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Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart
I have recently read the short story entitled "The Tell-Tale Heart". This story was written in 1843 by Edgar Allen Poe. This is somewhat of a frightening and creepy story. I usually don't like these types of stories because they usually don't have a point. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the exeptions. Some of Poe's other stories also appeal to me.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" ia a story in which a servant kills his master, the old man. The reason for this is that the eye of the old man is like that of a vulture. The servant loves tthe old man very much, but hates the eye. Eventually, after nights of peering in on the old man in his sleep, the servant kills the old man. He chopped the old man up into peices and put him under the parlor floorboards.

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