I agree that this is a fine adaptation of the original. And a very good encode as well.

I haven't listened to the other Poe tales in a while, but I think there was one story that I didn't much care for. That was the adaptation of "The Pit and the Pendulum". If I recall correctly, I thought the RMT strayed too far from the original in their version of the story, with detrimental results.

I also like the Ambrose Beirce adaptations that RMT did. I thought they were quite faithful to the spirit of the original tales. I'm something of a Beirce fan . . . there are those who even rank his short-story horror tales as superior to Poe's! I don't think I can go quite that far. But Beirce in real life was just as intriguing a character as Poe was . . . and his death even more mysterious! To those unfamilair with his writings, I would also recommend Beirce's very dark yet humorous tales; My Favorite Murder, An Imperfect Conflagration, etc. Kinda like "The Aadams Family" with the gore left in.

Straying slightly off topic . . . to film adaptataions of classic horror. A decade or more ago we saw Hollywood release "definitive" films (denoted by incorporating the author's name in the movie's title) of . . . "Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'" and also "Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'". Big budgets and big actors. I liked the first half of both films (true to the original tales) and then was disappointed by the endings, which strayed significantly from the author's stories. Granted that "Frankenstein" ended even more horribly than Shelley had written it . . . in fact I've only watched that film once . . . the ending was so disturbing.

Well enough rambling. Until next time.