This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

Reference Books

• Masterplots II Short Story series (Ref PN 3326 .M27) Volume: Pages:
  • 7: 4051-53
• Short Story Criticism (Ref PN 3373 .S389) Volume: Pages:
  • 1: 384, 393-94, 408
  • 34: 239 -87 (essays reproduced online in Literature Criticism Online database
  • 35: 307-11, 314, 343, 345-46
  • 54: 198, 218
  • 88: 214, 219, 227 252
  • 111: 131, 158, 161, 193, 218-19
• Short Stories for Students(Ref PN 3373 .S56) Volume: Pages:
  • 4: 343-59 (Some essays reproduced in Literature Criticism Resource Center database.
• Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism(Ref PN 761 .N56) Volume: Pages
  • 78: 256-63, 265-70, 272-75, 277-86, 289-90, 294, 296-300.

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

• Bloom, Harold (ed.). Tales of Poe . (PS 2618. T32 T3 1987)
• Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe. (PS 2638. B87 1977)
• Carlson, Eric W. Critical Essays on Edgar Allan Poe. (PS 2638 .C75 1987)
• Knapp, Bettina L. Edgar Allan Poe. (PS 2631. K58 1984)

E-Books

• Hayes, Kevin J. (ed.). Cambridge companion to Edgar Allan Poe. (e-brary)
• Magistrale, Tony. Student companion to Edgar Allan Poe. (e-brary)

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

• Literature Resource Center . Includes full-text reproduction of some of the essays cited above in Short Stories for Students and Short Story Criticism.
• Literature Criticism Online. Reproduction of essays in Short Story Criticism, vol. 34, pp. 239-87.
• Literature Online Knowledge Notes. Search: Criticism & Reference>Reference>Title>Knowledge Notes.

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.

• Kirkland, James. "The 'Tell-Tale Heart' as Evil Eye Event." Southern Folklore 56 (1999): 135-47. [Wilson OmniFile Full-Text Mega]
• Kopley, Richard. "Hawthorne's Transplanting and Transforming 'The Tell-Tale Heart." Studies in American Fiction 23 (1995): 231+.
• Pritchard, H. "Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'" Explicator Spring (2003): 144-47. [General OneFile, Literature Online, Masterfile Premier, and Wilson OmniFile Full-Text Mega]