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The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/
The complete text of several Poe stories including 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.

http://drcasey.com/radio/poe/telltale/index.html
Download an audio reading of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (and compare it with the television version).

http://las.alfred.edu/~egl/grove/fall98/egl292/poe5.html
A students' forum that discusses the narrator (but perhaps ignores the author's use of language): material for debate.

http://www.gothic.net/poe/works.html
Texts of other classic horror stories by Poe which may be printed out and read for comparison with 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. Particularly interesting are 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Black Cat' and 'The Cask of Amontillado'.

http://www.poedecoder.com/
Many useful resources.

http://www.poedecoder.com/PreciselyPoe/
A site concerned with the accuracy of information about Poe and its usefulness in terms of research and academic study.

http://www.englishresources.co.uk/workunits/ks4/wideread/rothunit.html
Structured help for studying and comparing two short stories: 'The Signal Man' by Charles Dickens and 'Lamb to the Slaughter' by Roald Dahl.