The psychological horror story

The fisrt person to write a psychological horror story  was a man called Edgar Allan Poe. The novel was called The Murderers in the Rue Morgan and it was published in 1841.
Poe also wrote the first novel based on a real crime., wich today we call a detective story

Tell tale heart

Tell tale heart is a story about a man who thinks he is sane, and that everything he thinks is right and that there is nothing wrong with him.
 During the story you can hear everything that he thinks, and how I tells us points to demostate that he isn't crazy, even though you can tell he is. He murders an old man because he is paraoind with the man's eye ,and then gets discovered by the police because he thinks he can hear the old man's beating heart.