True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
— Edgar Allan Poe Modern

Horror, detective fiction

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From 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

Date / Period

1843

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Strange & Unusual

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