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The Tell-Tale Heart - The Pioneer, January 1843
First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'
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The tale's first appearance in print, in the January 1843 first issue of The Pioneer (issue pp. 29-31). This first printing carries an epigraph from Longfellow that Poe removed in later printings; W. W. Story's unrelated poem 'Longing' precedes the tale at the top of the first page.
- Date
- 1843-01
- Credits
- Edgar Allan Poe (author)
- Publisher
- James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter — The Pioneer
- Where to find it
- 3 tale pages (issue pp. 29-31); complete issue is 54 scanned pages
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AI-assisted transcription produced by Claude and visually checked against this Internet Archive scan; no independent human proofread. Running heads, page numbers and two-column breaks removed for reading; the first-printing Longfellow epigraph (removed by Poe in later printings) and original 1843 wording and spelling (e.g. 'visiters', 'neighbour', 'harken') are retained. The scan remains authoritative for exact typography.
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Poe, Edgar Allan. 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' The Pioneer, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1843): 29-31.
Public domain. First published in the United States in January 1843; copyright long expired. Internet Archive scan of a public-domain serial.
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