{"title": "The Tell-Tale Heart", "key": "/works/OL41059W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL28127A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Asesinato", "Cuentos de terror estadounidenses", "Ficci\u00f3n", "American Horror tales", "American literature", "Children's fiction", "Classic Literature", "Crime", "Crime fiction", "Crime in fiction", "Delitos", "Detective and mystery stories", "Fiction", "first-person narrative", "Gothic fiction", "Gothic fiction (literary genre)", "Homicide", "Horror", "Horror fiction", "Horror stories", "Horror tales", "Hyperesthesia", "Juvenile fiction", "Murder", "Murder in fiction", "short stories", "short story", "Cartoons and comics", "Emotions, fiction", "Fiction, general", "American fiction (fictional works by one author)", "American Short stories", "Drama"], "covers": [11851436, 4677362, 368434, 8882292, 8961924, 8969964, 9197463, 10418454, 10828756, 10828755, 11172287, 9045480, 12374374, 12510293, 13163620], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"}, "first_publish_date": "June 1976", "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"}], "description": "\"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. \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. It 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.", "links": [{"title": "The Tell-Tale Heart - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "The Tell-Tale Heart - The Poe Museum", "url": "https://poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "The Tell-Tale Heart - American English", "url": "https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the_tell-tale_heart_0.pdf", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/telltale", "url": "https://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/telltale.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Poe's Short Stories \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart\u201d (1843) Summary ...", "url": "https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section6/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe - VOA Learning English", "url": "https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/the-tell-tale-heat-edgar-allan-poe/3538402.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "eapoe.org/works/info/pt043", "url": "https://www.eapoe.org/works/info/pt043.htm", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 24, "revision": 24, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T08:15:47.909262"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-24T14:11:35.028703"}}