#Short Story: 28 Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

• Author: E.A. Poe
• Title: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe   (tales, poems, letters)
• Published: 2006
• List of Challenges
• Classic Club Master list  –> UPDATE: 20.02.2019 –>  50 classics COMPLETED!!
• Monthly planning
• List of Short Stories read

Introduction:

1. After a grueling fitness lesson  to increase my ‘mobility’
2. that felt more like torture during the Inquisition
3. I was very happy that I had audio book of  E.A. Poe’s tales.
4. All I needed to do was lie down, relax and listen.
5. I read 28 tales….and 1 poem.  I did not read all the letters!
6. 50% of the 28 stories were good!

Conclusion:

1. I only read 28 stories
2. …and still have 43 to read to
3. finish the complete list of Poe’s tales.
4. I have the highest admiration for Poe’s genius.
5. With his words  the demon was visible,
6. insanity palpable and  the reader
7. …is mesmerized by Poe’s bizarre mind.
8. Baudelaire  became obsessed with Poe and
9. who was both is idol and as he saw it his
10. …American double.
11. I enjoyed reading/listening to the stories but
12. feel that some are overrated.
13. I’m sure Poe got paid ‘by the word’ because at times
14. he uses 4 adjectives….where one could suffice!
15. Pit and the Pendulum:
16. “…with a steady movement, cautious, sidelong, shrinking and slow.”
17. I read 1 paragraph  summary of ‘The Spectacles’ and the
18. audio version lasted 1 hour and 13 min!
19. So you can imagine how
20. …Poe goes on…and on….and on.

Last thoughts:

1. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity.
2. His life was odd, his literature is odd.
3. He sent a man to the moon 30 years before Jules Verne.
4. He created the modern detective story.
5. He destroyed our planet with a comet.
6. He sent shivers down my spine with the horror stories.
7. Poe was plagued with many personal issues.
8. “Poe purchased a couple of ounces of laudanum
9. …to cure him of the fever called living.”  (Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker)
10. #Classic

• “The Angel of The Odd” – GOOD
• “Berenice” – GOOD
• “The Black Cat” – GOOD
• “The Cask of Amontillado”
• “The Maelstrom”
• “Eleanora” – GOOD
• “The Facts in the Case Of M. Valdemar”
• “The House of Usher”
• “Hop Frog”
• “Imp of the Perverse” – GOOD
• “Island of the Fay”
• “Ligiea” – GOOD
• “Man of the Crowd”– GOOD
• “Message in a Bottle”
• “The Masque of the Red Death”
• “Mesmeric Revelation”
• “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” – GOOD…but the ending…far-fetched!
• “Never Be the Devil Your Head”
• “The Oval Portrait”
• “The Pit and the Pendulum” – GOOD
• “The Premature Burial”
• “The Purloined Letter”
• “Silence – A Fable”
• “Some Words with a Mummy”
• “The Spectacles” – GOOD
  
• “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather” – GOOD
  
• “The Tell Tale Heart” – GOOD
  
• “William Wilson” – GOOD
  
• “The Raven” – GOOD