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True! — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. So begins Edgar Allan Poe ...

One of Poe’s most popular stories is “The Tell-Tale Heart.” First published in 1843, this short story, with its macabre narrator and sinister plot, typifies the tone of many of Poe’s works.

The unnamed narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” sits in perpetual paranoia, spiraling as he listens to the ever-growing heartbeat under his floorboards pulsate beneath him. One by one, ...

In Poe’s 1843 “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a narrator is so deeply bothered by an old man’s pale blue, “vulture-like eyes” that he kills him and hides his remains in the floorboards.

My favorite example of this is his 1843 short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” which describes a man slowly going mad because of a dark secret. The narrator recounts a murder he has committed ...

With a jeweler’s precision, Edgar Allan Poe forged a succinct masterpiece in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a story of madness and violence that runs a mere five or so pages. Would that such ...