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In this classic, chilling tale from one of our country’s greatest masters of terror, our narrator thinks he has gotten away with murder…but the victim’s heart may yet do him in.

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

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Classics, Fiction, Mystery / Crime, Poetry, Short Stories, Thriller / Horror

Published:

1843

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