This was SO GOOD.

Now, I might be slightly biased seeing as how I am completely in love with all things Poe and "The Tell-Tale Heart" is my all time favorite story. Still, I feel like that makes me even more picky about how it's presented.

The art in this graphic novel is magnificent. Our narrator is so real looking, so harried and wild, that it makes his stance as an unreliable person all the more vivid. Each panel was excellent. The blue eye, oh that evil blue eye, was piercing in its color. Add in some wonderful panel placement choices, and you had a graphic novel that I flew through.

MORE! I want more. "Murders in the Rue Mourge" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" are the two others in this series that I haven't tackled yet. That will soon be remedied. ( )

The graphic novel does a good job with the short story.
Review I chose to read the graphic novel of the Tell-Tale Heart for a reread of this one. Now I feel like I have to find the read short story and read it. I need to think about this a bit. The graphic novel was retold by Benjamin Harper and used black and blue and spot lights for effects. It is the story of one man’s decent into madness. I felt like the old man might be the father to the younger because it stated, “The old man had been kind to me my whole life”. If not the father he certainly must have been a caretaker of the younger. So I did compare it to the original. The graphic novel is less graphic of the violence that is in the actual short story. The short story is only 4 pages long so the graphic novel does cover it all very well though there were no death watch beetles. In the original there is a mention of a vulture and the comparison to the old man’s blue eye to a vulture. ( )

Graphic adaptation of a classic, explore one mans plunge into madness. Illustrations do a good job of portraying a slow descent into loss of mind and paranoia. The classic by Poe is interpreted for a young adult audience, complete with questions at the end to provoke reflection. ( )

A terrifying rendition of Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story. Definitely for middle school/high school aged kids starting to read classics for school. This helps them understand the other difficult language that Poe uses.