The Tell-Tale Heart
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Illustration by Harry Clarke. |
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The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1843. The tale is told by a clearly disturbed narrator who murders an old man because of the way the old man's eye looks, and then hides the corpse, but begins having delusions related to his crime, but all the while insists that he's not crazy.
Personal
| Own? | No. |
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| Read? | Audiobook read by Basil Rathbone. |
| Finished | 2017-11-??. |
I had seen this story referenced and parodied many times in movies and TV shows, but it wasn't until around 2017 that I actually read it. It did not live up to the hype.
The story is in the public domain.
Review
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— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- Nothing.
Bad
- No reason is given to why the narrator murders the old man, other than his eye, which the narrator doesn't like. I assume this was does purposely to make the narrator seem completely crazy, but it just makes the violence entirely senseless, which I don't like in fiction.
Ugly
- The story is just depressing and dark for no reason. At least with Poe's similar work, The Black Cat, he tried to impart a moral, but here it's just a story about a crazy person murdering someone else.
Media
Fan Art
Illustration by Murraycita.
Links
- poestories.com/read/telltaleheart - Complete text.
