Everytime I read this story, I still get the feeling of darkness and eeriness. This is how I know "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic. I personally do not like thriller/horror stories, but the way the narrator describes things from his point of view is capivating. I saw a movie created for this story and like Jake, I didn't feel it captured the all the emotions the story brought out. I feel sometimes is the difference between movies and reading the story. Many times, I watch a movie once and get so many emotions from it, yet when I play it over and over again it tends to loose the magic I experienced the first time. However when you read the story, I feel there is always something new for the imagination to experience, making sure the story never looses its effect.

I'm glad we got to read a little bit of Poe before the end of the session. This story and the Pit and the Pendulum in specific are two of his best works, and really express his style as an author. The Tell-Tale Heart always creeps me out while reading it, and I love seeing what an impact it's had on pop-culture. There are so many songs, movies, etc. that allude to Poe's story. Definitely worth reading every time.

He is one of my favorite authors. I've always liked his work, even though most of the topics are a bit on the dark side. It's easy to see why he would write like this, due to all the tragedy in his life. Tell-tale heart is probably my favorite of all his works. I also remember seeing the video of this story in High School. It was one of the older versions. It's what first got me intrigued in Poe's work.

I felt that the re-enacted version of a Tell-Tale Heart on the CD with the book really lacked the realism and insanity I remember feeling when having read the poem by Poe. I totally agree with you on how amazing of a job Poe did in creating emotion in the written version of the poem and wish that a written version was included in the textbook. The feeling of insanity that he created was overwhelming at times, as well as the guilt and continuing insanity felt after the murder. I guess this intense feeling is somewhat hard to translate to film.

I like this work a lot, too. I'm amazed at how it is effective and suspenseful while being so brief - there's still a great deal of detail, like the narrator describing how slowly he moves, how cunning he is.
I always saw the narrator's rationalizations as proof of him being thoroughly insane - the vivid descriptions of the eye and the beating heart contribute, too. That he's defending his sanity seems a little funny from a modern perspective because someone accused of murder today would probably be trying to get everything he could to show he's insane to get a less harsh penalty.

I remember having the chance to listen to this short story when I was in junior high school. We actually did this unit during Halloween. From listening to the story I remember I was quite scared but didn't really understand the story all that well. I just remember the sounds and voices is what set the tone and mood for me to be scared. Poe did a good job of describing sound and actions to where you could visually see them in your head giving you a clear picture why you are scared. Through doing the story again I was able to see and understand more about what was going on in the story and the narrator. I picked up on the internal conflict of the narrator that took him through a flood of emotions before turning himself in. I understood the reasons why he killed and the reasons why he was so scared and paranoid.