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|appearance = "[[Treehouse of Horror]]"
 
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'''''The Tell Tale Heart''''' is a book.
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'''''The Tell Tale Heart''''' is a short story by {{Ch|Edgar Allan Poe}}.
  
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
{{ap|The Raven|character}} drops the {{ch|Edgar Allan Poe|character}} books ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]'', ''The Tell Tale Heart'', and ''[[The Purloined Letter]]'' on [[The Raven Narrator]].
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[[File:Tapped Out Allison Taylor Play With Diorama.png|left|thumb|[[Allison Taylor]] with her "The Tell-Tale Heart" diorama.]]
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{{Ch|The Raven}} drops the books of {{Ch|Edgar Allan Poe}}'s other works including ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]'', ''The Tell Tale Heart'', and ''[[The Purloined Letter]]'' on [[The Raven Narrator|the narrator]]'s head.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror]]"</ref>
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[[Allison Taylor|Allison]]'s entry for the [[Springfield Elementary School|school]]'s diorama competition is the scene in the bedroom where the old man is buried beneath the floorboard and Allison uses a metronome to replicate the heartbeat that made the murderer insane. A jealous Lisa, with Bart's help, sabotages Allison with a fake diorama although Lisa's guilt cause her to hear a heart beating under the gym floor where she hide Allison's real diorama and she screams out, "It's the beating of that hideous heart!" which is also line from "The Tell Tail Heart."<ref>"[[Lisa's Rival]]"</ref>
  
 
== Behind the Laughter ==
 
== Behind the Laughter ==
"{{W|The Tell-Tale Heart}}" is a short story by American author [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
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The titles and certain plot elements from [[Season 1]]'s "[[The Telltale Head]]" and [[Season 35]]'s "[[The Tell-Tale Pants]]" come from "{{W|The Tell-Tale Heart}}".
  
 
== Appearances ==
 
== Appearances ==
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror|("The Raven")}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror|("The Raven")}}
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*{{ep|Lisa's Rival}}
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== References ==
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{{Reflist}}
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== External links ==
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*{{Wikipedialink}}
  
 
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The Tell Tale Heart
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Book Information
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Genre: Gothic horror
First appearance: "Treehouse of Horror"

The Tell Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

History[edit]

Allison Taylor with her "The Tell-Tale Heart" diorama.

The Raven drops the books of Edgar Allan Poe's other works including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell Tale Heart, and The Purloined Letter on the narrator's head.[1]

Allison's entry for the school's diorama competition is the scene in the bedroom where the old man is buried beneath the floorboard and Allison uses a metronome to replicate the heartbeat that made the murderer insane. A jealous Lisa, with Bart's help, sabotages Allison with a fake diorama although Lisa's guilt cause her to hear a heart beating under the gym floor where she hide Allison's real diorama and she screams out, "It's the beating of that hideous heart!" which is also line from "The Tell Tail Heart."[2]

Behind the Laughter[edit]

The titles and certain plot elements from Season 1's "The Telltale Head" and Season 35's "The Tell-Tale Pants" come from "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Appearances[edit]

References[edit]


External links[edit]