Edgar Allan Poe Haunts My Vacuum Cleaner

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Edgar Allan Poe wrote one of the simplest and yet most effective short horror stories of all time, The Tell-Tale Heart. It deals with a murderer who hides the body of his victim under the floorboards in his house. He thinks he is safe from capture but the victim’s heart-beat haunts him, driving him insane, if he isn’t already crazy. When the police visit he is so convinced that they can hear the heart too that he gives his crime away trying to dig up the body to shut it up though the victim is long since dead. Switch to now when my vacuum cleaner seems to clear every crumb and speck of dirt off my carpet and I think I did a great job of tidying up only for the crud to return or come out of hiding when the vacuum is switched off and I notice flakes of detritus when entertaining visitors. It drives me crazy wondering if my guests notice it too. Could Poe be haunting my vacuum cleaner? Arthur Chappell