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Undertow: Familiar Haunts

The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe

Undertow: Familiar Haunts

Realm

Drama, Fiction

4.4791 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Part 3 of Spooktacular September with a full cast production of The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe. A man has committed murder, and may even get away with it, until a diabolical throbbing begins beneath his floorboards. Adapted from the public domain short story The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe, produced by Mind’s Eye Productions and podcast by arrangement with Podcast Universe Productions. Undertow is a production of Realm, hosted by Fred Greenhalgh. Find more shows like Undertow on Apple, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are served. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Undertow Realm's podcast, taking you on winding roads of the weird and the wicket.

0:11.9

I'm your host, Fred Greenhalch.

0:13.9

Our classic tales that macab continue today with a journey into the throbbing heart of madness,

0:19.1

a full cast production of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar

0:22.5

Alan Poe. This originally appeared in Bill DeFries's Nightmares on Congress Street Collection.

0:28.0

If you like what you hear, want to hear others like it. Check out the Midnight Matinees podcast

0:32.0

by Pucket Universe Productions. And now a journey into the heavy toll of a burdened conscience.

0:38.3

This is Edgar Allan Poe's iconic tale, the tale-tale heart.

0:42.3

I know why you're here, Doctor. The Look on your face. I'm here, Doctor. The. I'm Dr. Edgar. I'm here to ask you...

0:56.0

I know why you're here, Doctor. The look on your face tells me everything. You're trying to hide your expression, but I can see right through you. You've already made up your mind, haven't you? Haven't you?

1:05.5

Mr. Price, no one has made up their minds. We just... You think I've lost it, gone completely insane.

1:11.6

But nothing could be further from the truth.

1:14.6

And what if I have?

1:15.6

It hasn't dulled my senses.

1:17.6

No.

1:18.6

In fact, it's sharpened them, all of them, especially my hearing.

1:22.6

Your hearing?

1:24.6

Oh, yes.

1:25.6

I can hear everything that goes on around me.

1:28.6

The roaches that crawl along the floor, the rats, scurrying behind the walls and the voices in the other room.

1:35.4

I can hear the symphony of heaven and the cacophony of hell.

1:41.4

How could I be crazy then?

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