The Masque of the Red Death
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16 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Horror Story
1842
What's a Prince to do when his people are dying of plague? Why, wall himself off with a thousand other nobles and throw a masquerade ball, of course!
Silly prince. Doesn't he know he's in an Edgar Allan Poe story?
Continue reading "The Masque of the Red Death"
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27 minutes, 01 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Science Fiction
1835
What happens when you hypnotize a person in the moments before he dies? The story that began as a hoax (it was first published without the "fiction" label) is one of the first modern science fiction tales.
Continue reading "The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar"
Posted by alex at 7:26 PM
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54 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1839
"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all..."
Disease (vampirism?) and decay of both man and stone (do they share a soul?) in the master of the macabre's famous tale. Includes Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" with musical accompaniment.
Continue reading "The Fall of the House of Usher"
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33 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1843
"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"
Poe's classic horror tale about intoxication, murder, and a most mysterious cat. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Black Cat"
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51 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
"I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me..."
Poe's classic horror tale about one soul's torment as he awaits execution in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Pit and the Pendulum"
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18 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me."
The Master of the Macabre's most famous horror story. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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8 minutes, 29 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1845
The archetype of dark poetry by the master of macabre. Read by Alex Wilson.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered,
"tapping at my chamber door--
Only this, and nothing more..."
Posted by alex at 8:36 PM
