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| "The Tell-Tale Heart" | |
|---|---|
 Illustration by Harry Clarke, 1919 | |
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror |
| Published in | The Pioneer |
| Publisher | James Russell Lowell |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | January 1843 |
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is an 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Detectives capture a man who admits to the killing of the old man with a strange eye. The murder is carefully planned, and the killer killed the old man by pulling his bed on top of the man and hiding the body under the floor. The killer feels guilty about the murder, and the guilt makes him imagine that he can hear the dead man's heart still beating under the floor.
No one knows if the old man and the killer are related. Some people think that the old man is a father figure. Some people think that the man is strange, perhaps that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret.
The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of Poe's most famous short stories, and it is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre. The story has been made into or inspired many different works in film, television, and other media.