The Tell-Tale Heart

Name: The Tell-Tale Heart
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Tale of a narrator driven to murder obsessed by a victim's heartbeat

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author and poet whose horror and mystery fiction laid the groundwork for much of science fiction, horror, and detective fiction. His stories of premature burial, strange science, and cosmic imagination anticipated H.P. Lovecraft and countless successors. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is a proto-SF adventure novel.

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