Hello and welcome to the time machine. Today we will travel back 81 years to the Edgar Allen Poe classic short story The Tell Tale Heart. This episode is specially presented as only a certain show can, Inner Sanctum Mysteries. Inner Sanctum ran from 1941-1952 with the always engaging Raymond Chandler as your host, and several of the best horror and suspense stories of the genre.
The Tell Tale Heart has been adapted several times since 1920, where it was a silent film, more films would follow, television shows, and of course at least five other old time radio shows. This just goes to show the popularity of the story.
First published in 1843 in James Russel Lowell’s The Pioneer, it is considered a classic in the gothic fiction genre. The interpersonal relationships are especially unique, and the story is filled with striking imagery that will enthrall you.
You will join two men, one deaf, one blind, who have just been miraculously healed by the mysterious Dr. Death. I do not want to give any more of the story away, so let it unfold before you like it has for millions of readers and listeners before you. So sit back, relax, and travel back 81 years to July 3rd, 1941 to enjoy Edgar Allen Poe’s classic, presented by The Inner Sanctum: The Tell Tale Heart.
