The Tell-Tale Heart

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Gothic fiction work horror fiction work short story

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.

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The Tell-Tale Heart canonical 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart 1

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instanceOf Gothic fiction work ⓘ
horror fiction work ⓘ
short story ⓘ
adaptedAs animated films ⓘ
radio dramas ⓘ
short films ⓘ
stage plays ⓘ
antagonistRole old man ⓘ
author Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ
collectedIn Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (later editions and collections) ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
firstPublicationDate 1843 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn The Pioneer ⓘ
genre Gothic fiction ⓘ
detective precursor ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ
hasWikipediaPage The Tell-Tale Heart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart
influenced detective and crime fiction traditions ⓘ
modern psychological horror ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryDevice foreshadowing ⓘ
imagery ⓘ
irony ⓘ
repetition ⓘ
symbolism ⓘ
literaryMovement American Romanticism ⓘ
mainTheme conscience ⓘ
guilt ⓘ
madness ⓘ
paranoia ⓘ
the nature of evil ⓘ
narrativePointOfView first-person narration ⓘ
narrativeTechnique unreliable narrator ⓘ
notableMotif beating heart ⓘ
vulture eye ⓘ
partOfSchoolCurriculumIn United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States

other English-speaking countries ⓘ
plotElement body hidden under floorboards ⓘ
confession driven by imagined sound ⓘ
dismemberment of the body ⓘ
murder of an old man ⓘ
visit from police officers ⓘ
protagonistRole unnamed narrator ⓘ
setting the old man’s house ⓘ
settingPeriod 19th century ⓘ
tone claustrophobic ⓘ
psychologically intense ⓘ
tense ⓘ

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Edgar Allan Poe → notableWork → The Tell-Tale Heart ⓘ
The Tell-Tale Heart → hasWikipediaPage → The Tell-Tale Heart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart
Edgar → notableWork → The Tell-Tale Heart ⓘ
subject surface form: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe bibliography → hasNotableWork → The Tell-Tale Heart ⓘ
The Fall of the House of Usher → basedOn → The Tell-Tale Heart ⓘ
subject surface form: The Fall of the House of Usher (TV series)
Tell Tale → inspiredBy → The Tell-Tale Heart ⓘ