Suspense In Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

Have you ever watched a movie and sat at the edge of your seat? This is the human body’s response to suspenseful entertainment. How it is done you ask? Well I can for sure tell you that the writer definitely has a gift. There's much that is involved when creating a suspenseful atmosphere. The author must create an intense setting. For example, “I was alone or so I thought, in the dark cemetery. I could see my breath as I ran to get out, but I fell into a hollow grave, where I came eye to eye with a corpse!” Setting the reader up to the unknown and a little bit of fright, can definitely create this type of suspense. In the “Tell-Tale Heart” suspense has been generated by the author in a peculiar way. An unknown narrator opens the story in