The Tell-Tale Heart

About this film

A new audiobook from Radio Theatre Group The Tell-Tale Heart âA masterpiece of Gothic Horrorâ by Edgar Allen Poe narrated by Derek Banner The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories. "I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; â just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.". Derek Banner Narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart A talented and versatile performer, Derek will be appearing on stage in October 2008 at The Ra…

Directors & creators

Radio Theatre Group

Subjects

The Tell-Tale Heart; Edgar Allan Poe; Radio Theatre Group; Derek Banner; Bruce Downie

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