The story presents an anonymous narrator obsessed with the sick eye of an old man with whom he lives and decides to kill him. The crime is carefully studied and after being perpetrated the man chopped up the old man's body and hid it under the floorboards of the house. Then three policemen come; a neighbor had heard a scream and called them. While they were checking the house, the narrator starts hearing a terrible ticking noise, which gets louder and louder until the narrator freaks out, confesses, and points the police to the old man's body, stating that the sound is coming from the old man's
