by Edgar Allan Poe
So, after having spent the past weekend and the better part of last night and today tying up half a dozen half-finished bingo reads that, naturally, hadn't shown any progress whatsoever while I was exiled on planet work overload, for the time being I'm back on track. And thus I am happy to finally ...
This is one of Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short stories, made unforgettable when it was adapted to film by Roger Corman in 1960, starring Vincent Price. The Fall of the House of Usher was published in September 1839 and helped build Poe's credibility as a serious writer. It embodied the elemen...
The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Poe's more popular stories, especially among his earlier ones, but, as it just so happens, it is also, in my opinion, one of his worst. This short story is about a house owned by a slightly insane man named Usher, whose sister is ridden with malady. Usher's f...
I read this one years ago. Creepy and atmospheric. I'll probably reread it soon and give a better review.
Well, that was boring. And not at all frightening, or creepy either.
This horror/suspense short story had a lot of buildup and mood-setting descriptions, but was a much shorter tale than I had anticipated or remembered. I think I used the dictionary function on my Nook more times in this story than I have in the last ten books I've read combined. This one didn't li...
I love this story... I read this years (and years) ago, but when I found the audio online, I decided to listened to it. I'm not sure who the reader is, but wow... whoever he was did a fantastic job. It was so easy just to fall right into this story. The language is so beautiful and eerie, and the to...
And the award for the longest run-on sentence that still manages to somewhat make sense goes to... yes, you, Edgar. You, my friend, know how to use those punctuation's to their fullest potential and then some. You even manage to use dashes like it's nobody's business.And now for the winning sentence...
Very wordy. While reading this, I was comparing it to what the same story would be like written either by someone else in the same time or if it had been written today. I've wanted to read this story since I read the sequel (of sorts) Return to the House of Usher by Robert Poe. I loved that book. It...
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