Horror and suspense-filled movies, books, and stories are America’s favorite form of entertainment. One of the most famous American writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two famous stories “The Tell- Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”. In the “The Tell- Tale Heart” and “ The Black Cat” narrative and imagery is used to express the main characters’ eerie sense of evil. Both stories lack moral sentiment yet describe conscience. They also make one …showed first 75 words of 1282 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1282 total…were written by Poe to create fear and surprise for their readers, and they certainly did. That is a reason why Poe is still an important literary figure today. Fyodor Dostoevski, a critic, says it is best when he says it best when he says that Poe is a strange, though enormously talented writer (301). He makes one tremble and one think. Poe’s imagination separates him from every other writer. He is extremely detailed when