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Oct 2024
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906. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan ...

Luke Thompson
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In this episode for Halloween I read out a classic work of gothic horror fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, then go through each line and explain vocabulary and discuss the themes and meanings of the story.

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