The specific motivation for murder (aside from the narrator's hatred of the old man's eye), the relationship between narrator and old man, the gender of the narrator, and other details are left unclear. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. Ultimately, the narrator's actions result in hearing a thumping sound, which the narrator interprets as the dead man's beating heart. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.
" The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.
I, Drew and Scammell, Philadelphia, January, 1843
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