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This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces.
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Berenice: Poe at his grimmest,
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This review is from: Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems (Hardcover)
Despite all who have attempted the genre since, Poe remains the supreme master of the horrific short story. From this collection I select "Berenice" to comment on, not only because it is a classic example of Poe, but also because it deals with a subject so typically his, that of obsession.There is little point in trying not to "spoil" a Poe story by avoiding telling the final outcome, for in this story, as in much of his work, the fascination lies not in a teasing or elaborate plot leading to a surprise revelation, but in morbid, gristly dwelling on the awful texture of misery, melancholia and near madness. One can read them repeatedly, and they still taste satisfyingly rank and vile. In this short story of brooding obsession, Egaeus looses his wife, Berenice, to illness, and in a fit of abstraction and obsession opens her grave and rips out the part of her that his mind has fixated upon: her teeth. Nasty and simple, but unforgettable. There is little joy in Poe's world. Love, hope and happiness are only shown as a prelude to loss, to provide a fading dusk against which the blackness of the tragic end stands out more clearly. It's interesting that some of Poe's readers complained to the editor when Berenice was published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1935. This was early in Poe's career, and he reports the subscription list of this periodical as 700. In December of that year he was made editor, and by the time he left the subscription list numbered 5,500. Obviously then, as now, there was quite an appetite for horror amongst readers. Graham Worthington, author, Wake of the Raven
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Great collection!,
This review is from: Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems (Hardcover)
Great book off you are a of Poe or just reading his stories for the first time. Awesome collection that's great to keep.
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Strange and Intriguing,
By ardent_lover "ardent_lover" (Brooklyn, New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems (Paperback)
It doesn't seem to matter how many other horror writers I read (Stephen King included) I keep returning to Poe. There is a mystery that pervades his poems and stories, and a mastery of language that puts him in a class all his own. Besides, there are lesser known stories in this collection, such as "William Wilson," and "A Man of The Crowd," which are utterly mesmerizing in both design and implication. But if you're looking for the commonplace you won't find it here. Poe was a surrealist before the word was invented, and it is quite obvious that he abhorred the commonplace. Actually, his life is also quite interesting - dark and shadowy and full of contradiction. Even the circumstances that surround his demise are interesting to ponder. We had to wait until the advent of Kafka to find another writer who was as intriguing as Edgar Allan Poe.
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