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The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
First Published
1976
Subjects
Asesinato
Cuentos de terror estadounidenses
Ficción
American Horror tales
American literature
Children's fiction
Classic Literature
Crime
Crime fiction
Crime in fiction
Delitos
Detective and mystery stories
Fiction
first-person narrative
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction (literary genre)
Homicide
Horror
Horror fiction
Horror stories
Horror tales
Hyperesthesia
Juvenile fiction
Murder
Murder in fiction
short stories
short story
Cartoons and comics
Emotions, fiction
Description
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.