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"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 the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.
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An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe is a 1970 film which features Vincent Price reciting four of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, directed by Kenneth Johnson, with music by Les Baxter. [1]
The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American animated psychological horror short film produced by UPA, directed by Ted Parmelee, and narrated by James Mason. The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe .
The tell-tale heart itseif is particularly effective, where the whole house – the pendulum of a clock, a dripping tap, a ticking metronome, a swinging chandelier, a piece fallen from a chess-board and rolling gently back and forth – seems to pick up and magnify the terrifying beating rhythm which haunts Edgar."
Thomas Mann said of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which explores a similar doppelgänger theme, "by no means improved on Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson,' a tale that deals with the same old romantic motif in a way far more profound on the moral side and more successfully resolving the critical [theme] in the poetic".
The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1934 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. [1] The screenplay by David Plunkett Greene is based on the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe . It is the earliest known "talkie" film adaptation of the story.
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