The Tell-Tale Heart: Short Story

Edgar Allan Poe

Jan 2013 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Having killed in a fit of passion, an unnamed narrator quickly hides the victim’s body only to be haunted by the victim’s relentless heartbeat.

A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

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Ratings and reviews

this book is a fantastic collection of words with hooking and mad, vivid, in depth descriptions that anyone could love. as fuscous and just as dark as the writing Edgar Allan would impart having an eye in terror found in macabre, this book stands grand in it's dissection of a person put in the maddest, daring, pounding of hearts

It's a must read for everyone, gripping short story the engages you from beginning to end. Can you👂 💢 ❤ ?

Love, love, love it! Easily one of my favorites by Poe. Enjoyed it more than Cask of Amontillado, and it's one of his most lauded stories.

About the author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.