eye. It scared him so he decided to go into his room every night for a week and shine one singular ray of light on it. The whole way through this week the narrator assures us that he is not insane although he clearly is not stable at all. By the eighth night he accidentally woke the old man up and knew then that it was time to kill him. So he did. He put him on the ground and then turned the bed on to him so that it crushed him. The narrator quickly hid his parts under the floor boards. There was then ring at the door and the police came into the house.They sat down in the very same room that the dead man was in, and had a casual conversation. The narrator became more and more nervous and felt a ringing in his ears and thought that he could hear the heart of the old man thumping underneath the floor boards. At the end of the story he admitted everything to the police and told them the location of the man.

I found this story very interesting although a bit disturbing. Can't wait to read the next ones!