PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

THE TELL-TALE HEART

1. What is the story of tell-tale heart about?

-The story is about a really mad man that lives with an elder. This insane man is obsessed with an elder's eye, which is pale. He goes to kill the elder. The elder's heart starts beating faster and louder from the terror. The crazy man kills him. The murderer hides the inert body under the wood planks (floor). After that, some police officers enter in the house because of the elder's scream. They don't see nothing wrong in the house, however, the crazy man betrays himself showing where is the elder's body.

2. Who wrote the tell-tale heart and invented the first macabre stories?

- Edgar Allan Poe

3. What was the first P.H.S.?

Metzengerstein was the first P.H.S.

4. When was it first published?

Metzengerstein's first published was in 1832. And Edgar Allan Poe's first published was in 1827.

5. What other story types did the author also invent?

-He invented the modern detective story.