The Tell-Tale Heart

Name: The Tell-Tale Heart
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
ISBN: 9781664969155

Author: Edgar Allen Poe

Narrator: Jason Rosette

Unabridged: 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Camerado Media

Published: 12/14/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Children's Fiction, Horror Stories

Synopsis

Special horror cinematic soundscape edition!"The Tell-Tale Heart" is Edgar Allen Poe’s renowned and chilling tale of murder and terror, told by a nameless homicidal madman, brought to life in this audiobook edition. This short literary masterpiece is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre, and is one of Poe's best known short stories."The Tell-Tale Heart" influenced later stream-of-consciousness fiction and helped secure the author’s reputation as master of the macabre. Poe’s novel introduction of the narrator’s madness is a classic study in psychopathology; as his victim shakes with fear, the narrator confides: “I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.”Although Poe was only paid $10 for the story upon its original publication in 1843, his contribution to classic Gothic literary culture and the has been priceless, as the story continues to provoke and disturb fans to this day.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico

When someone gives you the stink eye. An ailing man suffers extreme acute hearing because of his grave disease, but that's nothing, his worst fear is the poor old man living with him. He has shown him nothing but kindness, never hurt or insulted him, yet there’s something about him. Something abou......more

Goodreads review by oyshik

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe A perfect haunting short story that will allow you to examine madness and wickedness at the depths of the human soul. It's not a horror story. But a kind of psychological tale. Strange the story. Easy to read. Quick to finish. Really loved this first-person stor......more

Goodreads review by NickReads

Typical Poe. He is so descriptive, yet we don't actually know much about the narrator. I think he's Poe himself.......more

Goodreads review by Meghhnaa

A perfect hair-raising Halloween-time experience! Head without a heart, is monstrous, Head with a heart in place, works wonders! Don’t we stumble upon folks, who appear standoffish and selfish, and others overtly emotional? It is infrequent to encounter the ones with a correct amalgamation of both......more