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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Bayard, Louis. The Pale Blue Eye. Harper Perennial, 2006. Paperback.

• Chapters are either told from Gus (Augustus) Landor's point of view in the present tense or in the form of reports from Edgar A. Poe in the past tense.

• Although the first unnumbered chapter of the book begins before events in the chapters that follow, the chapter abstracts from Landor's point of view use the present tense, and provide a linear summary.

• In “Last Testament of Gus Landor, April 19, 1831,” Landor writes that he will be dead within four hours.

• He seems to be hallucinating and seeing people from his past, including his deceased wife and his mother, who died before he was 12.

• He wishes there were more living people visiting, but they are fewer and fewer these days and even Patsy never stops by...

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