I have been organzing Poe's works by genre, I now see. My default is chronology, but that doesn't work for Poe. He's always doing more than one thing . For example, Penguin Classics publishes a volume entitled The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe , which overlaps his entire career. This book contains, I think, very little of Poe's best writing,* but Poe really was a pioneer in the genre, so I understand the book's use. And it includes the baffling Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848), so it's
Tags: Angels, Best Writing, Caution, Chronology, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Poe, Eureka, Exercise, Genre, Jupiter, Penguin, Pioneer, Prose Poem, Science Fiction, Vicinity
The Great Karswell is running a week-long birthday tribute to suspense writer Edgar Allan Poe over at his "The Horrors Of It All" blog, and he has generously allowed me to take part by running the Dell Comics adaptation of director Roger Corman's 1963 film "Tales of Terror" which adapted several Poe stories. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a creepy warning about the perils of hypnotism. The movie version of this story starred Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Debra Paget. As you read t
Tags: Basil Rathbone, Birthday Tribute, Blog, Comics Adaptation, Debra Paget, Dell Comics, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Poe, Hypnotism, Perils, Roger Corman, Running, Suspense Writer, Tales Of Terror, Valdemar, Vincent Price
