Pure Classicness. A collection by legendary Edgar Allan Poe. What is there to say? You can’t get any more classic than this; which is good, and bad, depending on how you want to look at it. Must say Poe is consistently good, yet rarely awesome, at least in my experience. I hate poetry, hence my rating for the poems; if you are fond of the genre you might enjoy them though.Go for the Best, consider the Good, whatever the Meh. The Best :★★★★☆ “The Black Cat.”★★★★☆ "The Fall of the House of ...

What?? Me, liking a short story collection? Impossible!What can I say that you've not already heard before? You know the guy.This time while reading this collection I was impressed by his range. Yes, I know, there's a lot of dead young beautiful women, but then he himself also lost his young wife and according to what I've read, her death destroyed him and inspired all these stories. Yes, there's a lot of tropes but he is the creator of a lot of them. It's very interesting to read the author tha...

You might think you’re Marilyn Manson gothic…But are you Edgar Allan Poe gothic. I don’t think so!I'm going with 5 STARS for this compilation.Edgar Allan Poe has influenced so many writers along with culture that it's hard not to give him all the stars.He's a master of the topics of greed, lust and power. You can’t get more dark, twisted and deep than this cat.Not even six feet deep in a cozy coffin deep.So glad to finally read most of his stories and poems. A few short stories were a bit long w...

These are great stories and scared the heck out of me when I was a kid. The title story especially, The Tell-Tale Heart. Later, when I was older I had the LP with the story told by Vincent Price. He had the voice that could make Mary had a little Lamb sound scary. One Halloween I dressed like a vampire (makeup the whole shebang) and and built a coffin, set it out in the front yard to scare the little trick or treaters. I played that LP with Vincent Price's voice over and over again. Lots of kids...

“I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen.” “It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the tall and the rain fell upon my head—and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.”Say what?? Is it rain or is it blood, or is it a plebeian praenomen? And WTF is a praenomen anyway?Edgar Allan Poe is not the easiest author to get on...

Perfection.
I listened to the audiobook for this one and it made the experience so much more intense. Listen to it here


If you're looking for a creepy read, give this one a go!

Published in 1850, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is one of the best known and most memorable short stories ever written. Since there are dozens of commentaries and reviews here and elsewhere on the internet, in the spirit of freshness, I will take a particular focus: obsession with an eye or eyes and compare Poe’s tale with a few others. In The Painter of Eyes by Jean Richepin, we encounter an obscure artist who sells his soul to the Devil in order to paint at least one masterpiece. Ther...

Once a year, if you observe the horror holiday Halloween, you should read one or more of Poe’s chilling stories. Why not “The Tell Tale Heart”? I just this evening heard my neighbor Ann read it aloud before a gathering of block party neighbors in my street. “True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”The incomparable Vincent Price re...

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.دوم.. دوم.. دومأهي دقات طبول الحرب أم نبضات بشري مسكين..؟دوم.. دوم.. دومقوية ..جحيمية..مرعبةدوم.. دوم.. دوملا تفارق عقل المجانين في دنيا العقلاءدوم.. دوم.. دومستسمعها طوال القراءةوسترتعد كلما طرق أحدهم لأي سبب بجواركدوم.. دوم.. دومهي جحيم بو.. وبطله.. وجحيمك أنت أيضا طالما تقرأ!::::::::::القلب الواشي هي أول قصة أدرسها في حياتي على الإطلاقكنت في عامي الأول بالكلية حينما تعرفت للمرة الأولى على ‏هذا الإسمإدجار آلان بوومن ...

My first time to read and finish a collection by Edgar Allan Poe and I was just blown away. This was one of my two Halloween reads this year and it made my long Halloween weekend truly worth remembering. Here are my reactions to each of the 32 writings included in the book by Edgar Allan Poe. STORIES 1) The Tell-Tale Heart. 3 STARSQuite scary. The narrator murders his or her (there is no pronoun used) master who has a "vulture-like" eyes. The narrator admits the crime at the beginning ...