The Tell-Tale Heart: A Horror Short Story By Edgar Allan Poe

This horror short story called "The Tell-Tale Heart" is intriguing and interesting right from the start. As a short story in the mystery and crime genre is leaves you with a sense of intrigue and certainly with much food for thought once you turn the last page. The story has only two characters, but through his unique style Edgar Allan Poe draws you into the his tale in clever and intelligent way. This horror short story hold you in suspense till the end. Right from the beginning Edgar Allen Poe manages to grip your attention and you can't but want to know what will happen next. In this book you get two versions of Edgar Allen Poe's horror short story. I wrote another version which I changed here and there in order to give his tale an even better flow and to give it a more contemporary expression. The book contains both versions as well as my commentary on this psychological thriller. I hope you enjoy this short story by Edgar Allan Poe as well as my revision of it. As mystery fiction it is outstanding and I am sure you will enjoy the unique commentary on this tale by Edgar Allen Poe.

From the Publisher

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From the Inside Flap

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora". Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems - "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," Ulalume," "Lenore," "The Bells," and more, plus his glorious prose poem "Silence - A Fable" and only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.From the Paperback edition.

About the Author

In his short, troubled life Edgar Allan Poe originated the mystery story, brought new psychological depth to the tale of horror, and made inimitable contributions to Romantic poetry and literary criticism. Born in Boston in 1809 to itinerant actors, Poe was orphaned as an infant and sent to live with a Richmond merchant, John Allan. Allan sent him to the University of Virginia in 1826, but Poe withdrew because of gambling debts. In 1830, with his first book of poems already published, he entered West Point but was dishonorably discharged the next year. In 1835 Poe was chosen editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe was already established as an author when, in 1845, the publication of "The Raven" made him famous. He began to lecture, engaged in a celebrated feud with Longfellow, and became sole proprietor of his own magazine, Broadway Journal. But in 1846 the magazine went bankrupt, and in 1847, after years of suffering, Poe's wife died of consumption. His ill health and drinking worsened. In October 1849 he was found semiconscious outside a polling place in Baltimore; a few days later he died without regaining consciousness. Ignored for the most part by his countrymen, he was idolized by the French Symbolists, who thought of him as the first modern poet and helped to win him the recognition that is now his.From the Paperback edition.

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