It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly, very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep. And every night about midnight I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh, so gently! And then when I had made an opening sufficient for my head I put in a dark lantern all closed, closed so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded with what caution, with what foresight, with what dissimulation, I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye with a film over it. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly I can tell you the whole story. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. by choosing the language in the menu at the top or side. You can read the full text by Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “ The Tell-Tale Heart” translated into other languages: Italian, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, etc. However, some critics have suggested a woman may be narrating no pronouns are used to clarify one way or the other.īelow you can read the original English version by Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “ The Tell-Tale Heart”.
The narrator of the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is generally assumed to be a male. “The Tell-Tale Heart” story is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe’s best known short stories. The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator’s sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in James Russell Lowell’s The Pioneer in January 1843. US literature Horror Tales – Short story Full english text
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