He keeps his calm while showing them around until they go and sit down in the room below which the victim’s body is concealed. The narrator lets the police officers in to search the premises and tells them a lie about the old man being away in the country. But no sooner has he concealed the body than there’s a knock at the door: it’s the police, having been called out by a neighbour who heard a shriek during the night. He goes to some lengths to cover up all trace of the murder and then he takes up three of the floorboards of the chamber and conceals his victim’s body underneath. He then describes how he crept into the old man’s bedroom while he slept and stabbed him, dragging the corpse away and dismembering it, so as to conceal his crime. An unnamed narrator confesses that he has murdered an old man, apparently because of the old man’s ‘Evil Eye’ which drove the narrator to kill him. The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.
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