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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. The poem is narrated by a madman who claims to have killed the old man for his evil eye and to have hidden his body under the floorboards.
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It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my...
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Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. This is not a complete list of...
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Read the full text of Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror story, The Tell-Tale Heart, and explore its themes, symbols, and motifs. Learn how the narrator murders an old man for his evil eye and how his guilt is revealed by the sound of his heartbeat.
The old man’s fear must have been great indeed. And as the sound grew louder my anger became greater and more painful. But it was more than anger. In the quiet night, in the dark silence of the bedroom my anger became fear — for the heart was beating so loudly that I was sure some one must hear. The time had come!
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THE TELL-TALE HEART. BY EDGAR A. POE. Art is long and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, through stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating. Funeral marches to the grave.
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.
Read the full text and analysis of Poe's classic gothic short story about a murderous narrator and his guilty conscience. Learn about the literary devices, symbols, and historical context of this tale of terror.
