Reading Journal: Remainder of Week 19, 2010

With no reading journal entry posted since Tuesday, you’d certainly be forgiven fellow reader for thinking that my reading had ground to a halt over these past few days. The fact is however, that my reading has continued unabated and it is only a lack of blogging time that has stopped me from [...]

iPoe Challenge review: The Oblong Box

After the weirdness of the last Poe story I read, it was a pleasure to get back to a more straightforward narrative from Poe in the 1844 published tale, The Oblong Box.
The story follows an unnamed narrator as he takes a sea voyage from South Carolina to New York City aboard a boat called [...]

Reading Journal: Wednesday 5th May 2010

Would it shock you to know that it’s been almost eight months since I last read an Edgar Allan Poe story for my iPoe reading challenge? Well, desperate to make amends for this shortfall, I set about reserving Wednesday as my Poe day, when I tick off at least one story from the master [...]

iPoe Challenge review: The Devil in the Belfry

In this 1839 tale (which you can read for free HERE), Poe takes us to the unusual Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss where houses are ’so precisely alike, that one can in no manner be distinguished from the other’. Even the people are identical with the menfolk for instance, garbed out in exaggeratedly Dutch dress; [...]

Daily Bookshot: My Friend Edgar!

Edgar’s never been featured in a Daily Bookshot. He asked. I agreed. Here he is! *sigh*

iPoe Challenge review: The Premature Burial

It’s been a while since I’ve had the pleasure of reposing in my reading chair with an Edgar Allan Poe short, so feeling a bit guilty about that I settled down earlier today with a tale as its name suggests, that focuses on the abhorrent thought of premature burial (brrr..goose pimples).
I remember watching [...]

Daily Bookshot: Vintage Edgar

Vintage Edgar, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Not particularly valuable in terms of money but a book I really do treasure. It’s a 1933 edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

iPoe Challenge review: Von Kempelen and His Discovery

What kind of Poe fan would I be if I didn’t read at least one of his stories on his anniversary? Answer – a bad one! So I took it upon myself to read the next story in my iPoe reading list – Von Kempelen and His Discovery.
I know it’s just down to the [...]

Happy Birthday Edgar!

Two hundred years ago today in Boston, Massachusetts, the world was graced by the birth of one of the greatest literary figures in history, Edgar Allan Poe. In tribute I thought I’d take a look around at some of the events scheduled to mark Poe’s bicentennial celebrations.

Poe Bicentennial: Today Only! FREE online viewing of Poe – Last Days of the Raven

I’ll be putting up a more substantial post to mark the bicentennial anniversay of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth later today, but I just wanted to get a hot piece of news out to Poe fans ASAP, because it’s a limited time event.
To mark the anniversary of his birth, Theater Crossing Films are, FOR TODAY ONLY, [...]

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