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“It is after eleven. I shall be gone in less than an hour. But the heat is stifling. It is enough to send a man mad.” (August Heat, pg. 390) This quote is showing the suspense at the end of the story. It does not tell the readers exactly what will occur, but it implies the man is murdered. It leaves us hanging. In the “Tell Tale Heart”, it also ends in a similar way. “‘Villains!’ I shriek, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –Tear up the planks! -Here, here! -is is the beating of his hideous heart!” The short stories, “August Heat” and “The Tell Tale Heart”, are similar in that their authors employ a wide variety of structures in order to create suspense.

In “August Heat”, an artist discovers that his fate is carved in stone. He is hit with a variety of strange occurrences. “A sudden impulse made me enter.” (386) His twisted fate is what is behind these occurrences. The story is known to take place in the dog days of summer, t...