 Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe and the American Civil War stories of Ambrose Bierce, THE TELL-TALE HEART is set in the final days of the American Civil War and the time of Abraham Lincoln s assassination, THE TELL-TALE HEART tells the tale of Captain Winter (Mark Redfield), an Army officer obsessed with hunting down and capturing a mad killer who tortured and murdered his comrades during the conflict. The trail to catch the murderer leads to a boarding house on the outskirts of war-torn Richmond, Virginia, run by Mr. and Mrs. Clarion, played by Robert Quarry and Ingrid Pitt. There, Winter discovers that the madman is masquerading as the old couple s son and turning the boarding house into a den of horror.