The tell-tale heart

• What is the story about?

The story is about a man who was living with an old man. The old man only has one eye. The only eye of the old man get nervous the man who is living with him and the man decide to kill the old man.

The police went to the house of the old man for investigate because the neighbours heard a scream. But the murderer says to the police that the od man was in the city for two weeks but his heart says the contrary. The beating of the heart of the man increased and increased, and he began to be nervous. Finally he confessed his crime.

• Who wrote the tell-tale heart and invited the first macabre stories?

Edgar Allan Poe also the writer of The black cat.

• What was the first PHS?                                                                                   

The first psychological horror story was Metzengerstein.

• When was it first published?

The tell-tale heart was published in 1843

• What other story types did the author also invented?

E.A.P invented a lot of types as dectives, science fiction…