that can be found in all three of these short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. For instance, the way that the killers disposed of the bodies in each story is very similar. In all of the stories, the bodies of the victims were buried in some part of the home of each of the murderers. Also, in both of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” the killer’s guilty consciences eventually caused some sort of confession of their crimes. The man in the first story was driven mad into confessing from an imaginary heart beat, and the man in the latter is left to believe his conscience is what caused him to write his story confessing his crime. Both men in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” were extremely confident in their job hiding the bodies, and almost bragging at their job at hiding the body. However, in all three stories the men were punished in some way. The first two stories I described had the law punishing the two men. The final story I described the man was never caught by the authorities for his crime, but instead he had to deal with the weight from his guilty conscience....
