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DARK of the EYE - Introduction PDF Print E-mail
Written by jmauceri   
Thursday, 15 March 2012 00:00

alt"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."
                                                                                                                                                       "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

In 1995 I received a review copy of a computer game titled “Dark of the Eye.” The game transported players into the universe of Edgar Allen Poe through adventures based on his stories "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Berenice" told from the perspectives of both murderer and victim, and the poem "Annabel Lee." I’ve search Poe’s writings and I believe he never used the term “Dark of the Eye” in any of his writings, but it is apropos, and I will explain shortly.

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