
The man cuts the limbs off the old man and hides it under the floorboards. The fear of hearing the old man heart beat wakes up the neighbors and then he kills him. The narrator tells himself that he hears the old man heart beating. The narrator is very known that the old man is petrified and trying to down play all the noises. He stays silent and unmoving in darkness. On the last night the narrator wakes the old man while watching him. The narrator spends many nights watching the man sleep. The story he tells is based on his view to defend his place even though he insists that he’s not crazy, but his actions say it all. The narrator tells all his motives from the beginning by addressing his issue of the old man’s eye to the reader. Jackson ("The Cask of Amontillado"), Stephanie Kuehn ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), Emily Lloyd-Jones ("The Purloined Letter"), amanda lovelace ("The Raven"), Hillary Monahan ("The Masque of the Red Death"), Marieke Nijkamp ("Hop-Frog"), Caleb Roehrig ("The Pit and the Pendulum"), and Fran Wilde ("The Fall of the House of Usher").The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is being told by a narrator who is angry. Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining "Ligeia"), Kendare Blake ("Metzengerstein"), Rin Chupeco ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue"), Lamar Giles ("The Oval Portrait"), Tessa Gratton ("Annabel Lee"), Tiffany D.

Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in both Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and in the 13 unique and unforgettable ways that they've been brought to life.

Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
