The Tell-Tale Heart - Inner Sanctum

An adaptation of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

The story is told in first-person, by a narrator (unnamed, as in Poe’s tale) who insists from the start that he is not mad—only terribly nervous, with an over-acute sense of hearing.

He lives with an old man—he has no ill will toward him, loves him even—but he is haunted and enraged by the man's "vulture eye", a pale blue, film-covered eye that seems to see into his soul. The narrator becomes obsessed and eventually decides that the only way to rid himself of the eye is to murder the old man.