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Read the full text of the classic horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, in which a murderer is haunted by the eye of his victim. Learn about the plot, the themes, the characters and the symbolism of this chilling tale.
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The Tell-Tale Heart. by Edgar Allan Poe (published 1843)...
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The 2009 thriller film Tell-Tale, produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, credits Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" as the basis for the story of a man being haunted by his donor's memories, after a heart transplant.
The Tell-Tale Heart T RUE!—NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them.
A comprehensive guide to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart", about a murderer who hides the body and hears the sound of the old man's heart. Learn about the themes, quotes, characters, symbols, literary devices and more.
A narrator confesses to killing an old man out of fear of his pale blue eye. He hides the body and escapes detection, but hears the heartbeat beneath the floorboards and confesses to the police.
29 the tell-tale heart. BY EDGAR A. POE Art is long and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
I went down to open it with a light heart,—for what had I now to fear? There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a neighbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers ...
