He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. Watch Nosferatu, the Seminal Vampire Film, Free Online (1922)Ĭolin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. The old man's hour had come With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. Watch Goethe’s Haunting Poem, “Der Erlkönig,” Presented in an Artful Sand Animation Watch the 1953 Animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Narrated by James Masonĭownload a Free, New Halloween Story by Neil Gaiman (and Help Charities Along the Way) The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe permanently reside in our twin collections: 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free and 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices Below, we have a 1953 animation of “The Tell-Tale Heart” narrated by James Mason:Īfter watching these videos, you’ll surely want to spend Halloween time catching up on everything else Poe wrote, after which you’ll understand that true scariness arises not from slasher movies, malevolent pumpkins, or tales of hooks embedded in car doors, but from the sort of thing the closed-eyed narrator of “ The Pit and the Pendulum” means when he says, “It was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be nothing to see.” If you feel the understandable need for a lighter preliminary introduction to Poe’s work, hear Christopher Walken (speaking of American icons) deliver a surprisingly non-excessively Walkenified interpretation of “The Raven” at the top of the post. iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online NowĪnd five volumes of audiobooks as well (all the better to work their way into your subconscious):Īnd if, beyond perhaps reading here and there about pits, pendulums, ravens, and casks in Italy, you’ve never plunged into the canon produced by this troubled master of letters - American Romantic, acknowledged adept of the macabre, inventor of detective fiction, and contributor to the eventual emergence of science fiction - your chance has come.Today we’ve collected Poe’s freely available, public domain works of pure psychological unsettlement into five volumes of eBooks: And given that he lived and wrote entirely in the first half of the 19th century, few American writers can do it at so little financial cost to you, the reader. With Halloween fast approaching, let us remind you that few American writers can get you into the existentially chilling spirit of this climatically chilling season than Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |