This week we've been perusing through a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works. One of our favourites, 'The Tell Tale Heart', first published in 1843, is written from the perspective of an anonomous narrator, obsessed with the notion that he could commit the perfect crime, and get away with it. Driven to his moment of madness by the vulture like eye of an old man, he attacks, killing him and hides pieces of him under the floor boards. He insists on his sanity, confident in the face of interrogation - until the beating of the heart becomes too much...
It's a classic in the American Gothic genre (something which was of great appeal as 'angsty' teenagers), but as we like to keep things a little less bleak here at Twee Towers, we were slightly enthused to say the least when we stumbled across this...
Edgar Allan Pooh
Have you been reading anything exciting this week?
Love R&L x
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