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English: Tell Tale Heart POE 2025

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Tell Tale Heart

Tell Tale Heart Plot Summary

Plot Summary

Professor Regina Buccola of Roosevelt University provides an in-depth plot summary of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.  There are more short videos on this story in the "Course Hero" site - link is in the box to the right of this.

1953 Award Winning Animation

The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American animated short film directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason. The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.   It is now widely considered to be among the top animated cartoons ever filmed.  7 minutes 24 seconds.

Guides and Reviews

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Joss Ackland reads "The tell tale heart", the story of a murderer remembering the incidents, with sequences of the 1934 black and white film of the same name. Includes some biographical information on the author along with suggestions for analysis.