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The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" written by Edgar Allen Poe is a better passage than the story "The Monkey's Paw" written by W.W. Jacobs because it is scarier. Lines 16 to 18 of "The Tell-Tale Heart" state, "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." This passage, I feel, is more entertaining/scary due to its being written in the first person. With this point of view, emotions and situations feel more realistic; it puts the reader directly in the story and allows them to experience the plot more personally. Lines 51 to 52 of "The Monkey's Paw" state, "'I'd like to go to India myself,' said the old man, 'just to look round a bit, you know,'" This passage has a longer plot than "The Tell-Tale Heart", but it is less scary. The story is more focused on a mythical topic rather than a horror-type. Scary stories are much better than regular ones; you can feel different emotions more, and the story's mood in much stronger as well.

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I enjoyed the story "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edger Allen Poe more than the story "The Monkeys Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. To start, in my opinion, the fact that "Tell-Tale Heart" is realistic, makes it more a haunting experience. For example, in the story it states, "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell." To think that there are people, like that narrator, in the world, adds to the creepiness of the tale. This person really thinks that he hears things in heaven and hell. Since in "The Monkeys Paw" there is magic involved, and there is no evidence that suggests that magic really does exist, I feel that it lacks the scariness that is shown in "Tell-Tale Heart". After reading "Tell-Tale Heart" people could be honestly scared that a disturbed person could find one thing that they don't like about them, and kill them for it. Also, the narrator of the story is very good at seeming sane; when the police came to the house he looked to be innocent. There could be people like that among us and we wouldn't even know it.

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The poem "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is a better horror story than "The Monkeys Paw". Some may say that "The Monkeys Paw" is better because it is more thought provoking, but I disagree. "Tell Tale Heart"actually had a murder in it. In this perspective, it is much more suspenseful. The other story has a death, but it is not a murder. Also, I like the first person point of view in "Tell Tale Heart" has an insane narrator, while the other is just normal.

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Tell Tale Heart by Eden Allen Poe is way more creepy then The monkeys paw because it is your good old horror story. Some person goes crazy, kills a person, hides the body parts and the police are right over it. Yes, the monkeys paw may have a scary part of what's going to happen? Whose at the door? Is it their son? But, would you rather be scared that someone was at the door or my friend was murder and I am sitting right above his dead body? As you can see Tell Tale heart is way more creepy.

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A narrator with a disease and who is mentally insane means a scary crazy story. "The Tell Tale Heart" written by Edgar Allan Poe is defiantly scarier than "The Monkey's Paw". First of all, "The Tell Tale Heart" is written by a narrator who is untrustworthy and insane. He physically killed a human because of his eye. The story even states "He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." In "The Tell Tale Heart" there is murder and madness that makes your skin crawl. However in "The Monkey's Paw" it's about three wishes and only a son dies. Even thought "The Monkey's Paw" story talks about a knocking at the door in "The Tell Tale Heart" the narrator describes his actions "First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings." This gory description along with others in the story defiantly makes the story creepier than "The Monkey's Paw".

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I believe that the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is creepier than the story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W Jacobs. I think this because the man in The Tell-Tale Heart has a severe mental disease, which makes his actions unpredictable and twisted. The story is written in first person, so it feels as if the reader is inside this psychopaths mind listening to a play by play of his demented murder plan. Also, the fact that the man was drove insane because of another mans eye, shows just how mentally unstable he is. He tried to kill a man, a friend, that had never done anything wrong to him, to sole reason being his eye. What makes this story especially creep is that it could actually happen in real life. Magical and mystical horrors can easily be regarded as as fame and imaginary. But when it's a situation that could possibly happen, it becomes scarier. The man and plot in this story is twisted and disturbing, and overall very unpleasant to read. This is why "The Tell-Tale Heart" is creepier than "The Monkey's Paw".

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The short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs is a better story than the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe because there is more of an ending to it. For example, Poe left his short story off as the narrator simply going crazy. I want to know more details. What will happen next? What was the ringing from? I did not have to ask myself these questions after I read "The Monkey's Paw." Jacobs concluded the short story with an understanding of what happened and with that, the reader does not need to ask the questions he or she needed to ask after reading "The Tell-Tale Heart."

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A Tell Tale Heart

The story," A tell tale heart, is about 15 times more spooky than the Monkey paw story. To start, the tell tale heart story is more scary from the beginning. In the exposition, you can already start to see that this guy is nuts. He talks about killing the man right in the start of the story. In the monkey paw story, the beginning just involves a silly superstition and wise tale. In addition, in the tell tale heart, you know the guy is crazy because he stands over the bed staring at the guy when he sleeps. In the monkey paw story, you only hear a little know at the door, and it could be only just a neighbor who had a fire or something. The tell tale heart examples show more spookiness then the monkey paw story here, because in the first story, you see a certain madman, over a possible madman in the second story. I would be more freaked out at a man looking at me when I sleep than a faint door knocking. As you can decisively see, the tell tale heart story is way more creepy than the monkey paw story.

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The scary story, "Tell Tale heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, is simply better than the scary story "The monkeys paw". In "Tell Tale Heart", the narrator has some kind of mental disease where he can hear voices from heaven and hell. Although people don't normally hear voices, this man has a severe mental illness which is a very possible scenario. Because this is a very possible situation, the story is very terrifying. Unlike the monkeys paw, where none of that could actually happen. The monkeys paw is completely fake, where as Tell Tale Heart could have actually happened. For example Tell tale heart states, "The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."(1) He clearly has a mental illness, which people have in real life. If people actually have mental illnesses, this means that it could actually happen to you. You could actually be murdered by someone with a mental illness.

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The short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is much creepier than short story, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W.Jacobs. "The Tell-Tale Heart," is a mad man's side regarding a brutal murder he committed; "The Monkey's Paw," was a story about damage the monkey's paw had done.(1) Yes I must say the opposing sides story was by no means tranquil but it's plot was caused by magic; where my story comes from a loose ill man; I believe Poe's story is creeper because it could've and probably did happen at some point.(2) Poe's story contains vivid details that describe the murder firsthand from the murder line 141 to line 142 read,"First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs," this scene makes the reader feel nervous about the information they just learned; it could make them forget for a second that it is in fact fiction.(3) Jacob's story builds up to gore but ends right before it leaving me disappointed; you read a horror story to experience goosebumps.(4) Poe's short story is in first person of the killer who is a mad man, this creates a scary story his mind not right; in lines 14 through 15 we get a strange image," He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it," the narrator is feeding us these fantasies.(5) The killer's description of the eye paints a portrait of the eye in the readers brain; the reader knows he's crazy but you are still irked by the image.(6) The killer said the man's eye was blue and called it, "Evil Eye"  this creeped me out because the evil eye talismans to protect yourself against the malevolent glare are blue; the connection of protection to evil can possibly creep other readers out too.(7)In the story the killer showed terror when expressing the beat of the old man's heart in lines 123 and 124 it reads, "But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me," this fear festers throughout the story. (8)This beating drives the killer crazy; this fear is just as creepy and captivating to the reader as the murder is.(9) Without a doubt, "The Tell-Tall Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is much creepier than,"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs; it is more realistic, the fear also manifests in the narrator throughout the short story.(10)

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I believe that "The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Alan Poe is a better horror story than "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs.  I believe that 'Telltale' is scarier because it is about murder, which is more realistic than witchcraft. The narrator is psychotic and scary, the main characters in "Paw" are not. The dialogue is scarier. In "Telltale", they say " Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?'' This lets you know that he is crazy. It also gives you a look in his head. That makes it much creeper than "Paw".

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While many may say that "The Tell Tale Heart" is the scarier of the two, I have concrete evidence otherwise. "The Monkey's Paw" is a short story about a 'lucky' charm that grants wishes. The weirdest part is, it actually works. This leads to many terrible problems such as Herbert (the couple's son) dying by being mangled in machinery. People arguing for "The Tell Tale Heart" may say that it is "scarier because it could really happen", but that isn't the case for me. While knowing that a psychotic murder is a free man may disturb me (and hopefully you), it does not have the same effect "The Monkey's Paw". The 'Other worldly' abilities of the paw gives it an ominous feeling, rather than insanity. While the old man with the blue eyes dies in the end, the monkey paw brings a crippled and mangled man back to life only to make him disappear again in seconds. I am a real sucker for paranormal stuff, and this story just hit that impractical fear home for me.

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Telltale heart was a better overall story than the monkeys paw for many reasons. First, the telltale heart had a more creepy mood to it. For example in the story, it states, "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever".  This story shows that the narrator of the telltale  heart has a very strange reason for killing the old man,and makes you start to speculate. Next, in the  telltale heart the narrator does very strange things. This is proven in the story when it states,"For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening,—just as I have done, night after night,  in the wall". This is strange because in real life, no one would wait an hour. Also, they would not just stay still either. The monkeys paw did not have action packed scenes.  For example, in the monkeys paw all they did was a "three wishes" tale. However the monkey paw did have a good theme. This theme is be careful what you wish for

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The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is a better horror story than "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, because it uses dark and creepy imagery. In "The Tell-Tale Heart", our untrustworthy narrator says, "For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening,—just as I have done, night after night". This is very creepy, because the idea of someone stalking you and watching you sleep every night is downright terrifying. Another moment in the story that sent chills down my spine was on page seven, when the narrator describes what he did with the corpse of his victim. He tells us, "First of all I dismembered the corpse.
I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings... There was nothing to wash out—no stain of any kind—no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for that. A tub had caught all—ha! ha!" This is very disturbing; the narrator is clearly insane. This sort of dark imagery is what I call "nightmare fuel", which is perfect for a horror story. In contrast, the short story "The Monkey's Paw" includes little to none dark imagery. It does not describe the zombie-like reanimated corpse of his son, nor anything else that would make the story scary. This is why "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a much scarier, and therefore better, horror story than "The Monkey's Paw

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For me, I found the short story,"Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe more horrifying, spine chilling, and overall superior to the other short story read. The story is narrated by a mental psychopath who gives us his insight of wanting to kill a person who has done him no harm. He states,"I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!" in his reasoning for wanting to murder an innocent person. Later in the story, he slowly and stealthily creeps in his victim's room every night until the eighth night when he swiftly kills the man's heart as well as the eye, and hides the body so well that,"The officers were satisfied," and convinced. The intensity of this short story comes after this when our narrator hears a beating getting, "...louder...louder...louder!" until he is driven past delusional insanity, thinking to himself, "I felt that I must scream or die!" and can no longer take the guilty wrong doing he has committed. A person supporting,"The Monkey Paw" might argue that an insane man is a cliché horror story and is dulled down because of its generic plot consisting of a man killing someone, and also that it's subpar as it only has a few characters in the plot. Both arguments could be proven faulty. A magical monkey paw that grants three wishes seems even more cliché, as it has been used in other forms, in other places such as Aladdin's genie in a lamp, and in,'Arabian Nights'. Also, even though "Tell Tale Heart" has fewer characters, it is written in the first person which gives us a direct insight into the deranged man's mind, intensifying the plot, whereas "The Monkey Paw" was written in 3rd person limited, thus limiting our knowledge on what's going on in other character's heads.  All in all, "Tell Tale Heart" is the Superior, hair raising, spine chilling, and utmost horrifying read of the two short stories. It was easier to understand because the main character is the narrator, the plot is a classic horror story: psychopath commits 1st degree murder, and finally because it has an abrupt ending that leaves the reader wanting to know the ending.

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I believe that the short story, “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs is more scary than the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe because it keeps you on the edge of your seat longer than the other story. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the man goes crazy and kills somebody, which happens in real life. This makes the story less scary because it happened before and there is nothing supernatural about it. In “The Monkey’s Paw” a supernatural force causes the death of somebody because they wished for money. Then at the end a dead person is knocking at the door and trying to picture what this person looks like, might cause nightmares. Also, in “The Monkey’s Paw” there is a “magical” monkeys paw that grants you three wishes but they come with very bad consequences, like death. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the old man is only murdered by getting a light shined in his eye.

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Why "The Monkey's Paw" is more chilling than  "The Tell Tale Heart"

These past two days we have read two creepy stories for Halloween; "The Tell Tale Heart", and "The Monkey's Paw".  While both are very chilling, I believe that "The Tell Tale Heart" is more frightening.   To start, in the "Tell Tale Heart", the story is in first person point of view, so it is like you're experiencing it yourself.  During "The Monkey's Paw", it is third person omniscient, so it feels like you're watching the story from afar.  Feeling like you're in the actual story makes it more frightening, as you feel as if you have been through what the main character is going through.  Secondly,  the main character in "The Tell Tale Heart" is a psychopath;" ...but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth."  This makes you even more scared for what happens next, as it is almost unpredictable.  Although, in "The Monkey's Paw", all the characters are quite levelheaded, so you can predict their actions.  The "Tell Tale Heart" and "The Monkey's Paw" are both very chilling stories.  Although, I believe that the "Tell Tale Heart" is more chilling based on the point of view and the main character.

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I believe that the story, "The Monkeys Paw" is scarier than "A Tell Tale Heart" for a few reasons. To begin, I believe "The Monkeys Paw" was scarier because it created more suspense, such as repeatedly hearing knocks at the door. Also, the audio was read in such a tone that you felt you were a part of a horror film, stuck with an evil wishing hand that seems to take control. The son gets massacred in machinery which creates images in your head that simply make you feel sick. The wife of the man loses her mind, and makes matters worse then what they already are. You can feel the fear of her husband seeping out of the words, desperate for help. In addition, the man warned them to not use the monkeys hand but they still disobey him and it backfires on them. To add on, the diction used has a greater affect because it makes you feel worried and extremely creeped out. Lastly, when the paw moves in the mans hand it gives you the chills, something I didn't feel when reading "A Tell Tale Heart". When comparing these two stories, there is no doubt that "The Monkeys Paw" is scarier.

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The short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is creepier than the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs. In the story by Poe, the narrator is clearly a psychotic murderer. The people who think the story by W. W. Jacobs is the creepiest would argue that the whole "scary murderer" thing is cliche, however, the "scary murderer" thing is no more cliche than getting three wishes. In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the situation could definitely happen in real life, which, in my opinion, makes it that much more terrifying. In the story, it says, "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!" It seems highly likely that some crazy man could easily kill someone in real life simply because they have a weird eye. In "The Monkey's Paw" however, the story can never happen, which makes it lose most of its scary qualities. The story states, “Well, it’s just a bit of what you might call magic, perhaps,” said the sergeant-major off-handedly." As far as we know, magic doesn't exist, so the fact that this story is based around a magical item doesn't really provide a scare factor. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is by far the creepiest story.

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Monkey's Paw

I believe that the short story "The Monkey's Paw" is a better horror story then "The Tell-Tale Heart" because of how W. W. Jacobs uses perspective. In "The Monkey's Paw," a third person perspective is used. I found this to be so much more captivating then the first person perspective used by Edgar Allan Poe. In "The Monkey's Paw" you had no clue of what had or was happening or the direct feeling of the character. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" you knew the man had killed his superior, and how he was reacting and feeling about this event. I felt the third person perspective in "The Monkey's Paw" created so much more suspense which I why I liked it better. I also liked "The Monkey's Paw" better because of the factor of it being unreal. I felt something was taken away from "The Tell-Tale Heart" when you realize something like this could happen. In my opinion, "The Monkey's Paw" is a better horror story then "The Tell-Tale Heart."

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The short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs is much more scarier than Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Hearts". It is much scarier because of its super natural content. W. W. Jacobs states,"“He was caught in the machinery...he found the monkey’s paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house...and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side, and then to the gate beyond. The streetlamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road."(65-429). You can infer in the final part that Mr. White's son was a zombie and back from the dead all mangled up. So, he didn't want his wife to see her mangled up son. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator kills a guy and doesn't experience him coming back to life but, in the "The Monkey Paw" you have a possibility of seeing a mangled up dead guy. "The Monkey's Paw" has a possibility of showing a super natural mangled up dead guy unlike "The Tell-Tale Hearts".

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I believe that "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W Jacobs is more scary than the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe because of the use of imagery. "The Monkey's Paw" is a story about a family who wished for 200 pounds and the boy was instead cut by 200 pounds of machinery. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a story about a mentally insane man who had gone crazy and killed an old man.  The imagery of the cut up boy in "The Monkey's Paw" creates a creepy and disturbing mood in the readers head because of the idea of the cut up boy coming to the door. As in "The Tell-Tale Heart" having the heart continuously beating. For me, a beating heart is not even close to seeing a cut up boy come to your doorstep. Personally I think having a dismembered body coming to a door would be pretty scary. Then to reverse this they have to get a "Monkey's Foot" from a Sergeant Major so that the boy would return to normal.

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The short story "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is better in terms of fear than the short story by W. W. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw". To start off, when reading the stories, the reader experiences a lot more suspense in "The Tell Tale Heart" and want to read on. While in The Monkey's Paw there are a lot of short climaxes if you will. One might say "The Tell Tale Heart" is boring because of its single climax, but it keeps the reader interested throughout the entire story. While "The Monkey's Paw" has several small climaxes in the rising action, but begins to become stale in between. Also, Poe's story is about someone who exaggerates, making the story seem a lot more suspenseful. "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story." Said the narrator and main character in the story. When reading through these two stories, Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" flows a lot easier than the rather choppy plot of Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw". As clearly shown, "The Tell Tale Heart is by far the scariest and most suspenseful story over "The Monkey's Paw".

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Tell-Tale Heart

I believe that the short story "A Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe was a better story than the the short story "The Monkeys Paw" by W.W. Jacobs because it was more realistic. In the story by Poe, it describes a man who is insane and kills an old man in his sleep for his eye. In the story by Jacobs, the old man has a wish to receive 200 pounds granted by a monkeys paw. The story that most people would believe would be "A Tell-Tale Heart" because it has more realistic features contained in it than "The Monkeys Paw" and I believe that it was the better story