The Show-and-Tell Tale Heart

June 12, 2017 | 1 book mentioned

“Due to its adult subject matter, it was the first animated film to receive an “X” rating (or “suitable for those aged 16 and over”) in the UK.” Open Culture features a creepily fantastic animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic story “The Tell Tale Heart,” noting that the nearly 8-minute short was voted the 24th greatest animation of all time in a survey of animation professionals. And Poe’s macabre creation made our own list, from earlier this year, of literature’s greatest walls.

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