The Tell-Tale Heart
According to the narrator, this is what makes him kill the old man.
What is the "Vulture Eye"?
This surname (last name) belongs to the three family members who receive the monkey's paw from Sergeant-Major Morris.
Who are the Whites?
This is where the narrator has lived his entire life, cut off from the outside world.
What is a castle / an ancient, forgotten castle?
This is the city where Billy Weaver arrives, looking for a place to stay for the night.
What is England?
The name of the doll in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Living Doll"
What is the Talky Tina?
This is what the old man does when he hears someone in his room.
He jumps up and yells, "Who's there!"
This was the first wish made on the paw, and it cost the family nothing at the time.
What is 200 pounds?
The narrator's only companions throughout his lonely existence are these.
What are books and/or the shadows and rats in the castle?
The landlady's two previous guests, whose names appear in the guest book, were these.
Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?
This is the city where Edgar Allan Poe lived until his death.
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
This is where the old man's body was hidden by the narrator.
What is under the floorboards?
This is how Herbert dies, the result of the second wish for him to return.
What is being caught in machinery at work?
This is what the narrator finally does after years of isolation, which leads him out into the world.
What is climbing the tower and escaping the castle?
Billy is drawn into the bed-and-breakfast partly because of this sign in the window.
What is the "BED AND BREAKFAST" sign?
This is the person who scared the writer of "Scary Tales" when she was a little girl.
Who was her grandfather?
This is how the narrator wants the audience to perceive him.
What is sane?
The paw is described as having this physical feature that makes it look dried up and mummified, hinting at its sinister power.
What are three fingers?
When the narrator reaches a bright, festive gathering of people, they flee in terror — and he later realizes the cause when he sees this.
What is his own reflection / that he is a monstrous, decaying corpse?
The story hints that something is wrong when the landlady makes this strange remark about her guests.
What is that she keeps the bodies / that they're still "on the fourth floor," tucked in and waiting?
This is a horror trope.
What is a full moon, dark night, decaying buildings or people, etc...?
This is what the narrator hears and describes as, "a low, dull, quick sound, such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."
What is the beating of the old man's heart?
After the third wish, this is what Mr. White hears when he throws open the door at the end of the story.
What is nothing?
The story's central irony is that the narrator, who longs for human connection, is actually this.
What is the very thing that terrifies and repels others — a monster?
The chilling final detail reveals that the two boys and Billy all share this in common.
What is that they look alike / that Billy is destined to become her next "guest"?
This is your favorite horror story (book, film, etc...)
Answers may vary.