Edgar Allan Poe Collection
Berenice
par Edgar Allan Poe
“Berenice” is a Gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, centered on Egaeus, a solitary scholar whose intense inward life is disrupted by the illness and transformation of his cousin Berenice. As his thoughts become increasingly fixed on her teeth, the story moves from melancholy reflection into psychological horror.
Poe’s first-person narration draws the listener into Egaeus’s unstable perspective, where memory, obsession, and dread blur together. The tale’s measured, literary language builds unease through close attention to the narrator’s thoughts rather than through a succession of external adventures.
This is a dark, unsettling work of classic Gothic fiction, suited to listeners drawn to psychological suspense and Poe’s exploration of the mind under the pressure of obsession.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.