The raw stuff of the plot is pieced together from the story of The Tell-tale Heart and the poem Annabel Lee.

It has behind it, in the further distance, Poe's conscience stories of The Black Cat, and William Wilson.

I will describe the film here at length, and apply it to whatever chapters it illustrates.
An austere and cranky bachelor (well impersonated by Spottiswoode Aitken) brings up his orphan nephew with an awkward affection.

The nephew is impersonated by Henry B.Walthall.The uncle has an ambition that the boy will become a man of letters.

In his attempts at literature the youth is influenced by Poe.