dissabte, 24 de novembre del 2012

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY



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The psychological horror story was invented by Edgar Allan Poe. He was born in January 1809 as an orphan. He studied at the University if Virginia and he became the inventor of the modern detective story, a pioneer of science fiction and the master of the macabre.  His first PHS was the Metzengerstein, but the most popular story, was de Tell-tale-heart, wich was published in 1843.
The tell-tale-heart is a story told by an anonymous man who is obsessed with the "vulture eye" of an old man. The man have hallucinations, he always hear the heart beat of the old man getting louder and louder. Finally, he decides to kill him and he hides the body under the floarboards. In the same night, the policy arrived to the house, and after hearing again the heart beat of the old dead man, he tells the policy what he did.

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