The Tell-Tale Heart

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, Cuentos de terror estadounidenses, Gothic fiction (literary genre), short story, Gothic fiction, Crime fiction, Horror stories, Crime, Horror tales, Cartoons and comics, American Horror tales, Horror, Crime in fiction, Emotions, fiction, first-person narrative, Asesinato, Murder, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, Delitos, Children's fiction, Murder in fiction, American literature, Juvenile fiction, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, Ficción, Detective and mystery stories

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.