The Tell-Tale Heart | Related Titles/Adaptations
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of a group of Poe stories that deal with obsession and madness. The central and most explicit of these stories is "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845), a combination of story and essay in which a Poe narrator discusses and illustrates how humans often persist in some act or behavior for the very fact that they should not. Although the story notes such examples as procrastination in action and digression in speech, the central example is murder and a compulsion to confess.
Even more closely related to "The Tell- Tale Heart" is the story "The Black Cat,"...
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