One of the reasons that “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a horror story is the suspense throughout the text. The first suspense in the story is line one and two. It starts with the narrator saying he is nervous, the reader gets no context on what he is nervous about. The first two lines also has the main character denying that he is mad in the head. This make the reader wonder why people think he is mad and also makes you think that the reason that he is saying this, is because he actually mad. The narrator says he killed the old man on line twenty-one and twenty-two, before he kills him in the story. The way this builds suspense is he tells the reader what he does but not how he does it. Another way that “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a horror
