Tales of Mystery & Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Book Summary Information
Author: Edgar Allan PoeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1987-08-31
ISBN: 0517643030
Number of pages: 317
Publisher: Portland House Illustrated Classics
Book Reviews of Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Book Review: Masterful Depiction of the Macabre.
Summary: 5 Stars
Edgar Allan Poe is the epitome of the genre that is the macabre...simply put. A man whose lyrical lucre and gamut are fueled as much by an almost vivid imagination for the grotesque as much as his proclivity for the philosophically preternatural. Only Vladimir Nabokov has ably rivalled the vocabulary that is so evident in the convolutions that are as much a precedent to Poe's works as are his theoretical musings. Constantly in an endeavour to blur the lines between tale and short story, he congeals one into the other in an almost mid-methodology of sorts to create a passage that is part fable and part vision. His scientific musings on the "Murders in the Rue Morgue" border on the Doylish, while his ornate description of the red room in the "The Masque" is an exercise in baroque art and can adorn every manual in decorative imagery. While "The Pit and the Pendulum" are epics of the macabre, rivalled only by the likes of "The Descent into the Maelstrom", and "King Pest", vivid imageries conjured in "The Man of the Crowd" are absolute literary masterpieces of the subliminal nature. Though his oeuvre was largely the result of a dying age, his was the talent that would attract posthumously as was the result. Once beheld, once forgotten....as Poe himself would quote, "Silence was never this golden until it was exemplified with verve".
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