It is Day 18 of National Short-Story Month, and who better than Edgar Allan Poe for such a day? Here is the first story she ever read by him, "The Tell-Tale Heart" (although she read it in fourth grade in a collection adapted for children, and at that time, she didn't know what "adapted" meant and was quite irritated to find out, once she did, that it meant she hadn't actually read the story as it was meant to be).
The following newspaper article is the original publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (January 11, 1843), and it comes from the Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection virtually located at the University of Texas at Austin-Harry Ransom Center.
by Edgar Allan Poe
(1843)
![The New York Sun. [From the Pioneers.] The Tell-Tale Heart. By Edgar A. Poe. Art is long and Time is fleeting, And our hearts though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. [Longfellow. Then text of story begins.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0A6rP0oD0wX-3X9YU8E1H-Ae38Ql7l7WIPWE5DAl0Kyj4ODhHlrFEKfXt61I0TmRyvetcziDeTSnY3LzRVQANRfPf48dvDLBUz1kZ5GG_0UyA1UeLoMJS0wJ__JfWIqLFo4hGc-2KUDI/s1600/tell-tale+heart.jpg "Newspaper article where The Tell-Tale Heart first appeared") |
| Original newspaper for The Tell-Tale Heart, The New York Sun 1/9/1843. For larger version, go here |
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