The Avenging Conscience was based on the short story published by Edgar Allan Poe in what year?
1843
Title: The Avenging Conscience
Passage: The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a 1914 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.  The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the poem "Annabel Lee".
Title: The Tell-Tale Heart
Passage: "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.  It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed.  The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it.  The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards.  Ultimately, the narrator's feelings of guilt, or a mental disturbance, result in him hearing the dead man's beating heart.
Title: Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
Passage: The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site is a preserved home once rented by American author Edgar Allan Poe, located at 532 N. 7th Street, in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Though Poe lived in many houses over several years in Philadelphia (1837 to 1844), it is the only one which still survives.  It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.
The Avenging Conscience The Tell-Tale Heart