The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family...
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This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In The Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670887255 (0670887250)
Publish date: October 1st 1999
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Pages no: 164
Edition language: English
bookshelves: boo-scary, classic, gothic, north-americas, play-dramatisation, re-read, victorian, re-visit-2015, paper-read, film-only, autumn-2015, halloween-2015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, spain-toledo Read from January 01, 1986 to October 11, 2015, read count: 3 Opening: I WAS SICK --...
bookshelves: boo-scary, classic, gothic, north-americas, play-dramatisation, re-read, victorian Read in June, 2009 Not a re-read but a re-watch of the film whilst I walk on the treadmill.1961 film with Vincent Price - how scrummy.
I thought that The Pit and the Pendulum was a bit melodramatic, and I am not really sure what our protagonist was in the pit for. Heck, I'm not even sure who put him in there. So I was starting to wonder, "Why do I like Edgar Allan Poe, again? Is it possible that I only thought I liked him, but I...
It's Edgar Allan Poe. What can I say? He's an amazingly talented writer.
It's gruesome, it's horrible, it's painful and it's gross. Totally loved it.
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