The Tell Tale Heart

[mztryz]

Changing the ending? Of a classic Poe story? Really? Unbelievable!!!

[NinaLeeMusik]

I grew up with this story! thanks for uploading it :)

[shindouhikaru43]

hehe no wander he killed himself XD

[sebuuuuuuu]

yeah this narrator sucks

[dltanner99]

Horror novel see video book trailer

[jmjmartin]

Superb Sir!!!

If I may;

The artwork is great, a harken back to times past!!!

But please let us enjoy the art more slowly, along with a slower reading of the story.

The frenzy of the murder scene, however was superb!!!

Overall a superb job, with a tweak here and there on the timing, this could be something to enjoy for years...

Thanks.

[bigsalsbitch]

awsome, well done. 

[TheMoviefan13]

loved that mag. any way you can post them or send me pdf copy's? ive looked all over San Diego trying to find them but no one has them in stock and i have very limited budget

[wtf08able]

nice story and drawings...

[ooooliver]

To fast and lacks feeling in the words.

[Talegolas]

I feel that he is racing too much the reading, forcing it to fit in 6 min, but the drawings are pretty good

[Vinchio]

You should have a go at H P L:ovecraft!!!

[DarkSwordlessLink66]

a bit too fast but good

[mattaroo]

Great animation. lousy narrator

[schizoidboy]

Good twist at the end, I didn't expect it, I knew he'd have the kind of eye the old man had but it was good just the same

[donna1995]

it's good but kinda rushed. still good though.

[Glettamydog]

Check out the vulture eye in Taletube's unabridged multimedia version of The Tell Tale Heart -- I prefer the narrator in that version, too.

[3cbc]

OMG loved the ending did not see that coming

[Purplson]

lol his eye!

[psynno1]

Well done mate. It's good to see these illustrations brought to life.

[matt81093]

It all depends on how you interpret the story.

[toolongforyoutoread6]

Whoever narrated this needs to be taught passion while reading aloud. It isn't supposed to be monotonous or fast.

[LinkBulletBill]

The story's moral is basically You Can Not Kill/Stop Death interpretively... Literally, it would be for an inexperienced man's point of view, Do Not Kill Or Else You'll Feel Guilty And Become Crazy, etc...

[g6c]

Great job on the animation. I could've killed myself listening to the narration, though. I was struggling with whether to just see it on "mute."

[Nekro9000]

why was he putting a lantern on all the time? burning his retina? xD

[almondtealeaf2]

I like this animation it's very breathtaking. You are very good at editing stills. The film is very creepy.

[tigerqueen007]

And he ends up with the deadman's eye! No wonder he freaked out in the end!!

[LinkBulletBill]

@tigerqueen007 The old man doesn't exist...

[tigerqueen007]

I know. He's dead and the killer end up with his eye the same way as the old man.

[LinkBulletBill]

There was no murder. There was no old man.

There is a conflict in the narrator's head about life and death.

Evil Eye

eyE livE

Just interpret the story, you find a lot of stuff like that. Poe loved to tell a story when the story isn't actually what it says literally, but interpretively...

[tigerqueen007]

For crying out loud, I know that! I was just getting into the story because it was interesting! You don't have to be logical! Sheesh!

[LinkBulletBill]

Oh, you already know all about the Life VS Death thing... That the old man represented death because well being old is basically dying, and the pale blue eye of a vulture, that vulture and pale blue (color of corpses) represents death, and the light and the beating heat represents life, and that when on the 8th night that at the exact moment the old man died is when the light for the first time shined on his eye: Life VS Death. and that death overcomes life easily? And all other stuff like that?

[tigerqueen007]

No. I just enjoy the story. None of what you said.

[LinkBulletBill]

But you can also enjoy the interpretation of the Tale-Tell Heart. It makes sense even. Poe always does these things, when Poe writes a story, he attended it to be not actually the way it written. But it means something else.

[tigerqueen007]

Like what you just said. I get what you're saying, but you don't have to ruin people's fun to do that.

[Porgot138]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843.

[DMaustrap]

Christ chief, if was a Producer id hire you to make a full series of Creepy, Eerie and all the Warren horror stories animated like this with full orchestral score. Great Work!

[flyingChao]

this is a good story,but the narrator is too dull.

[willizle02]

@flyingChao Thats cuz your supposed to read Edgar Allen Poe like that. He wrote his stories very dully.

[gnikcohs]

This is great, people are doing such great stuff with such simple means, renewing everything. As to the audio, it worked partly, there was some nice echoic murmur, but it did go by too fast. Nest stop for me will be the Raven.

PS As for the misspelling of Allan, kind of embarrassing but in NO way diminishes the quality of the work.

[gnikcohs]

PS I would listen to the James Mason reading (again?) in the UPA animation. They cut some stuff out, but I thought it was very interesting and revealing. And maybe even Orson Welles reading Dream Within a Dream (actually from the Marginalia I think). Not exactly on point here, but an example of how to read Poe, it is unsurpassed. All of it is on Youtube

[sapato0]

he did not spelled Allan right!

[strongsad14]

you know a video sucks when the person cant even spell a name right. edgar all"A"n poe

[urbania70]

Great job. Suggestion: publish also an alternative version with music from APP's Tales (the same album from which you took The Raven for the omonimous video)-

[doktorfaustus77]

this is great. awesome idea

[ArmoredPanther]

I have this story! It's in Creepy #65, I am pretty sure. I still recall buying that issue when I was just a kid and loved the entire issue. What you did was remarkable with the animation, but yes the voice over is too fast. Your voice is just fine, but it's the speed in which you're narrating the story. Overall it's still great and brings back a lot of fond memories. Neal Adams remains my favorite artist ;-]

[rivards2001]

Very nice effort. Reed Crandall is the greatest. The animation is really well done both technically and creatively. PLEASE get help with the voiceover- it was very hard to understand- but please do more! There are some great EC stories out there and this technique would be an awesome way to adapt them!

[rs3taylor]

rivards2001,

You're so right about my mumbling V.O.-it was meant to be a temp track to get the animation timing down and in my haste to post I left it in (lesson learned:Don't post at 70% wait for... at least 90%).

I was going to fix it anyway and your comment will probably speed that up.

I'm also working on another story that'll be posted soon so...

To be continued,

Roger