Scott McClelland takes you on a journey into the macabre as he narrates the Edgar Allen Poe classics, "A Tell Tale Heart" and "The Pit and the Pendulum".

Turn out the lights, close your eyes and attempt to relax... it's time.

Soundscape created by award winning composer Jono Grant.

CD cover painting by Scott McClelland.






"Edgar Allen Poe changed the way we understand horror. He made it personal. Unlike so many of the Gothic writers who proceded him, his writing is not detached and dry. It's raw and visceral, with a palpable sense of dread.

Poe's monsters are not the vampire, ghost or ressurected and reanimated corpse. He knew that such legends and myths hold no real terror because they are simply not real. He new what was truly frightening-that which unfolds slyly and secretly in the recesses of our minds. And the barbarity of one human being inflicted on another.He also knew the lure of evil, so that,while his stories horrify, they also excite and compel.

For the first time, Poe made readers face the demons that really haunt us. He reminded us that we all dance on the edge of madness. That the slightest misstep can plunge us into the abyss.

Poe's is a throbbing terror. Experience it to the full in two of Poe's most striking and memorable tales - brought vividly to life by the modern- day master of the macabre Scott McClelland. In The Tell-tale Heart listen for the cursed beating as it rises to a shrieking crescendo. And be mesmerized, in The Pit And The Pendulum, by the hypnotic motion of the merciless and implacable blade as it slices nearer to its bound and helpless victim.

Poe made horror dangerous and disturbingly familiar. He made it something to which, given the right circumstances, we could all succumb. Welcome to his nightmare. Or is it your own?"

PETER SELLERS
Author of "Whistling past the Graveyard"


"Every one of us will experience death...but the real fear is, how will we go?

Poe has added to our neurosis by indulging us in the most exquisite and excruciating forms of departing into the netherealm.

We cannot escape the conqueror worm."

SCOTT McCLELLAND