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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

THE TELLTALE HEART by EDGAR ALLEN POE

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This short story comes from our Mysteries file and is a chilling short story from classic American author Edgar Allen Poe. Poe is considered one of the greatest horror story writers and as the only author that has a professional football team named after one of his works (The Baltimore Ravens). This story is not intended for children or the feint hearted. Edgar Allen Poe died a very mysterious and untimely death- for more of this story go to our past episode "THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLEN POE". Normally we add classic authors episodes to our new show "1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales" (www.storytellerfam.libsyn.com) but due to the nature of this short story we did not want to place it in the Kids & Family section where 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales now resides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:23.0

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and I am.

1:29.1

But why will you say that I am mad?

1:31.3

The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.

1:36.2

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

1:41.7

I heard many things in hell.

1:44.0

How then am I mad?

1:45.0

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

1:51.0

It is impossible to tell how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived it haunted me day and night.

1:59.0

Object there was none, Passion there was none.

2:02.0

I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.

2:07.0

For his gold I had no desire.

2:09.0

I think it was his eye.

2:11.0

Yes, it was this. One of his eyes resembled that of a bulcher, a pale blue eye with a film over it.

2:18.4

Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold, and so by degrees very gradually.

2:26.1

I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever. Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Mad men know nothing. But

2:37.9

you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded. With what caution and what foresight, with what dissimulation I went to work.

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