The Tell Tale Heart/ Edgar Allen Poe/ The Pioneer, 1843

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a psychological thriller about an unreliable narrator desperate to prove his sanity while confessing to the murder of an old man. Driven to madness by the man's pale, vulture-like eye, the narrator kills him and hides the dismembered body under the floorboards. Ultimately, intense guilt manifests as a persistent, hallucinatory heartbeat that drives him to confess to the police.