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The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1843
Pages
Pages 6

A murderer explains, quite reasonably, why he killed the old man with the filmy eye and hid him under the floorboards, and how a heartbeat only he could hear gave him away.

True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe

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