Inner Sanctum The Tell-Tale Heart
About This Broadcast
A newly hearing man is driven to murder and tormented by an impossible heartbeat.
This Inner Sanctum Mysteries broadcast aired on August 3, 1941. Blue Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Boris Karloff, Everett Sloane, and Santos Ortega. Other credited names include Robert Newman as radio adaptor, Raymond Edward Johnson as host, and Ed Herlihy as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Carter's Little Liver Pills (one of the commercials has been deleted).
This version dramatizes The Tell-Tale Heart. Edgar Allan Poe is credited as author and Robert Newman adapted it for radio.
A horror and mystery anthology famous for its creaking-door opening, mixing murder, supernatural menace, psychological terror, and darkly playful host narration.
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Boris Karloff