‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Delivers a Fatal Dose of Poe
Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher delivers a fatal potion of Poe-haunted, nightmarish doom that brings us to our knees before the conqueror worm.
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‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Looks Upon the Poe You Didn’t Know
Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye has Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) making an unconventional partner to Christian Bale’s 1830s sleuth.
Edgar Allan Poe Drives Bela Lugosi Mad in These 3 Horror Films
1930s-era horror films Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat. and The Raven see Edgar Allan Poe’s dark heart driving the menacing Bela Lugosi mad.
Poe, Pandemic, and Underlying Conditions
To read Edgar Allan Poe in the time of pandemic, we need to appreciate a very different aspect of his perspective—not that of a mimetic artist but of the political economist.
Mangled Body and Depraved Soul: On the Corporeal and the Spiritual in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The soul projects meaning onto a world that resists it. This is the plight of existence for Edgar Allan Poe.
‘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.
Edgar Allan Poe’s 10 Best Stories
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.
Vincent Price: The Poe Cycle
The Vincent Price Collection might best be titled “Part 1: The Poe Cycle”, allowing for Price’s classic horror films not included here. However, these six films are, indeed, six of Price’s very best.