"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) - Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Short-Short of Psychological Self-Immolation

[DonRocks]

The entire text of this masterpiece of psychological horror can be found at The Poe Museum - it's a short work, easily read in 10-15 minutes, but is more appropriately read there, with its dark backdrop, than copied here.

Please feel free to comment - I just finished this for the first time in perhaps thirty years, and it's just as powerful as I remember.

[NolaCaine]

I love all Poe. Part of why I married my husband is that when he met my cat, he knew who she was named after: Annabelle Lee.

He also did a dramatic reading of the poem at a party...with the cat in one hand, book in another.