"Thick darkness," thread of the spider," and "vulture eye are three images that Poe used in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' to stimulate a reader's senses. Poe wanted the reader to see and feel real life. He used concrete imagery rather than vague
abstract words to describe settings and people. If Edgar Allan Poe was one of Stephen King's teachers, then readers of
King owe a debt of gratitude to that nineteenth-century creator of horror stories
Question:
Tell which sentence in the paragraph indicates the author's recognition of the influence of Edgar Allen Poe, and explain how
the author might elaborate on this point in another paragraph.