Edgar Allen News

Edgar Allen News
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Total Pages : 1066
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073151600
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Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780374717445
ISBN-13 : 0374717443
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by : John Tresch

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.

Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror

Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror
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Publisher : Ahoy Comics
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 0998044296
ISBN-13 : 9780998044293
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror by : Mark Russell

AHOY Comics' snarky anthology-slash-desecration of Edgar Allan Poe returns for a second volume, featuring more of the popular "Monster Serials" by Mark Russell (SECOND COMING) and Peter Snejbjerg (The Books of Magic), as well as Dean Motter and Alex Ogle'

What Moves the Dead

What Moves the Dead
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Publisher : Tor Nightfire
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9781250830784
ISBN-13 : 1250830788
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis What Moves the Dead by : T. Kingfisher

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher *A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. Also by T. Kingfisher What Feasts at Night A House with Good Bones Nettle & Bone Thornhedge A Sorceress Comes to Call At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Black Cat

The Black Cat
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Publisher : SAMPI Books
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : 9786585934138
ISBN-13 : 658593413X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Cat by : Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 437
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ISBN-10 : 9780415159296
ISBN-13 : 0415159296
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe by : Ian Malcolm Walker

Contemporary criticism about the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death
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Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages : 13
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ISBN-10 : PKEY:SMP2300000064254
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Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Masque of the Red Death by : Edgar Allan Poe

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy", is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ballwithin seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn. Poe's story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the titular disease. The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazineand has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price.

Hatchet Jobs

Hatchet Jobs
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Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015061145689
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Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Hatchet Jobs by : Dale Peck

Rife with textual analysis, historical context, and insights about the power of fiction, Peck hacks away literature's deadwood to discover the vital heart of the contemporary novel.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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Publisher : SAMPI Books
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9786561332019
ISBN-13 : 6561332016
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by : Edgar Allan Poe

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.

Mrs. Poe

Mrs. Poe
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781476702919
ISBN-13 : 1476702918
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Mrs. Poe by : Lynn Cullen

Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.