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3 days ago · Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
Sep 20, 2024 · Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Sep 21, 2024 · In short, Kurosawa and literature were a match made in heaven, which makes it sting even more, knowing he never got around to Edgar Allan Poe. Having toyed with the idea since the mid-1970s, the final screenplay Kurosawa penned before his death in 1998 was a feature-length adaptation of Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death .
2 days ago · Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (1839) follows the conversation between two souls in the afterlife as they discuss the destruction of the world. The destruction was brought about by a comet that removed nitrogen from Earth's atmosphere; this left only oxygen and resulted in a worldwide inferno.
2 days ago · Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror[2] or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror, fantasy fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible [3] more than gore or other elements of shock. [4] It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Sep 13, 2024 · Edgar Allan Poe (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland) was an American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere ...
4 days ago · On July 25, 1841, Mary Rogers, a New York City cigar girl known for her beauty disappeared. Three days later, her corpse was discovered floating in the Hudson River, near Sybil’s Cave in...
