Published online by Freedom Fiction Journal, Issue 10, Vol. 03. Available for FREE Available in print "They Call Me Madman" is a short story retelling Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" as modern superhero fiction, reinterpreting the main character—here called Echo Eapperson—as a possible hero with ESP. Framing the familiar events of the Poe story is the interrogation of Mrs. Eapperson, whose recollection, combined with two detectives' knowledge, begins to prove that the Eapperson's gentleman boarder was less innocent—or helpless—than originally perceived.