the+dead+hour+of+the+night

And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror. The Tell-Tale Heart

I think that the dead hour of the night is very special to this story because it tells the reader what the setting of the story is going to be like. By just reading this sentence i got the setting and the mood of the story. I also think that this is an average setting for the story of edgar allan poe because in a mystery or a horror scene you will always see it very dark and at night. This also adds the suspence that makes the reader want more and more of the story. It was that every night he stared at the old man watching him. It was also noted that when he described the mood of the killing he was in a dark place and maybe he killed the old man in the dark just so that no one would ever believe that he killed the old man.



~hre