The Tell-tale Heart book cover design
illustration for a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.
But even yet I kept still.
I hardly breathed.
I held the lantern motionless.
I attempted to keep the ray of light upon the eye.
If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I described the wise steps I took for hiding the body. I worked quickly, but in silence.
First of all, I took apart the body.
I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
I then took up three pieces of wood from the flooring, and placed his body parts under the room.
