I can't stand reading horror, it sticks with me long after I've closed the book. But I had to read Poe in high school and his horror is more macabre-horror than Jason-horror and he's become my go-to guy for those rare occasions when I need to read horror. And I have to say I love The Masque of th...
Hands down, no argument from me, Poe is a genius. Whatever problems, challenges or shortcomings he had, his intelligence was not one of them. But while I can appreciate the genius and the intellect that went into this story, I still found it tedious to the extreme. Dupin (who is, in my personal ...
The second of the stories I've chosen to read from my edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Tales, The Gold Bug is so much fun!! It's an adventure and it involves pirates and buried treasure, what's not to like? Well, the blatant racism would be what is not to like. The vernacular of Jupiter too...
I picked up this tome several months ago with no intention of ever reading the whole thing - I'm not a fan of horror and after the required reading of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado in high school, I knew that while Poe might have been brilliant he was also tapped into a very scary ...
Just purchased this book to replace a collection lost long ago after one of various moves... It will be delivered Wednesday! I am looking forward to this book immensely... I haven't ready any Poe in so long, I imagine reading this will feel a bit like sliding your feet into a pair of warm slippers a...
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