- 12
- Episodes
- 42
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About 12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
From the master of the psychological horror genre comes this brilliant collection 12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe. It features some of his classics like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado which are supreme examples of his craft. The Black Cat is a truly horrifying story of a death-row confession of guilt by a serial killer. The much loved family cat becomes the agent of his destruction and inevitable descent into crime and madness. Another superb story is The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar. In this chilling tale, a mesmerist uses his skill to put a man into a trance at the exact moment of death. Poe wrote this story based on a newspaper report that he read about a New York doctor who was supposed to have conducted an operation after placing the patient under hypnosis. Such was Poe's talent that the story was mistaken for a genuine scientific report when it first came out! Writers and poets like Kipling and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote personally to Poe, congratulating him on creating such a fantastic story. For sheer suspense and Gothic horror, The Masque of the Red Death is unrivaled. Set in some unnamed country, in an unnamed time, it tells of Prince Prospero who retreats into a sealed fortress with his trusted friends to escape a scourge called the Red Death, a mysterious and fatal disease that is decimating the countryside. The images of death, blood and disease linger in the mind long after you put the book down. A crumbling ruin steeped in an atmosphere of doom and decay... the last descendant of a noble family... an opium addict and his deluded fantasies&emdash;these form the elements of one of Poe's most atmospheric creepy tales The Fall of the House of Usher. It is also one of his most famous stories and is considered to depict Poe as being at the peak of his craftsmanship. The surreal feeling of this story has made it a perfect choice for adaptation on film and television. Another truly scary tale is The Pit and The Pendulum, which describes the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition in medieval Spain in the sixteenth century. The collection also features Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem The Raven which is guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine of even the most skeptical of readers. Whether you're a horror story fan or not, 12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe is a great addition to your bookshelf.
- Publisher
- Loyal Books
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 22 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Jan 2024
Latest episodes
12 episodes in the feed.
2 Jan 2024
01 - THE TELL-TALE HEART
1 Jan 2024
02 - THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
31 Dec 2023
03 - THE BLACK CAT.
30 Dec 2023
04 - THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
29 Dec 2023
05 - THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
28 Dec 2023
06 - THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
27 Dec 2023
07 - THE PREMATURE BURIAL
26 Dec 2023
08 - BERENICE
25 Dec 2023
09 - LIGEIA
24 Dec 2023
10 - HOP-FROG
23 Dec 2023
11 - THE RAVEN
22 Dec 2023
12 - THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
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- 42 ratings
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