At one point in this short story, the narrator expresses dissatisfaction with the "paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." He later explains a strange apparition by assuming that someone must have thrown the titular entity through an open window, thus eventually leading to a reaction between ammonia and the lime of plaster. The white image of a gallows appears and torments the narrator, who near the end of this story comments on the sturdiness of his house 
At one point in this short story, the narrator expresses dissatisfaction with the "paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." He later explains a strange apparition by assuming that someone must have thrown the titular entity through an open window, thus eventually leading to a reaction between ammonia and the lime of plaster. The white image of a gallows appears and torments the narrator, who near the end of this story comments on the sturdiness of his house and raps on the walls, prompting a shriek that confirms the narrator's guilt. The narrator kills his wife after she stops him from taking his axe to the reincarnation of Pluto, the titular creature. For 10 points, identify this short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
At one point in this short story, the narrator expresses dissatisfaction with the "paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."