The narrator has feelings of paranoia, and becomes afraid of the old man's strange eye. The narrator is living with an old man with a clouded, vulture-like eye. The story does not say if the narrator is male or female. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a story told in the first-person meaning that the storyteller talks about their own feelings and actions. The story has been made into or inspired many different works in film, television, and other media. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of Poe's most famous short stories, and it is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. Some people think that the man is strange, perhaps that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret. Some people think that the old man is a father figure. No one knows if the old man and the killer are related. The killer feels guilty about the murder, and the guilt makes him imagine that he can hear the dead man's heart still beating under the floor. The murder is carefully planned, and the killer killed the old man's by pulling his bed on top of the man and hiding the body under the floor. Detectives capture a man who admits to the killing of the old man with a strange eye. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
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