Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Creepy Edgar Allan Poe. Can you think of a name more synonymous with spine-tingling macabre literature? A master craftsman of prose and poetry alike, Poe dwells in that dark corner of our literary consciousness, along some creaky corridor laden with dust and cobwebs. Even more than a century on, reading Poe still feels like walking a razor’s edge between grim amusement and irrevocable madness. Hop-Frog published 1849 A dwarfish court jester serves as the titular character of this fiendish revenge tale. The Facts in the Case of M. published 1845 In the mid-19th Century, the pseudo-science of mesmerism was all the rage in the salons of America’s bourgeoise, and Poe made it the central theme of this gruesome short story. The Black Cat published 1843 The narrator and his wife own several pets. The Murders in the Rue Morgue published 1841 C. The Cask of Amontillado published 1846 The Masque of the Red Death published 1842 The Fall of the House of Usher published 1839 The Tell-Tale Heart The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, tales, and poems William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (/ˈʃeɪkspɪər/;[1] 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2] He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon".[3][nb 2] His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,[nb 3] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[4] Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.[6][nb 4] His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. Life Early life London and theatrical career Later years and death man Plays
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Now this is the point. Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out --"Who's there?" I kept quite still and said nothing. Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little --a very, very little crevice in the lantern. It was open --wide, wide open --and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. But even yet I refrained and kept still.
J. K. Rowling Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.[11] The seven-year period that followed entailed the death of her mother, divorce from her first husband and poverty until Rowling finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). Rowling subsequently published 6 sequels—the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)—as well as 3 supplements to the series. Since, Rowling has parted with her agency and resumed writing for adult readership, releasing the tragicomedy The Casual Vacancy (2012) and—using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novel The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), the first of a series. Name Although she writes under the pen name "J. Biography Birth and family Childhood and education Inspiration and mother's death Marriage, divorce and single parenthood
'The Black Cat' - Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe "The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with "The Tell-Tale Heart" because of the profound psychological elements these two works share. "The Black Cat" first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. This first-person narrative falls into the realm of Horror/Gothic Literature, and has been examined in association with themes of insanity and alcoholism. Following is the complete text for Poe's tragic and horrific tale: The Black Cat For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. Pluto--this was the cat's name--was my favorite pet and playmate. Study Guide
Joseph E. LeDoux LeDoux's research interests are mainly focused on the biological underpinnings of memory and emotion, especially the mechanisms of fear. LeDoux is also a singer and guitarist in the science-themed rock band The Amygdaloids.[2] Synaptic Self[edit] Published in 2002, Ledoux's Synaptic Self attempts to synthesize his research in neuroscience and on the brain in order to begin tackling the big question he feels neuroscience should be asking: "What makes us who we are?"[3] Ledoux gives a brief synopsis of the disciplines that have made significant contributions to theories and conceptions of the self, claiming his synaptic theory of the self "is not proposed as an alternative to these views...rather, an attempt to portray the way the psychological, social, moral, aesthetic, or spiritual is realized. In my view, the self is the totality of what an organism is physically, biologically, psychologically, socially, and culturally. Books[edit] Media appearances[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Edgar Allan Poe Biography “The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” “Lord, help my poor soul.” “Sound loves to revel near a summer night.” “But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.” “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” “The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. “With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.” “And now — have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” “I have no faith in human perfectibility.
Garth Nix Garth Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name Biography[edit] Born in Melbourne, Nix was raised in Canberra. Nix lives with wife Anna, a publisher, and sons Thomas Henry and Edward in Sydney in Australia.[3] Works[edit] The Old Kingdom[edit] Also known as the Abhorsen series or trilogy Companion works The Seventh Tower[edit] The Keys to the Kingdom[edit] Very Clever Baby[edit] 1988 Very Clever Baby's First Reader1988 Very Clever Baby's Ben Hur1992 Very Clever Baby's Guide to the Greenhouse Effect1998 Very Clever Baby's First Christmas Trouble Twisters[edit] Troubletwisters (2011)The Monster (2012)The Mystery (June 2013) Other[edit]
Edgar Allan Poe | Academy of American Poets read poems by this poet On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, sent Poe to the best boarding schools and later to the University of Virginia, where Poe excelled academically. After less than one year of school, however, he was forced to leave the university when Allan refused to pay Poe’s gambling debts. Poe returned briefly to Richmond, but his relationship with Allan deteriorated. Poe began to sell short stories to magazines at around this time, and, in 1835, he became the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, where he moved with his aunt and cousin Virginia. Poe’s work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on American and international literature. Selected Bibliography Poetry Fiction
Site of Poe's Death On October 3, 1849, Poe was sent in a carriage to the Washington University Hospital of Baltimore (more widely known under its later incarnations as Church Home or Church Hospital). Some sources note the name of the institution as the Washington College Hospital, but the designation of University was apparently adopted in 1839. City directories from 1847-1848 and 1849-1850 confirm this somewhat more prestigious title. John J. Moran gives the name as both the Washington University Hospital and the Washington College University Hospital. The exact details of Poe’s condition and treatment here are left to us only in the writings of his attending physician, Dr. Poe was taken to a room in one of the towers, where persons ill from drinking were usually put to avoid disturbing the other patients. Using the lithograph at the upper right, and based on information provided by Poe‘s attending physician, Dr. Local residents apparently made several attempts around 1853 to set fire to the building.
Gale Power Search - Document Edgar Allan Poe was best known to his own generation as an editor and critic; his poems and short stories commanded only a small audience. But to some extent in his poems, and to an impressive degree in his tales, he pioneered in opening up areas of human experience for artistic treatment at which his contemporaries only hinted. His vision asserts that reality for the human being is essentially subterranean, contradictory to surface reality, and profoundly irrational in character. Two generations later he was hailed by the symbolist movement as the prophet of the modern sensibility. Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809, the son of professional actors. By the time he was 3, Edgar, his older brother, and younger sister had lost their mother to consumption and their father through desertion. Full Text: Page 364 | Top of Article A New Family As Edgar entered adolescence, however, bad feelings developed between him and John Allan. Marriage and the Search for a Place Illness and Crisis