word choice/diction

"upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb".

"I was answered by a voice from within the tomb!- by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like gone sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman- a howl - a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation".

"I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul

"Goaded by the interference into a rage more than demonically, I withdrew my arm fro, her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot without a groan".