#the tell tale heart

[sometiktoksarevalid]

#cc #music #edgar allen poe #the tell tale heart #the cask of amontillado #annabel lee #the fall of the house of usher #the bells poe #the purloined letter #the masque of the red death #the raven poem

[spookycathymorshaw]

I wish we had more room. If your favorite isn't there, comment !

#polls #gothic lit #jane eyre #wuthering heights #frankenstein #the tell tale heart #strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #the picture of dorian gray #dracula #the phantom of the opera #carmilla #the yellow wallpaper

[thatsbelievable]

#Conversations I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe #Edgar Allan Poe #Poe #literature #books #poems #poetry #writers #writing #authors #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #The Tell Tale Heart #Oh Edgar

[mingus-archives]

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

Okay so I want to preface this that I have not read much Edgar Allen Poe so I will be missing those layers in my perspective, but anyways something that really struck me in "The Tell-Tale Heart" episode of The Fall of The House of Usher was the moments after Victorine throws the book end at Ali.

Before this, we're presented with this version of Victorine who may be stressed and pressured but ultimately does not actively appear to be amoral. She's just being put in a bad position by her shit father; she wants to do good and develop a life-saving medical device, and she just has to cut corners to stay afloat. It's only Camille who seems convinced Victorine is some awful person.

Then, the bookend. Another cut corner. Instead of talking things out with Ali or being patient, she acts impulsively and immediately to stop the problem. It's just like the first time she dosed the chimpanzee with epinephrine during surgery in a panic when she realized the device wasn't working. She hits Ali in the head and, on realizing the severity of her actions, runs over to her.

Ali is bleeding out on the floor, her body writhing horribly and she lets out these awful choked noises. Victorine goes to her and seems immediately horrified and brokenhearted. Then, the security guard checks in through the door. The guard is concerned over the scuffling noises overheard.

And Victorine fucking says to him, "Have you never heard a woman getting eaten out before?"

Her girlfriend is dying by her hand, and she pretends the sounds of her dying are the noises of sexual pleasure. This to me is the reveal, this is when the audience truly sees that Victorine does not have and never had a heart. The love she's shown, for her passion, her girlfriend, her device, is nothing more than mistaken greed. It's a mechanical heartbeat, it sounds almost like a heartbeat, but it's a pale imitation to anyone who pays attention. And like with Ali's corpse, the mechanical heart of Victorine is just keeping a soulless body alive.

The Fall of the House of Usher structurally represents the family itself: it begins with the announcement of the deaths of all the children. The children are dead from the beginning of the show. And as Annabel points out, the children in the story were dead from the start, killed by greed and wealth. And then we learn that they were literally dead, as Roderick and Madeline had already sold their lives for wealth before they were even born. We're not seeing the family die, we're seeing the final moments of corpses decomposing. We're seeing the dilapidated house finally collapse. The Fall of the House of Usher is not about death, it's about the walking dead, like the visions of Roderick. A family kept alive with a mechanical device just going through the motions.

#the fall of the house of usher #fall of the house of usher #the fall of the house of usher spoilers #the fall of the house of usher meta #tfothou #tfothou spoilers #alessandra ruiz #camille l'espanaye #victorine usher #victorine #the tell tale heart #syds thoughts #my thoughts #syds analysis #my analysis

[mothonthewall]

poe has a moment

this is just an illustration of the textpost i made last night

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #bungo stray dogs fanart #bungo stray dogs #bungou sd #bungo sd #bungou gay dogs #bsd poe #poe bsd #edgar allen poe #edgar allan poe #edgar allen poe bsd #telltale heart #the tell tale heart #bsd ranpo #bsd ranpoe #ranpo x poe #bungou stray dogs ranpo #ranpo edogawa #ranpoe fanart #ranpoe supremacy #ranpoe headcanons #edogawa ranpo #bsd edgar allan poe #bsd headcanons #bsd manga #bsd memes

[mantisshrimpfrommars]

#dracula daily #dracula #frankenstein the modern prometheus #frankenstein #carmilla book #the invisible man #the tell tale heart #strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #picture of dorian gray #call of cthulhu #orlando #classic horror #gothic literature #gothic horror

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Today is the one and only, talented Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, so I thought I'd do a Edgar Allan Poe/Vincent Price movie/ gif collab.

Jan. 19, 1809 - Oct. 7, 1849

#vincent price #Edgar allan poe #the raven #the tell tale heart #tales of terror #the masque of the red death #pit and the pendulum #cry of the banshee #the oblong box #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #gifs #gif collection #tomb of ligeia

[cinematicjourney]

The Fall of the House of Usher: The Tell-Tale Heart (2023) | dir. Mike Flanagan

#the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #the tell tale heart #mike flanagan #carla gugino #willa fitzgerald #sauriyan sapkota #kate siegel #rahul kohli #t'nia miller #samantha sloyan #tv series #screencaps

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2611

Oopsie. (Dialogue from Baldur's Gate 3 (Astarion riffing on The Tell-Tale Heart.))

#drawfee #julia drawfee #julia lepetit #drawfee variety hour #the tell tale heart #incorrect quotes #source: baldur's gate 3 #source: the tell-tale heart #marks and rec misc #vid: pokemon drawfee variety hour

[queenofplaguerats]

Can we talk about how perfect the prop design is in The Fall of the House of Usher?? Because like??

If you've read The Tell-Tale Heart, you'll look at Victorine's implant and probably go "OH SHIT IT'S THE EVIL EYE." I flipped my shit

#the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #the tell tale heart #edgar allan poe #victorine lafourcade

[wronghands1]

#webcomic #wronghands #literature #reading #books #john atkinson #edgar allan poe #teletubbies #television #tv #children's television #short stories #wordplay #the tell tale heart

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Tell-Tale Heart, from Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Harry Clarke (1919)

#harry clarke #art #illustration #art nouveau #1910s #1910s art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #irish art #irish artist #books #book illustration #edgar allan poe #the tell tale heart #tales of mystery and imagination #horror #horror art #golden age of illustration #classic art

[the-kestrels-feather]

Oh man, I love the Tell-Tale Heart

#nerdy prudes must die #starkid #edgar allan poe #the tell tale heart #im not the only one who thought this right #like this is song is just “what if tell take heart but high schoolers”

[noovorous]

I'm lucky to be experiencing prose of Edgar Allan Poe for the first time those days and it strikes me how precise his macabre tales are. How much they are like an essence of a novel, crystalised form of prose just like haiku is of poetry. A complete story, each with it's own characteristic mood, atmosphere, feel, all within more or less ten pages. I know immediately that I will be returning to individual short stories when under influence of a certain caprice, something that is much harder to achieve when looking for a specific paragraph of a novel.

#aestheticism #art #literature #edgar allan poe #short stories #gothic literature #ligeia #cask of amontillado #the black cat #the tell tale heart

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE D

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart propaganda:

The OG, the meme, he has it all

He is so so so sure that he is not insane because of his high intelligence and planning skills, also his increased sense of hearing is DEFINITELY NOT because he’s insane but because he can just hear well :) yeah he can hear the old man’s heartbeat after he’s dead, what about it? also he is under the impression that killing the old man is justified because he has a weird eye

Marvin propaganda:

this bitch is crazy you can't trust a thing she says!!!! but um seriously he is neurotic and while recounting his childhood everything is wack and doesn't make sense and ummm. Idk the man lies he withholds information (such as names of main characters he deems unworthy or important details) he makes he presents his fantasies like actual canon events (how marvin eats his breakfast, rape of ms goldberg) he tries to convince himself and therefore us that he's straight ummm he's just a little freak and an attention whore and a liar and a fugly slut and i love him. Heart

#the tell tale heart #tell tale heart #edgar allan poe #marvin #falsettos #in trousers #unreliable narrator battle #unreliable narrators #polls #side d

[mrhyde-mrseek]

CLASSIC LIT MEN RANKED FROM LEAST TO MOST DATABLE (As Decided By A Lesbian)

•DRACULA - crusty old creep, absolutely horrid, ruined the lives of at least eight people, turned one of said people into a vampire and nearly turned another, Hollywood likes to ship him with Mina for reasons that I don’t understand because he ALMOST TURNED HER INTO A VAMPIRE THAT HER FRIENDS AND HUSBAND WOULD HAVE HAD TO KILL.

•DR. MOREAU - it’s been a hot minute since I last read the book, but the fact that he performs vivisections on wild animals to turn them into humans is fucked up on SO many levels.

•ERIK - murderer, stalker, would probably combust if shown any semblance of actual affection.

•CREATURE - made to be pretty but Victor fucked that up somehow, killed 3 people out of revenge, would also combust if shown any sort of real love.

•GRIFFIN - canonically buff & smart, but he’s also an egomaniac & self-admitted ass (there is textual evidence for that latter point) with a god complex who plotted a reign of terror so . . . maybe not the best choice.

•THE TELL-TALE HEART NARRATOR - yeah, he doesn’t need romance. He needs psychological help. Desperately. If murdering an old man because his glass eye creeped you out, hiding his body in the floor, then hallucinating his heart beating during a police interrogation isn’t a red flag, then I don’t know what is.

•JEKYLL/HYDE - on one hand, he’s a middle-aged chemist who represses every desire he has; on the other hand, he’s an Uncanny Valley-flavored criminal who beat a man to death with a cane, so you can’t really win with this one.

•ICHABOD CRANE - he’s not a bad person, and he is well-educated, he’s just less interested in an actual, committed romantic relationship and more interested in the money he’ll inherit from it.

•SHERLOCK HOLMES - he’s in the middle because I actually don’t think he’d make a bad boyfriend—he’d just be oblivious to the efforts of anyone who tried to make a move on him.

•VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN - like Griffin, he also has a god complex, but this twink somehow managed to make Robert Walton fall head-over-heels in love with him two seconds of seeing him freezing to death in the Arctic, so there has to be SOMETHING there.

•THE TIME TRAVELLER - he seems like a really sweet, passionate guy. He’d definitely ramble to you about his time machine. My only qualm is that we hardly see him interact with people (at least, people in this stage of evolution).

•JOHN WATSON - he’s kind, he’s supportive, he’s a badass, he’s canonically good-looking and charming (a feature that Holmes uses to their advantage multiple times in the stories), and he’s a doctor. He’s perfect.

#gothic literature #gothic lit #classic literature #classic lit #dracula #count dracula #the phantom of the opera #erik poto #the island of doctor moreau #dr moreau #the creature #adam frankenstein #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #frankenstein #the invisible man #griffin the invisible man #the tell tale heart #the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll #mr hyde #jekyll and hyde #the legend of sleepy hollow #ichabod crane #sherlock holmes #acd sherlock holmes #acd watson #victor frankenstein #the time machine #the time traveller