Tell Tale Heart
The narrator claims he killed the old man for this reason.
What is to get rid of the eye?
The narrator's favorite pet that he eventually kills in a fit of rage.
What is Pluto?
The narrator's imprisonment causes him to experience this mental state.
What is fear or despair?
Prince Prospero holds this kind of event to avoid the Red Death.
What is a masquerade ball?
Edgar Allan Poe was born in this city in Massachusetts.
What is Boston?
The narrator hides the old man's body beneath these.
What are the floorboards?
The narrator kills his wife in the presence of this animal.
What is the second black cat?
The narrator is sentenced to death by this torturous device.
What is the pendulum?
The Red Death is this type of event that devastates the land.
What is a plague?
Poe's adoptive father's last name was this.
What is Allan?
The sound the narrator imagines growing louder and driving him mad.
What is the old man's heartbeat?
This cat has a patch of fur missing resembling another cat.
What is the second black cat?
The pit in the story represents this form of execution.
What is falling into a pit or a death trap.
The Red Death is symbolized by this figure at the party.
What is a mysterious masked guest?
Poe married this family member who was also very young.
Who is his cousin?
This part of the old man's body is the reason the narrator kills him.
What is the "vulture eye"?
The narrator's confession is revealed after police discover this.
What is the corpse hidden in the wall?
The story is set during this historical event.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
The clock's chimes cause this reaction among the guests.
What is silence or fear?
Poe was famous for writing this type of spooky stories and poems.
What are horror or mystery stories?
The narrator insists he is this, despite his crime.
What is sane?
After killing his first cat, the narrator finds this on the wall of his house.
What is the image of a cat with a noose around its neck?
The narrator's fate is ultimately saved by this group.
What are the French troops?
The rooms in the castle are arranged in this sequence of colors.
What is blue, purple, green, orange, while, violet and black/red?
Poe died in this year.
What is 1849