I’m watching this thing called Extraordinary Tales on Netflix, and it’s 5 Edgar Allan Poe stories animated and narrated and let me tell you, this thing is gorgeous. The stories are bookended by Edgar, who’s been reincarnated into a crow I think (The voice actor is credited as being a crow-I’m just not sure why Poe is a crow right now) chatting with Death. And each one is narrated by someone different. Fall of the House of Usher is narrated by Christopher Lee, and it was awesome.

The only criticism I have so far is that Tell Tale Heart is narrated by Bela Lugosi which is awesome, except for the fact that the narration is obviously (and I admit necessarily) taken from an old recording but they either didn’t or couldn’t get the audio cleaned up. But the animation of Tell Tale Heart is absolutely gorgeous. It’s entirely black and white except for some blood and the use of light and shadow is amazing. 

Actually, I take it back. The recording in a way does sort of create an atmosphere of an inmate being recorded giving their statement on a murder they’re confessing. 

I’m only two stories in and I highly recommend.