Poe - The Raven

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Raven (thing) See all of The Raven, there are 5 more in this node. See also: The Raven - Revisited (thing) by panamaus Tue Mar 20 2001 at 19:59:41 I had gone so far as the conception of a Raven—the bird of ill omen—monotonously repeating the one word, "Nevermore," at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of melancholy tone, and in length about one hundred lines. Now, never losing sight of the object supremeness, or perfecti...

Hidden Details in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ on Netflix

For lovers of all things creepy, Mike Flanagan’s Edgar Allen Poe-inspired series, The Fall of the House of Usher, was a must-watch. If you’ve read Poe’s short stories or poems, you may have noticed a few details, like the ominous ravens and the cast members sharing names of famous Poe characters. However, one thing we know about Mike Flanagan is he is thorough when adding meaningful elements. The show is filled with so many symbolic moments, hidden details, and Easter eggs it can be challengi...

Pale Blue Eye Review

The Pale Blue Eye is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin myth of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hangin...

Still Farther South: Poe and ‘Pym’s’ Suggestive Symmetries

Detail from an 1853 pilot chart of the South Pacific, drawn by Matthew Fontaine Maury. / Image courtesy of Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa, Public Domain The shape of art in Edgar Allan Poe’s 18th-century fictional travelogue as the United States began its Exploring Expedition to the South Seas in 1839. By Dr. John TreschMellon Professor in Art History, History of Science, and Folk PracticeThe Warburg Institute This article, Still Farther South: Poe a...

THE BLOODHOUND, a Fresh Take on Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, Available on Blu-ray March 23rd From Arrow Video

THE BLOODHOUND, a Fresh Take on Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, w ill be available on Blu-ray March 23rd from Arrow Video First-time feature director Patrick Picard brings a fresh take to one of the best-known stories from the master of mystery and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, in his new slow-burner horror-thriller The Bloodhound, a hauntingly atmospheric tale described by The Hollywood News as an impressively stylish and int...

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