Beautifully illustrated edition, with woodcuts by Byron Glaser. The story itself is one of Poe's classics, but it's never gripped me as some of his other short works have. It's a creepy, atmospheric read, but The Tell-Tale Heart always strikes me as being a little too compressed. The disintegration at the end of the (admittedly insane) protagonist happens so quickly that it never seems quite credible to me - compare, for instance, to Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, which is admittedly entirely different in subject and tone, but which is also a short horror story about the mental decline of a first-person narrator. Gilman is far more convincing, and I think that's because she gives more space for madness to grow, and is more focused on decline than immediate effect. Poe's gone for style over substance here, and it shows.