The Tell-Tale Heart
About this book
"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.
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american horror tales
- american literature
- american short stories
- asesinato
- cartoons and comics
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- crime
- crime fiction
- crime in fiction
- cuentos de terror estadounidenses
- delitos
- detective and mystery stories
- drama
- emotions, fiction
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, general
- 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