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The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe · 1843short story
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The narrator lives with an old man whose eye he finds terrifying. He kills the old man and hides him under the floorboards. The police arrive and he chats with them amicably, but is disturbed by hearing a heartbeat...
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