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

Have you ever read a story that is so disturbing and realistic that it is hard to believe that it is actually fictitious? Well, you need not look any further than Edgar Allen Poe’s, The Tell-Tale Heart; in fact, noise isn’t the only way that you are kept in suspense as you navigate through the ominous story. Edgar Allen Poe uses time, repetition, noises/setting, and imagery to effectively create a spooky and disturbing atmosphere in his works. Poe is the master at manipulating emotions and creating realistic scenes; however, how does he implement these devices into his story?
Throughout the entire story, Poe uses time in various ways to help create a spooky atmosphere and move the story along. For example, by stating that “a watch’s minute hand moves faster than did mine” he is showing that time is going by exceedingly slow. Nonetheless, he demonstrated that time was moving rapidly by stating that “The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence.” Overall, these changes in pace
He uses time to show how sometimes the narrator was still and unmoving, while at other times the spectacle is a blur. He uses repetition to draw the moment out, and create an emphasis on that particular scene. He uses noise/setting to create eerie sounds that tap into your irrational fear and get you more involved into the story. These are only a few of the mediums he utilized in order to create disturbingly realistic stories. Some of his works seem to be too realistic to be mentally fabricated without actually witnessing a heinous murder such as those mentioned in many of his works. It starts to make you ponder the possibilities concerning how he may have contrived such disturbing stories. It makes you wonder if Poe’s stories are genuinely