The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". It provides a brief biography of Poe, an overview of the plot where a narrator kills an old man he lives with and hides his body, and then confesses to the murder when he thinks he hears the dead man's heart beating under the floor. The document also categorizes elements of the story as incidents of horror and provides a character sketch of the killer as a sensitive but cruel and psycho person. It concludes with the killer confessing his crime to misguided police.