Edgar Allan Poe's "Selected Stories"
Mesmerism was an early form of....
hypnotism
Word for "a belief or way of behaving that is based on fear of the unknown and faith in magic or luck; a belief that certain events or things will bring good or bad luck."
Superstition
In the "Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator says the eye that tortures him looks like the eye of which bird....
a vulture