The Tell Tale Heart
"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 an old man with a "vulture eye".
The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding
it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination
that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.
It is unclear what relationship, if any, the old man and his murderer 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 a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous
short stories.
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