Tell-tale Heart

'Presently I heard a slight groan; and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder; mystery and madness; portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics; with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan; from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Poe's works available in Penguin Classics are The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings; The Masque of the Red Death; The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Portable Edgar Allan Poe and The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.