The classic tale is in an old time radio format called The Weird Circle. I used to love this stuff as a kid and am thrilled to be able to share it with other readers that might have sore eyes. Note the obsession with the bloodline at the core of this narrative. When, in the mid 1800s, writers such as Poe looked upon a world stripped relatively bare by science; with geology having established a frightening sense of antiquity, and other sciences beginning to unravel the secrets of the human body, a morbid sense for blood lines—from the justification of chattel slavery, to theories of cursed hierarchies and peoples—began to take hold of the human imagination with a renewed intensity, previously only of interest to the hereditary elite.

Poe captures the essence of this obsession in The Fall of the House of Usher.