The Black Cat

[...] I hit upon what I considered a far better expethent than either of these. [...] in one of the walls was a proj ection, caused by a false chimney, or fire-place, that had been filled up and made to resemble the rest of the cellar. No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, then I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! - by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman - a howl - a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation.