The Tell Tale Heart Novels & Stories

My fingers hovered over the cuts in the body, tracing it until I got to the chest - What. The. Fuck. Dried blood crusted around the wound, but it was very obvious that there was a gaping cavity in his chest…where his heart was supposed to be. “The heart is gone,” I murmured. "What kind of monster does this?" Selene asked, her voice barely above a whisper. I exhaled sharply, my mind racing. A kill like this wasn’t random. It wasn’t just bloodlust or hunger, it was purposeful. But why? I parted my lips to answer, but before I could, Tibet and the others returned with even more bad news.

I said and she just smiled, little beads of sweat rolling down her forehead. “And so are you,” she said with a smile and I sprang up. “Leaving so soon?” she asked, but I didn't reply, instead, I walked straight to the drawers with my naked self and opened the drawers. “Don't!” she yelled, but too bad, I had already opened the drawers and there it was, a human heart, the blood around it had nearly clotted so I knew who it belonged to, only one person lost their heart recently, and that was Lana before I could register the sight of what I had just seen, I felt something hard hit my head, someone had hit me from behind, and they'd hit me hard.

He felt resistance. Then— Click. The last tumbler gave way. He froze. Listened. No footsteps in the hall. No voices. Good. Slowly, Tales gripped the handle. The door creaked as he turned it— Once. Twice. Then— It opened. A faint rush of humid air greeted him from the dark hallway beyond. Tales slipped through, silent as a shadow. He closed the door behind him with care, locking it again from the inside. They wouldn’t know he was gone.

“IT’S JUST I HAD a different book in mind when ink spilled on this one, plus what’s left to do in a finished book?” They, of course, ignored me Completely probably deciding if I would not explain, they were just going to proceed. One of the three waved their hand above the inky darkness we were standing on, and instantly a book on a pedestal was in front of them on the floor. It showed off my title, ‘1001 Dark Tales’. I instantly held my breath, hoping they didn’t realize what that meant. But if they had, they said nothing. Instead, they just started flipping through the pages of the book, looking for which store to choose.