A nervous, sleepless narrator insists he is not mad, and to prove it, calmly tells how he watched an old man every midnight for a week, haunted by his pale, vulture-like eye. But on the eighth night, a low, dull, quick sound begins to beat, and it will not stop.
The complete 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the classic tale of guilt and terror, A calm, unhurried reading for bedtime.
