We've had enough horror stories lately, and I'm not particularly fond of the genre, but you know that I do like E.A.Poe: The Tell Tale Heart, first published in 1843, "a story told through the eyes of a madman who, like all of us, believed he was sane. "
True!—nervous—very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’’
The story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator who kills a man because he didn't like his 'vulture eye' and ultimately his guilt and madness give him away in the final hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards. HA-HA-HA...
This is just a pre-view. You'll have to go to other versions to see the complete story. It's a really short piece, so you can read it HERE
- Columbia pictures 1953 Animation , narrated by James Mason.
- Vincent Price version HERE. You probably recognized Vincent Prince's laugh as part of the rap he performed in Michael Jackson's Thriller, already a classic for Halloween.
- And some more music: Alan Parson's Tell-Tale Heart in Tales of Mystery and Imagination, a record inspired in Poe's work.
**If you like E.A.Poe and want to see different versions of 'The Raven' (The Simpson's included), go to last year's entry.Happy Halloween, or castanyada, or whatever you celebrate!
2 comments:
Are you sure that this weekend was Halloween? Yesterday I saw the lights of Christmas on the street. We have celebrated Halloween with lights Christmas , it’s incredible, isn’t it?
I think it was Halloween, but maybe I am wrong and it's already Easter week -with Christmas lights still on. We are actually doing File 7C so it must be some sort of 'back to the future' situation.How curious!
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