เรื่องสั้นที่แต่งโดยEdgar นั้นเป็นแนวลึกลับและสยองขวัญ
Crime and punishment (every person, who committed a crime can’t escape punishment);
Insanity (the reader can understand that the main character is crazy, based on his behavior, speech and thoughts. However, he believed and believes that he is and was perfectly sane. He thinks that it is normally to kill someone, because something makes you feel uncomfortable and irritates you);
Time (The narrator had been preparing for a murder for seven long nights. On the eighth night the old man heard that someone was in his room: “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, hearkening to the death WATCHES in the wall.” Our life is measured in hours.