The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is simultaneously a horror story and psychological thriller told from a first-person perspective. It is admired as an excellent example of how a short story can produce an effect on the reader. Poe believed that all good literature must create a unity of effect on the reader and this effect must reveal truth or evoke emotions. The Tell-Tale Heart exemplifies Poe’s ability to expose the dark side of humankind and is a harbinger of novels and films dealing with psychological realism. Poe’s work has influenced genres as diverse as French symbolist poetry and Hollywood horror films, and writers as diverse as Ambrose Bierce and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Watch the animated film of The Tell-Tale Heart on YouTube. It was narrated by James Mason and nominated for an Academy Award in 1954.
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9 March 2008 at 10:32 am
There is an animated version of The Tell-Tale Heart at:
http://www.adamsmithacademy.org/The_Tell-Tale_Heart.html
15 March 2009 at 12:25 pm
what an excellent man poe was