Narrator and point of view

“Enoch” by Robert Bloch is a first-person narration, told by Seth, one of the characters. Seth is an unreliable narrator as he turns out to be a serial killer and a sociopath (someone with a personality disorder manifested in extreme antisocial behaviour, marked by violence and a lack of feelings of remorse or empathy), who considers himself the victim of a tiny evil creature who forces him to kill others: “I can't see him. I can't catch him. I can only feel him, and hear him, and obey him.” (p. 29, ll. 37-38)

Seth’s unreliability is further indicated by the fact that he finds it hard to read other people’s emotions and responses (such as the doctor and the district attorney). The narration only follows Seth’s point of view, something which makes it difficult to establish whether the narrator is crazy or not, and whether Enoch exists or not: “ ‘Yes. On top of my skull....