“But the defendant heard his tell-tale heart throughout this case.” Invoking Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Porter said that Sebastian Carter, 22, was so ...

Tell-Tale Heart is a story written by the literary master Edgar Allen Poe. It starts with a narrator's introduction, who informs the reader he's nervous but sane. Over the course of the story ...

With a jeweler’s precision, Edgar Allan Poe forged a succinct masterpiece in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a story of madness and violence that runs a mere five or so pages. Would that such ...

I started to scan the front of the file. It had the usual paperclip with the picture of the suspect attached. I looked at ...

My favorite example of this is his 1843 short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” which describes a man slowly going mad because of a dark secret. The narrator recounts a murder he has committed ...