Name: I'm A Fool - Sherwood Anderson - The Telltale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe - Mercury Summer Theatre
Uploaded: 2021-05-26T23:42:12+00:00
Duration: 30 min 40 s
Description: Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre present two stories by American authors. "I'm a Fool" is a short story by American writer Sherwood Anderson. It was first published in the February 1922 issue of T

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Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre present two stories by American authors.

"I'm a Fool" is a short story by American writer Sherwood Anderson. It was first published in the February 1922 issue of The Dial, and later, in 1923 as the first story in Anderson's short-story collection Horses and Men. Of that collection, William Faulkner wrote that "...I think, next to Heart of Darkness by Conrad that the first story, 'I'm a Fool,' is the best short story I ever read."

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately, the narrator's actions result in hearing a thumping sound, which the narrator interprets as the dead man's beating heart.

The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (1946) is a CBS radio drama series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes.

Originally Broadcast 8/23/1946

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