The macabre story Tell-tale heart it's about a man who was butler in a house. The owner of the house was an old man who lived alone. The butler found scary the man's eye, because it was white, without the pupil. He couldn't live with this man because the eye it made him nervous and every time more and more. The man was good at him but he cannot live with it, so the butler killed the old man, and he hid the dead body under the floor. The neighbours heard an scream, so they sent a policeman to investigate the house. The butler said that the man was in the city, but he was so nervous again, and at the end he explode, he coudn't hide that nomore and at the end he finishes in the jail.
The writer was Edgar Allan Poe, the one who invented the first macabre stories.
The first story that he wrote was The Black Cat and it was published in 1843.
He invented other story types like the detective and science fiction.
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