The narrator recounts how he went each night for a week at midnight to look in with a lamp on another character. On the eighth night, he entertains three guests who arrive at 4 in the morning. The primary motive for the narrator's actions is his disgust for a filmy, pale blue eye like that of a vulture, which belongs to an old man. A sound like that made by a watch wrapped in cotton ultimately destroys the composure of the narrator, causing him to confess his deed to the police officers. FTP name this Poe story in which a murderer can hear the title object beating through the floorboards.
The narrator recounts how he went each night for a week at midnight to look in with a lamp on another character. On the eighth night, he entertains three guests who arrive at 4 in the morning. The primary motive for the narrator's actions is his disgust for a filmy, pale blue eye like that of a vulture, which belongs to an old man. A sound like that made by a watch wrapped in cotton ultimately destroys the composure of the narrator, causing him to confess his deed to the police officers. FTP name this Poe story in which a murderer can hear the title object beating through the floorboards.
The narrator recounts how he went each night for a week at midnight to look in with a lamp on another character.