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Recap: Sam, it turns out, is a would-be freedom fighter by night on top of his day job as a hitman. But when he sends guns back home to Tauron to help with an uprising there, he gets into hot water with a rival outfit and his boss. So, he “borrows” a Cylon from Daniel’s company and uses it to even …
Datlow, Ellen, ed. Poe. Solaris (January 6, 2009). USD $15.00. ISBN-13: 978-1844165957.
As we are all Lovecraftians here, we all know that authors have been playing in and with the worlds that HPL created for many years. Famous masters of the macabre like Bloch, Campbell, and Lumley made their bones doing Lovecraft pastiches and today, new anthologies about the Cthulhu Mythos are still very popular. This year alone, I’ve read four different collections of Lovecraft-lite-lore …
I suppose the title of this article should be “Making a Poe Playlist”, but in the interests of keeping it retro (because isn’t Poe all about the retro love?), I’ll go with mix tape. Now, I admit I am not a music reviewer. That would be our soundtrack columnist, Maria Mitchell. However, I have done my very best to come up with a collection of songs that capture the Poe spirit. Some of these songs are directly …
The tales of Edgar Allan Poe have seen no shortage of movie adaptations. Some of these movies have remained true to the original story and others have only taken a passing glance at the source material. The adaptations of the classic “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is one such case.
The story was first published in 1841 and is often cited as the first detective story. The main character of C. Auguste Dupin was the predecessor …
Castle of Blood (1964). Director: Sergio Corbucci, Antonio Margheriti. Cast: Barbara Steele, Georges Riviere, Silvano Tranquilli. Country: Italy/France.
Not actually based on any particular Edgar Allan Poe story, Castle of Blood (aka Danza Macabre) seems to take as its primary inspiration Poe’s famous quote that, “The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
The story opens with Poe himself (Silvano Tranquilli) telling his tales to an enraptured group in …
