The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering the old man with a "Vulture Eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and murdered hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrators guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under floorboards.
It is unclear what relationship, if any, the old man and his murder share. It has been suggested that the old man is a father figure, or whether the narrator works for the old man as a servant, perhaps, that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret, or power. The ambiguity and lack of details about the two main characters stand in stark contrast to the specific plot details leading up to the murder.
The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Country: United States Of American
Language: English
Genre(s): Horror
Short Story
Published in: The Pioneer
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