

American author Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"" novella, was first published in James Russell Lowell's "The Pioneer" story pamphlet, January 1843, following an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after killing an old man with a 'weird eye'.
Burying the man under the floorboards of a house, the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.
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