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First Publication in The Pioneer

When: January 1843
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
Part of: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' published in a Boston periodical

The story was published in January 1843 in the inaugural issue of The Pioneer, a Boston magazine edited by James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter.

The Pioneer was a short-lived magazine published in Boston by Leland and Whiting. The original publication included an epigraph quoting Longfellow's 'A Psalm of Life.' Poe wrote the story while residing in Philadelphia, though the venue was Boston.

Sources

The Tell-Tale Heart Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03

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