by Edgar Allen Poe This story is classic Poe and fairly well known, but I'll try to avoid spoilers anyway. It's about a man who has endured constant insults by a man named Fortunado. The Horror aspect is the coldness within which he plans a premeditated murder out of revenge. The two men are ost...
Changed my mind (yet again) and switched books for my final bingo square, as I'm not sure I'll be in much of a mind to finish my previous choice for "Grave or Graveyard," Umberto Eco's Cemetery of Prague. So I switched to the 2016 BBC audio adaptation of Dracula, starring David Suchet in the title...
bookshelves: boo-scary, classic, revenge, published-1846, autumn-2015, halloween-2015, re-visit-2015, paper-read Read from October 31, 2009 to October 11, 2015 Listen hereOpening: THE THOUSAND INJURIES OF Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
يا قلبي عليك يا فورتوناتو!!ما هذه النفسية السوداوية البنفسجية الجحيمية للمختل العقلي مونتريسور!أحداث عجيبة .. وقصة غريبة جداً! غريبة لأنها على الرغم من ظلاميتها وعتهها إلا أنها رائعة فوق الوصف!لا أستطيع أن أقول أن القصة غير حقيقية أو غير واقعية .. أو أنها من نسج الخيال المريض للكاتب العجيب إدجار آلا...
This is probably my favorite Poe work. I don't really like his writing style all that much but this story was still good. Retribution is an easy topic to make interesting and Poe did an admirable job.
This is probably my favorite Poe work. I don't really like his writing style all that much but this story was still good. Retribution is an easy topic to make interesting and Poe did an admirable job.
This is probably my favorite Poe work. I don't really like his writing style all that much but this story was still good. Retribution is an easy topic to make interesting and Poe did an admirable job.
This is one of my favorite Edgar Allan Poe short stories. The tinkling of the bells on drunken Fortunato's jester cap as revenge is taken upon him is a wonderful touch. Much of Poe's work is dark. But his dark works are even darker when the deeds in them are being done against a backdrop of festi...
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