The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

In the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, basically the story revolves around two men, the old man and the narrator. The narrator describes the old man as a very kind man that's has but one flaw and that is his eye which the narrator describes as a "vulture's eye." For some reason this eye really gets to the narrator, and drives him insane. Everyday his obsession with the eye seems to get worse until he decides that the only way to rid himself of the trouble is to kill the innocent old man. After making this decision, he spy's on the old man as he sleeps every night at midnight, shinning a light on the vulture eye. The only problem is that the narrator can not bring himself to kill the old man for every time he shines the light on his eye, it is closed. Finally on the eighth night he wakes the old man and the light shines on the mans eye, setting the narrator off. The narrator attacks the old man and kills him. To hid the old man's body, he cuts off all the man's limbs and stuffed him under the floorboards. Later that evening, three police officers came to the narrator's house claiming that the neighbors had heard a scream and they were there to investigate. The narrator kindly let them in telling them that it was him who had screamed in his sleep and that the old man was away on a trip to the country. The police easily believed him so the narrator asked them to stay and talk. They all sat in the old man's room talking for what seemed like hours, after a while the old man heard a beating identical to that of a beating heart. The narrator became frantic and was convinced that the police could hear it as well. So after minutes of anxiety, the narrator ripped up the floor boards exposing the old man's dead body. For the ticking had drove him insane.