It was the dull, sightless vulture's eye that shredded his final nerve.

Edgar Allan Poe, today on the Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to this vintage episode of the Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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In today's story, an unarmed narrator attempts to convince us of his sanity while simultaneously describing

a murder he committed.

The Tell-Tale Heart was first published 180 years ago in 1843. I heard a radio version of this story

where they have different voice actors, Tempt, or guide the narrator through the steps of the murder, which was rather effective.

When I first recorded this back in 2007, it was in the middle of the night, and I was the only

one awake and really into the height of the drama and right at the critical point a car drove by with some crazy base going on.

It sounded just like a heart beating and it nearly gave me a heart attack.

This recording was the number three best-selling audio book at the iTunes Music Store in 2008.

And now, the Tell-Tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

True, nervous, very.

Very. Very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am.

But why will you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.

Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven and in the earth.

I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad?

Harken!

And observe how healthily, how calmly I can tell you, the whole story.

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