Edgar Allan Poe
 

Hi everyone,

How many fans of Edgar Allan Poe do we have on here?

Let us know with this thread! What's your favourite story of his?

For me it's got to be The Tell Tale Heart - such a great tale that I can read over and over.

But what's yours?

His sense of atmosphere is still being "borrowed", cough, today. Along with Arthur Machen, HPL etc etc have never really read anything quite like it. I've read a lot by people who would have killed to have a smidgen of his style....but that is beside the point haha. As to a favourite? Hmmmm......

Poe's writing style and ability to 'romanticise' terror through prose has had a lasting effect on me and even helped shape my own writing style a great deal (in particular the abundance of commas! ;)).

Hard to pick a favourite, but The Masque of the Red Death would be one of them.

As I caught Rigsby reading Tales Of Mystery & Imagination during my Damp phase, felt twould be churlish of me to let this go unremarked. :lol:

Masque
Tell Tale Heart
Fall Of The House Of Usher

to start with ;)

The Tell Tale Heart is one of my favourites, I really enjoy The Raven too.

Berenice. Still gives me the shivers. :behindsofa:

rs
 

was that the episode called Things That Go Bump In The Night,I love the line -

Quote:

I shall never forget you that night, you went to bed shaking like a leaf, clutching your panda.

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Indeed twas, he says (quickly scrutinising dvd :lol:)

Ah remember those covers
sighs

January 29th, 1845 - 177 years ago today...