Edgar Allen Poe supports horror by the repetition of words. The narrator repeats certain words several time as if to pull the reader into his internal anxiety.
"TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous."
The type of narrative Poe used indicates to the reader the level of insanity of the speaker. Scary stories often involve a person with a deranged mind. Poe's narrator tries to convince us that he is not crazy while verbally indicating that he is crazy.
The murder scene in the story is indicative of horror. The narrator also builds fear and tension in the story by telling how the man must have felt when the narrator sneaks into his room.
The descriptive passages about the man's eye create a visual scary effect.
"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture -- a pale blue eye with a film over it."
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