Surreal Cinema (return to program) Dead Shift The Tell Tale Heart Apartment 206 Bunny & Clydo When Jesse Was Born The Tell Tale Heart Raul Garcia www.thetelltaleheart-theshort.com One of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories, 'The Tell-Tale Heart" was published in 1843. The story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator. A murderer who cannot stop hearing his victim's relentless heartbeat. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a horror story and psychological thriller told from a first-person perspective.