This is a little index of archaic words that will be showing up in the story.
DAMSEL - young unmarried woman.
APOTHECARY - a person who prepared or sold medicine
BANE - poison
BEHOLD - see or observe
BUMPER - a generous glass of an alcoholic drink
CADUCITY - the infirmity of old age; senility
COMPASS - encircle, surround
EXPIRY - death
GOD’S ACRE - a church yard
HEARKEN - listen
HITHER - to or towards this place
HOWBEIT - nevertheless
IMMINENT - overhanging
LARCENER - thief
MALISON - a curse
MAYHAP - perhaps, possibly
NIGH - near
ORISON - a prayer
QUIDNUNC - an inquisitive, gossipy person
SLAY - to kill in a violent way
RENDEZVOUS - meeting in secret
BRIMSTONE - sulfer
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The Tell Tale Heart - re-imagined -
Historical FictionMy take on Edger Allen Poe's famous short story The Tell Tale Heart.
