He notes that he "heard all things in the heaven and the earth," and that "For his gold I had no desire."
The protagonist of this work has a minute that moves slower than that of a watch, and he remains still for an hour when his thumb slipped upon the fastening of a lantern. He notes that he "heard all things in the heaven and the earth," and that "For his gold I had no desire." At four o'clock in the morning, the narrator of this story places chairs in a bedroom for his guests, who had visited him because a neighbor reported the shriek of a man that the narrator killed with a mattress. With an insistence that the unnamed narrator is sane because he is calculating, the evil blue eye of a man forces the narrator to murder him, who then confesses when the titular body part pulsates through the floor. For ten points identify this Edgar Poe short story.
The protagonist of this work has a minute that moves slower than that of a watch, and he remains still for an hour when his thumb slipped upon the fastening of a lantern.
The {Tell Tale Heart}