“True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

A horrible shriek pierces the night air. A concerned neighbour calls the police. Once at the house, the officers find nothing out of the ordinary – until a guilty conscience reveals a dismembered body under the floorboards. What prompted the murderer to commit such a terrible act? And why do they insist on convincing the police of their sanity?

A tale of mystery and madness from the master of psychological terror, The Tell-tale Heart tells the story of a seemingly perfect murder, foiled by the killer’s own nervousness. One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most well-known short stories, this slice of the macabre is a classic of Gothic fiction.

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