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'Frankenstein Dreams': When Sci-fi Lumbered into the Victorian Era

Did the Victorians deal with their rapidly changing society better than civilization today is dealing with equally new dizzying discoveries?

The Moving Pixels Podcast Executes 'The Deed'

By playing The Deed, we find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of inhabiting the mind of a murderer.

I Just Murdered My Sister, and It Was Kind of Fun

The Deed makes murder a game, a pretty fun game.

'The Annotated Poe' Is So Thoroughly Poe

Kevin J. Hayes' thorough analysis includes backgrounds on when and where each poem was first published, its contemporary reception, and critical assessments since.

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The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York by Joel Rose

Edgar Allan Poe stars in a 19th-century murder mystery.

Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes when adapting another's work, particularly one so well known and loved as Poe, one tends to err on the side of caution and reverence.

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Did the Victorians deal with their rapidly changing society better than civilization today is dealing with equally new dizzying discoveries?

By playing The Deed, we find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of inhabiting the mind of a murderer.

The Deed makes murder a game, a pretty fun game.

Kevin J. Hayes' thorough analysis includes backgrounds on when and where each poem was first published, its contemporary reception, and critical assessments since.

Edgar Allan Poe endures as an artist who made his life's work a deeper than healthy dive into the messy engine of human foibles, obsessions, and misdeeds.

Edgar Allan Poe stars in a 19th-century murder mystery.

Sometimes when adapting another's work, particularly one so well known and loved as Poe, one tends to err on the side of caution and reverence.