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Telltale Heart

Adapted From The Tell-Tale Heart
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About This Broadcast

After murdering his elderly employer, a man is consumed by the sound of a heartbeat no one else can hear until guilt drives him to reveal the crime.

This Hall of Fantasy broadcast aired on November 9, 1953.

The surviving recording runs about 24 minutes.

This version dramatizes The Tell-Tale Heart.

Other versions or closely related recordings in the archive include The Tell-Tale Heart (June 1, 1953), a rebroadcast.

A supernatural anthology of eerie fantasy and horror stories, especially associated with writer-producer Richard Thorne.

Listeners can expect horror, fantasy, and mystery, anthology in format, and eerie, atmospheric, and dark in tone.

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