Which Poe story features an old man with a vulture eye killed by the narrator?

The Poe story featuring an old man with a vulture-like eye who is killed by the narrator is “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The unnamed narrator insists on being sane while describing a carefully planned murder motivated by the old man’s “evil eye,” not by money or revenge.

The narrator watches the old man for seven nights, waiting until the eye is open. On the eighth night, a thin beam from the narrator’s lantern falls directly on it. After killing the old man, the narrator dismembers the body and hides it beneath the floorboards, then calmly welcomes the police.

The story’s famous final sound may be the old man’s heartbeat—or a hallucination produced by the narrator’s guilt and growing panic. Poe deliberately leaves the narrator’s identity, gender, relationship to the victim, and precise mental condition uncertain. The story first appeared in 1843 in The Pioneer and became a classic of Gothic fiction.