That edition overlooked Longfellow's poem as Poe believed it was plagiarism and due to the fact that "The Tell-Tale Heart" was republished several times during Poe's lifetime. The story was slightly revised when it was republished in the August 23, 1845, edition of the Broadway Journal. It was originally published along with an epigraph that quoted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem called "The Psalm of Life". It was believed that Poe was paid 10 $ for this story. The story is often considered a Gothic classic and is, along with "The Cask of Amontillado", one of Poe's most famous short stories. The story was first published in "The Pioneer" written by the American poet James Russell Lowell in January 1843. Finally, the narrator's actions result in a pounding sound, which the narrator interprets as the heartbeat of a dead man. The narrator stresses the detailed calculation of the murder, the attempt at the perfect crime, finished with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards. His prey was an old man with a pale blue "vulture eye". The story is written from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who tries to persuade his readers of his sanity, while at the same time he's describing the murder he has committed. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short Gothic story written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.
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