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Das verräterische Herz und Die Maske des roten Todes

Name: Das verräterische Herz und Die Maske des roten Todes
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Englischer Titel: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red Death

von Edgar Allan Poe · lektüre

5 Kapitel
3.143 Wörter
etwa 25 Min.

Ein Mann behauptet, er sei nicht verrückt, kann aber nicht aufhören, an das blasse Auge eines alten Mannes zu denken. Ein stolzer Fürst versteckt sich hinter hohen Mauern vor einer schrecklichen Krankheit und gibt einen prächtigen Empfang. Zwei berühmte, düstere Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe.

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It's true! I am nervous. I was very, very nervous then, and I am nervous now. But why do you say that I am mad?

My illness did not destroy my mind. It made my senses stronger. Most of all, it made my hearing sharp. I could hear everything in the sky and on the earth. So how can I be mad? Listen! Listen, and see how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

I don't know how the idea first came into my head. But once it was there, it stayed with me day and night. There was no reason for it. I was not angry. I loved the old man. He was always good to me. He never said an unkind word to me. I did not want his gold.

I think it was his eye! Yes, it was his eye! He had an eye like the eye of a vulture, a big bird that eats dead animals. It was a pale blue eye, with a thin white skin over it. Every time it looked at me, my blood went cold. So, slowly, little by little, I made a plan. I decided to kill the old man. Then I would be free of the eye forever.