The screaming woman also reminds me of another Poe story where a man builds a wall only he’s on the wrong side of the wall. Or maybe that is a Twilight Zone rendition. “The Cask of Amontillado” sounds like it, but in reading summaries, it doesn’t seem that the wall builder is on the wrong side.
It’s just when it comes to screaming women, I can see building a wall regardless of which side you end up on.
Poe was quite the storyteller.